“speaking、tube”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

speaking-tube

释义

speaking-tube
(Also unhyphened.)
[speaking vbl. n. 5 b.]
1. A tube or pipe for speaking, or communicating orders, from one room, building, etc., to another.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1457 Orders being given by the waiter above through a speaking-tube.1844T. Webster Encycl. Dom. Econ. §4797 These speaking tubes first came into use here..about thirty-five years ago.1894E. Banks Camp. Curiosity 27 Annie was called to the hall to answer the whistle of the speaking-tube.
attrib.1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 834/1 Speaking Tube Whistle, a modification of an intonating modulating steam whistle.
2. A speaking-trumpet.
1889F. Cowper Capt. of ‘Wight’ 304 ‘You'll be aboard o' us an' you take no more care,’ sung out the Master through a speaking-tube.

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