单词 | in diameter |
释义 | > as lemmasin diameter 4. Phrases. in diameter. extracted from diametern. a. literal in sense 2 (with numerals, etc.): In measurement across through the centre; in width or thickness. (Formerly also in the diameter.) ΚΠ 1585 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 356 A trunk of fire, which..seemeth to be 4 foot over in the Diameter. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 60 It would magnifie but 600 times in Diameter. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 202 The Bay of Naples..lyes in almost a round Figure of about Thirty Miles in the Diameter. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 110 The fruit hangs from the tree [baobab] by a stalk two feet long and an inch in diameter. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adverb] fromward?c1225 contrariouslyc1380 contrarying to1382 reversinglya1425 contrary1463 clean fro1483 repugnantly?1526 diametrally?1533 contrairly1535 in diameter1543 thwartly1558 oppositely1567 contrarily1570 contrariwise1574 diameter-wise1600 diameterly1603 reciprocallya1628 diametrically1633 counter1643 encounter1660 polarly1670 Antarcticallya1711 contrariantly1796 antithetically1816 tout au contraire1841 antistrophically1842 contrapositively1858 in reverse1869 at cross-corners with1892 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. vi. f. 181/2 By flebothomie on the contrary syde by a diameter. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iv. vii, in Wks. I. 53 To come to a publike schoole,..it was opposite (in diameter) to my humour. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §3 To stand in diameter and swords point with them. View more context for this quotation 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §51 It is not worthy to stand in diameter with Heaven. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 76 To hinder..those deep and serious regresses of nature..is in diameter against both nature and institution. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [adverb] > in direct line by linec1374 evenly?c1400 lineally1426 even1489 evenliklya1500 in a diametera1681 a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon i, in Dramatic Wks. (1875) 228 Deriving our pedigree in a diameter from the best blood of Europe. d. tactical diameter n. the perpendicular distance between a ship's original line of advance, and her position when she has turned 180° from that line, under the given angle of helm. final diameter n. the diameter of the practically circular path which a ship traverses if after turning through 180° the helm is still kept over. ΚΠ 1882 W. H. White Man. Naval Archit. (ed. 2) 631 Final diameter. Tactical diameter. < as lemmas |
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