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piggyback 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ˈpigēˌbak/,
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piggybacks, plural;
  1. On the back and shoulders of another person
    • - enjoying a piggyback ride
  2. Attached to or riding on a larger object
    • - a telescope with fittings for piggyback cameras and guidescopes
    • - a piggyback income tax, under which taxpayers would pay the state 21 percent of whatever they paid the federal government
Verb
  1. Carry by or as if by piggyback

  2. Mount on or attach to (an existing object or system)
    • - providers of information have piggybacked their own networks onto the system
  3. Use existing work or an existing product as a basis or support
    • - we were piggybacking on their training program
Noun
  1. A ride on someone's back and shoulders

Adverb
  1. On the back and shoulders of another person
    • - he had to carry him piggyback
  2. On top of something else
    • - Dave headed back with the car riding piggyback on his truck
  1. on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country"
  2. ride on someone's shoulders or back
  3. the act of carrying something piggyback
  4. on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback"
  5. haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
  6. haul by railroad car
  7. To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event; To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge; Utilizing last mile wiring (not wireless ...
  8. Two commercials scheduled to run back-to-back, purchased by the same advertiser.
  9. A combination of two loans. Example: A loan is made for 90% of the home price. 80% of the purchase price is supplied by a 1st mortgage and 10% by a 2nd mortgage. The 2nd mortgage is piggybacked on the 1st.
  10. The transportation of highway trailers or removable trailer bodies on rail cars specifically equipped for the service. ...
  11. Intuitive term for the use of routing, or routing-related, protocols to carry labels.
  12. Slang for two commercial announcements from the same sponsor that are presented back-to-back within a single commercial time segment. An example of this is two 15-second commercials in a 30-second time slot. This is also called double spotting.
  13. Loading freight on trailers and then shipping the trailers on specially designed rail cars.
  14. Terminology used to describe a truck trailer being transported on a railroad flatcar.
  15. (1) A direct mail offer that is included free with another offer. (2) Two commercials which are shown back-to-back by the same sponsor.
  16. Rail-truck service. Same as intermodal.
  17. An intermodal transport arrangement in which loaded truck trailers are placed on a rail car and moved to a destination
  18. Semitrailer built with reinforcements to withstand transport by a railroad flatcar. (see TOFC)
  19. A term used to describe a multimodal service. It is common for a trailer or container to move by truck to a rail facility and then by rail to another facility where it is trucked to the final destination.
  20. Mounting a camera and lens on top of a telescope on a mounting. Piggyback photography is usually used for long-exposure wide-angle astrophotography where the camera and lens take the picture while riding on top of a telescope on an equatorial mount that is polar aligned and tracking the stars to ...
  21. Method of wearing contact lenses where a soft lens is worn underneath an RGP
  22. Gaining unauthorized access to a system via another user's legitimate connection. [AJP][NCSC/TG004] The gaining of unauthorized access to a system via another user's legitimate connection. ...
  23. TOFC or trailer on a flat car. Originally used when truck trailers were loaded onto flat cars for shipment by rail.
  24. anything, as a device or apparatus, that's attached to or mounted on something else, especially a vehicle carried on another larger vehicle; also called "pickaback". See MOTHER SHIP, MINISUB.
  25. This is also known as Omnibus. Clients share costs conducting joint research studies.