| 释义 |
straight-lined, a.
Composed of or containing straight lines; having the form of a straight line; rectilinear.
1571Digges Pantom. i. Elem. B j b, Of straight lined angles there are three kindes. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 120 A strait-lined triangle. 1673Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 171 He was pleased to shew me a straight-lined projection for finding the hour by inspection. 1764Dodsley Leasowes in Shenstone's Wks. (1777) II. 300 Now we turn upon a sudden into a long strait-lined walk in the wood. 1801Farmer's Mag. Apr. 129 Measuring off from a straight lined hedge,..he takes one length of the poles for the half or crown of the first ridge. 1808J. Webster Nat. Philos. 115 They conducted water across hills and vallies by straight-lined ducts. 1898A. Browne in Daily News 10 Mar. 6/3 Across this opaque covering a straight-lined scratch is made with a needle or knife. |