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cantilever

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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can·ti·le·ver /ˈkæntəliːvə $ -tl-iːvər/ noun [countable]  TBCa long piece of metal or wood that sticks out from an upright post or wall and supports a shelf, the end of a bridge etc 托臂,悬臂,悬臂梁,支架cantilevered adjective a cantilevered staircase 有支架的楼梯
Examples from the Corpus
cantileverYou are going to make a model of a special kind of bridge called a cantilever bridge.Of all-metal construction, the Firefly F.I was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with an alclad-covered monocoque fuselage.With a hardened aluminium cantilever and parabolic diamond stylus profile it retails for £1,350.Balance existed to tilt off, floors to leap up from and air to fall or cantilever through.Sixteen were mounted on Peckham cantilever trucks and nineteen on Brill 21E trucks indiscriminately.You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.In the early planning stages, the sheet piles were designed to cantilever only.
Origin cantilever (1600-1700) Perhaps from → CANT13 + lever
can·ti·le·ver nounChineseSyllable
Corpus of or a piece long metal wood


cantilever
cantilever /ˈkæntəliːvə, ˈkæntɪliːvə $ -tl-iːvər/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Origin: Perhaps from cant1(3) + lever
a long piece of metal or wood that sticks out from an upright post or wall and supports a shelf, the end of a bridge etc
—cantilevered adjective:
    a cantilevered staircase


can·ti·leverBrE /ˈkæntɪliːvə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkæntɪliːvər/ 🔊 noun
a long piece of metal or wood that sticks out from a wall to support the end of a bridge or other structure (桥梁或其他构架的)悬臂,悬桁,伸臂a cantilever bridge悬臂桥