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单词 afterpart
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afterpartn.

Brit. /ˈɑːftəpɑːt/, /ˈaftəpɑːt/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌpɑrt/
Forms: see after- prefix and part n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: after- prefix, part n.1
Etymology: < after- prefix + part n.1With nautical use in sense 1 compare aft adv. and discussion at after adj.
1. The part of something nearest the rear; (Nautical) the part of a ship, deck, etc., nearest to the stern. Also in plural.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 7 Aftyr parte of a beste or the hyndyr, or the crowpe, Clunis. Aftyr parte or hynder parte of the schyppe.
c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 125 (MED) A chanon had swech peyne in his nek and þe aftir part of his hed.
1636 J. Sadler Sicke Womans Private Looking-glasse 21 Hence will arise Epilepsies, Apoplexies,..paine in the after parts of the head, fearfulnesse inability of speaking.
c1700 (?c1600) Proportions to be used in any Kind of Ship or Gally in Mariner's Mirror (1994) 80 21/2 In the after part of the ship it doth great hurt both in the stirridge & going.
1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 258 The Ridge of the After-part of his Back is scragged with half a Dozen Knobs or Nuckles.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Back-Board, a piece of board of a semicircular figure, placed transversly in the after-part of a boat, and serving the passengers to recline against.
1840 A. F. B. Creuze Treat. Theory & Pract. Naval Archit. 41/1 The after-parts of the hull above water are very considerably reduced.
1846 G. A. McCall Let. 28 Mar. in Lett. from Frontiers (1868) 440 The Peccary,..has no tail, and it has a musk-pouch on the after-part of the back.
1871 Daily News 26 Aug. She has a spacious deck saloon in the afterpart.
1913 W. Grant Pronunc. Eng. in Scotl. i. iii. 14 After-blade.., articulated between the after part of the blade and the after teeth ridge.
1939 Mariner's Mirror 25 80 A leading block hung from the after-part of the bunt.
1998 F. Fleming Barrow's Boys xxii. 356 Ross stood, arms folded, on the afterpart of the quarterdeck, the epitome of fearlessness.
2. The later or subsequent part of something; (as a count noun) a part that comes later or towards the end; a following part.
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1677 F. Bampfield All in One 97 From the head-beginning of this year even unto the afterward, or end of the year: the after-part, the later-part of it, the last of it.
1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. Apol. sig. A7v If..the..sincerity of my Work has been full and just,..I may well leave the Fretwork..to an after part.
1716 G. Crawfurd Peerage of Scotl. 483/2 In that disconsolate low Condition of Fortune he spent the after Part of his Life.
1765 London Mag. June 273/1 Let it lie in the sun till the after part of the day.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 41 The old gentleman had really an afterpart of his story in reserve.
1835 J. R. Coxe Appeal to Publ. 21/1 It is to these documents I chiefly have reference, in an after-part of this treatise.
1871 H. Yule tr. Bk. Marco Polo I. xiii. 25 We shall give no particulars at present, because we are going to tell you all those details in regular order in the after part of this Book.
1900 Punch 25 Apr. 292/1 The Dean is impossible—away from the afterpart of a Christmas Pantomime.
1912 Z. Grey Riders of Purple Sage v. 57 The after-part of the night wore on interminably.
1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 9 ‘The killing,’ Rooney says with a little uneasiness, but no uncertainty, ‘it is almost an after-part to the rest.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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