英语词汇“false lights”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Navy and Military. Counterfeited for the purpose of deception; feigned, pretended; as in false attack, false lights, false ports, false signal.to show, hang out false colours, under false colour(s: see colour n.¹ Phrases 3.

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c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 174 He set hom a cas What fortune might falle vndur fals colour.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1179/2 One towards Mount Azine, which some look upon to be only a false Attack.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 252 Had we entred the Port upon the false signal we must have been taken or sunk.

1765–93 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) i. 294 Putting out false lights in order to bring any vessel into danger.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Faux sabords, false ports, painted in a ship's side, to deceive an enemy.

1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 102 Various small motions made without longing, are termed false attacks.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 25/2 False attack, a feigned or secondary movement in the arrangements of an assault, intended to divert the attention of an enemy from the real or principal attack.

†P6. false (also deceiving) lights: a (deceptive) practice in which goods for sale, especially cloths, are presented in a particular light in order to make their quality appear better. Obsolete.

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1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull iv. f. ccxvii^v Why doth one neighboure deceiue an other nowe in this fayre time, by false weightes or measures, by false lyghtes, by false oothes?

1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster v. 58 May their false lights..discouer preases, holes, staines, and oldnesse in their stuffes, and make them shop-rid.

a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) ii. sig. C3^v Though your shop wares you vent with your deceiving lights, yet your Chamber Stuff shall not pass so with me.

1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 42. 329 It makes Rafe Shop-keeper cheat and lye, false lights, false weights, false wares.

单词	false lights
释义	> as lemmas false lights a. Navy and Military. Counterfeited for the purpose of deception; feigned, pretended; as in false attack, false lights, false ports, false signal.to show, hang out false colours, under false colour(s: see colour n.¹ Phrases 3. ΚΠ c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 174 He set hom a cas What fortune might falle vndur fals colour. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1179/2 One towards Mount Azine, which some look upon to be only a false Attack. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 252 Had we entred the Port upon the false signal we must have been taken or sunk. 1765–93 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) i. 294 Putting out false lights in order to bring any vessel into danger. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Faux sabords, false ports, painted in a ship's side, to deceive an enemy. 1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 102 Various small motions made without longing, are termed false attacks. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 25/2 False attack, a feigned or secondary movement in the arrangements of an assault, intended to divert the attention of an enemy from the real or principal attack. extracted from falseadj.adv.n. false (also deceiving) lights †P6. false (also deceiving) lights: a (deceptive) practice in which goods for sale, especially cloths, are presented in a particular light in order to make their quality appear better. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull iv. f. ccxvii^v Why doth one neighboure deceiue an other nowe in this fayre time, by false weightes or measures, by false lyghtes, by false oothes? 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster v. 58 May their false lights..discouer preases, holes, staines, and oldnesse in their stuffes, and make them shop-rid. a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) ii. sig. C3^v Though your shop wares you vent with your deceiving lights, yet your Chamber Stuff shall not pass so with me. 1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 42. 329 It makes Rafe Shop-keeper cheat and lye, false lights, false weights, false wares. extracted from lightn.¹ < as lemmas
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