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单词 intervale
释义

intervalen.

/ˈɪntəveɪl/
Forms: Middle English entervale, 1600s intervale, intervail; (sense 3) 1600s entervail(e, entervale, intervayle, 1700s intervail, 1600s– intervale.
Etymology: In former English use, only a rare variant or doublet of interval n.: compare Old French entreval and entrevale , -valle , and the 14–16th cent. English intervalle . But by Lithgow in 1632, and from 17th cent. in New England, associated with vale , in the specific American sense 3.It is not clear whether the association with vale , valley , was, in the first place, one of popular etymology, favoured perhaps by the partial survival of the old variant form in -vale (compare intervail in sense 2), or whether this was in New England a natural development of the sense, arising from the fact that the chief intervals in the primaeval forest were the bottoms of the river valleys, and giving rise to an association with vale, as used in English in such names as the Vale of Clwyd, Vale of Llangollen, Vale of the Yarrow, etc. It is possible that both principles operated together; and it is to be noted that, in this specific sense, intervale has not, even in American use, ousted interval.
Now North American.
1. Of time: = interval n. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval
waya1300
distancec1330
interstition1390
spacea1400
pastimea1513
vacance1533
intermission?1566
vacation1567
intervallum1574
interim1579
between-timea1586
wem1599
parenthesis1600
intermedium1611
betweena1616
fore-while?1615
interpolation1615
vacancya1616
interval1616
interstitium1624
slatcha1625
interspace1629
intermissa1633
between-spacea1641
interregnum1659
intervalea1661
interlapse1666
interlude1751
in-between1815
lapse1817
intermezzo1851
meanwhile1872
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22444 Queþer þai [sc. signs of Doomsday] sal hal on rau bitide, Or enterwal [Coll. Phys. enterwall, Gött. enter-uale] bituix þam bide.]
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 65 In that intervale after the Sun is set..and before candles are set up.
1682 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1859) III. 113 This Court in the intervales of the Generall Court doe desire and impower the Governour and Assistants [etc.].
2. Of space: = interval n. 3. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > [noun] > intervening space
spacec1350
interspacec1420
interval1489
distance1559
intervacuuma1633
vacuity1658
intervale1683
1683 in New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 431 Be sure that..no Street be laid close to the back of another without an Intervale of at least a pair of Butts.
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 144 The Army in Three Lines, all closed, without any Intervails.
3. In North America: A low level tract of land, esp. along a river; = interval n. 4. Also attributive.‘Originally in New England, but now used in some other parts of U.S. and in Canada. The sense is the same as that of haugh in Scotland.’ ( N.E.D.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun]
haleOE
haugh1487
strath1549
wartha1641
freshes1652
intervale1653
interval1684
riverfront1751
river bottom1752
creek-bottom1822
flat1852
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 365 This City of Fez is situate upon the bodies and twice double devalling faces..of two hills..; the intervale, or low valley betweene both..being the Center.]
1653 in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 27 Thirty acors of uppland and fortie acors of Entervale land.
1659 in Nourse Hist. Harvard (1894) 16 Still Riuer farm bounded Southwest by the enteruail.
a1704 W. Hubbard Gen. Hist. New Eng. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1816) 2nd Ser. V. 22 Fruitfull spots of land, such as they call intervail land, in levells and champain ground..neere the banks of great rivers.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. Pref. 6 Another word..which perhaps is not more known in England, viz. intervale..is well understood in all parts of New-England to distinguish the low-land adjacent to the fresh rivers, which is frequently overflowed by the freshets.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 35 By intervales we mean those low lands which are adjacent to the rivers.
1856 J. G. Whittier Mary Garvin i From the heart of Waumbek Methna, from the lake that never fails, Falls the Saco in the green lap of Conway's intervales.
1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 108 The spring freshets flood these wide valleys, and produce what is called ‘intervale’ land of great fertility.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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