funicular

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
    — England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence. The development of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort played a central role in the uptake of funicular railways across England.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable. not-comparable
  2. Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord. not-comparable
  3. Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed. not-comparable
  4. Synonym of catenary. not-comparable

词形变化

funiculars plural

词汇关系

衍生词
intrafunicular perifunicular

词源

词源 1
From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
词源 2
From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
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