switchboard

/swich-bawrd, -bohrd/US // ˈswɪtʃˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd //UK // (ˈswɪtʃˌbɔːd) //

总机,交换台,配电板,配电盘

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Electricity.
- : a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- : Also called lightboard. a panel of switches, dimmers, etc., for controlling the lighting on a stage or in an auditorium.

as innerve center

Synonyms

The equipment filled much of a car’s trunk, and subscribers made calls by picking up the handset and speaking to a switchboard operator.
These women seemed like decent working folk — clerks and switchboard operators — yet they were spending their evenings out alone with men, who would buy them drinks and dinners.
Hundreds of calls jammed the switchboard at the hospital where she works, many hinting at physical violence against her, and accusing her of working for Big Pharma.
These switchboards housed a series of jacks, one per subscriber.
Coy signed up 21 subscribers to his switchboard service in his first year.
There's even some of those crazy vertical switchboard doodads.
Then Abdullah called for one of his private secretaries to hand over his name and an all-hours royal-switchboard telephone number.
There was a small thing which looked like the switchboard of a telegraph office.
The great window of the pilot room disclosed the pilot seats and the great switchboard to one side.
As his watch told him that Tom must be nearing the bottom he seated himself by the switchboard, headphones clamped over his ears.
The huge cables that brought the electric current to the switchboard lay molten on the floor.

/swich-bawrd, -bohrd/US // ˈswɪtʃˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd //UK // (ˈswɪtʃˌbɔːd) //

总机,交换台,配电板,配电盘

n.名词 noun

1
Electricity.
- : a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- : Also called lightboard. a panel of switches, dimmers, etc., for controlling the lighting on a stage or in an auditorium.

as innerve center

Synonyms

The equipment filled much of a car’s trunk, and subscribers made calls by picking up the handset and speaking to a switchboard operator.
These women seemed like decent working folk — clerks and switchboard operators — yet they were spending their evenings out alone with men, who would buy them drinks and dinners.
Hundreds of calls jammed the switchboard at the hospital where she works, many hinting at physical violence against her, and accusing her of working for Big Pharma.
These switchboards housed a series of jacks, one per subscriber.
Coy signed up 21 subscribers to his switchboard service in his first year.
There's even some of those crazy vertical switchboard doodads.
Then Abdullah called for one of his private secretaries to hand over his name and an all-hours royal-switchboard telephone number.
There was a small thing which looked like the switchboard of a telegraph office.
The great window of the pilot room disclosed the pilot seats and the great switchboard to one side.
As his watch told him that Tom must be nearing the bottom he seated himself by the switchboard, headphones clamped over his ears.
The huge cables that brought the electric current to the switchboard lay molten on the floor.