英语词汇“in the grey”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. in the grey.

(a) Of clothing, fabric, or yarn: in an unbleached, undyed, or unfinished state. Cf. in the greige at greige adj. and n. Phrases.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [adverb] > unbleached

in the grey1795

the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [adjective] > bleached > not bleached

unblancheda1475

unbleached1531

unwhited1621

blay1785

in the grey1795

blae-

1795 J. Aikin Descr. Country round Manch. ii. 158 Fustians..were bought in the grey by the Manchester chapmen, who finished and sold them in the country.

1860 S. Jubb Hist. Shoddy-trade 40 Short Ends were sold to the merchants..in the grey.

1876 Textile Colourist 1 317/1 (heading) Warp Threads from No. 2 Cloth in the Grey.

1929 Times 7 Feb. 9/3 There were thousands of piece goods coming into this country ‘in the grey’ to be dyed here.

2005 Greige Polyester/Cotton Printcloth from China (U.S. Internat. Trade Comm. Publ. 3776) i. 17 Greige polyester/cotton printcloth..is often sold ‘in the gray’ by the producing mill to converters, which have the goods finished (e.g., bleached, dyed, printed, etc.).

(b) Clockmaking and Watchmaking. With reference to a metal surface: finished without being polished. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1860 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clocks (rev. ed.) 309 Earnshaw was the first watchmaker who had sense enough to set at defiance the vulgar and ignorant prejudice for ‘high finish’ of the non-acting surfaces, and to leave them ‘in the grey’, as it is called.

1876 Horological Jrnl. Dec. 49/2 The motion should be entirely fitted with the frame in the grey.

1920 Jewelers' Circular 7 Apr. 157/1 The repeating mechanism is after the French type with chain, but is finished in the English type in the grey.

单词	in the grey
释义	> as lemmas in the grey a. in the grey. (a) Of clothing, fabric, or yarn: in an unbleached, undyed, or unfinished state. Cf. in the greige at greige adj. and n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [adverb] > unbleached in the grey1795 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [adjective] > bleached > not bleached unblancheda1475 unbleached1531 unwhited1621 blay1785 in the grey1795 blae- 1795 J. Aikin Descr. Country round Manch. ii. 158 Fustians..were bought in the grey by the Manchester chapmen, who finished and sold them in the country. 1860 S. Jubb Hist. Shoddy-trade 40 Short Ends were sold to the merchants..in the grey. 1876 Textile Colourist 1 317/1 (heading) Warp Threads from No. 2 Cloth in the Grey. 1929 Times 7 Feb. 9/3 There were thousands of piece goods coming into this country ‘in the grey’ to be dyed here. 2005 Greige Polyester/Cotton Printcloth from China (U.S. Internat. Trade Comm. Publ. 3776) i. 17 Greige polyester/cotton printcloth..is often sold ‘in the gray’ by the producing mill to converters, which have the goods finished (e.g., bleached, dyed, printed, etc.). (b) Clockmaking and Watchmaking. With reference to a metal surface: finished without being polished. Now rare. ΚΠ 1860 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clocks (rev. ed.) 309 Earnshaw was the first watchmaker who had sense enough to set at defiance the vulgar and ignorant prejudice for ‘high finish’ of the non-acting surfaces, and to leave them ‘in the grey’, as it is called. 1876 Horological Jrnl. Dec. 49/2 The motion should be entirely fitted with the frame in the grey. 1920 Jewelers' Circular 7 Apr. 157/1 The repeating mechanism is after the French type with chain, but is finished in the English type in the grey. extracted from greygrayadj.n. < as lemmas
随便看	θ43997 θ43998 θ43999 θ44 θ440 θ4400 θ44000 θ44001 θ44002 θ44003 θ44004 θ44005 θ44006 θ44007 θ44008 θ44009 θ4401 θ44010 θ44011 θ44012 θ44013 θ44014 θ44015 θ44016 θ44017

> as lemmas