babbitt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbæbɪt/    美 /ˈbæbɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ellipsis of babbitt metal or Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition used in bearings to diminish friction”). abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
    — Running while low on oil had galled the babbitt.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Babbitt (“a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals”). US,alt-of,dated
    — One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired.
动词 v.
  1. To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction. transitive
    — The main bearings were babbitted and line-bored.

词形变化

babbitts plural babbit alternative Babbitt alternative babbitts present,singular,third-person babbitting participle,present babbitted participle,past babbitted past babbit alternative babbitts plural

词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
From Babbitt, the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945).
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