phalanx
方阵,法阵,方块
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plural pha·lanx·es or, for 7, pha·lan·ges [fuh-lan-jeez]. /fəˈlæn dʒiz/.
- : a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
- : any body of troops in close array.
- : a number of individuals, especially persons united for a common purpose.
- : a compact or closely massed body of persons, animals, or things.
- : Military. a radar-controlled U.S. Navy 20mm Gatling-type gun deployed on ships as a last line of defense against antiship cruise missiles.
- : a group of about 1800 persons, living together and holding their property in common.
- : Anatomy, Zoology. any of the bones of the fingers or toes.
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- : Printing. to arrange the distribution of work in a shop as evenly as possible.
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Examples
Vaccines offered Moderna’s CEO, Bancel, a chance to advance a phalanx of new products.
A phalanx of police officers stood at attention on each side of the plaza.
When the surviving phalanx of Massachusetts volunteers arrived at the Capitol building, “they were a tired, dusty, and bedraggled lot of men, showing every evidence of the struggle which they had so recently passed through,” a doorkeeper recalled.
They marched us all — a phalanx of senators, staff and press — through multiple office buildings in search of the safest grounds to shelter on the Capitol complex.
All the confusion finally gave way to a Bowl Championship Series from 1998-2013, in which a phalanx of humans and computers would choose two teams to play in one championship game.
A phalanx of cops formed behind them as they started across.
A phalanx of money-changers runs between the shops, converting Pakistani rupees to Afghan afghanis to U.S. dollars on the fly.
Who can forget the indelible images of that White Bronco being chased by a phalanx of cop cars on June 17, 1994?
I was among more than a hundred protestors from Occupy L.A., and facing a phalanx of police with riot equipment.
Their carefully scripted words, examined beforehand no doubt by a phalanx of spinmeisters, were barely above a monotone.
He took office with the intention of carrying out the king's policy of breaking up the whig and bringing about a peace.