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词汇 sponson
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Definition of sponson in English:

sponson

noun ˈspɒns(ə)nˈspɑnsən
  • 1A projection on the side of a boat, ship, or seaplane.

    船侧(或水上飞机两侧的)凸出部,舷台,尤指

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cartridge-activated device did not fire immediately, but by the time it did, the hoist cable was under tension from the parachute, making the cable hit the right sponson as the cable separated.
    • The helicopter can be fitted with gun pods, rocket launchers and air-to-air missiles attached to two removable weapons sponsons.
    • Wreckage was littered over a wide area of the lake surface and included Bluebird's twin sponsons, which had been torn away from the main hull.
    • The battery door is on the aft end of the sponson that houses the port main landing gear.
    • She struck the frigate, buckling the port 30 mm gun deck, crushing the sea-boat sponsons and damaging the bridge wing.
    • The main fuel tanks, with a capacity of 2,539 litres, are installed under the floor of the cabin and in the lateral sponsons.
    • The main units retract into the rear of the sponsons.
    • A 15-man life raft is installed either side in the forward section of each sponson.
    • The enlarged sponsons provide additional stowage for carrying extra fuel, life rafts, floats or other equipment.
    • The crew chief was underneath the starboard sponson, trying to unseat the landing-gear pin, when my copilot released the brakes.
    • He said: ‘The starboard sponson had lifted a foot out of the water and the craft was rolling heavily.’
    • The three davits for the deployment of landing craft and the patrol boat are relocated to a sponson installed on the port side of the ship instead of on the flight deck.
    • BAE Systems at Scotstoun, the shipbuilders, were subcontracted to build new bridge wings and sponsons, which were delivered to Portsmouth by road on the Friday before Christmas.
    • He said: ‘You can see the sponsons rock in and out of the water.’
    • At one critical point in the match, a streaker emerged from the hangar, running across the flight deck (in just shorts and hat), disappearing down onto one of the aft sponsons.
    • A key issue is the cleanliness of the hangar bay, sponson and door light-locker.
    • Indeed, lockers in the bow-deck and the sponsons themselves are possible, as is any arrangement of seating.
    1. 1.1 A gun platform standing out from a warship's side.
      舰侧凸出炮座
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By Christmas the new bridge wing, gun deck and other sponsons had been replaced, and shortly after all the wiring and ship's fittings were replaced and set to work.
    2. 1.2 A short subsidiary wing that serves to stabilize a seaplane.
      水上飞机(用来保持平衡的)副翼
    3. 1.3 A buoyancy chamber fitted to a boat's hull, especially on a canoe.
      (尤指小舟的)船缘气室
    4. 1.4 A triangular platform supporting the wheel on a paddle steamer.
      明轮船上用于支撑明轮的三角形平台

Origin

Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

Johnson, Jonson, Swanson

Definition of sponson in US English:

sponson

nounˈspɑnsənˈspänsən
  • 1A projection on the side of a boat, ship, or seaplane.

    船侧(或水上飞机两侧的)凸出部,舷台,尤指

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The battery door is on the aft end of the sponson that houses the port main landing gear.
    • BAE Systems at Scotstoun, the shipbuilders, were subcontracted to build new bridge wings and sponsons, which were delivered to Portsmouth by road on the Friday before Christmas.
    • The main units retract into the rear of the sponsons.
    • At one critical point in the match, a streaker emerged from the hangar, running across the flight deck (in just shorts and hat), disappearing down onto one of the aft sponsons.
    • The main fuel tanks, with a capacity of 2,539 litres, are installed under the floor of the cabin and in the lateral sponsons.
    • Wreckage was littered over a wide area of the lake surface and included Bluebird's twin sponsons, which had been torn away from the main hull.
    • She struck the frigate, buckling the port 30 mm gun deck, crushing the sea-boat sponsons and damaging the bridge wing.
    • He said: ‘You can see the sponsons rock in and out of the water.’
    • The cartridge-activated device did not fire immediately, but by the time it did, the hoist cable was under tension from the parachute, making the cable hit the right sponson as the cable separated.
    • The three davits for the deployment of landing craft and the patrol boat are relocated to a sponson installed on the port side of the ship instead of on the flight deck.
    • A key issue is the cleanliness of the hangar bay, sponson and door light-locker.
    • He said: ‘The starboard sponson had lifted a foot out of the water and the craft was rolling heavily.’
    • The crew chief was underneath the starboard sponson, trying to unseat the landing-gear pin, when my copilot released the brakes.
    • Indeed, lockers in the bow-deck and the sponsons themselves are possible, as is any arrangement of seating.
    • The enlarged sponsons provide additional stowage for carrying extra fuel, life rafts, floats or other equipment.
    • The helicopter can be fitted with gun pods, rocket launchers and air-to-air missiles attached to two removable weapons sponsons.
    • A 15-man life raft is installed either side in the forward section of each sponson.
    1. 1.1 A gun platform standing out from a warship's side.
      舰侧凸出炮座
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By Christmas the new bridge wing, gun deck and other sponsons had been replaced, and shortly after all the wiring and ship's fittings were replaced and set to work.
    2. 1.2 A short subsidiary wing that serves to stabilize a seaplane.
      水上飞机(用来保持平衡的)副翼
    3. 1.3 A buoyancy chamber fitted to a boat's hull, especially on a canoe.
      (尤指小舟的)船缘气室
    4. 1.4 A triangular platform supporting the wheel on a paddle steamer.
      明轮船上用于支撑明轮的三角形平台

Origin

Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.

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