单词 | fouling |
释义 | foulingn. I. The action of foul v.1, and related senses. 1. a. The action of making something dirty, polluted, or disfigured; the process of becoming encrusted or clogged up with dirt. Also figurative (esp. in early use), typically with reference to moral or spiritual corruption (cf. foul v.1 5a).Now frequently in dog fouling n. at dog n.1 Compounds 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] rusteOE vice1297 corrumpciona1340 infectiona1398 corruptiona1400 foulinga1400 viciousness1440 inquination1447 turpitude1490 intoxicationa1513 pravitya1513 bracery1540 insincerity1548 corruptness1561 sophistication1564 faultiness1571 depravation1577 base-mindedness1582 mangling1585 reprobacy1591 uninnocence1593 vitiosity1603 turkessing1612 reprobancea1616 debauchedness1618 tortuosity1621 depravedness1623 deboistness1628 debauchness1640 depravity1646 corruptedness1648 moral turpitude1660 unprincipledness1792 demoralization1797 erosion1804 miscreancy1804 trituration1832 unwholesomeness1881 ne'er-do-wellism1891 a1400 Nature of Women (Egerton 827) f. 30v, in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Tho partees mosten be wypyd and waschen and anoyntyd with swete oyle and aftyrward bounden with softe lyncloth for foulyng of the clothis about here. ?c1430 (?1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 514 Þe gospel oweþ to be kept, wiþouten ony foulinge, of alle Cristene men. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 40 (MED) The beme of the sonne thirleth the glas withoute any fowlynge of the glas. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xxiii. 35 Where Bathsheba's washing of her bodie occasioned the fouling of her soul. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 80 As to its fouling, it fouls nothing near so soon as a Wood-sheathing. 1744 B. Franklin Acct. Pennsylvanian Fire-places 26 It prevents the Fouling of Chimneys. 1874 Chelmsford Chron. 26 June 8/4 The principal features are no recoil, smokeless,..and no fouling of the gun. 1947 Derby Evening Tel. 25 Aug. 3/4 [The] wretched condition of Derby streets owing to fouling by dogs. 2018 Western Morning News (Nexis) 2 Mar. The National Trust is to join the GB Spring-Clean campaign. Predominantly, it will be concerned with jetsam and fouling of our beaches by visitors. b. A deposit of dirt or filth; (in later use) esp. one clogging or obstructing a gun's firing mechanism. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] gorec725 horeeOE filthOE foulnessOE dirta1300 gallc1400 ordurec1400 foulinga1425 harlotry1439 muck1440 noisance1473 horeness1495 vileness1495 naughtiness1533 vility1540 bawdiness1552 vildness1597 snottery1598 soilage1598 sordidity1600 soil?1605 sluttery1607 nastiness1611 bawdry1648 sords1653 crott1657 feculence1662 nast1789 clart1808 schmutz1838 crap1925 grunge1965 gunge1969 grot1971 spooge1987 a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxiv. 11 That..the foulynge therof be wellid to gidre in the mydil therof. 1882 J. H. Walsh Mod. Sportsman's Gun I. 382 The chamber where the fouling collects. 1891 Daily News 23 Oct. 5/8 A rousing flood..will effectually cleanse out this fouling. 2016 AmmoLand.com (Nexis) 13 Jan. This tool quickly and easily cleans carbon build-up, fouling and excess oil from the vent hole. c. The contamination of a submerged structure, esp. the hull of a ship, by the accumulation or growth of living organisms on its surfaces. Also: a deposit of such organisms. Cf. biofouling n. ΚΠ 1841 R. Mallet in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1840 246 One of their [sc. paints and preservative varnishes] most important uses will probably be found in their application, in union with substances poisonous to animal and vegetable life, to the bottoms of iron ships, to prevent the ‘fouling’ produced by their accumulation. 1929 J. P. Visscher in Bull. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 43 ii. 209 By analyzing the data in this table regarding the extent of fouling we find that 87 per cent of all ships were fouled to some extent. 1992 Sci. Progress 76 170 Although modern instrumentation is electronically very reliable, often the sensors are fragile, their calibration may..jump due to marine fouling. 2020 Northland Age (N.Z.) (Nexis) 3 Nov. a4 Marine pests can hitchhike and hide within boat fouling, so preventing the movement of affected vessels is the best way to stop the spread of marine invaders. 