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single-acting

/sing-guhl-ak-ting/US // ˈsɪŋ gəlˈæk tɪŋ //

单动式,单作用,单作用的,单动式的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction.Compare double-acting.

Examples

  • Despite the strong language, however, the neither the JPO nor Lockheed could dispute a single fact in either Daily Beast report.

  • It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.

  • Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

  • A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

  • This is acting in every sense of the word—bringing an unevolved animal to life and making it utterly believable.

  • When the whole hunt is hunting up, each single change is made between the whole hunt, and the next bell above it.

  • She apparently prefers to paint single figures of women and young girls, but her works include a variety of subjects.

  • Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.

  • Liking for a single colour is a considerably smaller display of mind than an appreciation of the relation of two colours.

  • My orders ought to have been taken before a single unwounded Officer or man was ferried back aboard ship.