| 单词 | cross-alliteration |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-alliteration (d) With verbal nouns and nouns involving action, in the various senses found with the verb (see 1c(a)), as cross-alliteration, cross-peal, cross-planking, cross-striation, cross-stroke, cross-tabulation, cross-ventilation; cross-appeal, cross-association, cross-banter, cross-belief, cross-claim, cross-correspondence, cross-inquiry, cross-suit, cross-summons; cross-blow, cross-protection, cross-raiding, cross-resistance.Here cross- becomes practically equivalent to an adjective, though originating, as in 1c(a) – 1c(c), in the adverb. ΘΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilation from opposite windows cross-ventilation1684 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 91 There are two kinds of Changes, viz. Plain Changes, and Cross-peals..the second is called Cross, so are its methods cross and intricate. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 371 All the ridiculous Ceremonies of Puff, Cross-Puff, Impuff, and Expuff. 1819 Edinb. Rev. 32 124 That cross-play of selfishness and vanity. 1869 E. A. Parker Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 128 A thorough cross-ventilation by opposite windows. 1884 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 9 571 Appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 923 Cross-claims for damages could only be set up in different actions. 1890 J. Corbett Sir F. Drake ix. 124 It was no mere cross-raiding on which he was bent. 1892 J. C. Blomfield Hist. Heyford 4 A couple of trees were laid down, and a cross-planking fixed upon them. 1895 Daily News 10 June 5/4 A cross-inquiry officer. 1899 W. James Talks to Teachers x. 98 As cross-associations multiply and habits of familiarity and practice grow, the entire system of our objects of thought consolidates. 1911 W. F. Barrett Psychical Res. xv. 228 The new and noteworthy feature is what the investigators of the phenomena have called cross-correspondence. 1923 Daily Mail 28 Feb. 5 In this case there are cross-suits. One, by the wife.., her husband..cross-petitions for the dissolution of his marriage. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xviii. 282 The histological character of the cells had changed, cross-striations arising in them. 1927 Daily Express 17 Aug. 7 I hope that I shall live to see the day when motorists will be able to take out cross-summonses against careless pedestrians. 1928 Daily Express 11 Sept. 5/5 The greetings and cross banter had the ring of complete enjoyment. 1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. x. 375 Ingeniously adapting b, by a cross-stroke, e.g. geƀan..to designate the voiced labial spirant (v). 1938 R. Graves Coll. Poems p. xv I found the strictly matching consonantal sequences of Welsh bardic poetry too crabbed for English, but modified them to cross-alliteration. 1949 R. K. Merton Social Theory 15 Paradigms, by their very arrangement, suggest the systematic cross-tabulation of presumably significant concepts. 1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xii. 195 Sera prepared against either organism will..afford cross-protection in mice. 1956 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 6) x. 135 Tetracycline Derivatives... Acquired resistance common, with cross-resistance to all members of group. 1961 Lancet 2 Sept. 521/1 Cross-resistance between different penicillins is not necessarily absolute. < as lemmas |
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