单词 | direct action |
释义 | > as lemmasdirect action d. direct action, extracted from directadj.adv. (a) action which takes effect without intermediate instrumentality. direct-action or direct-acting steam-engine, one in which the piston-rod or cross-head acts directly upon the crank without the intervention of a working-beam. direct-acting or direct-action pump: a steam-pump in which the steam-piston and the pump-piston are connected by a straight piston rod, without intervening crank. ΚΠ 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 507/1 [It] effects the direct connection of the piston with the crank. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 507/2 Engines of direct connection.] 1843 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 69 The comparatively recent introduction of direct-action steam-engines on board the steam-vessels of the Royal Navy. 1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 396 The best and simplest form of direct-acting engine is that known as the oscillating. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 356/1 A small but powerful direct-acting steam-engine..operates the air-pump. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 705/2 In Napier's direct-action steam-engine, the beam is retained, but only for the purpose of working the pumps. 1878 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 53 98 (title) Direct Acting or Non-Rotative Pumping Engines and Pumps. 1878 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 53 364 The construction of the second direct-action pumping engine on a new system for the Paris waterworks at St. Maur. (b) the exertion of pressure on the community through any action which is directly effective, such as strikes, sabotage, or demonstrations, as distinguished from action through constitutional processes; also attributive. Hence direct actioner, direct actionist, one who engages in direct action. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > direct action direct action1912 1912 J. R. MacDonald Syndicalism iv. 24 The Programme of Direct Action. 1919 Times 28 June 14/3 He had been a direct actionist for 35 years. 1920 S. Webb & B. Webb Hist. Trade Unionism (ed. 5) 672 The vast majority of Trade Unionists object to Direct Action..for objects other than those connected with the economic function of the Direct Actionists... Trade Unionists..are not prepared to disapprove of Direct Action as a reprisal for Direct Action taken by other persons or groups. 1920 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 361 The root idea of direct action dates back in this country to Chartist days. In practice, direct action almost invariably implies either a sectional strike by a particular group or groups of labour, or a general strike by all groups of labour combined. 1931 S. Jameson Richer Dust iv. 86 The men were talking of ‘direct action’, and not taking much notice of their elected [trade-union] leaders. 1957 Peace News 18 Jan. 1/4 We have confined ourselves..too naïvely to public meetings. There is a kind of direct action which..can have most profitable results. 1958 Observer 7 Dec. 1/3 Members and supporters of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War climbed a barbed-wire fence yesterday and ‘invaded’ a rocket base being built near Swaffham, Norfolk. 1961 New Left Rev. Mar. 21/2 People who sneer at intellectuals and direct actioners. 1965 P. Arrowsmith Jericho xxvi. 285 Charles sat down on the ground. The other forty direct actionists followed his example. 1970 Guardian 4 Apr. 10/4 Why is direct action working where ‘constructive’, peaceful protest did not? < as lemmas |
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