单词 | end on |
释义 | > as lemmasend on a. end on: extracted from endn. (a) placed so as to present the end directly towards the eye, or towards any object; opposed to broadside on. Also attributive. Chiefly Nautical. Also transferred, applied to an educational course in which students spend six months at college and six months in industrial work alternately. ΚΠ 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. x. 156 She..being nearly end on. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxxiv. 373 A single pole end-on is sufficient. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xli From the end-on view we had of her, we could not count her ports. 1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds iv. 31 The lifeboat met the next breaker end-on. 1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 229 The accident was caused by a scaffold plank of wood..falling end-on upon the man's head. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 366/1 Several ships have been built for the ‘end-on attack’. 1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 2/1 Ships built mainly for end-on fire. 1898 R. Kipling in Morning Post 10 Nov. 5/1 I meant my shot for an end-on shot. 1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 256/1 The greatest care should be taken on this road, else an end-on collision is possible. 1910 Installation News 4 59/1 In a Tungsten lamp only 50% of the light is directed below the horizontal and the end-on candle power. 1959 P. F. R. Venables Sandwich Courses vi. 101 If half [the students] are away, and half at the firm..training and production [are] facilitated by this Cox and Box arrangement of end-on courses, i.e. two equivalent groups within the year. (b) ‘Working a seam of coal, &c., at right angles to the cleat, or natural planes of cleavage’ (Gresley, 1883). < as lemmas |
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