单词 | alate |
释义 | alateadj.n. A. adj. Winged; having wings, or side appendages that are likened to wings. Cf. alated adj. Now chiefly Entomology. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > wing-like or with winged parts alated1653 alate1661 winged1776 apterous1830 tripterous1866 the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > like a wing alary1658 aliform1698 alate1743 alar1791 bats-wing1838 alated1879 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > relating to wings or fins > having wings or fins finned1340 wingedc1405 wingy1596 alated1753 pinnated1776 alate1876 pinnate1890 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A8 Serpents which are..alate, as the winged dragon. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 118 Alate seed-vessels; or Keys. 1743 W. Stukeley Abury 62 This sacred figure of the alate and serpentiferous circle. 1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra 73 Nainby—Lincolnshire—from an alate temple there. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 76 Sometimes the stalk-like petiole is winged (alate), a narrow plate of the blade structure running down its margins. 1876 G. B. Buckton Monogr. Brit. Aphides I. 86 The alate females are never so plentiful as the apterous. 1918 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 44 2 The sexupara are alate, at least in all collections seen by the writer. c1962 R. A. Heinlein in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 258 Before I woke Poddy I took care of that alate pseudo-simian, that ‘fairy’. Vicious little beast. 1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 620 The alate imagines in a [termite] colony normally all leave when swarming occurs. 2009 B. Hölldobler & E. O. Wilson Superorganism vi. 241 Alate queens and males are also led by tandem running. B. n. Entomology. An alate insect; esp. a winged fertile caste of a social insect; a winged aphid; (cf. alata n.). ΚΠ 1915 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 17 46 We usually transferred the ‘potential’ alates to new plants, in the pupal stage. 1934 C. A. Kofoid Termites i. 8 The alates become functional reproductives only after they leave the parent colony and, in isolation, start a new one. 1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 492 Tobacco plants..were examined over five-week periods for the presence of alates and newly deposited nymphs. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies ix. 232 The emigrants join the family and eventually mature into alates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). alateadv. Now rare (archaic and English regional in later use). Of late, lately. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb] neweneOE newlyeOE unyoreeOE noweOE newOE lateOE yesterdaya1300 freshlya1387 of newa1393 anewa1425 newlingsa1425 latewardc1434 the other dayc1450 lately?c1475 erst1480 latewards1484 sith late1484 alatea1500 recently1509 even now1511 late-whiles1561 late ygo1579 formerly1590 just now1591 lastly1592 just1605 low1610 this moment1696 latewardly1721 shortsyne1768 sometime1779 latterly1821 a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4635 (MED) This is..come to me a late. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 65v Of shame & of shenship shapyn vs alate. 1584 R. Greene Arbasto 50 Where chilling frost alate did nip, There flasheth now a fire. 1606 Wily Beguilde 38 Yare waxen very proude alate, you will not know your olde friends. 1670 S. Woodford Let. 10 Mar. in I. Walton Life R. Hooker 3 in Lives How art thou chang'd from what thou wert a late. 1701 F. Atterbury Let. to Clergyman in Country 2/2 A powerful Party hath been formed a-late. 1722 L. Welsted Epist. to Dr. Garth 4 Ev'n to the Gallic Ghosts their Conqueror show; Alate how dreaded! now no more their foe! 1842 E. B. Browning Poems (1878) 219 But the Harpies alate In the storm came, and swept off the maidens. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Alayat, of late, lately. 1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. App. 87 A-late, lately. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1661adv.a1500 |
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