单词 | everse |
释义 | everseadj.ΚΠ 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 134 Conuersion of proportion (which of the elders is commonly called euerse proportion, or euersion of proportion [L. euersa proportionalitas]). 2. Directed or orientated outwardly. Also (of an eye): having photoreceptors in front of the nerve cells, orientated towards the light.Somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1939 B. Hanström Hormones in Invertebr. x. 92 I have called this type of sinus gland ‘everse’, since the structureless membrane is located in the periphery, whereas the type earlier described in most shrimps, prawns, and crabs is called ‘inverse’, since the same membrane here surrounds a free central space. 1969 Systematic Zool. 18 128/2 By careful examination..the number of layers in the retina as well as the everse and inverse situation of the cells are to be found. 1996 R. A. Raff Shape of Life xi. 379 The photoreceptor arrangement of the medial eyes is everse. 2011 Invertebr. Biol. 130 125/2 Polychaetes usually possess everse multicellular eyes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † eversev. Obsolete. transitive. = evert v. (in various senses). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [verb (transitive)] > throw into utter disorder or upset to-turna1382 everse?a1425 over-terve?a1425 bestourn1484 renverse1521 transverse1557 evert1566 walter1571 topsy-turn1573 topsy-turve1603 topsy-turvy1626 bouleverse1673 whemmel1721 reverse1768 upset1818 to knock galley-west1875 topsy-turvify1886 topsy-turvyize1893 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset > overthrow in ruins or to destruction to-warpc888 overwarpeOE to cast downc1230 to throw down1340 everse?a1425 thringc1480 tumble1487 evert1533 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 130 (MED) Þat it [sc. the eyelid] be not euersed [?c1425 Paris turned vp; L. inuersetur]. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. l. 1574 Many riche, roial, myhti toun..Ha[ue] been euersid..For synne off pryncis that wer lecherous. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 540/2 Fortune hath eversed his chaunce upsyde downe. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 38 The foundation of which Principle..is totally evers't by the most ingenious Commentator. 1915 Jrnl. Entomol. & Zool. 7 92 When the gland has been eversed a few seconds, the peripheral muscles of the body relax. Derivatives eversed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > turned inside out turned1483 eversed1584 everted1786 out-turned1847 eversible1856 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xix. 316 Diuerse sorts of glasses;..the cornerd, the inuersed, the euersed..and cleare glasses. 1636 Ramus's Via Regia ad Geometriam ix. 125 Eversa altitudo, An eversed altitude..is that which we call depth, which indeed is nothing else, in the Geometers sense, but heighth turned topsie turvie. 1915 Jrnl. Entomol. & Zool. 7 92 At the same time the blood pressure in Sp, which give the eversed portion its characteristic bead-like appearance, also closes the opening of the reservoir. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1570v.?a1425 |
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