单词 | handshaking |
释义 | handshakingn. 1. An act or instance of shaking a person's hand with one's own; = handshake n. 1. Also: an occasion on which people's hands are shaken in welcome, congratulations, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > greeting or salutation > gesture > handshake handygriping1577 wring1605 handshaking1647 shruga1653 hand-griping1700 shake1712 shake-hands1800 handshake1802 handgrip1837 pump-handler1844 glad hand1895 1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying 544 There was a most joyfull acclamation in heaven, a welcome and embracing, and a hand-shaking. 1796 P. D'arblay Let. 10 July in Diary & Lett. (1854) III. 561 The three Miss Thrales came to a short but cordial hand-shaking..by appointment. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 107 That pleasant confusion of laughing interjections, and hand-shakings, and ‘How are you's?’. 1878 R. M. Johnston Life A. H. Stephens xlii. 535 When the report was found to be false,..there were congratulations and handshakings. 1922 A. A. Milne Red House Myst. xv. 175 ‘Cayley asked us to bring a letter along,’ explained Bill, when the necessary handshakings and introductions were over. 1941 H. Buckmaster Let my People Go viii. 322 And yet—in spite of cheers and salvos, resolutions and handshakings—the Fugitive Slave Law still stood on the statute books. 2002 G. Stein Better Words vi. 96 A hand-shaking..as a goodbye means that one does not expect to meet again for a long time. 2. a. The action of shaking a person's hand with one's own, in greeting or farewell, or as a sign of assent, good will, etc.figurative in quot. 1800. Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΚΠ 1800 A. Bishop Connecticut Republicanism 65 A most benevolent country, wishing to be on speaking and hand-shaking terms with every power in Europe. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iii. 45 What tears of rapture, what vow-making, Profound entreaties, and hand-shaking! 1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxx There was much hand-shaking on the steps of the Abercorn Club. 1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 499/2 The same males..indulge constantly in a deal of hearty and loving handshaking and shoulder-patting. 1952 J. A. Joyce Justice at Work i. ii. 34 Following mutual handshaking and felicitations, the newly-called barrister ‘disrobes’. 2004 M. H. Ford Personal Power xviii. 111 Handshaking began as a good faith way to show another person that you didn't have a weapon in your hand. b. Oxford University. A name in certain colleges for: the end-of-term progress report, in which each student is interviewed by his or her tutor in the presence of the master of the college; (also) such interviews collectively. Cf. collection n. 8a. ΚΠ 1870 John Bull 23 Apr. 281/4 For the next day or two the tiresome process of handshaking will go on, but then, thank goodness, one shake does for the whole Term. 1902 Oxf. Mag. 10 Dec. 128/1 The inconvenience it must cause to the Colleges which go through the ceremony known as ‘hand-shaking’ or ‘Collections’ on that morning. 1982 New Sci. 27 May 601/2 In my college we had a ceremony at the end of term known as ‘hand-shaking’. One passed the length of Hall to High Table, where one's tutor sat with the Master. 2001 W. Palmer Engagem. with Past viii. 166 He could hardly hear a word anyone said in the cavernous room in which the handshaking was held. 3. Computing. The action or process of performing a handshake (sense 3). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > transfer or manipulation > restraint or regulation lockout1961 handshaking1963 handshake1966 1963 IEEE Industr. Electronics Mag. 10 23/1 We call this ability to constantly monitor the condition of the distant station a 'hand-shaking' feature. 1985 Daily Tel. 22 July 11/8 All the tedious ‘handshaking’ and signing on procedures are conducted automatically. 1999 G. J. Lipovski Single & Multi-Chip Microcontroller Interfacing ix. 429 The transmitter can send up to 8 frames, with different values of n, before handshaking is necessary to verify that the frames have arrived. 2009 J. Ross Network Know-how i. 14 In a complex network such as a wireless data channel, as much has 40 per cent or more of the transmitted data is handshaking and other overhead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647 |
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