bottleneck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
  2. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.; A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
  3. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay. figuratively
    — "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
  4. The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome. broadly
    — It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
动词 v.
  1. To slow by causing a bottleneck. transitive
    — The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
  2. To form a bottleneck. intransitive
    — The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

词形变化

bottlenecks plural bottlenecks present,singular,third-person bottlenecking participle,present bottlenecked participle,past bottlenecked past

词汇关系

衍生词
antibottleneck bottleneck guitar bottleneck inflation debottleneck deuterium bottleneck genetic bottleneck population bottleneck postbottleneck prebottleneck

词源

词源 1
From bottle + neck.
词源 2
From bottle + neck.
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