cavityn.

/ˈkavɪti/

Forms: Also 1500s cauyte, cauitie.

Etymology: < French cavité, in 13th cent. caveté , (= Italian cavità , Spanish cavidad ), on Latin type *cavitāt-em (probably in late Latin or Romanic), < cavus hollow: see -ity suffix.

†1. Hollowness. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun]

hollness1483

hollowness1560

hownessa1605

cavitya1680

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 565 The fire of an Oven..into which Fire is put to heat it, and the Heat made more intense by the Cavity or Hollowness of the Place.

2. A hollow place; a void or empty space within a solid body.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow

hollowc897

wombOE

holkc1000

dalkc1325

hollownessc1374

spaciosity?a1425

pitc1480

concavitya1513

doupa1522

capacity?1541

cavity?1541

concave?1541

vacuation?1541

vacuity?1541

sound1603

cave1605

ferme1612

ventriclea1631

core1663

want1664

uterus1692

excavation1781

hog trough1807

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Dj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Before that the cauyte be replete with flesshe.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1022 The cavities as well of the mouth as of the stomacke.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 22 Within or without the Shell, in its Cavity or upon its Convexity.

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom i. 3 Creatures whose hearts are divided into four cavities—Mammalia and Birds.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 185 ‘The well’, the deep cavity sunk in the earth by the art of man.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 192 Little cavities, or vesicles, in this scoria, or cellular lava.

3. ‘In naval architecture, the displacement formed in the water by the immersed bottom and sides of the vessel’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).

ΚΠ

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 104 Centre of Cavity, or of Displacement, the centre of that part of the ship's body which is immersed, and which is also the centre of the vertical force that the water exerts to support the vessel.

4. cavity wall n. a double wall with an internal hollow space.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other specific types of wall

firewall?1666

truss-partition1823

bearing wall1833

sleeper wall1845

curtain wall1859

fender wall1894

cavity wall1910

apron wall1934

storage wall1945

spine wall1949

curtain walling1958

sleeper walling1971

Trombe1978

1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 522/1 Buildings in exposed situations are frequently built with cavity-walls.

1958 House & Garden Feb. 69/1 The cavity walls have an outer leaf of yellow-buff bricks.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cavity
释义	cavityn. /ˈkavɪti/ Forms: Also 1500s cauyte, cauitie. Etymology: < French cavité, in 13th cent. caveté , (= Italian cavità , Spanish cavidad ), on Latin type cavitāt-em (probably in late Latin or Romanic), < cavus* hollow: see -ity suffix. †1. Hollowness. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] hollness1483 hollowness1560 hownessa1605 cavitya1680 a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 565 The fire of an Oven..into which Fire is put to heat it, and the Heat made more intense by the Cavity or Hollowness of the Place. 2. A hollow place; a void or empty space within a solid body. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow hollowc897 wombOE holkc1000 dalkc1325 hollownessc1374 spaciosity?a1425 pitc1480 concavitya1513 doupa1522 capacity?1541 cavity?1541 concave?1541 vacuation?1541 vacuity?1541 sound1603 cave1605 ferme1612 ventriclea1631 core1663 want1664 uterus1692 excavation1781 hog trough1807 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Dj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Before that the cauyte be replete with flesshe. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1022 The cavities as well of the mouth as of the stomacke. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 22 Within or without the Shell, in its Cavity or upon its Convexity. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom i. 3 Creatures whose hearts are divided into four cavities—Mammalia and Birds. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 185 ‘The well’, the deep cavity sunk in the earth by the art of man. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 192 Little cavities, or vesicles, in this scoria, or cellular lava. 3. ‘In naval architecture, the displacement formed in the water by the immersed bottom and sides of the vessel’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). ΚΠ 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 104 Centre of Cavity, or of Displacement, the centre of that part of the ship's body which is immersed, and which is also the centre of the vertical force that the water exerts to support the vessel. 4. cavity wall n. a double wall with an internal hollow space. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other specific types of wall firewall?1666 truss-partition1823 bearing wall1833 sleeper wall1845 curtain wall1859 fender wall1894 cavity wall1910 apron wall1934 storage wall1945 spine wall1949 curtain walling1958 sleeper walling1971 Trombe1978 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 522/1 Buildings in exposed situations are frequently built with cavity-walls. 1958 House & Garden Feb. 69/1 The cavity walls have an outer leaf of yellow-buff bricks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1541
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