skyhook

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 skīˈ-ho͝okˌ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
    — Those who yearn for skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes "reductionists", and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.
  2. An overhead winch.
    — To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the skyhook, which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.
  3. A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
  4. A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
    — It was during those battles that ORBITAL-class armor was deployed to secure and defend the skyhooks and tethers above Earth, Luna, and Mars.
  5. A CB radio antenna. slang
    — […] despite the absence of the proverbial home-grown 75-foot high steel "sky hook."
  6. A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
  7. A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
  8. A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
    — Tom bought the rights to a plastic board that had a skateboard deck and skyhooks.

词形变化

skyhooks plural

词源

From sky + hook.
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