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Definition of kiosk in English: kiosknoun ˈkiːɒskˈkiˌɑsk 1A small open-fronted hut or cubicle from which newspapers, refreshments, tickets, etc. are sold. 小亭(如报刊亭、售货亭及售票亭等) Example sentencesExamples - The anticorruption campaign proved most successful in the districts with the highest concentration of newspaper kiosks.
- In Greece, couples are offered a range of incentives to have more than one child, including tax relief and licences for taxis and newspaper kiosks.
- Starbucks plan to roll out coffee kiosks at airports and supermarkets to meet this ambitious target.
- These are admission tickets, which means there is no need to queue at the ticket kiosk and there will be no price increase after booking.
- A refreshment kiosk is already on the site which is leased out as an annual franchise by the council.
- In the event, he left the magazine at home and the kiosk had sold out so he had to buy the Times and fold it to the size of the Listener.
- The venue will be part of a small tented complex including toilets and kiosks for sweets and refreshments.
- A kiosk sold magazines and public transport tickets beside the turnstile for the Powell-Mason Cable car.
- Here's a tip for you - don't follow the herds of tourists queueing to buy tickets at the kiosk near the garden entrance.
- I asked the lady in the kiosk for two adult tickets and she said: ‘Where are your children?’
- The popularisation of orange juice, sold at a kiosk at Flinders Street Station, was one of his novelties.
- Most resorts have amenities such as a restaurant, shop, kiosk, swimming pool and filling station.
- Fans could bet on the numbers in bars, barber shops, newspaper kiosks, and other neighborhood outlets.
- Villages appear more frequently, and with them sheaves of corn hanging from verandas, chillies drying in the sun and small kiosks selling random goods.
- We've got a kiosk in reception that sells items you might need for a reasonable price.
- We bought bus tickets at a nearby kiosk before getting on board.
- The last surviving assassin, Tito still deals in luck and fate, selling lottery tickets from a kiosk.
- For example, Unilever sells soap through street vendors and Coca-Cola is sold through kiosks.
- All along the middle of these blocks are kiosks selling various wares of t-shirts and handbags and jewellery etc.
- Its newspaper La Vérité was sold publicly in newspaper kiosks and had a wide readership.
Synonyms booth, stand, stall, counter, refreshments kiosk, news stand, bookstall, telephone kiosk box, compartment, cubicle, cabin, hut, enclosure - 1.1 A small structure in a public area used for providing information or displaying advertisements, often incorporating an interactive display screen or screens.
公共信息亭 Example sentencesExamples - He is in the process of rolling out kiosks, which the company has tested at trade shows.
- Internet kiosks will soon become mandatory for developers of areas of public convenience, like shopping centers.
- Like its roughly 160 smaller kiosks, customers will be able to touch gadgets but cannot physically leave with them.
- The kiosk is linked to a database of information, and to the website of Temple Bar Properties by a broadband connection.
- There are kiosks all over the place that no one uses: kiosks at the mall for shopping, kiosks for community information, kiosks for job listings.
- Contact the specialty leasing agent at the mall where you want to locate your cart / kiosk.
- Instead of attempting to sell ad space on kiosks to executives with no marketing budgets, he adopted a no-pressure approach to meetings.
- Kiosks within the special pavilion will offer visitors a range of opportunities from information gathering to making on-line transactions for products and services.
- The airline hopes to install 38 kiosks, beginning next April.
- Today, the information is available in Kannada, the local language, through 200 government-owned computer kiosks in administrative offices across the state.
- New movies could be downloaded at airport or mall kiosks.
- For example, our Endless Aisle program enables shoppers to purchase hard-to-find items using Internet-based in-store kiosks.
- Domestic passengers can use the touch-screen kiosks to receive a boarding pass if they have an electronic ticket.
- All of the kiosks in the branch are designed to aid in the transition to online banking.
- On the home front, the company has started selling at shopping mall kiosks to extend its reach beyond the party circuit.
- Customers will be able to avoid lines by using an ATM-like kiosk to receive refills.
- Within two years there will be a tremendous matrix of data along with a rating system to support these kiosks.
- Microsoft is rolling out 50 multimedia kiosks at college career centers, offering students access to video archives from the past four years.
- The kiosks are in 45 stores in Seattle and Austin, Tex., and are rolling out nationally.
- Electronic search engines located in kiosks outside the streetscape will direct attendees to the products serving their industry segments.
2British A public telephone booth. 〈英〉公用电话亭 Example sentencesExamples - Mrs Sharp said she called for an ambulance from the telephone kiosk.
- He said that after Corless saw her victim inside the store she went outside and hid in a telephone kiosk until the pensioner left the shop.
- The Committee had previously noted that discussions were ongoing to ensure that the location of telephone kiosks protected the city's historic environment and townscape views.
- He went into the telephone kiosk in the station to make a call.
- The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
3archaic (in Turkey and Iran) a light open pavilion or summer house. 〈古〉(土耳其,伊朗)凉亭,亭子 Example sentencesExamples - Aynalikavak Pavilion and several other kiosks were built between 18th-19th centuries, and the complex was known by the people as the Shipyard Palaces.
- This take on the classic glass pavilion is no demonstration model for a transparent Utopia, nor is it an attempt to ‘frame’ the natural surroundings. It is a less formal design for a kiosk in the park beside Riesbach Harbour in Zürich.
