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词汇 short-circuit
释义 short circuit
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌʃɔːt ˈsɜː.kɪt/ us /ˌʃɔːrt ˈsɝː.kɪt/(informalshort)
a bad electrical connection that causes the current to flow in the wrong direction, often having the effect of stopping the power supply短路
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Electrical components & circuitry
accumulator
AGM battery
anode
armature
bandpass filter
baseband chip
cathode ray
circuit breaker
coil
conductor
LED display
multicelled
multiconductor
negative pole
number pad
OLED
photoresist
photovoltaic cell
relay
transformer

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Faults and mistakes
short-circuit
verb
uk /ˌʃɔːt ˈsɜː.kɪt/ us /ˌʃɔːrt ˈsɝː.kɪt/(also informalshort)
[ I or T ]
to have or cause a bad electrical connection that makes the current flow in the wrong direction, which often has the effect of stopping the power supply:
If those two wires touch, the appliance will short-circuit and probably go up in flames.
Metallic nanotubes short-circuit electronic devices and must be sifted out from the semiconducting ones.
If you short-circuit a battery with a piece of wire, a large current will flow, and the battery will get warm as energy is transferred within it.
Water had entered the radio station and short-circuited the cabling.
This short-circuited the power supply to the Bakerloo line, forcing the line to be suspended between Paddington and Elephant and Castle .
A young man died after his defibrillator short-circuited.
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Machines - not functioning
act up
balky
blooey
break down
broken
brokenness
brownout
downtime
fail
flat
malfunction
outage
power (something) down
seize
seize up
shot
shudder
shut
shut (something) down
whack

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Electrical components & circuitry
[ T ]
to do something more quickly than usual, by avoiding some of the parts of the process: 抄近路|绕过
We may be able to short-circuit this litigation before it drags on forever.我们可能可以在诉讼无限期拖延下去产之前,设法缩短诉讼(时间)。
The agency short-circuited the normal construction process by conducting environmental studies at the same time that preliminary studies were done.这个机构通过在做前期初步调研的同时把环境调研做完,缩短了正常的施工流程。
Players with enough cash potentially short-circuit this process.
Short-circuiting the usual long routine of cautious animal testing, the drug is already being offered to patients whose illness has no other treatment.
We might be able to short-circuit this whole ridiculous process.
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Avoiding action
abrogate
abrogation
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avoid something like the plagueidiom
avoidance
elude
end-run
eschew
evader
evasion
fiddle
insure
run for the hillsidiom
shirk
shrink from something
shy away from something
sit on your arseidiom
steer
welch
Welsh

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short circuit | American Dictionary


short circuit
noun[ C ]
us/ˈʃɔrt ˈsɜr·kət/(infmlshort)
an electrical connection that not working correctly and allows too much current to flow into a circuit (= a closed system of wires), causing a dangerous condition

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Here there is clearly an idiosyncratic crossing of strands, an emotional shortcircuit from the personal to the social.
Some children may shortcircuit active coping because they feel too tired or weak to carry it through.
The fire was started by a shortcircuit in an electric cable.
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In certain circumstances a more direct approach would be desirable in order to shortcircuit some of the routes.
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The normal fuse of the minature circuit breaker detects a shortcircuit and immedately trips out.
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One suspects that those proposals will be for further legislation, which the new clauses would shortcircuit.
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Most of those cases arose because business men tried to shortcircuit administrative and financial procedures.
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The source of a flame must be a smouldering cigarette or an electrical shortcircuit.
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At the inquest it is said to have been caused by a faulty electric light wire or a shortcircuit in the television.
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Streamline or shortcircuit, it is the same thing.
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The machinery is cumbersome, but it is imposed by the objective 1 mechanism which we cannot vary or shortcircuit.
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As a result, when there is a shortcircuit, sparks fly.
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What changes can be made to shortcircuit these interminable procedures?
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We do not need to use mechanisms that require a shortcircuit of the rules.
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As the bitumen leaked from the cylinder linking the two switches, the insulation level fell until the shortcircuit which caused the explosion occurred.
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