band-aid

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈbændeɪd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound. Australia,Canada,Philippines,US
  2. A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight. Australia,Canada,Philippines,US,idiomatic
    — It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.
动词 v.
  1. To apply an adhesive bandage. transitive
    — As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
  2. To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig. broadly,figuratively,transitive
    — Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

词形变化

band-aids plural bandaid alternative band-aids present,singular,third-person band-aiding participle,present band-aided participle,past band-aided past bandaid alternative

词源

词源 1
Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) + aid.
词源 2
Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) + aid.
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