| 单词 | hollow-grounded |
| 释义 | > as lemmashollow-grounded C1. Qualifying participial adjectives, to which hollow is hyphenated; mostly in sense ‘with a hollow sound’, as hollow-bellowing, hollow-booming, hollow-blustering, hollow-ringing, hollow-sounding, hollow-whispering, etc.; also ‘with a hollow foundation’, as hollow-grounded; hollow-ground adj. ground so as to have a concave surface; so hollow-grinding. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > ground so as to be hollow-ground1885 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 128 O feble stay! O hollow-grounded hope! 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 223 The hollow-sounding Plain Shakes from afar. 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 234 Muttering, the Winds..Blow hollow-blustering from the South. 1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 40 The hollow-whispering Breeze, the Plaint of Rills. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 33 The hollower-bellowing ocean. 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1048 The guaranteed razors. Cases containing 2 Hollow Ground. 1906 W. Watson in Tribune 15 Jan. 2/4 Toll, thou hollow-booming Bell. 1937 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Med. Bacteriol. ii. 10 In carrying out the examination by direct microscopy use is made of the hollow-ground slide, which is a slide with a hollow of approximately ½ in. ground out on one surface. 1951 R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 72 (heading) Hollow-grinding machine. 1951 R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 73 This..will produce a hollow-ground bevel on the cutter. There are a number of reasons why hollow grinding is preferable to straight. 1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 12 Hollow grinding, a method of grinding a tool to produce a concave face or faces behind a cutting edge. < as lemmas |
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