overhaul

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ōʹvə-hôl'

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A major repair, renovation, or revision.
    — The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.
  2. The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.
动词 v.
  1. To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
    — While the engines are dealt with in the diesel shop, their parent locomotives are overhauled in the erecting shop.
  2. To pass, overtake, or travel past.
    — An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
  3. To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
  4. To search (a ship) for contraband goods. transitive
  5. To carry out an overhaul.

词形变化

overhauls plural overhauls present,singular,third-person overhauling participle,present overhauled participle,past overhauled past

词汇关系

衍生词
overhaulable overhauler unoverhauled

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English haul
English overhaul
From over- + haul.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English haul
English overhaul
From over- + haul.
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