switchboard 的定义
Electricity.
- a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- Also called lightboard. a panel of switches, dimmers, etc., for controlling the lighting on a stage or in an auditorium.
switchboard 近义词
等同于 nerve center
更多switchboard例句
- The equipment filled much of a car’s trunk, and subscribers made calls by picking up the handset and speaking to a switchboard operator.
- These women seemed like decent working folk — clerks and switchboard operators — yet they were spending their evenings out alone with men, who would buy them drinks and dinners.
- Hundreds of calls jammed the switchboard at the hospital where she works, many hinting at physical violence against her, and accusing her of working for Big Pharma.
- These switchboards housed a series of jacks, one per subscriber.
- Coy signed up 21 subscribers to his switchboard service in his first year.
- There's even some of those crazy vertical switchboard doodads.
- Then Abdullah called for one of his private secretaries to hand over his name and an all-hours royal-switchboard telephone number.
- There was a small thing which looked like the switchboard of a telegraph office.
- The great window of the pilot room disclosed the pilot seats and the great switchboard to one side.
- As his watch told him that Tom must be nearing the bottom he seated himself by the switchboard, headphones clamped over his ears.
- The huge cables that brought the electric current to the switchboard lay molten on the floor.
- It was his impression, the switchboard operator's impression that it was some long distance.