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two-by-four

/too-bahy-fawr, -fohr, -buh-/US // ˈtu baɪˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr, -bə- //

二比四,二乘四,二乘以四,二乘四法

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
    • : Informal. lacking adequate space; cramped: a small, two-by-four room.
    • : Informal. unimportant; insignificant: Theirs was a petty, two-by-four operation.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a timber measuring 2 × 4 inches in cross section, when untrimmed: equivalent to 1 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches when trimmed.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incramped
Forms: two-by-fours

Examples

  • Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • Toomey lives here with her husband, Mark, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and their two daughters.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.

  • The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

  • "The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.