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preventer

/pri-ven-ter/US // prɪˈvɛn tər //UK // (prɪˈvɛntə) //

预防器,防止器,防止者,预防者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that prevents.
    • : Nautical. any of various lines set up to reinforce or relieve ordinary running or standing rigging.a line for preventing a sail from jibbing.

Examples

  • Is the HPV vaccine a life-saving cancer preventer…or a potentially deadly dose for girls?

  • The blowout preventer sits near the seabed and is the crew's last line of defense against what happened on April 20.

  • The next thing to be done was to secure the tents with preventer-stays, as the seamen called them.

  • Preventer stays: Additional ropes set up taut to prevent spars carrying away when a vessel is under a press of canvas.

  • Preventer—A rope used to prevent the straining or breaking of a spar or sail.

  • They would then have rigged preventer-stays and shrouds on their shaky spars, had there been time; but there was not.

  • They even put preventer stays on the masts and on the boilers to keep them from rolling out of the crazy old wagon.