louver
/loo-ver/US // ˈlu vər //
百叶窗,百页窗,窗口,温室气体
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain.
- : a fin or slat framing such an opening.
- : a ventilating turret or lantern, as on the roof of a medieval building.
- : any of a system of slits formed in the hood of an automobile, the door of a metal locker, etc., used especially for ventilation.
- : a door, window, or the like, having adjustable louvers.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
Examples
By good luck, we did not need it; for as he passed it to me, the louver at which I was tugging broke and came away in my hand.
For Pim o Cuddys pigeons knew their way home through the broken louver-boards of the squat belfry by this.
The fire of pine logs was in the midst of the hall, and the smoke went out through a louver in the roof.
The bird was wheeling in the golden light over the belfry of the church, the belfry with the new louver-boards.
Forepaugh leaped to the ventilating louver and closed it tightly.
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