footplate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
    — Unlike the earlier standard designs, in which the whole of the footplate was on the engine, fall plates are re-introduced and these are hinged from the front of the tender to rest on the rearward extension of the cab floor.
  2. The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
    — Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
  3. The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
    — The footplate of the stapes develops and ossifies in conjunction with the otic capsule and thus takes its origin from the otic placode in the embryo.
  4. The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
  5. A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
  6. A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
动词 v.
  1. To travel (or work) on the footplate of a locomotive.
    — Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale.

词形变化

footplates plural footplates present,singular,third-person footplating participle,present footplated participle,past footplated past

词汇关系

衍生词
footplateman footplate man

词源

词源 1
From foot + plate.
词源 2
From foot + plate.
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