gasket: [17] Although it has never been established for certain, it seems likely that gasket may have originated as a word meaning ‘little girl’ – namely French garcette. This is a diminutive of grace ‘girl’, the feminine form of gars ‘boy’ (whence garçon). It is used figuratively for a ‘small rope’, and was originally borrowed into English in the 17th century as gassit, used as a nautical term for a ‘small rope for attaching a furled sail to a mast’.
Modern English gasket, first recorded in the early 17th century, seems to be an alteration of this. The main present-day sense ‘joint seal’ (originally made from tow or plaited hemp) developed in the early 19th century.
gasket (n.)
1620s, caskette, originally nautical, "small rope or plaited coil" used to secure a furled sail, of uncertain origin, perhaps from French garcette "a gasket," literally "little girl, maidservant," diminutive of Old French garce "young woman, young girl; whore, harlot, concubine" (13c.), fem. of garçon (see garcon). Century Dictionary notes Spanish garcette "a gasket," also "hair which falls in locks." Machinery sense of "packing (originally of braided hemp) to seal metal joints and pistons" first recorded 1829.
双语例句
1. This collar acts as a kind of gasket.
这个翻边起一种密封垫的作用.
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2. The engine had blown a gasket, ie the gasket had suddenly let steam, etc escape.
发动机的一个垫圈失效了(蒸气等逸出).
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3. The bottom bolts will help locate gasket and hold it in position.
底部螺栓有助于对垫片进行定位,并保持恰当的位置.
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4. Remove the bezel and rubber gasket from the motor output shaft.
从马达输出轴上拆卸玻璃框和橡皮垫圈.
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5. The primary function of sealing gasket is to prevent gas from leakage.
