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词汇 plank
释义 plank
noun[ C ]
uk /plæŋk/ us /plæŋk/

planknoun[C] (FLAT PIECE)


a long, narrow, flat piece of wood or similar material, of the type used for making floors: 木板;板条
oak/concrete planks橡木/水泥板
a plank of wood一块木板条
We used a plank to cross the ditch.我们用一块跳板过了沟。
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Building: carpentry & joinery
beading
bevel
bevelled
cabinetmaker
carpenter
fretsaw
gimlet
intarsia
jigsaw
joinery
mitre
panel
plane
sand
sandpaper
sawdust
seasoned
shelve
tenon
woodwork

planknoun[C] (PRINCIPLE)


an important principle on which the activities of a group, especially a political group, are based: (尤指政治组织的)政纲条目,政策准则
Educational reform was one of the main planks of their election campaign.教育改革是他们竞选活动的主要纲领之一。
The party's policy is based on five central planks.该党的政策基于5条中心政治纲领。
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Politics - general words
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anti-communism
anti-communist
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interparty
interpellate
interpellation
interventionist
lab
on message
Orwellian
overstep
parliament
party politics
statesman
statesmanlike
stateswoman
subsidiarity
super-conservative

planknoun[C] (EXERCISE)


an exercise in which you hold your body straight and parallel to the floor while resting on your toes and hands or elbows: 平板支撑
Planks are very good for strengthening your core.平板支撑对强化核心肌群非常有益。
 
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plank | American Dictionary


plank
noun[ C ]
us/plæŋk/

planknoun[C] (FLAT PIECE)


a long, flat piece of wood or other material, esp. one wide enough and strong enough to walk on:
They walked across the creaky, wooden-plank floor of the old house.

planknoun[C] (PRINCIPLE)


an important principle on which the activities of a political or other group are based:
He prepared the peace plank in the Democrats’ 1864 presidential platform.

Examples of plank


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The differences are obvious between a new wood floor and the worn planks that speak of the distant past.
The third and last frame was finally pulled up and the sides connected with framing elements and horizontal planks, which formed the outside walls.
There are three types of chains related to planks.
Several fragments of a stoneware vessel were also found beneath and beside the planks.
More obviously, the two large planks in the bottom left corner extend beyond the frame suggesting a world that continues beyond its margins.
The symbolic value of the ancient planks has been transferred to the modern wooden floor.
Let us show that all planks are nice and smart.
A few better-off households sold planks to merchants.
Her stern and bow were protected by four-inch planks of greenheart, while the midship ice sheathings were made of oak.
If the election centered on religious animosity, the question arrises as to why these additional planks were included at all.
Platforms employing "states' rights" language within their civil rights planks are included in this category.
The sledge runners are solid timber planks, 2430mm long, 315mm deep and 50mm thick, with one end rounded and the other cut square.
If not lost as firewood, the planks would have disappeared anonymously into the market for structural timber, used indiscriminately here or there, or processed for furniture or strip flooring.
In practical application, the constant length links are turned into metal planks, and a rotational shaft and bearings are mounted on the intersection of two constant length links.
She examines various classical writers in order to demonstrate that the principle of democracy does not negate the possibility that politicians reconsider their electoral planks once in office.
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Collocations withplank


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central plank
There is also an all-too-brief discussion of that central plank of linguistic concern in the eighteenth century - lexicography.
key plank
But if sustainable development is a key plank of all government policy, somewhere there must be some definition of it.
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main plank
The main plank of these reforms was to legitimise and to introduce the demotic language into schools.
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