1. 1旋轉的;(美式,尤新英格蘭地區)圓環路口

    Rotary describes anything that turns around a central point - a rotary engine, a rotary drill, an old rotary telephone (the kind with a dial you turn instead of buttons to press). In American English, especially in the northeastern United States, a 'rotary' is also another name for a traffic circle or , where cars go around a circle instead of stopping at a .

core核心畫面

組成It comes from the Latin word 'rota', meaning wheel.

同家族的字

  • rotateboth come from the Latin word for wheel, 'rota' - to rotate is to turn like a wheel

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

rotaryadj/ˈɹəʊ.tə.ɹi/

  • 1

    Capable of rotation.

    • A rotary engine revolves the heads rather than having pistons go back and forth.
    • Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.

rotarynoun/ˈɹəʊ.tə.ɹi/

  • 1

    A roundabout, traffic circle.

  • 2

    Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。