单词 | howling |
释义 | howlingn. 1. a. The uttering of a prolonged wailing cry, as by the dog, wolf, or other animal; the production of a similar sound by the wind or other inanimate agent; the ciphering of an organ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > howl or whine > howling or whining yowlinga1225 howlingc1440 whiningc1440 whimperingc1522 whewling1609 whinging1720 whinneringa1871 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [noun] > howl, wail, or whine howlingc1440 howla1616 wail1825 zinging1921 bloop1931 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 250/1 Howlynge of doggys. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xxv Ticius Sabinus hounde..abode wyth the deed body wyth dolefull and sorowfull noyse and howlynge [Bodl. MS. ȝelling]. c1575 G. Ducket in R. Eden Martyr's Decades (1577) f. 328v Two or three hundred Foxes, whiche make a marueylous wawelyng or howlyng. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 2 The Isle of Stromboli..I was told that they who were near it heard great howlings, which proceed not from Hell..but from the violence of the Winds. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 225 His Tail incurv'd He drops, and with harsh broken Howlings rends The poison-tainted Air. 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 45 To remedy the so-called howling or sounding-on of certain pipes, when their respective keys are not pressed down. 1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) xvi. 139 [Organ-building] ciphering [is the] sounding of a single note without any key being pressed down; this is sometimes called howling, or humming. b. The emission of howls (howl n. 1b) by a loudspeaker; undesirable feedback at audio frequencies in an amplifier. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [noun] > howl, wail, or whine > in loudspeaker howling1920 howl1921 1920 Radio Rev. Apr. 356 The resistance R3 and condenser C3 connected to the grid of the selected valve are increased in value until maximum amplification is obtained without ‘howling’. 1939 H. J. Hicks Princ. & Pract. Radio Servicing xiii. 228 Open by-pass condensers across any of the tube elements..will often cause howling. 1953 J. E. Haines Automatic Control of Heating xiv. 340 The variation exhibits a definite rhythm—in a manner analogous to the howling of a telephone when the sound waves from the receiver are fed back to the transmitter. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) I. 520/2 Suppression of the low frequencies..in rooms that are excessively reverberant..increases the intelligibility of the speech and reduces the possibility of acoustic feedback (howling). 2. A prolonged wailing outcry of human beings. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > wail or howl yowlinga1225 yei?a1289 yollinga1300 howling1490 yowl?a1513 yawling1568 blayinga1586 whewling1609 howla1616 vagitusa1651 ululation?1799 gowl1805 waul1856 wow1862 whoo1891 blarting1898 ululance1951 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > wailing reameOE woningc950 reminga1200 wailinga1400 bewailing1485 howling1490 yammer?a1513 wailc1540 wailment1593 bewailment1607 ejulationa1620 alleleu1689 yammering1705 ululation?1799 waly-walying1821 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xliii. 169 Grete crye, noyse, and houlyng made the sarasyns. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 48 Banished. O Frier, the damned vse that word in hell: Howling attends it. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 257 But for the greater solemnity, for seven dayes a general howling..was made. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 95 A sad Lementation and Howling. 1887 A. Müller in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 663/1 The insane howlings hu hu (‘he, he’)..practised by the ‘howling’ Rifá'íya [Dervishes]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). howlingadj. 1. That howls; that utters or produces a prolonged wailing sound. Spec. howling baboon, howling monkey = howler n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [adjective] > that howls or whines whining15.. yowlingc1590 plainful1598 whimpering1598 howlinga1605 whinging1720 wailful1818 ululating1894 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] > howl, wail, or whine wailinga1577 howlinga1605 wailful1818 honing1837 wailsome1891 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey) guariba1753 howling monkey1769 warine1774 alouatte1779 howler monkey1800 araguato1852 congo ape1859 red howler1865 Congo monkey1874 ursine howler1884 Stentor1891 a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 195 Where howlring howlets aye doth hant. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xix. 217 I believe you mean the howling Quakers, as uncivil as they are. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 133 The Howling Baboons, as they are here called, seem to be the animals which are here described by Marcgrave, and which are called by the natives of Brasil, Guereba. