| 释义 |
ˈfish-scale
[f. fish n.1]
1. One of the scales of a fish's skin. Chiefly attrib. (in quot. 1834 referring to ichthyosis: cf. fish-skin disease below); fish-scale tile, a tile shaped like a fish scale.
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 61 Was this a price for fish⁓scales? 1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 465 One case is recorded, in which the face was the only part exempted from the fish-scale covering. 1873Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 186 Found a pretty German Enamel étui—pink fish-scale ground. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1260 Fish-scale tile slabs, {pstlg}12 10s. per 100. Ibid. §1261 The fish-scale slabs..are notched or rebated on the lower edge. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 207 Fish Scale Embroidery..The principal parts of the design..are covered over with brightly tinted Fish scales sewn to the foundation with coloured silks. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos iv. 16 Like a fish-scale roof. 1940Archit. Rev. LXXXVII. 12 Fish-scale slates are shown used in the upper part of a shop in the High Street and in a detail of their setting-out. 1961S. Sitwell Golden Wall & Mirador vi. 124 The pair of towers have their columns pitted with a fish-scale.
2. Metallurgy. (See quot. 1958.)
1932Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXXV. 587 Fish-scale in high-speed steel is the result of abnormal grain growth in the austenite due to critical strains. 1958A. D. Merriman Dict. Metallurgy 94/1 Fish scale, a defect sometimes encountered in vitreous enamel coatings. It..is often associated with flaking of minute areas of enamel. |