| 单词 | earth-tremor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-tremor 3. A tremulous or vibratory movement caused by some external impulse; a vibration, shaking, quivering. earth-tremor, an earthquake. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > earthquake earthdinOE earthquakinga1325 earthgrinec1325 earthquakea1350 earthquavea1382 earth movingc1384 earth shakinga1387 terremote1390 tremor1635 airquake1746 earth shock1816 temblor1876 quake1881 seism1883 macroseism1903 tremblor1913 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > trembling or quivering > a tremble or quiver quavea1382 tremble1610 tremor1635 motitation1649 vibration1650 quaver1736 quiver1786 whither1825 shudder1865 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ix. 570 One of these Tremors lasted forty dayes, When six and twenty tow'rs and castles fell. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tremor, quaking, trembling, shaking, great fear, also an earthquake. 1728 H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. 270 Motion consequent upon the tremors of the air, excited by the vibrations of sonorous bodies. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 324 All countries are liable to slight tremors..when some great crisis of subterranean movement agitates an adjoining volcanic region. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxix. 250 The peculiar tremor of a cotton~factory. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 187 Waves or tremors may be propagated in all directions through the solid ground. < as lemmas |
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