单词 | alias |
释义 | aliasn.adv. A. n. I. General uses. 1. Law. A second writ issued when the first has proved ineffectual. Cf. pluries n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > second or further writ alias1465 1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 313 Your councell thynketh it were wele don that ye gete an allias and a plurias that it myght be sent don to the scheryf. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xiv. 60 Effect an alias, pluries or distringas according to the nature of the action to the returne of the sherife. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. C4 Alias v. Capias alias. ?1682 H. Care Eng. Liberties 129 The Ill practises of Sheriffs and Gaolers, by putting the prisoner to the charge and trouble of an Alias and pluries (that is a second and third Writ, before they would obey the first, for there was no penalty till the Third). 1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (ed. 3) 173 Then the Plaintiff may have an Alias. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 135 To delay his obedience to the first writ, and..wait till a second and a third, called an alias and a pluries, were issued. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Capias An alias writ..to the same effect as the former. 1872 Amer. Law Reg. 20 175 When a writ of execution issues, a party may have an alias and a pluries if the first be returned unsatisfied. 1949 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 379 The Habeas Corpus Act, 1679, sets out how the object of the writ was often evaded, so that it had to lead to the issue of an alias and in some cases the issue of a pluries. 2010 P. D. Halliday Habeas Corpus ii. 61 Insertion of this general warning continued to increase, whether or not the writ issued as an alias or contained a subpoena. 2. An alternative name for a person or thing; esp. a false or assumed name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > assumed or fictitious name alias1605 nom de guerre1652 onomastic1654 martial name1762 anonym1812 pseudonym1817 nom de plume1841 stage name1847 cryptonym1862 pen namea1864 allonym1867 code name1867 screen name1923 nom de vente1955 work name1963 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 129 An Alias or double name cannot preiudice the honest. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Fools, as well as Knaves, take other names, and pass by an Alias. 1726 J. Oldmixon Crit. Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) I. ii. i. 156 Wharton the Nonjuror, who disguis'd his true Name with an alias Anthony Harmer. 1779 Duchess of Devonshire Sylph II. lx. 198 As to your Proteus, with all his aliases, I think he must be quite a Machiavel in artifice. 1831 Edinb. Rev. 53 364 He has been assuming various aliases. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 92 The monk who was sometimes called Harrison and sometimes went by the alias of Johnson. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 320 Mataziette and Saxafragine are merely aliases for dynamite of different consistencies and strength. 1949 D. Sinclair Secret Riders Farm xii. 178 He's been known as a ‘con’ man under various aliases for years. 1960 G. Bailey Conspirators (1961) vi. 124 He was recruited under the alias of ‘The Mole’. 1988 H. A. Klein Sci. Measurem. iii. 44 The measure called kilderkin, runlet, or eimer had still another alias, the double anker. 2002 Independent 15 Apr. (Review section) 9/1 So here I am, an unmarried single mum with sprog gadding about the state under my multiplying aliases. II. Scientific uses. 3. Statistics. Each of a number of different combinations of treatment that give equivalent outcomes under a particular experimental design. ΚΠ 1945 D. J. Finney in Ann. Eugenics 12 292 This last equality..may be considered as introducing a new condition into the effect group which reduces the order of this group to 22 instead of 23 and thereby gives two aliases to each treatment effect except that equated to the identity. 1976 C. Daniel Applic. Statistics Industr. Experimentation xii. 216 Table 12.6 gives the alias structure and the treatment combinations required. 2003 R. E. Kirk in I. B. Weiner et al. Handbk. Psychol. II. i. 26/27/1 Under these conditions, if a source of variation labeled treatment A and its alias, the BCDF interaction, is significant, it is reasonable to assume that the significance is probably due to the treatment rather than the interaction. 4. Electronics. Each of a number of different signal frequencies which give the same set of sampled values under a particular sampling procedure, with the result that they may be incorrectly substituted for one another when reconstructing the original signal. Cf. aliasing n. 1a. ΚΠ 1958 R. B. Blackman & J. W. Tukey in Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 37 218 We naturally call the frequencies f, 2fN − f, 2fN + f, 4fN − f, 4fN + f, and so on, aliases of one another, f being the principal alias. 1976 Nature 25 Nov. 342/2 Because of the finite sampling time..we cannot exclude the possibility that we are observing an alias of a modulation shorter than the Nyquist frequency of the data. 1987 Electronics & Wireless World Jan. 79/2 In an interlaced scan, the high-frequency vertical information is shared between adjacent fields. So, by restricting access to only one field, some wanted component frequencies were replaced by unwanted alias patterns. 2005 M. Ruckert Understanding MP3 xi. 152 The misinterpretation of a frequency as its alias can only occur if the input of the frequency analysis contains both, the frequency and its alias. 5. Computing. An alternative name or identifier that refers to a data item, program, network address, etc., and can be used to locate it or manipulate it; spec. a name that represents an email address or group of email addresses. ΚΠ 1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 25 Normally, a unit of code has one unique name and one regular entry point: aliases may be used to provide additional names and entry points for the module. 