bund

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
  2. A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
    — The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall.
  3. Alternative form of bandh. India,alt-of,alternative
  4. A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
  5. A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding. India
  6. An embankment.
    — It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.
动词 v.
  1. To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
    — Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work.

词形变化

bunds plural bunds plural bunds present,singular,third-person bunding participle,present bunded participle,past bunded past bunds plural

词源

词源 1
From German Bund (“alliance, league”). Doublet of Bund, bond, and band.
词源 2
From Hindustani بند / बंद (band), from Classical Persian بند (band).
词源 3
Variant of bandh, from Hindi बंध (bandh); see that entry for more. Doublet of etymology 2 above.
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