Synonyms gazebo, pavilion, belvedere, arbour, bower, pergola
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'pavilion'): from French kiosque, from Turkish köşk 'pavilion', from Persian kuš. Definition of kiosk in US English: kiosknounˈkiˌɑskˈkēˌäsk 1A small open-fronted hut or cubicle from which newspapers, refreshments, tickets, etc., are sold. 小亭(如报刊亭、售货亭及售票亭等) Example sentencesExamples - Here's a tip for you - don't follow the herds of tourists queueing to buy tickets at the kiosk near the garden entrance.
- I asked the lady in the kiosk for two adult tickets and she said: ‘Where are your children?’
- We've got a kiosk in reception that sells items you might need for a reasonable price.
- These are admission tickets, which means there is no need to queue at the ticket kiosk and there will be no price increase after booking.
- Fans could bet on the numbers in bars, barber shops, newspaper kiosks, and other neighborhood outlets.
- The anticorruption campaign proved most successful in the districts with the highest concentration of newspaper kiosks.
- Most resorts have amenities such as a restaurant, shop, kiosk, swimming pool and filling station.
- Its newspaper La Vérité was sold publicly in newspaper kiosks and had a wide readership.
- The last surviving assassin, Tito still deals in luck and fate, selling lottery tickets from a kiosk.
- In Greece, couples are offered a range of incentives to have more than one child, including tax relief and licences for taxis and newspaper kiosks.
- For example, Unilever sells soap through street vendors and Coca-Cola is sold through kiosks.
- A refreshment kiosk is already on the site which is leased out as an annual franchise by the council.
- The venue will be part of a small tented complex including toilets and kiosks for sweets and refreshments.
- We bought bus tickets at a nearby kiosk before getting on board.
- Starbucks plan to roll out coffee kiosks at airports and supermarkets to meet this ambitious target.
- Villages appear more frequently, and with them sheaves of corn hanging from verandas, chillies drying in the sun and small kiosks selling random goods.
- A kiosk sold magazines and public transport tickets beside the turnstile for the Powell-Mason Cable car.
- In the event, he left the magazine at home and the kiosk had sold out so he had to buy the Times and fold it to the size of the Listener.
- The popularisation of orange juice, sold at a kiosk at Flinders Street Station, was one of his novelties.
- All along the middle of these blocks are kiosks selling various wares of t-shirts and handbags and jewellery etc.
Synonyms booth, stand, stall, counter, refreshments kiosk, news stand, bookstall, telephone kiosk - 1.1 A small structure in a public area used for providing information or displaying advertisements, often incorporating an interactive display screen or screens.
公共信息亭 Example sentencesExamples - Like its roughly 160 smaller kiosks, customers will be able to touch gadgets but cannot physically leave with them.
- Instead of attempting to sell ad space on kiosks to executives with no marketing budgets, he adopted a no-pressure approach to meetings.
- He is in the process of rolling out kiosks, which the company has tested at trade shows.
- Today, the information is available in Kannada, the local language, through 200 government-owned computer kiosks in administrative offices across the state.
- Within two years there will be a tremendous matrix of data along with a rating system to support these kiosks.
- Internet kiosks will soon become mandatory for developers of areas of public convenience, like shopping centers.
- The kiosk is linked to a database of information, and to the website of Temple Bar Properties by a broadband connection.
- Customers will be able to avoid lines by using an ATM-like kiosk to receive refills.
- There are kiosks all over the place that no one uses: kiosks at the mall for shopping, kiosks for community information, kiosks for job listings.
- Domestic passengers can use the touch-screen kiosks to receive a boarding pass if they have an electronic ticket.
- The kiosks are in 45 stores in Seattle and Austin, Tex., and are rolling out nationally.
- Contact the specialty leasing agent at the mall where you want to locate your cart / kiosk.
- Kiosks within the special pavilion will offer visitors a range of opportunities from information gathering to making on-line transactions for products and services.
- Electronic search engines located in kiosks outside the streetscape will direct attendees to the products serving their industry segments.
- For example, our Endless Aisle program enables shoppers to purchase hard-to-find items using Internet-based in-store kiosks.
- Microsoft is rolling out 50 multimedia kiosks at college career centers, offering students access to video archives from the past four years.
- The airline hopes to install 38 kiosks, beginning next April.
- All of the kiosks in the branch are designed to aid in the transition to online banking.
- On the home front, the company has started selling at shopping mall kiosks to extend its reach beyond the party circuit.
- New movies could be downloaded at airport or mall kiosks.
- 1.2British A telephone booth.
Example sentencesExamples - The Committee had previously noted that discussions were ongoing to ensure that the location of telephone kiosks protected the city's historic environment and townscape views.
- He said that after Corless saw her victim inside the store she went outside and hid in a telephone kiosk until the pensioner left the shop.
- The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
- He went into the telephone kiosk in the station to make a call.
- Mrs Sharp said she called for an ambulance from the telephone kiosk.
- 1.3archaic (in Turkey and Iran) a light open pavilion or summerhouse.
〈古〉(土耳其,伊朗)凉亭,亭子 Example sentencesExamples - Aynalikavak Pavilion and several other kiosks were built between 18th-19th centuries, and the complex was known by the people as the Shipyard Palaces.
- This take on the classic glass pavilion is no demonstration model for a transparent Utopia, nor is it an attempt to ‘frame’ the natural surroundings. It is a less formal design for a kiosk in the park beside Riesbach Harbour in Zürich.
Synonyms gazebo, pavilion, belvedere, arbour, bower, pergola
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense ‘pavilion’): from French kiosque, from Turkish köşk ‘pavilion’, from Persian kuš. |