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单词 cavity
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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.
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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).
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