2009年1月7日 星期三

Clickety-clack, railway parlance, the "consist"





Clickety-clack, railway parlance, the "consist"


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"... would thus expect some loss from the use of 10 subsamples rather than 5, or 2. This * In railway parlance, these were not freight bills, but items on the "consist" of a train as it leaves a terminal. The consist ..."



clickety–clack

noun click·ety–clack \¦klikətē¦klak\

Definition of CLICKETY-CLACK

:  a rhythmic usually fast click-clack clickety-clack
 of the wheels along the railroad track> clickety-clack of typewriters>

Variants of CLICKETY-CLACK

click·ety–clack or click·ety–click\-klik\


consist

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 組成, 構成, 一致, 符合, 在於, 存在於
n. - 列車編組順序表

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