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tethered

/teth-erd/US // ˈtɛð ərd //

拴绑的,捆绑的,捆绑式,拴系的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : fastened or confined with or as if with a rope, chain, or the like to limit the range of movement:On this field trip, students will have the opportunity to take a ride in a tethered hot-air balloon.Too many lawmakers are partisan, inept, or too lightly tethered to reality.
    • : Digital Technology. used to enable a wireless internet connection on another nearby device, often a laptop:You can browse the web more securely using a tethered phone, because your information is being sent directly through the phone rather than over a public wireless hotspot.

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Examples

  • Instead of using only humans, Macy’s has built five specialty vehicles with an innovative anchor tether framework that has been extensively field-tested and approved by NYC officials.

  • The senses are our tethers to the world—the real world, the one we’re in right now, not the one on our screens—and it calms my mind every time I check in with them.

  • Then, in papers published last fall, researchers cut the tether to string theory altogether.

  • The finding suggests that such tethers could also help connect once-intact forests that have been fragmented by human activities and aid conservation efforts of these and other canopy dwellers.

  • Controlled via a cloud-based dashboard, the Walmart delivery drones will hover 80 feet above customers’ yards and lower their orders down using a tether.

  • This was a tethered reconnaissance balloon, as first used 220 years ago in the French Revolutionary War.

  • So here Clinton stands, tethered to a president who is neither loved nor feared.

  • Ida is a mystery of sorts, tethered to a road journey in a bleak postwar Poland.

  • Contrary to what critics insist, I saw no horses tethered in their stalls.

  • No rope was required to retain a baby after the mother was tethered to a tree.

  • He gave orders for the horses to be tethered a little distance in the rear of the camp, where they would be sheltered.

  • His horse was tethered below, behind another rock; and he felt positive that these men had not come upon it.

  • Barrington quieted his horse with soothing words, and dismounting, tethered him to a gate.

  • He was tethered in the centre of the arena, by one of his hind legs, to a stump about twelve inches high.

  • I call the Most High to witness—she submitted to all my demands meekly, as though she were no eaglet, but a tethered lamb!