vehicle
- IPA[ˈvēək(ə)l]
美式
- a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart；a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something
noun: vehicle, plural noun: vehicles
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart the vehicle was sent skidding across the road a heavy goods vehicle 同義詞
- 2. a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas 同義詞
- ▪ a substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment, or other material mixed with it casein was used as a vehicle for pigments by the medieval painters
- ▪ the figurative language used in a metaphor, as distinct from the metaphor's subject.
- 3. a movie, television program, song, etc., that is intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage a vehicle for a star who was one of Hollywood's hottest properties
