单词 | guideline |
释义 | guidelinen. 1. a. A line drawn, marked, or placed as a guide, e.g. in positioning a tool or producing a drawing; a constructed line used for guidance.Earliest with reference to lines constructed in the surveying or exploring of unknown terrain. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > guides guide1680 guideline1785 guider1825 ways1835 saddle1866 interpolator1953 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing lines > [noun] > other lines linea1382 rulec1475 stroke1567 trig1648 ductor1658 style1690 pencil line1758 guideline1785 section-line1827 subhorizon1829 broken line1937 wiggle1942 1785 A. Ellicott Let. 6 July in C. V. Mathews Andrew Ellicott, Life & Lett. (1908) ii. 44 My Brother Joseph at Present runs the guide Line for the choppers. 1819 Rep. Surv. James & Kanawha Rivers (Virgina Board Public Wks.) 6 It was deemed advisable to run a direct line between certain points, about 23 miles asunder, through this country, to serve as a guide line in exploring. 1841 Mag. Hort. May 188 Place the board six inches from the end of the bed, with row No. 4 exactly in the centre of the bed, and..two inches from the guide line. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §375 It is better..in making any saw-cut of considerable length, to mark the guide-line on its surface with the line and reel. 1920 Sci. & Invention Mar. 1203/1 On one of these celluloid sheets, with a needle or other pointed instrument, a guide line is lightly scratched about 1/16″ from the three edges. 1952 A. Grimble Pattern of Islands 161 Tekirei and Mautake first drew guide-lines on my arms with stretched strings, which they dipped in their tattooing dye. 2013 S. A. J. Johnson Translating Maya Hieroglyphs 11 It is currently thought that scribes painted guidelines on the monuments before masons etched the words into stone. b. A rule, principle, or general statement which may be regarded as a guide to procedure, policy, interpretation, etc., or (especially) as giving authoritative guidance. In later use often in plural: a set of such rules, statements, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > guidance > that which guides lodestarc1374 clew1385 Palinurus1567 stern1577 thread1580 twist1580 sea-mark1589 Pole Star1590 cynosure1596 buoya1603 oracle1612 leading light1653 gospela1674 indexc1750 polar stara1774 pilot star1789 clue1840 guidance1841 guideline1917 breadcrumb trail1969 1917 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Press 6 Mar. 2/2 It is only fair to members of council..that the public give to them an expression of its wishes, thus giving the city administrators a guide line to the wishes of the public, whether or not they act in accordance therewith. 1967 Crisis Aug.–Sept. 340/1 This should be done by denying Federal money to those localities which do not comply with the desegregation guidelines of the United States Office of Education. 1992 Independent 15 Sept. 6/2 Also controversial is the guideline that patients in a Persistent Vegetative State..should be allowed to die. 2020 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. Residents should redouble their efforts to follow federal guidelines regarding social distancing and limiting contact with others. 2. A rope trailed by a balloon or small airship to assist in maintaining a constant altitude by the drag of part of the rope on the ground; any of several ropes used to steady an airship before flight; = guide-rope n. (c) at guide n. Compounds 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > guide rope trail-rope1826 guideline1836 guide-rope1838 1836 Morning Post 6 July The following is the weight of the balloon, appendages, ballast, persons, &c.:—Balloon, 115lbs.;..guide-lines, 7lbs.; car and decorations, 32lbs.; [etc.]. 1887 Temple Bar Mar. 430 We had an exciting descent. A ‘guide-line’, about 1,000 feet long, with a flag at the bottom, told us that the wind below was blowing at a different rate from what it was above. 1932 Publ. U.S. Naval Observatory XIII. App. iii. 87 The ship moved slowly..out of the hangar..under the control of the 300 husky men hanging onto the guide lines. 2010 S. J. Plummer Man of Invention (ed. 2) vi. 49 Jack pulled on two guide lines, correcting the craft's beam, lowering the prow and struggling to turn a course for home. Compounds As a modifier with the sense ‘that is or may be used as a guideline (sense 1b), or for guidance’. ΚΠ 1960 Traverse City (Michigan) Record-Eagle 24 Dec. 13/7 The revenue service said taxpayers who claim no more than the ‘guideline amount’ in the table ‘ordinarily’ will not be required to prove their claim. 1997 Daily Mail 23 Sept. 44/4 Chocolate sauce has more than a quarter of the guideline daily intake [of sugar] in just one tablespoon! 2018 T. Doshi in J. I. Considine & K.-W. Paik Handbk. Energy Politics xv. 332 In some highly concentrated industries, a few dominant sellers and buyers set market ‘guideline’ prices which are then used as a reference price for trading by numerous smaller buyers and sellers around the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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