- 1蓄水池、水箱（在英國也常指馬桶水箱）
A cistern is a container that holds a supply of water. In the learner-dictionary sense, it is the tank that stores water for a building, often inside the building, so the taps can still run when the in the street are weak or stop. In older British houses you may find a cold-water cistern up in the loft. Though actually, in everyday British English the cistern people mention most is the one on the toilet: the box that fills with water and when you flush. Americans more often say tank for that. It is a practical, slightly old-fashioned word — plumbing, buildings, history — not a word for the glass of water on the table. On a grand scale, a Roman cistern could be a huge underground room; that is the same idea, only much bigger.
組成From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (modern French citerne), from Latin cisterna, from cista, “box,” from Ancient Greek kístē, “box.” Doublet of cisterna.
同家族的字
- cisternaa learned doublet: in anatomy, a cisterna is a small fluid-filled space, a kind of tiny cistern
原始詞典資料6 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。
cisternnoun/ˈsɪs.tən/
- 1
A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- For cistern valves, they are well adapted—opening the full area upon the least descent of the ball, and are not liable to be set fast.
- 1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture", Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed.
- 2
In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- It is possible to connect your tank to your toilet cistern and/or garden, so that even if the water is not drinkable it still can be used productively to make major water savings.
- 3
A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
- 4
The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
- By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
- 5
biologynatural-sciencesA cisterna.
- 6
The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
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