workstand

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A worktable.
    — The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies. There were drawers within drawers, and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each spool of cotton, with a lid to shut over it, and a lever to lift it out; all requiring as much time in opening and shutting, raising up, and pushing aside, as it would have taken to extricate the various implements and materials from a disordered work-bag.
  2. A device designed to lift and securely hold at a comfortable height something one is working on.
    — A is essentially a workstand, intended to hold the axle and part of the propeller shaft while doing repair work thereon.
  3. A raised platform on which to stand while working, often with a hydraulic lift.
    — On November 21, 1974, a civilian employee at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas was fatally injured by a fall from a workstand while applying tape and masking paper to the fuselage of a huge C-5A cargo plane.

词形变化

workstands plural

词源

From work + stand.
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