单词 | in perspective |
释义 | > as lemmasin perspective in perspective adv. a. In accordance with the rules of perspective. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [adverb] prospectively1557 in perspective1614 perspectively1700 1614 Maske of Flowers sig. C2 Behind the Garden..were set artificiall trees appearing like an Orchard ioyning to the Garden, and ouer all was drawne in perspectiue, a firmament like the Skies in a cleere night. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §97 An instrument whereby an ignorant person may take any thing in Perspective, as justly, and more then the skilfullest Painter can do by his eye. a1770 H. Jones Isle of Wight (1782) iii. 41 See beneath the glassy river wind; Yon clumps of trees that in perspective bend. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 10 My delineations..together with one done by a friend in perspective. 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing v. 282 The tops of the trees..receding in perspective into the distance. 1902 Daily Chron. 16 July 3/2 The engraver said he must..‘put it in proper perspective’. 2003 M. Kraak & F. Ormeling Cartography (ed. 2) i. 6/1 By drawing the model in perspective..this 3D aspect could be simulated. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] > expected futurec1374 in a possibility1523 forestalled1543 looked-for1548 anticipatec1550 expected1558 long-looked-for1562 looked1565 in expectation1570 expectable1619 expecting1621 in perspective1633 unsurprising1671 in prospect1694 perspective1710 in prospective1746–7 prospective1809 anticipated1814 presumable1825 anticipatable1872 ex ante1937 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 55 Yet as in sleep we see foul death, and live: So devils are our sinnes in perspective. 1640 C. Harvey Bible in Synagogue xiv 'Tis heaven in perspective, and the bliss Of glory here. 1667 K. Philips Poems 163 For to know Grandeur we must live In that, and not in perspective. 1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ Poems II. 47 Not content with receiving the debt that's his due, Still John, in perspective, has others in view. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. xi. 301 Take care of this future magistrate, this churchwarden in perspective. 1867 M. E. P. Tucker Loew's Bridge 19 Some, looking forward, in perspective see When their one dollar shall ten thousand be. 1883 G. H. Boker Betrothal v. v. 119 Marsio: O! curse you—O! [stage direct. Faints.] Salvatore: Well done! He shows his death-bed in perspective. c. In proportion; correctly regarded in terms of relative importance; in context. ΚΠ a1809 A. Seward in Poet. Wks. (1810) II. 8 Hope, contemplating the stinted plan, Throws it in perspective, and calms our fears. 1861 Times 15 Jan. 5/1 He has watched that momentous spectacle [sc. the attack of the Spanish Armada] from the opposite coasts,—from the side of our Dutch allies,—and, seeing it in perspective, has obtained a clearer conception of its dimensions. 1902 Indiana Weekly Messenger 17 Sept. 4/4 Her lack of a sense of proportion has much to answer for. She does not get things in perspective. 1951 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 19 Nov. 20/5 ‘This does not blind me to many misdeeds and dishonest acts,’ he said, ‘but we must try to keep things in perspective.’ 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 32 Many of the courses for aerophobics focus on putting the risks of flying in perspective. Categories » d. Geometry. See sense 6. in perspective 6. Geometry. The relation of two figures in the same plane such that every point in each figure corresponds to a point in the other, the straight lines joining pairs of corresponding points meet in a point, and the corresponding lines in each figure intersect on a fixed straight line; = homology n. 4. Chiefly in in perspective. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > relationship between figures perspective1857 homology1863 confocal1903 1857 A. Cayley in Q. Jrnl. Math. 1 8 Triangles are in perspective when the three lines forming the corresponding angles meet in a point, or, what is the same thing, when the three points of intersection of the corresponding sides lie in a line. 1881 J. Casey Sequel to Euclid 77 Triangles whose corresponding vertices lie on concurrent lines have received different names from Geometers... Townshend and Clebsch call them triangles in perspective, and the point O and the line XYZ the centre and the axis of perspective. 1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. iv. 20 A point O in space is taken as centre of perspective or homology. 1917 Amer. Math. Monthly 24 391 Show that the Brocard triangle and the fundamental triangle are in perspective. 1996 Amer. Math. Monthly 103 327 Each of the 15 pairs of perspective triangles with centres on the Soddy line has a corresponding axis of perspective on which corresponding sides intersect. < as lemmas |
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