| 单词 | intention movement |
| 释义 | > as lemmasintention movement intention movement n. [translating German intentionsbewegung (O. Heinroth)] a movement or action on the part of an animal which itself performs no function except to reveal or signal that a further movement or action may follow or is contemplated. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > that serves no purpose intention movement1950 stereotype1966 1910 O. Heinroth in Jrnl. f. Ornith. LVIII. 122 Eine Modifikation des eigentlichen Locktones, wie sie kurz vor dem Auffliegen hervorgebracht und dann mit den oben beschriebenen Intentionsbewegungen verbunden wird, ist ein langes und fein ausklingendes ‘Hu’.] 1950 K. Z. Lorenz in Symposia Soc. Exper. Biol. IV. 242 We know of two phyletically distinct ways, by which non-social, mechanically effective endogenous activities may develop into social releasers: in one case the so-called ‘intention movement’ (Intentionsbewegung, Heinroth), in the other the so-called ‘displacement activities’. 1950 K. Z. Lorenz in Symposia Soc. Exper. Biol. IV. 243 Intention movements..are..very reliable indicators for the present ‘mood’ of an animal. 1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xvii. 153 A bird may rapidly change from pecking to the intention-movement of brooding. 1961 A. J. Berger Bird Study v. 136 The first intention movement preceding walking or hopping often is a ‘bow’. < as lemmas |
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