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【感想】《牛津大学词典》比NOAD“精”在哪(内详)
时间有限,只对比了《牛津大学词典》第一页
以下是NOAD2比《牛津大学词典》多出来的内容
A(2) Brit ,informal A level.
a Middle English :weak form of Old English an one
a-1 from Greek
a-2 Old English,unstressed form of ON.
a-4 corresponding to Old French e-,es-
-a(1) representing a Greek,Latin,or Romance feminine singular.
-a(3) representing a casual pronunciation.
A3 解释共三行
A4 解释共三行
A5 解释共三行
aa mid 19 th cent : from Hawaiian a-a
Aachen an industrial city and spa
AAD aaar. Analog analog digital,indicating that a musical recording
was made and mastered in analog form before stored digitally.
Aalborg an industrial city and port
Aardvark orycteropus afer,the only living member of the family orycteropidae
and order tubulidentata.
Late 18th cent :from South African Dutch ,from aarde earth +vark pig.
aardwolf mid 19th cent : from South African Dutch ,from aarde earth
+wolf wolf
aargh late 18th cent :imitative,lengthened form of AH,to express a
prolonged cry.
Aaron’s beard a name given to various plants,esp.the ROSE OF SHARON
(sense 2)
Early 19th cent:alluding to AARON,whose beard “went down to
the skirts of his garments”(Psalms 133:2),because of the
prominent hairy staments or the long runners that some of these
plants put out.
Aaron’s rod another term for the great or common mullein
Mid 18th cent: alluding to AARON.whose staff was said to
have flowered(Numbers 17:8)
AAUP American Association of University Presses
American Association of University Professors
AAVE linguistics African American Vernacular English.
AB(1) in bolld transfusion ,a person with blood of group is a potential
universal recipient.
AB(2) from Latin Artium Baccalaureus
Ab1 from hebrew ab.
Ab- from Latin
abaca mid 18th cent: via spanish from tagalog abaka
aback 1,the little strip of pasture abck of the house.
Old English on baec.long written as two words,the term came to be
treated as a single world in nautical use.
PHRASE. He was taken aback by the sharpness in her voice.
abacus late Middle English (denoting a board strewn with sand on which to
draw figures):from Latin,from Greek abax,abak- slab drawing board ,
of semitic origin;probably related to hebrew abaq dust.
Abadan a major port and oil-refining center on an island of the same name on
the shatt al-arab waterway in western iran
Abaddon late middle english:via greek from hebrew abaddon destruction.Its
use for hell arose in the late 17 th cent.
abaft the yacht has a shower just abft the galley
Middle English(in the sense backward):from A-2(expressing motion)
+archaic abaft in the rear.
Abalone Genus haliotis,family haliotidae.class gastropda.
Mid 19 th cent :via Latin American Spanish from aulun,from an
American Indian language of Monterey Bay ,California.
abandon v.1, he had clearly abandoned all pretense of trying to succeed.See
not at RELINGQUISH
2, against the background of preceived threats,the tour was
abandoned.
Derelict houses were abandoned.
It was an attempt to persuade businesses not to abandon the
area to inner-city deprivation.
3, abandoning herself to moony fantasies.
n, she sings and sways with total abandon.
Late middle english: from old french abandoner,from a-(from latin
ad to at)+bandon control,based on late latin bannus,bannum(see
BAN 1),The original sense was bring under control ,later give in'
to the control of ,surrender to (sense 3)
Abandoned 1,a home for orphan and abandoned boys
2,an abandoned jeep stood in the street
3,a wild,abandoned dance.
Abase I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of
trustees.See note at HUMBLE.
Late middle english:from old french abaissier,from a-(from latin ad
to at)+baissier to lower,based on late latin bassus short of
stature. The spelling has been influenced by BASE2 .
Abash she was not abashed at being caught.
Middle english english : from Anglo-Norman French abaiss-;compare
with Old French esbaiss-,lengthened stem of eabair,from es- utterly
+bair astound.
Abate the storm suddenly abated ,see note at ALLEVIATE.
nothing abated his crusading zeal.
Middle English (in the legal sense put a stop to (a nuisance)):from
Old French abatre to fell,from a-(from latin ad to at )+batre to beat
(from latin battere,battuere to beat)
Abatement noise abatement/an abatement in the purchase price.
Middle English:from Anglo-Norman French,from Old French abatre
fell ,put an end to(see ABATE) |
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