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单词 hastener
释义

hastenern.

Brit. /ˈheɪsn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈheɪsənər/
Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s hastner, 1700s– hastener.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hasten v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < hasten v. + -er suffix1. With sense 2 compare slightly earlier haster n.
1.
a. A person who or thing which hastens something.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > urgent > one who
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scootera1825
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > action of causing > one who
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precipitatora1660
1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 53 You will..bee the hastner of my death.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 79 He and eke his Queene..that hastners of King Albyons bane had beene.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 122 I have beene my selfe the hastner of their punishment.
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xvi. 177 The Muscles..called Acceleratores or Hastners.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 169. ⁋7 Pride and indigence, the two great hasteners of modern poems.
1805 Morning Post 6 Nov. It becomes not a preventative, but a hastener of decay.
1855 Assoc. Med. Jrnl. 3 565/2 Charcoal is..a hastener of decomposition.
1920 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 140 The hasteners of evolution will not have it so!
1969 London Mag. Jan. 59 Perils shared between man and girl were great hasteners of romance.
2001 N.Y. Times 12 Aug. 36/1 (headline) To some, financial savior, to others, hastener of ruin.
b. Services' slang. A letter requesting a reply to previous correspondence.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > other types of letter
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poulet1691
treble letter1753
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screed1834
tickler1846
application letter1850
test letter1869
letter of envoy1873
hastener1922
fan letter1932
aerogram1933
yum-yum1943
newsletter1961
overnights1975
1922 Hist. Ministry Munitions I. i. v. 125 The following are typical statements made by firms in reply to ‘hasteners’ from the War Office.
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 35 Hastener, a letter asking for a reply to a previous letter.
1955 Times 12 May 11/4 Those who were once temporary soldiers may recall how they used to send ‘hasteners’ for the stores they wanted.
2017 @TprBill 27 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Get on to your MP about it; send a hardcopy letter phone the constituency office, and send hasteners by email.
2. Originally English regional (chiefly northern and north midlands). A metal stand or screen used to reflect the heat of a fire back on to a roasting joint of meat. Cf. haster n., meat-screen n. at meat n. Compounds 2. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > hastener
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1817 Liverpool Mercury 21 Feb. 269/3 (advt.) Jack & Hastener.
1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Hastner, same as Haster.
1913 Young Woman's Jrnl. Apr. 251/1 It literally roasted in front of a red hot fire, suspended in what was called a ‘hastener’ by a long hook.
1987 Country Life 4 June 266/3 The hastener doubles as a rack for warming plates.
2007 A. Broomfield Food & Cooking in Victorian Eng. vi. 112 At the top of the hastener was a bottle jack from which the cook suspended her meat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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