喜樂美語
  1. 1凸輪（口語裡 cam 也常是 camera 的縮寫，那是另一個字）

    A cam is a wheel, or a raised part on a wheel, shaped so that turning it pushes something in a straight line, back and forth. That is how a machine changes round movement into in-and-out movement. You meet it in engines, pumps, and old factory gear. Mechanics say cam as a normal tool-word. Though actually, the cam most English meet first is short for camera, on phones and in CCTV; that is a different word that only looks the same. This meaning is the shaped wheel.

From the word’s history

From Dutch kam 'cog of a wheel', originally 'comb'; a doublet of comb.

借自荷蘭文 kam「齒輪的齒」，原意是「梳子」，和 comb 同源。

Wiktionary

組成From Dutch kam, cog of a wheel, originally comb (the teeth). Recorded in English from the 16th century. Doublet of comb.

同家族的字

  • combdoublet: Dutch kam meant comb, then the teeth of a cog-wheel

原始詞典資料21 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Camname詞源 1

  • 1

    A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.

Camname詞源 2

  • 1

    A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).

  • 2

    A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

Camname詞源 3/kæm/

  • 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.

    • Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.

camnoun詞源 1/ˈkæm/

  • 1

    A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

  • 2

    A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

  • 3

    dialectalA ridge or mound of earth.

    • Cum doun t' cam' soid
  • 4

    climbinghobbieslifestyleA spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

camnoun詞源 2/ˈkæm/

  • 1

    informalCamera.

  • 2

    A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.

camverb詞源 2/ˈkæm/

  • 1

    To go on webcam with someone.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • complementary and alternative medicine
  • common area maintenance
  • computer-aided manufacturing
  • cockpit area microphone
  • cell-adhesion molecule
  • crassulacean acid metabolism
  • contract air mail
  • content-addressable memory
  • Campeche
  • kam

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。