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单词 dangling
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danglingn.

/ˈdaŋɡlɪŋ/
Etymology: -ing suffix1.
The action of dangle v.; †concrete (plural) dangling appendages.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > hanging down > dangling
dangling1611
dingle-dangle1702
dangle1756
danglement1834
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > danglingly
dangling1611
dingle-dangle1622
dangler1731
dangle1888
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pendiloches, jags, danglings, or things that hang danglingly.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 100 To prevent the dangling down, and dagling of so long garments.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 103 The Royallists..To leave off Loyalty and Dangling.
?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship i. 5 I've given up flirting and dangling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

danglingadj.

Etymology: -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdangling.
That dangles.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > dangling
dangled1593
dangling1597
dingle-dangle1598
loose-hanging1598
dangle1600
loose-hung1625
adangle1855
dangly1903
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 30 Go bind thou vp yong dangling Aphricokes.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. Invoc. 1 Cast off these dangling Plummets.
1750 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 602 I am very happy that I have no dangling neighbours.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 116 Thin dangling locks.

Derivatives

ˈdanglingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adverb] > in dangling manner
danglingly1611
dingle-dangle1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pendiller, to hang danglingly, loosely, or but by halves.

Draft additions 1993

b. Grammar. Not being part of a proper grammatical construction. Frequently as dangling participle n. a participle in an absolute clause or phrase whose subject is omitted, resulting in ambiguity; an unattached participle. Also dangling modifier, dangling phrase, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [adjective] > not part of proper construction
pendent1849
dangling1909
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > participle > types of
present participle1705
past participle1798
fused participle1906
dangling participle1909
suspended participle1942
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > phrase > specific
prepositional phrase1878
noun phrase1884
case phrase1899
dangling phrase1909
VP1972
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > modifier or qualifier > specific
dangling modifier1909
premodifier1952
postmodifier1954
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dangling participle.
1935 A. G. Kennedy Current Eng. xii. 487 The so-called dangling participle has become one of the chief bugbears of the teacher of English composition.
1957 M. Nicholson Dict. Amer.-Eng. Usage 115/1 Dangling participle. Wrong: Having just returned from a long cruise, the city seemed unbearably crowded to us both.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 196 Let us examine, then, these dangling modifiers in ‘Bartleby’, looking at each of them in turn to see what..aid it can give us in understanding the obscurities of the tale.
1972 R. D. Walshe in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. 256 Dangling phrases. In the sentence, ‘Going into the bush, a snake bit me’, the opening phrase ‘dangles’ because it is not followed by its proper subject.
1985 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 12 May 14/2 Miss Shields, though perhaps guilty of a misplaced modifier, is surely innocent of a dangling modifier.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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