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单词 endways
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endwaysadv.

/ˈɛndweɪz/
Forms: Also endway, endwise.
Etymology: < end n. + -ways comb. form, -wise comb. form. N.E.D. (1891) enters this under the double headword end-way(s, -wise and gives the pronunciations (endwēi, -wēiz, -wəiz) /ɛndweɪ/, /-weɪz/, /-waɪz/.
1.
a. Of position: With the end (as distinguished from the side) uppermost, foremost, or turned towards the spectator. Also endways on.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [adverb] > with the end up
endways1657
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 87 To dig small holes..and put in the Plants endwise.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. v. 193 Set obliquely like a pack of Cards, endways or edgways.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §2. 2 Distance being a Line directed end-wise to the Eye.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 56 The Book lay End way.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha viii. 101 The birch canoe stood endwise.
1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë I. i. 5 The flag-stones with which it is paved are placed end-ways.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiii. 154 A stone was set up endwise.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) The house standing endways-on to the street.
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 Oct. 13/1 A little town looking end~ways on to the river from a terraced slope.
b. In the direction of the ends; also, end to end.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > contiguously > end to end
endways1862
a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1657) 125 The Poulder..broad-wayes lay due West, and end-ways North and South.
1862 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 327/1 Strips of vulcanised india-rubber cemented endways.
2. Of motion:
a. End on, in a direct line, continuously. (Obsolete exc. dialect.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > a straight course > [adverb]
forth847
righteOE
forthrighta1000
rightlyOE
anonOE
evenc1300
even-forthc1300
straight13..
streck13..
gainc1330
streckly1340
right fortha1382
straightly1395
evenly?c1400
outrightc1400
straightway1461
endlong1470
fair1490
directly1513
fulla1529
forth on1529
straightforth1530
directedly1539
aright?a1560
direct1568
endways1575
point-blank1607
progressivelya1716
unswervingly1805
straightforward1809
undeviatingly1812
undeviously1813
slap1829
arrow-straight1831
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxiii. 86 Hartes which haue bene hunted, do most commonly runne endwayes as farre as they haue force.
1641 T. Hobbes Lett. in Wks. (1845) VII. 456 As if a footman should run with double swiftnesse endwayes.
1855 Gloss. Yorks. Words Endways, forward.
b. End foremost.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > end foremost
endways1766
1766 Griffith in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 277 More than one [splinter] flew end-ways like an arrow.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 480 A large pine has been seen..to pitch over endwise.
1870 Barnum in R. Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. IV. xlii. 421 Taking the gun in both hands and striking with it endwise.
1871 ‘M. Twain’ Screamers 31 He was all ready for the dog too, and knocked him endways with a rock when he came to tear him.
c. In the direction of the ends, lengthwise; also quasi-adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > in the direction of the ends
endways?1790
?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 138 Take the tube..and shaking it endways, the mercury will run into the tube.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse 196/1 The stress upon the legs is always endways.
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 158 The strength of the beam to resist a force applied to it endwise is infinite.
1850 Chubb's Locks & Keys 13 A compound of both endway pushing and revolving motion.
1882 G. B. Airy in Nature 19 Oct. 599/1 The endwise action of so large a force.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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