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 135 There is another Monkey, somewhat larger than the howling Monkey, which is covered with long reddish hair. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) I. 86 (heading) The howling monkey. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 285 Peals of thunder..followed by a howling blast of wind. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §159 The Myceti, or Howling Monkeys. 1853 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 21 The Howling Monkeys are larger and more clumsy than the Spider Monkeys. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. ii. 72 Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 37 And now, their guttural chorus audible long before they arrived in sight, came the howling dervishes. 1924 C. W. Domville-Fife Among Wild Tribes of Amazons viii. 121 On reaching camp..in the half light it was just possible to see the huddled and impaled body of a furry guaribas, or howling monkey (simia mycetes). 1959 Jrnl. Mammalogy 40 317 (title) Field observations on a howling monkey society. 2. Characterized by, or filled with, howling, as of wild beasts or of the wind; dreary. In the Biblical howling wilderness, and derived phrases, the word tends to become merely intensive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective] unbearingc825 deafc897 westyOE wastumlessc975 wilderna1050 drya1340 gelda1350 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 ungreenc1400 infecundc1420 farrow1494 fruitlessa1513 unfruitful1531 sterile1552 hungry1577 penurious1594 unfertile1596 infertile1598 howling1611 ungenitureda1616 arid1656 infecundous1661 ungendering1706 yeld1721 unproductive1725 infructuose1727 ungenerative1733 fallow1791 nihili-parturient1812 dowf1824 wastec1825 non-productive1830 unreproductive1836 infructuous1860 unvintaged1869 increative1877 ablastemic1881 submarginal1895 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] > howl, wail, or whine > characterized by howling1611 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wildernesse. View more context for this quotation 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 222 The very Sight of those howling Desarts deterr me. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 2 His Blasts obey, and quit the howling Hill. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 Going regularly aloft to bed..in a howling garret remote from the lodgers. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 79 Fit the bleak and howling place For gardens of a finer race. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 225 Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveller that does the howling. 3. figurative (chiefly slang.) Glaring, very pronounced, ‘screaming’: cf. howler n. 3. Also, extreme, great (colloquial). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great swappingc1440 bumping1566 thumping1576 swingeinga1592 knocking1598 gigantical1604 gigantine1605 gigantean1611 gigantal?1614 thundering1618 whoppinga1625 humming1654 rapping1657 whisking1673 threshing1707 sousing1735 nation1765 heroic1785 runaway1790 spanking1791 gigantic1797 whacking1797 cracking1834 ringing1834 bouncing1842 walloping1847 stavingc1850 banging1864 howling1865 whooping1866 smacking1888 God almighty1913 Christ almighty1961 society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly notablea1398 staring?a1425 loud1535 gross1581 strong1583 signal1591 conspicuous1604 marked1620 remarked1623 ranka1640 signalized1652 bold1678 flaming1706 glaring1706 telegraphic1809 salient1841 howling1865 insistent1868 rampageous1889 1865 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 6/6 To risk a very vulgar phrase, a Nawab is ‘a howling swell’ in the East. 1884 Nonconformist & Independent 7 Aug. 766/3 Those mistakes which are sometimes called ‘howling’ blunders. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xliii. 365 Le's all three slide out of here, one of these nights, and get an outfit, and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns. 1908 Magnet 1 1 ‘You howling ass!’ shouted Bulstrode. ‘I tell you he's busted my two-guinea camera.’ 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 283/4 If his book is not a big, a very big, a ‘howling’ success..but I need offer no ‘if's’. 4. As adv. In the highest degree. (Cf. screamingly adv.) colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1895 Cent. Mag. Sept. 678/2 It's howling lonesome at the Mule Deer. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 45 He'll be howling drunk to-night. 1928 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Feb. 100/4 Glad! You're howling right I'm glad. Derivatives ˈhowlingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adverb] > howl, wail, or whine howlingly1593 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 25v The Owle on the house-toppe, euer-more howlingly calls for some Corse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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