silencer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that silences or (notionally) nearly silences.; An attachment to a gun that reduces the sound it emits.
    — The Justice Department has defended the law for decades, arguing that it doesn’t ban silencers but simply governs how a buyer can acquire one. Still, late last week, prosecutors requested a 30-day pause in the criminal case against a firearms dealer found with an unregistered silencer because “the Department of Justice is re-evaluating its litigation positions regarding silencers.”
  2. Something that silences or (notionally) nearly silences.; The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
    — Before the fitting of silencers to these locomotives was completed by the end of 1961, they were very noisy in operation, but the effect of the silencer has been remarkable.
  3. Something that silences or (notionally) nearly silences.; Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
  4. Something that silences or (notionally) nearly silences.; Something that prevents or greatly reduces gene expression.

词形变化

silencers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
intake silencer protosilencer

词源

Etymology tree
English silence
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English silencer
From silence + -er.
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