| 单词 | erect dial |
| 释义 | > as lemmaserect dial a. Upright, in an upright posture; not bending forward or downward. Of straight lines and plane surfaces: Vertical. erect vision, the fact that we see objects ‘the right way up’, notwithstanding the inverted position of the retinal image. erect dial: see dial n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [adjective] > upright or erect upstandingc1000 standing1180 erectc1386 upright1398 standard1538 top-right1562 steya1586 upstraight1598 struttinga1643 straight reacheda1649 surrect1692 stand-up1749 stick-up1808 to sit up and beg1869 the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [adjective] uprightOE erectc1530 erected1604 straighta1616 straight-pighta1616 standing1631 undeclining1820 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 9 The schade of every tree Was in the lengthe the same quantite That was the body erecte, that caused it. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Niv Whether that thy lorde syt, or yet stande erect Styll mayst thou stande. 1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 3 When the plat standeth upright, it maketh a right angle with the Horizon and is called Erect. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 180 Birds..are so farre from this kinde of pronenesse, that they are almost erect . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 A Snake..in his Summer Liv'ry rowls along: Erect, and brandishing his forky Tongue. View more context for this quotation 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §65. 362 The erect or vertical Diameter of the Luminary seems contracted. 1799 J. Wood Elem. Optics (1811) vii. 148 An erect image of the figure intended to be represented. 1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. iii. ii. 224 He ascribed an erect vision to an operation of the mind. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 42 The figures of some of the women are handsome..erect and good. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 89 Erect with majesty severe The Buchail More upshoots his Titan cone. < as lemmas |
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