单词 | in file |
释义 | > as lemmasin file a. The number of men constituting the depth from front to rear of a formation in line, etc. in file: one behind the other. For Indian file n., single file n. see those adjectives. rank and file: see rank and file n.The front of a file is one man (the file-leader), the depth may be any number; but in the modern English formation of infantry it is only two, consisting of the front and the rear rank men. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [adverb] in rank1581 in file1598 in rank and file1598 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > in (a) row(s) or line(s [phrase] > one behind the other in file1598 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > line > file file1598 string1627 rot1632 rat1646 counter-file1653 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 37 By file, I vnderstand all the line..of all the souldiers standing consequently one after another, from front to the traine. 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 6 A File..ought neuer to be aboue ten persons deepe. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia iii. ii. 291 It was impossible for men to march but in file. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 339 His Chariot..stood retir'd From off the files of warr. View more context for this quotation 1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. IV. 338 Each platoon had..eight in depth, for that was the usual depth of the files. 1790 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 535 Great Argyle led on his files. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 47 The others..will first cover in file with precision. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 208 The 16th are very strong; when I saw them the other day they were 59 file a squadron. 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xxiii. 39 Even as they fell, in files they lay. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. x. 345 Riding along their broken files. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 243 The brave Fernando, Searching through the files of war. in file 8. A row of persons, animals, or things placed one behind the other. the common file = ‘the common herd’ (obsolete or archaic) in file: one after another, in succession. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] folkc888 peoplea1325 frapec1330 commona1350 common peoplea1382 commonsa1382 commontya1387 communityc1400 meiniec1400 commonaltya1425 commonsa1500 vulgarsa1513 many1526 meinie1532 multitude1535 the many-headed beast (also monster)1537 number1542 ignobility1546 commonitya1550 popular1554 populace1572 popularya1578 vulgarity?1577 populacya1583 rout1589 the vulgar1590 plebs1591 mobile vulgusc1599 popularity1599 ignoble1603 the million1604 plebe1612 plebeity1614 the common filea1616 the herda1616 civils1644 commonality1649 democracy1656 menu1658 mobile1676 crowd1683 vulgusa1687 mob1691 Pimlico parliament?1774 citizenry1795 polloi1803 demos1831 many-headed1836 hoi polloi1837 the masses1837 citizenhood1843 John Q.1922 wimble-wamble1937 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > of people or things one behind the other tracec1385 filea1616 string1686 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] a-row?c1225 by rowc1230 on (also upon) a rowc1300 by and by1330 in a rowc1330 on rowc1330 in routc1390 in successionc1449 by succession(s)?a1475 in sequencea1575 in (also by) progression1660 member by member1726 in file1744 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 399 The greater file of the subiect held the Duke to be wise. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. vii. 43 The common file..did budge From Rascals worse then they. View more context for this quotation 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxix. 364 This Hoarse Sound..seemeth to be nothing but the dividing of the Aire into innumerable and very small Files. 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) i. 9 Here Files of Pins extend their shining Rows. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 230 Before him march in Files The rural Minstralsy. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 163 He furnished..one State-apartment of diverse Rooms in File. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. viii. 118 I push my way into court through files of attorneys. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. i. 24 A double file of wine-glasses and goblets. 1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xvii. 289 An endless file of bare gloomy cliffs. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. xi. 374 Whose military prowess had raised him from the common file. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 40 When the ants came to the road they changed their course, and in narrow files reascended the wall. 1842 W. Wordsworth Guilt & Sorrow iv, in Poems Early & Late Years 7 Long files of corn-stacks. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvi. 192 The men were standing in silent file on each side of it. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 121 A file of camels. < as lemmas |
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