dinosaurn.

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪnəsɔː/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪnəˌsɔr/

Forms: 1800s–1900s deinosaur, 1800s– dinosaur.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Dinosauria.

Etymology: < scientific Latin Dinosauria (see dinosaurian adj.), with omission of the ending; compare -saur comb. form. Compare slightly later dinosaurus n., and also dinothere n.The form deinosaur shows remodelling after the ulterior etymon ancient Greek δεινός fearful, terrible (see dinosaurian adj.).

1. A member of a diverse group of archosaurian reptiles (superorder Dinosauria), some of very large size, which dominated land habitats during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Also (not in technical use): an animal of this kind, specifically characterized as very large and extinct; any of various other extinct reptiles of the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras, esp. those of large size, including synapsids, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and pterosaurs.Dinosaurs originated during the Triassic period, and are known from fossilized bones, eggs, and other remains. They included quadrupedal and bipedal forms ranging in size from less than 50 cm to more than 20 metres, some having bony horns, crests, or body armour. Early studies compared them to lizards and crocodiles in mode of life, but they are now recognized to have had an elevated metabolism more like that of birds and mammals. In phylogenetic terms, the clade Dinosauria also includes birds, which are descended from feathered theropod dinosaurs.

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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > saurian or dinosaur

saurian1817

saurus1834

dinosaur1842

dinosaurian1842

dino1910

1842 R. Owen in Rep. 11th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1841 104 A remarkable approach in the present gigantic Dinosaur to the Crocodilian structure.

1877 H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) xv. 223 The bones and teeth of Deinosaurs have been found in..North America.

1885 C. A. Buckmaster Brit. Alm. Comp. 193 The group of fossil reptiles known as Dinosaurs has long been remarkable for certain curious resemblances to birds which it presents.

1930 Discovery Nov. 386/2 The bipedal dinosaurs were of two kinds, vegetable feeders and flesh eaters.

1979 Children Today May 2/1 It is clear that many young children go through a brief period of fascination with dinosaurs, although only a relatively few develop true obsessions.

2015 Courier (Dundee) 17 July (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 25/1 A newly identified species of feathered dinosaur is the largest ever found to have a well-preserved set of bird-like wings.

2. figurative. A person or thing that is old-fashioned, outdated, or obsolete; a person or thing that is unable or unwilling to adapt to changing circumstances. Also: an object, institution, procedure, etc., that is extremely large and unwieldy.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > something that is old-fashioned

fogramity1796

fossil1844

back number1882

vieux jeu1896

dinosaur1899

Model T1909

old hat1911

throwback1923

museum piece1928

geriatric1977

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is

lug1545

monster1759

hulk1818

megatherium1850

potwalloper1896

dinosaur1975

1899 Washington Post 31 Dec. 24/3 The chit-chat is passed about from one house to another until a modest story grows into stupendous proportions—a regular dinosaur of a tale.

1924 H. W. Morrow in Everybody's June 56/2 If that old dinosaur of a Johnson think he's going to have a walk-away with this, he's mistaken.

1931 Current Hist. 34 p. x/1 A shrewd yet naïve mind engaged in reducing the dinosaurs of communism to the neat formula of Missourian folkways.

1975 Judiciary Comm.: Study House & Senate Judiciary Comm. (R. Nader Congr. Project) iv. 91 If the result of a search for subjective ‘intent’ or ‘attempt’ to monopolize was a dinosaur of a case like IBM, then a simplification of the Sherman Act was needed.

a1983 C. B. Fisk in F. Douglass & B. Owen Charles Brenton Fisk (1986) II. 140 How can such a multi-chambered instrument—such a dinosaur of an instrument—gather itself together for a concerted musical lunge at anything?

2018 People (Nexis) 18 Mar. You're always telling me I'm a dinosaur when it comes to technology. I thought I'd do a course.

Compounds

C1.

a. General use as a modifier (in sense 1).

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1876 J. W. Powell Rep. Geol. Eastern Portion Uinta Mountains (U.S. Dept. of Interior) ii. 72 I have verified the determination of the stratigraphic horizon by examining the place and finding other dinosaur bones.

1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 115 Professor Marsh..spent one full day in the same locality; but his time was occupied in visiting a few of the localities in which dinosaur skulls and skeletons..had been found.

1924 H. F. Osborn in Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 144. 1 The third..is a short skull, entirely toothless like the Ornithomimidæ, which was found lying directly over a nest of dinosaur eggs.

1947 E. H. Colbert Dinosaurs 27/1 Many of the legends of giants that are so prevalent among primitive people..frequently were based in part on the discovery of dinosaur bones.

