单词 | invasion |
释义 | invasionn. 1. a. The action of invading a country or territory as an enemy; an entrance or incursion with armed force; a hostile inroad. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > [noun] here-gang10.. inrunning1382 incursion?a1475 invasion1539 incurse1543 irruption1577 invade1591 invading1603 invadationa1607 infall1645 inroadinga1656 incursation1659 infallinga1698 big one1960 1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 74 If they shal persyst in their pestilent malice to make inuasyon into this realme [etc.]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxiiijv No prince could hurte hym by warre or inuasion. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxx. 14 Wee made an inuasion vpon the South of the Cherethites. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 364 The Parthian..Found able by invasion to annoy Thy country. View more context for this quotation 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 145 The Spaniards..made a powerful invasion upon the infant colony of Georgia. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. ii. 368 A foe ever watching the opportunity for invasion and spoil. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 77 In the Danish invasions, the marauders seized upon horses where they landed. b. figurative. A harmful incursion of any kind, e.g. of the sea, of disease, moral evil, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > harmful or hostile again-runningc1384 incursion?a1475 invasion?1566 invade1591 out-coursea1603 inroad1637 ?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. Q vij b Savegarde, and defende him, aswell from the invasions of wicked spirites as of other snares of the fleshe and the worlde. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 41 The Earth..being freed from the tyrannicall invasion and usurpation of the Waters. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xiv. sig. Q6v The fore-runners..of the Cold fit of an Ague, the first Invasion of that Disease having been preceded by the like Distempers. 1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies 135 What..demonstrates the Plague to be endemial to Egypt, is its regular Invasion and going off at certain Seasons. 1847 H. Rogers Ess. I. v. 257 It by no means appears that a momentary invasion of doubt, or even of scepticism, is inconsistent with a prevailing and habitual faith. c. Pathology. The spreading of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells that are already in the body to new sites. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > invasiveness > invasion invasion1891 1891 F. P. Foster Illustr. Encycl. Med. Dict. III. 2011/2 Invasion,..the process by which a particular organ or part becomes affected with disease or parasites existing elsewhere in the organism. 1892 G. M. Sternberg Man. Bacteriol. iii. i. 221 The invasion of the blood which occurs in anthrax and in various forms of septicæmia in the lower animals, induced by subcutaneous inoculation with pure cultures of certain pathogenic bacteria, does not generally immediately follow the inoculation. 1924 R. Muir Text-bk. Pathol. xii. 332 Incision of the capsule may permit of renewed invasion by the tumor. 1949 H. T. Karsner Human Pathol. (ed. 7) 312/2 Although certain normal cells may infiltrate into neighboring structures,..yet infiltration and invasion are properties of neoplastic cells. 1965 T. F. Nealon Managem. Patient with Cancer i. 13/2 Extension or invasion is the spread of a cancer by direct involvement of surrounding structures, lymphatics, or blood vessels. 2. Infringement by intrusion; encroachment upon the property, rights, privacy, etc. of any one. Esp. in invasion of privacy. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc. intrusion1433 intruseryc1470 attainmentc1503 encroachment1523 encroaching1539 trenching1543 infringinga1575 usurpationa1626 entrenching1629 entrenchment1635 invasion1650 impingement1671 infringement1673 trespass1769 usurpature1845 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc. > specific invasion of privacy1890 1650 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 1 Suffer no Invasion in matters of Religion. 1736 D. Neal Hist. Puritans III. 514 His government for almost fifteen years was one continued..invasion upon the civil liberties of his subjects. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. viii. 102 A voluntary invasion of the rights of his kinsman and ally. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. iv. 48 There were..many invasions of the constitution. 1890 Harvard Law Rev. 4 198 The common law recognizes and upholds a principle applicable to cases of invasion of privacy. 1912 R. Kipling in London Mag. Mar. 4/1 Any complaint of invasion of privacy needs immediate investigation. 1967 H. McCloy Further Side of Fear i. 3 He would have no motive for coming by stealth... Besides, it was impossible to associate Mr. Erskine with any invasion of privacy. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] fiend-reseOE frumresec1275 assault1297 sault1297 inracea1300 sailing13.. venuea1330 checkc1330 braid1340 affrayc1380 outrunningc1384 resinga1387 wara1387 riota1393 assailc1400 assayc1400 onset1423 rake?a1425 pursuitc1425 assemblinga1450 brunta1450 oncominga1450 assembly1487 envaya1500 oncomea1500 shovea1500 front1523 scry1523 attemptate1524 assaulting1548 push1565 brash1573 attempt1584 affront?1587 pulse1587 affret1590 saliaunce1590 invasion1591 assailment1592 insultation1596 aggressa1611 onslaught1613 source1616 confronta1626 impulsion1631 tentative1632 essaya1641 infall1645 attack1655 stroke1698 insult1710 coup de main1759 onfall1837 hurrah1841 beat-up of quarters1870 offensive1887 strafe1915 grand slam1916 hop-over1918 run1941 strike1942 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] assault1297 venuea1330 scoura1400 wassailc1400 frayc1430 brunta1450 sault1510 onseta1522 attemptate1524 onsetting1541 breach1578 dint1579 objectiona1586 invasion1591 extent1594 grassation1610 attack1655 run1751 wrack1863 mayhem1870 serve1967 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1090 The Tygre, and the Bore..raged sore In bitter words, seeking to take occasion Upon his fleshly corpse to make invasion. 1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 186 An House built out of the Road is exposed to the Invasion of Robbers. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad i. 11 Prepares, by swift invasion, to remove Your virgin bride. 4. Ecology. The spread of a plant or animal population into an area formerly free of the species concerned. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [noun] > introduction or spread to new areas peregrination1670 naturalization1830 colonization1863 cosmopolitanization1889 invasion1905 1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. iv. 210 By invasion is understood the movement of plants from an area of a certain character into one of a different character, and their colonization in the latter. 1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. xiii. 308 The colonization of new unoccupied land by plant disseminules may be either by centrifugal or by marginal invasion. 1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds I. 31 The slender-billed nutcracker... Not confined to conifer woods in its ‘invasions’ of Europe. 1958 C. Elton Ecol. of Invasions vi. 111 We have to accept the proposition that invasions of animals and plants and their parasites—and our parasites—will continue. 1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 354/1 The process which occurs when one kind of population begins to occupy a territory (or an occupational niche) already occupied by another, or it increases its rate of occupancy... In human ecology invasion is restricted to this..meaning. 5. attributive. ΚΠ 1915 M. B. Lowndes Let. 10 Mar. (1971) 57 No, I do not believe in either Zeppelins or an invasion... There is an invasion scare but I don't believe in that. 1923 W. S. Churchill World Crisis (1938) I. xix. 404 An invasion scare took a firm hold of the military and naval authorities. 1941 Times (Weekly ed.) 15 Oct. One of the heaviest attacks of the war was made on the invasion coast. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 8 The men..who would fly tomorrow's dawn patrol along the invasion coast. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 18 A tradition which was..renewed in France in 1939..; over the ‘invasion ports’ of Northern France in 1940 and 1941. Derivatives inˈvasionist n. one who advocates or believes in an invasion; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > policies and theories > person(s) Wellingtonian1815 invasionist1853 compulsionist1886 occupationist1892 Zeppelinite1909 navalist1911 westerner1916 retreatista1925 nuclearist1952 Lawrentian1957 1853 Cobden 1793 & 1853, Pol. Writ. (1878) 196 The other argument of the invasionists..will be successful. 1853 Cobden 1793 & 1853, Pol. Writ. (1878) 210 These invasionist writings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1539 |
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