单词 | line of growth |
释义 | > as lemmasline of growth a. Something resembling a traced mark, chiefly in natural objects; e.g. a thin band of colour; a suture, seam, furrow, ridge, etc. line of growth (Conch.): see quot. 1839. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > linearity > [noun] > a linear object or mark linec1290 train?1440 c1290 S. Edmund 96 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 299 In al is bodi nas o weom..bote ase is heued was of I-smyte..A smal red line is al-a-boute. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 91 Longe leuys..þat hauyn whit lynys yn hem. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 266 The Lione he settis in the midis; than tua lynes, on the vttir syd, Wouen in threid of golde. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 476 The lynes it hath are long and almost superficiary, yet diuided manifold..by the thin membrane running betwixt them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 103 Yon grey Lines, That fret the Clouds, are Messengers of Day. View more context for this quotation 1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 6 in Anat. Plants Those several Lines, by which both the said Varieties [of plants] are determin'd. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 290 Line, a narrow longitudinal stripe. 1839 G. B. Sowerby Conchol. Man. 57 Lines of growth, the eccentric striæ or lines, formed by the edges of the successive layers of shelly matter deposited by the animal, by which it increases the shell. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 26 Along the faces of the sections the lines of stratification were clearly shown. 1880 R. Rimmer Land & Freshwater Shells p. xxiii The line of growth. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xiv There were black lines under her eyes the next morning. 1895 I. Zangwill Master i. x. 111 A thin line of light crept again under the door. < as lemmas |
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