单词 | first-quality |
释义 | > as lemmasfirst-quality a. In attributive uses of collocations of the adjective with a noun, as first-quality, first-stage, etc.See also the attributive and adjectival uses of items in sense Compounds 1b(b); see also first aid adj., first base n., first class adj., First-day adj. and n. Compounds, first hand adj., first line adj., first name adj., first-order adj., first person adj., first rate adj., First World adj.first cause, chop, cousin, generation, intention, magnitude, mover, oar(s), pedal, person, post, principle, water, year, etc.: see the nouns. ΚΠ 1771 R. B. Sheridan in Plays & Poems (1928) III. 123 But you, Hal, have heard out first quality praters. 1842 Punch 2 12 December... First-session pupils receive turkeys from their friends in the country. 1858 Hutchings' Calif. Mag. Aug. 315/2 I didn't git into New York till every first-cabin ticket had been sold. 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 174 Loaded with first quality powder. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/3 First-category Cossacks of the Chitinsk, Argunsk, and Veckhni Udinsk regiments. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 12/1 Any privileges which go with a first-cabin ticket. 1906 Daily Chron. 21 July 1/7 The third best first-wicket stand on record. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 4/2 The nests which are marked and inspected by way of tests are always first-brood nests. 1909 Daily Chron. 23 July 6/7 Suitable employment, treatment &c., for first-stage patients. 1939 Sporting News 10 Aug. 1/2 The Reds lost four and a half games from their first-place margin. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 1/5 The Celtics went up 2–0 on New York in their best-of-five first-round Eastern Division playoffs. 2011 New Yorker 21 Mar. 14/1 The eminent poet J. D. McClatchy, American opera's first-call librettist. < as lemmas |
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