单词 | in process of |
释义 | > as lemmasin (the) process of (doing something) b. gen. The fact of going on or being carried on, as an action or series of actions; progress, course. in (the) process of (doing something): in the course of; in the act of carrying out (a particular task, etc.). in process: going on, being done; in progress. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun] > proceeding or carrying on an action > fact of being carried on processc1395 the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] in handc1405 in expeditiona1616 on (also upon) the anvil1645 on the wheel1677 in progress1849 in the works1870 in process1906 in the pipeline1945 c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 1345 It is agayns the proces [v.rr. prosses, processe, process] of nature. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 232 (MED) Yf he procede be prossesse, oure lawys he wyl felle. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Pet. i. f. xviv Confirmed nowe by longe processe of godlynes in the acquainted knowledge of the trueth. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. iii. §3. 217 What then, in Causes can there be an infinite processe; And can no End bee found? 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 423 Saturnian Juno now, with double Care, Attends the fatal Process of the War. 1714 W. Forbes Jrnl. Session 200 It was a Principal and not a Copy of the Contract was produced in the Process of Constitution. 1781 S. Johnson Addison in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets V. 104 The whole drama is..engaging in its process, and pleasing in its conclusion. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 268 In the process of his examination, he is stripped of his borrowed plumes. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) v. 100 This granulo-pulpy matter was in process of being converted into ova. 1869 H. S. Osborn Metallurgy Iron & Steel 685 The iron must now be raked up..while a kind of fermentation, called ‘coming to nature’ is in process. 1906 E. F. Scott 4th Gospel i. 18 A judgment is in process and we follow it stage by stage to the great climax. 1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea (1953) i. viii. 43 These awkward factors were in process of spoiling what had looked like an agreeable billet. 1955 A. Hano Day in Bleachers v. 70 Westrum, usually so alert at the plate, was in the process of either picking up his glove or his mask as the ball dribbled toward him. 1998 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible (1999) v. 404 At that time Axelroot was just in the process of getting set up in Johannesburg. < as lemmas |
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