| 单词 | golf ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolf ball golf ball n. (a) a ball used in playing golf; (b) (a colloquial name given to) a spherical ball in certain kinds of electric typewriter on which all the type is mounted and which is caused to move to present the required symbol to the paper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > ball golf ball1545 globe1862 society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > type-ball golf ball1966 type-ball1971 1545 Aberdeen Reg. V. 19 (Jam.) Thre dossoun and thre goif bawis. 1637 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 78 He sauld twa of the golf ballis to Thomas Urquhart. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 17 I'll get him off on the instant like a gowff ba'. 1966 Gloss. Automated Typesetting (ed. 2) 87 The IBM 72 electric typewriter characterized by its stationary platen and the concentration of all type characters on a single, interchangeable globe-shaped unit called a typing element..; sometimes referred to as the ‘golf ball’ typewriter. 1969 Computers & Humanities Sept. i. 76 This arrangement allows more flexibility than a line printer, since one can change the type ‘golfball’ but it is very, very slow. 1970 British Printer Dec. 73/2 Hard copy is produced by the IBM ‘golfball’. 1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 32 There is a machine which will read the product of a selectric typewriter with a special golfball. < as lemmas |
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