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Rotary describes anything that turns around a central point - a rotary engine, a rotary drill, an old rotary telephone (the kind with a dial you turn instead of buttons to press). In American English, especially in the northeastern United States, a 'rotary' is also another name for a traffic circle or , where cars go around a circle instead of stopping at a .
旋轉的;(美式,尤新英格蘭地區)圓環路口
組成It comes from the Latin word 'rota', meaning wheel.
同家族的字
- rotateboth come from the Latin word for wheel, 'rota' - to rotate is to turn like a wheel
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
rotaryadj/ˈɹəʊ.tə.ɹi/
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Capable of rotation.
- A rotary engine revolves the heads rather than having pistons go back and forth.
- Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
rotarynoun/ˈɹəʊ.tə.ɹi/
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A roundabout, traffic circle.
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Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。