2. Originally Nautical: the action of colliding or becoming entangled with a vessel, an obstacle floating in the water, etc.; (also) the entangling of lines, cables, nets, etc. Later also more generally: the action of causing something to be obstructed, encumbered, or jammed. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > colliding with something foul1841 fouling1860 1860 ‘Vanderdecken’ Yarns for Green Hands viii. 116 That first flag-mark must be taken a full length before any of them. All eyes look sharp now to avoid fouling. 1871 Railway Times 13 May 452/2 The occupation of the main line, or the fouling of the main line, is done in the shortest possible time, whether it is a junction or a through crossing. 1903 Courier & Argus (Dundee) 16 Nov. 5/2 Local solicitors have no fewer than forty claims pending arising through collisions, fouling of nets, and salvage services rendered. 1938 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) 20 531/1 The parting of the hawser and the fouling of the buoy was an independent act of negligence. 1965 Basic Helicopter Handbk. (U.S. Federal Aviation Agency) x. 69/1 Make sure any object placed in the cockpit of a helicopter is secured to prevent fouling of the controls. 1992 N.Y. Times 9 Aug. i. 46/3 Other clammers..told of frequent fouling of their fishing gear by broken and shifting submarine cables. 3. Sport. The action of infringing the rules of the game or event, esp. of committing a foul against an opponent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > foul play foul play1553 foul1849 hippodroming1864 fouling1866 roughing1866 misplay1867 obstruction1923 sandbagging1940 no-throw1959 1866 ‘Argonaut’ Arts Rowing & Training 146 This renders the umpire absolute, and allows a committee no power whatever to re-open questions of fouling. 1896 Macon (Georgia) Tel. 16 Aug. 6/2 Cooper started the fouling by trying to push Bald off the pole with his hand. 1960 Daily Tel. 3 Nov. 9/7 As Baker, Charlton..and Fantham began to unsettle them, the Italians began their fouling. 2021 Sunday Times (Scotland ed. 1) (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Sport section) 13 They probably should have got a penalty try given the persistent fouling by Ulster inside their 22 in the closing stages. 4. A wicked or immoral person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [noun] argha1275 mixa1300 caitiffc1325 crachouna1400 crathona1400 wretcheda1425 fouling?a1475 meschant1490 miscredent?a1500 ketterela1572 miscreant1590 scroyle1602 frummer1659 fustya1732 ramscallion1734 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person wormc825 wretchOE thingOE hinderlingc1175 harlot?c1225 mixa1300 villain1303 whelpc1330 wonnera1340 bismera1400 vilec1400 beasta1425 creaturec1450 dog bolt1465 fouling?a1475 drivel1478 shit1508 marmoset1523 mammeta1529 pilgarlica1529 pode1528 slave1537 slim1548 skit-brains?1553 grasshopper1556 scavenger1563 old boss1566 rag1566 shrub1566 ketterela1572 shake-rag1571 skybala1572 mumpsimus1573 smatchetc1582 squib1586 scabship1589 vassal1589 baboon1592 Gibraltar1593 polecat1593 mushroom1594 nodc1595 cittern-head1598 nit1598 stockfish1598 cum-twang1599 dish-wash1599 pettitoe1599 mustard-token1600 viliaco1600 cargo1602 stump1602 snotty-nose1604 sprat1605 wormling1605 brock1607 dogfly?1611 shag-rag1611 shack-rag1612 thrum1612 rabbita1616 fitchock1616 unworthy1616 baseling1618 shag1620 glow-worm1624 snip1633 the son of a worm1633 grousea1637 shab1637 wormship1648 muckworm1649 whiffler1659 prig1679 rotten egg1686 prigster1688 begged fool1693 hang-dog1693 bugger1694 reptile1697 squinny1716 snool1718 ramscallion1734 footer1748 jackass1756 hallion1789 skite1790 rattlesnake1791 snot1809 mudworm1814 skunk1816 stirrah1816 spalpeen1817 nyaff1825 skin1825 weed1825 tiger1827 beggar1834 despicability1837 squirt1844 prawn1845 shake1846 white mouse1846 scurf1851 sweep1853 cockroach1856 bummer1857 medlar1859 cunt1860 shuck1862 missing link1863 schweinhund1871 creepa1876 bum1882 trashbag1886 tinhorn1887 snot-rag1888 rodent1889 whelpling1889 pie eatera1891 mess1891 schmuck1892 fucker1893 cheapskate1894 cocksucker1894 gutter-bird1896 perisher1896 skate1896 schmendrick1897 nyamps1900 ullage1901 fink1903 onion1904 punk1904 shitepoke1905 tinhorn sport1906 streeler1907 zob1911 