Online Google Dictionary

chicane 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/SHiˈkān/,/CHi-/,
Font size:

chicanes, plural;
  1. Employ trickery or chicanery

  2. Deceive or trick (someone)

Noun
  1. An artificial narrowing or turn on a road or auto-racing course

  2. (in card games) A hand without cards of one particular suit; a void

  3. Chicanery

  1. a bridge hand that is void of trumps
  2. cheat: defeat someone through trickery or deceit
  3. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
  4. cavil: raise trivial objections
  5. trickery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  6. A chicane is an artificial feature creating extra turns in a roadway, used in motor racing and on city streets to slow cars. On modern raceways, chicanes are usually located after long straightaways, making them a prime location for overtaking.
  7. A chicane is a kind of permanent fence used at a railway crossing to prevent pedestrians from running across the railway tracks or at least to slow them down. A similar arrangement is sometimes used at the entrances of parks to make the entry of bicycles difficult, if not impossible.
  8. Mark Winter (born 1958) is an editorial cartoonist from New Zealand who works under the pen-name Chicane.
  9. Chicane is a British electronic dance music act, and the guise of British musician, composer and record producer, Nicholas Bracegirdle.
  10. A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reduce speed; Chicanery; To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge; To deceive
  11. (Chicanes) A series of curb extensions that narrow the street to one lane at selected points.
  12. (Chicanes) Build-outs into the roadway forcing traffic to slow and pass around the chicane.  Usually accompanied by road narrowing. ...
  13. A sequence of tight turns, often s-shaped, usually most important near the finish of a road-race or during a criterium.
  14. An `S` bend in a roadway that reduces speeds by forcing drivers to drive through in a single file.
  15. Sequence of tight serpentine curves (usually an S-shaped curve or a bus stop) in a roadway.
  16. A man-made corner set up to reduce speed at a certain point on a road track.
  17. 1. chicanery 2. bridge (game): a holding of no trumps 3. motor traffic or racing: a sharp double bend [or other obstacle made to slow traffic?]
  18. An artificial narrowing or turn on a road or auto-racing course.
  19. A tight combination of two corners in opposite direction. Most of the time slow and with curbes.
  20. An area of negotiation on the course, sometimes created, to slow riders and increase racer interaction.
  21. A quick left - right / right - left "S-turn" usually placed onto straightaways in order to slow drivers down before they reach slower corners.
  22. A very tight sequence of corners in alternate directions. Usually inserted into a circuit to slow the cars, often just before what had been a high-speed corner.
  23. A quick succession of sharp, slow turns, usually intended to reduce straightaway speeds.
  24. This is the name for a four-gate combination.
  25. A series of track back-to-back left and right hand bends (or vise versa).