| 单词 | full speed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfull speed b. full speed, with the utmost speed possible. (Cf. 8c.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed full speed1382 with topsailc1400 at spursa1500 on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525 amain1555 a main pace (also speed)1567 full tilt?a1600 upon full stretch1697 at full tilt1713 at (also on) full speed1749 (at) full split1836 full chisel1837 (at) full pelt1841 full swing1843 ventre à terre1848 full out1886 at full lick1889 hell-for-leather1889 all out1895 eyes out1895 flat out1932 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] > going at full speed careering1599 full speed1890 full out1920 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. iii. 18 Fulspeed goo ȝe before ȝoure britheren. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa III. ii. iii. 224 He thrust himselfe into the Wood full speed. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 212 I ran full speed towards her to help her. 1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 74 Ten or a dozen arm'd Turks came upon us full Speed from the Town. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxi. 187 Away several of them dashed, full speed. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1401/2 If a screw vessel be reversed until she attains full speed astern, and so then suddenly changed to full speed ahead, it will be found that a dynamometer diagram taken at that point..will have a straight, and not a serrated line. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 139 The engines are going ‘full speed ahead’. 1890 Times 18 Sept. 4/2 The Blanche..went out..for her four hours' full-speed trial of her engines. 1919 E. Shackleton South i. 33 The engines running full speed astern produced no effect until all hands joined in ‘sallying’ ship. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird vii. 79 I guess I'm a very organisational lady and a very organised one too, I run at full speed ahead most of the time. < as lemmas |
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