单词
enfilade
英 [,enf?'le?d]
美[,?nf?'led]
基本信息
- n. 纵向射击;易受纵射的位置;相对成行排列
- vt. 向…纵射
词态变化
第三人称单数:?enfilades;过去式:?enfiladed;过去分词:?enfiladed;现在分词:?enfilading;
英文词源
- enfilade (n.)
- 1706, a string of things in a straight line, from French enfilade, from Old French enfiler (13c.) "to thread (a needle) on a string; pierce from end to end," from en- "put on" (see en- (1)) + fil "thread" (see file (v.1)). Used of rows of apartments and lines of trees before military sense came to predominate: "a firing with a straight passage down ranks of men, channels in fortifications, etc." (1796). As a verb from 1706 in the military sense, "rake with shot through the full length." Related: Enfiladed; enfilading. The Old French verb was borrowed in Middle English as enfile "to put (something) on a thread or string."
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