1974 S. Herbst Multics Techn. Bull. 5 This entry returns information from mail_table given a user's registered person id or alias as a lookup name. 1991 Home Office Computing June 16/2 You can create duplicates of document icons, called aliases, which are simply pointers to where the file is actually located. 1994 Internet World Jan. 47/2 I also maintain four ‘aliases’ or electronic mailing lists... First there is the big one—‘nomadness’. 2006 A. Mayo Mac OS X Unix ii. 128 A Finder alias is like a hard link in that renaming does not break it, but it can span file systems. B. adv. Introducing an alternative name for a person or thing: otherwise called or named; also known as. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adverb] > also or otherwise known as aliasa1475 aka1948 c1432 in PMLA (1934) 49 457 (MED) Iohn perkyn, alias sharp, de wygmore lond.] a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 142 The which acris all water scriptor, alias wryter, helde as eyere of me. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 354 Callit Gillelmus alias Gilmoure. 1570 T. Knell Answer at large to Papisticall Byll sig. B.ij Maister Wyborne, alias tiburne tyke, here dwelleth in this towne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 43 Violent, testie Magistrates (alias Fooles). View more context for this quotation 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xliii. 169 That is..what our Sanctimonials alias Nuns in their Dialect call ringing backwards. 1709 London Gaz. mmmmdlxi/4 The Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath. 1763 J. Woodforde Diary 29 June in Woodforde at Oxf. (1969) 137 A Pocket Pistol, alias a Dram Bottle, to carry in one's Pocket, it being necessary on a Journey. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 185 Louisa Brachman, alias Sappho..threw herself from a gallery, two stories high. 1858 F. W. Farrar Eric i. xiii. 147 Oh! I see you've been wasting your tin on cigars—alias, rolled cabbage-leaves. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. ii. 126 Say, young man, did you ever hear of Stephen Arnold Douglas, alias the Little Giant, alias the Idol of our State, sir? 1976 D. Blood Rocky Mountain Wildlife i. ii. 101 The comical little pika, alias ‘cony’ or ‘rock rabbit’ is a widespread and typical resident of the Rockies. 1984 Times 2 Apr. 12 Only among the liberal intelligentsia, alias the chattering classes, would you be likely to find a belief that [etc.]. 1998 P. Williams Gangland (1999) 164 Stephen ‘Rossi’ Walsh, alias Stephen Byrne, was one of Dublin's most feared criminal godfathers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). aliasv. 1. transitive (usually in passive). In early use: to recognize by or as having an alias (alias n. 2). Later: to designate with an alias; to give (a person) an alias (frequently reflexive). ΚΠ 1790 St. James's Chron. 9 Feb. 4/4 H. Shergold has been alias'd by the Commissioners of the Stamp-office by the names of Hugh, Humphrey, and Horatio—and..turns out to have another sur-name, having changed it without Act of Parliament. 1819 Times 5 Aug. 3/5 At the top of the will the name is spelt Anderson, but the signature is Andreson, and in consequence of this variation, Mr. Clarkson aliased the deceased. 1824 Family Oracle of Health 1 248 Having aliased himself Dr. Cameron, and alibied his residence to London, he commenced his career of advertising and quacking. 1838 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 469 The first number..was issued..from the premises of Archibald Constable, aliased by himself the Czar of Muscovy. 1863 D. A. Mahony Prisoner of State 150 Lieutenant Holmes, or as he was aliased by the prisoners, ‘Bull-head’. 1934 Frater of Psi Omega Jan. 84/2 If he hadn't already been lovingly nicknamed Jerry, we would be very much tempted to alias him the Houdini of Dentistry. 1995 G. C. Infante & K. Hall Mea Cuba 365 The Americans..got the Communist leader, aliased by himself as Blas Roca,..to declare that in Cuba the Communist Party..was now converting to Browderism. 2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Feb. 15 A reader aliased as Gnome criticised the ‘appification’ of education. 2. transitive. Electronics. (usually in passive). To cause (distinct items) to be merged or conflated, esp. inadvertently; to sample (a waveform, signal, etc.) at a frequency so low that aliasing results. Cf. aliasing n. 1a, alias n. 4. ΚΠ 1954 Biometrics 10 6 The estimated derivatives will generally be biased (or, in the language of the theory of fractional replication, they will be aliased with higher derivatives). 1958 R. B. Blackman & J. W. Tukey Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 37 218 The principal part of the aliased spectrum Pa(f) is the result of aliasing P(f). 1975 Nature 21 Aug. 629/1 Because of the integration time of 32 s any frequency above the Nyquist frequency 1/ 64 s−1 would be aliased to a measured period greater than 64 s. 1987 Physics Bull. Jan. 11/1 Fringes at higher spatial frequency are aliased by the sensor. 1995 Climatic Change 31 305 A sampling frequency of at least six times a day ensures..that the diurnal and semi-diurnal cycles are not aliased into long term mean values. 2006 P. J. Nahin Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula vi. 304 The sampled signal is aliased, since energy at one frequency is now mixed up with energy at a different frequency. Derivatives ˈaliased adj. ΚΠ 1958 R. B. Blackman & J. W. Tukey Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 37 218 The principal part of the aliased spectrum Pa(f) is the result of aliasing P(f). 1989 Nature 16 Mar. 235/1 Each of the 8-million-point transforms showed a significant signal at the aliased frequency for the second harmonic. 2002 T. Verderosa Techno Primer 148 This is the point at which aliased frequencies mix with real frequencies to produce an unwanted type of distortion. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adv.1465v.1790 |
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