1966 R. Silverberg Forgotten by Time 67 A certain fossil fish of the dinosaur era had such teeth.

2010 L. Robin et al. Desert Channels xi. 215 The dinosaur footprints were discovered by opal miners in 1962.

b. As a modifier with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a dinosaur (sense 2); outdated, obsolete, or resistant to change; large and unwieldy’.

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1939 Jewish Forum July 99/2 The fiction that these 5,000,000 have absorbed so much of the wealth of the country that not enough is left for the rest of us, is a species of dinosaur argument long since blown to atoms.

1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 Apr. 3/2 This Dinosaur school of Republican strategy.

1979 Time 8 Jan. 63/2 It's now perfectly clear that we can process dinosaur cases if we can persuade judges to seize control from the lawyers and manage those cases.

1984 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 21 Jan. 5/4 President Reagan..said Monday his challengers have a ‘dinosaur mentality that offers nothing for the future but repeating their failed past’.

2013 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 12 May c1 The county—and other parts of America hard hit by the recession—was hurting because it was too heavily involved in dinosaur industries.

C2.

dinosaur hunter n. a person who searches for the fossilized remains of dinosaurs.Frequently as a humorous or sensational term for a palaeontologist.

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1902 Proc. & Coll. Wyoming Hist. & Geol. Soc. 1901 7 37 Good opportunity was afforded to see how the really professional Dinosaur hunter stalked his noble quarry, the largest game that ever fell to a hunter's pick and shovel.

2020 Sun (Scotl. ed.) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 13 A new species of dinosaur related to the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex has been discovered... Four bones were discovered last year by dinosaur hunters at the seaside resort of Shanklin.

dinosaur rock n. rock music from or heavily influenced by an earlier era; spec. such music regarded as outdated and lacking in innovation or imagination.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of

jazz-rock1915

rockabilly1956

rockaboogie1956

hard rock1959

folk-rock1963

soft rock1965

surf rock1965

acid rock1966

raga rock1966

progressive rock1968

Christian rock1969

cock rock1970

punk1970

punk rock1970

space rock1970

swamp rock1970

techno-rock1971

glitter rock1972

grunge1973

glam-rock1974

pub rock1974

alternative rock1975

dinosaur rock1975

prog rock1976

AOR1977

New Wave1977

pomp rock1978

prog1978

anarcho-punk1979

stadium rock1979

oi1981

alt-rock1982

noise1982

noise-rock1982

trash1983

mosh1985

emo-core1986

Goth1986

rawk1987

emo1988

grindcore1989

darkwave1990

queercore1991

lo-fi1993

dadrock1994

nu metal1995

1975 Stanford (Calif.) Daily 13 Mar. 12/4 Physical Graffiti has interesting compositions for the careful listener, but enough of that original dinosaur rock to keep your body shaking.

1976 Sounds (Electronic ed.) 9 Oct. It's dinosaur-rock, a non-stop barrage of riffs and cliches that have been floating around for the last 15 years.

1993 Spin Mar. 69/2 He rehabilitates the guitar solo, even the really long guitar solo, from the bloated corpse of 70s dinosaur rock.

2008 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 July a8/4 A top-40 band thudded out dinosaur rock.

Derivatives

ˈdinosaur-like adj. resembling, characteristic of, or reminiscent of a dinosaur (in either sense).

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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [adjective] > of order Sauria > resembling

saurian1864

dinosauric1888

dinosaur-like1932

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc.

old-fashioned1596

musty1603

mildewed1605

fusty1609

wormy1611

frumpy1746

fossila1770

arriéré1814

has-been1819

Rip Van Winkleish1829

frumpish1847

archaistic1850

fogey1852

fogeyish1852

old fogeyish1853

rusty-fusty1864

mossbacked1876

dead-handed1928

Victorian1934

unhep1939

unhip1939

dinosaurian1943

square1946

dinosaur-like1947

dinosauric1977

analogue1993

1932 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 15 Feb. a16/1 This creature has a real dinosaurlike appearance, with its long neck, small head, and long, heavy tail.

1947 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 1 Mar. 18/4 Despite his dinosaur-like methods I have an amiable regard for Inspector French.

1997 Web Aug. 76/2 Unclassified animal life, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and an African dinosaur-like creature called the Mokele-Mbembe.

