Clamp

(noun.) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together.

(verb.) impose or inflict forcefully; 'The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital'.

(verb.) fasten or fix with a clamp; 'clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened'.

校对:琳达

• The rods to be welded are placed in clamps C C′, C being connected with one terminal of the secondary conductor S, and the movable clamp C′ with the other. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The bread clamp is simply raised at the edge of the slice of bread, and holds the bread firmly in place. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Bolts or ratchets are inserted through the rail, and clamp the cushion to the wall of the rail. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Close the mouth of the tube with a one-hole rubber stopper in which is fitted a long, narrow tube, and clamp the test tube to an iron support, as shown in Figure 22. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At K this spring is clamped and insulated from the iron work by two pieces of hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The diaphragm A, of thin ferrotype plate, is clamped at its edges between the cap, or mouth-piece, and the handle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is merely toppled over, face side upward, clamped side underneath. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was clamped to the floor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A short piece of the thread was bent in the form of a hairpin, laid in a nickel mould and securely clamped, and then put in a muffle furnace, where it was kept for five hours. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This--clamping and fastening--explains the necessity for building the bed on its side. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The clamping-in is done at great pressure, and the resultant plate has great rigidity and strength. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The frame is slit at the inner horizontal edges, and then folded in such a way as to make individual clamping-jaws for each end-flange. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Many ways of clamping the tire to the rim have been contrived. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The rods to be welded are placed in clamps C C′, C being connected with one terminal of the secondary conductor S, and the movable clamp C′ with the other. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A short, thin metal plate attached to the ring A on the right hand side clamps the diaphragm in position by resting squarely on the rubber edge of the diaphragm. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They are then forced along thirty grooves in the steel clamps, which crimp the paper, and on through the crimp. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When the current is switched on, the heating element becomes red and the bread is inserted under the gravity-operated bread clamps on each side. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This is done by building the table without the regular rails, and by having a separate set of rails for each game, which are held in position by clamps and quickly interchanged. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:鲁本