stink1916 motherfucker1918 Oscar1918 shitass1918 shit-face1923 tripe-hound1923 gimp1924 garbage can1925 twerp1925 jughead1926 mong1926 fuck?1927 arsehole1928 dirty dog1928 gazook1928 muzzler1928 roach1929 shite1929 mook1930 lug1931 slug1931 woodchuck1931 crud1932 dip1932 bohunkus1933 lint-head1933 Nimrod1933 warb1933 fuck-piga1935 owl-hoot1934 pissant1935 poot1935 shmegegge1937 motheree1938 motorcycle1938 squiff1939 pendejo1940 snotnose1941 jerkface1942 slag1943 yuck1943 fuckface?1945 fuckhead?1945 shit-head1945 shite-hawk1948 schlub1950 asswipe1953 mother1955 weenie1956 hard-on1958 rass hole1959 schmucko1959 bitch ass1961 effer1961 lamer1961 arsewipe1962 asshole1962 butthole1962 cock1962 dipshit1963 motherfuck1964 dork1965 bumhole1967 mofo1967 tosspot1967 crudball1968 dipstick1968 douche1968 frickface1968 schlong1968 fuckwit1969 rassclaat1969 ass1970 wank1970 fecker1971 wanker1971 butt-fucker1972 slimeball1972 bloodclaat1973 fuckwad1974 mutha1974 suck1974 cocksuck1977 tosser1977 plank1981 sleazebag1981 spastic1981 dweeb1982 bumboclaat1983 dickwad1983 scuzzbag1983 sleazeball1983 butt-face1984 dickweed1984 saddie1985 butt plug1986 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 microcephalic1989 wankstain1990 sadster1992 buttmunch1993 fanny1995 jackhole1996 fassyhole1997 fannybaws2000 fassy2002 ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 286 Spek, I say, þou foulyng. Compounds fouling mark n. South Asian Railways a sign or notice indicating the point at which the distance between two converging railway lines falls below the minimum required to avoid collision or obstruction (cf. sense 2). ΚΠ 1900 Indian Engin. 30 June 404/2 The starter should be at the fouling mark of the main points. 2016 @vadakkus 5 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 3 Mar. 2021) The facing train on the joining track seems to have gone beyond the fouling mark. Driver lapse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). foulingadj.ΚΠ OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 229 [Inculta criniculorum caesarie et neglegenter] squalente [capillatura] : fuliendum. OE Bede Glosses (Copenhagen Gl. Kgl. Sam. 2034) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 20/2 Squalens : fuliende. 2. a. That makes something very dirty, disgusting, or impure; (also) that clogs or obstructs something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to obstruction > filling to obstruction fouling1896 1860 Leeds Mercury 18 Feb. 7/6 When the breech-piece is unscrewed and swung aside the case is withdrawn, and with it the fouling deposits left by the explosion of the powder. 1896 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 3/2 Ridding our soot-charged passages of the fouling stuff. 1912 Times 11 Nov. 14/3 When spread it acts as a top dressing, and its fouling influence disappears quickly. 2014 Lancs. Tel. (Nexis) 30 Oct. (headline) Hyndburn's first ‘doggy detective’ reports owner of fouling dog. b. That accumulates or grows on the surface of a submerged structure, esp. the hull of a ship. ΚΠ 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 778/2 The electric towing log..will be exposed to the danger of fouling seaweed, etc., as other towing logs are. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 728/2 Ships-of-the-line were hauled over on their side, and the barnacles and other fouling growths were scraped from their bottoms. 2019 Observer (Gladstone, Queensland) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 9 Small plates attached to the frames provide a surface for marine ‘fouling’ organisms to settle and grow so that their DNA can be tested and analysed. 3. Sport. That commits a foul; that fouls an opponent.Originally, and most commonly, U.S. in basketball contexts. ΚΠ 1912 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 24 Feb. (Last ed.) 8/2 Frequently he did not know to which team the fouling player belonged. 1922 Washington Post 31 Oct. 12/6 The ball will be taken from the fouling team and given to the other team. 2018 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 27 June b1 The much fussed over human walls that emerge in soccer are hard to miss. They occur on fouls outside the fouling team's penalty box but near that team's goal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400adj.OE |
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