2003 Time Out N.Y. 15 May 42/1 Almost half of its students are far beyond the age of 16, ranging from 21 to 94 years old, which made us feel less dinosaurlike.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	dinosaur
释义	dinosaurn. Brit. /ˈdʌɪnəsɔː/, U.S. /ˈdaɪnəˌsɔr/ Forms: 1800s–1900s deinosaur, 1800s– dinosaur. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Dinosauria. Etymology: < scientific Latin Dinosauria (see dinosaurian adj.), with omission of the ending; compare -saur comb. form. Compare slightly later dinosaurus n., and also dinothere n.The form deinosaur shows remodelling after the ulterior etymon ancient Greek δεινός fearful, terrible (see dinosaurian adj.). 1. A member of a diverse group of archosaurian reptiles (superorder Dinosauria), some of very large size, which dominated land habitats during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Also (not in technical use): an animal of this kind, specifically characterized as very large and extinct; any of various other extinct reptiles of the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras, esp. those of large size, including synapsids, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and pterosaurs.Dinosaurs originated during the Triassic period, and are known from fossilized bones, eggs, and other remains. They included quadrupedal and bipedal forms ranging in size from less than 50 cm to more than 20 metres, some having bony horns, crests, or body armour. Early studies compared them to lizards and crocodiles in mode of life, but they are now recognized to have had an elevated metabolism more like that of birds and mammals. In phylogenetic terms, the clade Dinosauria also includes birds, which are descended from feathered theropod dinosaurs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > saurian or dinosaur saurian1817 saurus1834 dinosaur1842 dinosaurian1842 dino1910 1842 R. Owen in Rep. 11th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1841 104 A remarkable approach in the present gigantic Dinosaur to the Crocodilian structure. 1877 H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) xv. 223 The bones and teeth of Deinosaurs have been found in..North America. 1885 C. A. Buckmaster Brit. Alm. Comp. 193 The group of fossil reptiles known as Dinosaurs has long been remarkable for certain curious resemblances to birds which it presents. 1930 Discovery Nov. 386/2 The bipedal dinosaurs were of two kinds, vegetable feeders and flesh eaters. 1979 Children Today May 2/1 It is clear that many young children go through a brief period of fascination with dinosaurs, although only a relatively few develop true obsessions. 2015 Courier (Dundee) 17 July (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 25/1 A newly identified species of feathered dinosaur is the largest ever found to have a well-preserved set of bird-like wings. 2. figurative. A person or thing that is old-fashioned, outdated, or obsolete; a person or thing that is unable or unwilling to adapt to changing circumstances. Also: an object, institution, procedure, etc., that is extremely large and unwieldy. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > something that is old-fashioned fogramity1796 fossil1844 back number1882 vieux jeu1896 dinosaur1899 Model T1909 old hat1911 throwback1923 museum piece1928 geriatric1977 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is lug1545 monster1759 hulk1818 megatherium1850 potwalloper1896 dinosaur1975 1899 Washington Post 31 Dec. 24/3 The chit-chat is passed about from one house to another until a modest story grows into stupendous proportions—a regular dinosaur of a tale. 1924 H. W. Morrow in Everybody's June 56/2 If that old dinosaur of a Johnson think he's going to have a walk-away with this, he's mistaken. 1931 Current Hist. 34 p. x/1 A shrewd yet naïve mind engaged in reducing the dinosaurs of communism to the neat formula of Missourian folkways. 1975 Judiciary Comm.: Study House & Senate Judiciary Comm. (R. Nader Congr. Project) iv. 91 If the result of a search for subjective ‘intent’ or ‘attempt’ to monopolize was a dinosaur of a case like IBM, then a simplification of the Sherman Act was needed. a1983 C. B. Fisk in F. Douglass & B. Owen Charles Brenton Fisk (1986) II. 140 How can such a multi-chambered instrument—such a dinosaur of an instrument—gather itself together for a concerted musical lunge at anything? 2018 People (Nexis) 18 Mar. You're always telling me I'm a dinosaur when it comes to technology. I thought I'd do a course. Compounds C1. a. General use as a modifier (in sense 1). ΚΠ 1876 J. W. Powell Rep. Geol. Eastern Portion Uinta Mountains (U.S. Dept. of Interior) ii. 72 I have verified the determination of the stratigraphic horizon by examining the place and finding other dinosaur bones. 1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 115 Professor Marsh..spent one full day in the same locality; but his time was occupied in visiting a few of the localities in which dinosaur skulls and skeletons..had been found. 1924 H. F. Osborn in Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 144. 