lightning conductor

避雷针,避雷器,雷电导体,导雷器

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a metal strip terminating in a series of sharp points, attached to the highest part of a building, etc, to discharge the electric field before it can reach a dangerous level and cause a lightning strike

as inlightning rod

Synonyms

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
He mistrusted the “shish-kebab temperament” of the conductor, the Armenian Alexander Melik-Pashayev.
Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.
He made whatever was going on his own, and with such lightning speed you stopped concentrating.
Ninety-Sixth Street marks the first delay of the trip, the cause of which is lost in a garbled announcement from the conductor.
The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
Spite, however, of punishments and prohibitions the use of tobacco spread with the rapidity of lightning.
With unbreathing silence, and a heart into which all that was man within him was summoned, he followed his conductor.
A car conductor is instructed to treat passengers civilly and to use no harsh means with them, save in extreme cases.
His principal surely would not be liable, though the conductor doubtless would be.