cantilever

Word family adjectivecantileverednouncantilever

Related topics: Construction

can·ti·le·ver /ˈkæntəliːvə $ -tl-iːvər/ noun [countableC]

TBCa long piece of metal or wood that sticks out from an upright post or wall and supports a shelf, the end of a bridge etc 托臂，悬臂，悬臂梁，支架

—cantilevered adjectiveadj

a cantilevered staircase

有支架的楼梯

Examples from the Corpus

cantilever• You are going to make a model of a special kind of bridge called a cantilever bridge.• Of all-metal construction, the Firefly F.I was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with an alclad-covered monocoque fuselage.• With a hardened aluminium cantilever and parabolic diamond stylus profile it retails for £1,350.• Balance existed to tilt off, floors to leap up from and air to fall or cantilever through.• Sixteen were mounted on Peckham cantilever trucks and nineteen on Brill 21E trucks indiscriminately.• You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.• The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.• In the early planning stages, the sheet piles were designed to cantilever only.

Origin cantilever

(1600-1700) Perhaps from → CANT13 + lever

词汇	cantilever
释义	cantilever Word family adjectivecantileverednouncantilever Related topics: Construction can·ti·le·ver /ˈkæntəliːvə $ -tl-iːvər/ noun [countableC] TBCa long piece of metal or wood that sticks out from an upright post or wall and supports a shelf, the end of a bridge etc 托臂，悬臂，悬臂梁，支架 —cantilevered adjectiveadj a cantilevered staircase 有支架的楼梯 Examples from the Corpus cantilever• You are going to make a model of a special kind of bridge called a cantilever bridge.• Of all-metal construction, the Firefly F.I was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with an alclad-covered monocoque fuselage.• With a hardened aluminium cantilever and parabolic diamond stylus profile it retails for £1,350.• Balance existed to tilt off, floors to leap up from and air to fall or cantilever through.• Sixteen were mounted on Peckham cantilever trucks and nineteen on Brill 21E trucks indiscriminately.• You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.• The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.• In the early planning stages, the sheet piles were designed to cantilever only. Origin cantilever (1600-1700) Perhaps from → CANT13 + lever
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