1 The third..is a short skull, entirely toothless like the Ornithomimidæ, which was found lying directly over a nest of dinosaur eggs. 1947 E. H. Colbert Dinosaurs 27/1 Many of the legends of giants that are so prevalent among primitive people..frequently were based in part on the discovery of dinosaur bones. 1966 R. Silverberg Forgotten by Time 67 A certain fossil fish of the dinosaur era had such teeth. 2010 L. Robin et al. Desert Channels xi. 215 The dinosaur footprints were discovered by opal miners in 1962. b. As a modifier with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a dinosaur (sense 2); outdated, obsolete, or resistant to change; large and unwieldy’. ΚΠ 1939 Jewish Forum July 99/2 The fiction that these 5,000,000 have absorbed so much of the wealth of the country that not enough is left for the rest of us, is a species of dinosaur argument long since blown to atoms. 1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 Apr. 3/2 This Dinosaur school of Republican strategy. 1979 Time 8 Jan. 63/2 It's now perfectly clear that we can process dinosaur cases if we can persuade judges to seize control from the lawyers and manage those cases. 1984 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 21 Jan. 5/4 President Reagan..said Monday his challengers have a ‘dinosaur mentality that offers nothing for the future but repeating their failed past’. 2013 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 12 May c1 The county—and other parts of America hard hit by the recession—was hurting because it was too heavily involved in dinosaur industries. C2. dinosaur hunter n. a person who searches for the fossilized remains of dinosaurs.Frequently as a humorous or sensational term for a palaeontologist. ΚΠ 1902 Proc. & Coll. Wyoming Hist. & Geol. Soc. 1901 7 37 Good opportunity was afforded to see how the really professional Dinosaur hunter stalked his noble quarry, the largest game that ever fell to a hunter's pick and shovel. 2020 Sun (Scotl. ed.) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 13 A new species of dinosaur related to the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex has been discovered... Four bones were discovered last year by dinosaur hunters at the seaside resort of Shanklin. dinosaur rock n. rock music from or heavily influenced by an earlier era; spec. such music regarded as outdated and lacking in innovation or imagination. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of jazz-rock1915 rockabilly1956 rockaboogie1956 hard rock1959 folk-rock1963 soft rock1965 surf rock1965 acid rock1966 raga rock1966 progressive rock1968 Christian rock1969 cock rock1970 punk1970 punk rock1970 space rock1970 swamp rock1970 techno-rock1971 glitter rock1972 grunge1973 glam-rock1974 pub rock1974 alternative rock1975 dinosaur rock1975 prog rock1976 AOR1977 New Wave1977 pomp rock1978 prog1978 anarcho-punk1979 stadium rock1979 oi1981 alt-rock1982 noise1982 noise-rock1982 trash1983 mosh1985 emo-core1986 Goth1986 rawk1987 emo1988 grindcore1989 darkwave1990 queercore1991 lo-fi1993 dadrock1994 nu metal1995 1975 Stanford (Calif.) Daily 13 Mar. 12/4 Physical Graffiti has interesting compositions for the careful listener, but enough of that original dinosaur rock to keep your body shaking. 1976 Sounds (Electronic ed.) 9 Oct. It's dinosaur-rock, a non-stop barrage of riffs and cliches that have been floating around for the last 15 years. 1993 Spin Mar. 69/2 He rehabilitates the guitar solo, even the really long guitar solo, from the bloated corpse of 70s dinosaur rock. 2008 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 July a8/4 A top-40 band thudded out dinosaur rock. Derivatives ˈdinosaur-like adj. resembling, characteristic of, or reminiscent of a dinosaur (in either sense). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [adjective] > of order Sauria > resembling saurian1864 dinosauric1888 dinosaur-like1932 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc. old-fashioned1596 musty1603 mildewed1605 fusty1609 wormy1611 frumpy1746 fossila1770 arriéré1814 has-been1819 Rip Van Winkleish1829 frumpish1847 archaistic1850 fogey1852 fogeyish1852 old fogeyish1853 rusty-fusty1864 mossbacked1876 dead-handed1928 Victorian1934 unhep1939 unhip1939 dinosaurian1943 square1946 dinosaur-like1947 dinosauric1977 analogue1993 1932 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 15 Feb. a16/1 This creature has a real dinosaurlike appearance, with its long neck, small head, and long, heavy tail. 1947 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 1 Mar. 18/4 Despite his dinosaur-like methods I have an amiable regard for Inspector French. 1997 Web Aug. 76/2 Unclassified animal life, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and an African dinosaur-like creature called the Mokele-Mbembe. 2003 Time Out N.Y. 15 May 42/1 Almost half of its students are far beyond the age of 16, ranging from 21 to 94 years old, which made us feel less dinosaurlike. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1842
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