| 单词 | man of figures |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman of figures a. A numerical symbol. Originally, and still chiefly, applied to the ten symbols of the so-called Arabic notation. two (or double), three, four, etc. figures; a number amounting to ten or more, a hundred or more, a thousand or more, etc.; a sum of money indicated by such a number. man of figures: one versed in arithmetic or statistics.In Cricket, (a) phr. to get into or reach double or three figures = to make ten or a hundred runs; (b) a bowler's average. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > figure rimeeOE figure?c1225 numberc1300 digit?a1400 digitalc1450 cipher1530 term1552 terminus?a1560 significant figure1614 small figuresa1652 numeral1654 monasa1690 binary digit1796 nomial1828 supplement1868 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > score 100 or more to get into or reach double or three figures1884 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 Þe ȝiscere..makeð þer in figures of augrim. c1305 Edmund Conf. 223 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 77 Arsmetrike radde in cours..& his figours drouȝ aldai. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 447 And recken with his figures ten. ?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 3 In þis craft ben vsid teen figurys. 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. A.viiv There are but .x. figures, that are vsed in arithmetike. 1600 T. Hylles Arte Vulgar Arithm. 5 b The Cipher (for so the figure o is peculiarly named, although it be generally called and accompted as a figure). 1660 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 3) i. 36 The Figures usually placed over Notes in the Thorough-Bass of Songs. 1746 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs 73 Arithmeticians have Figures to compute all the Progressions of Time. 1817 Tierney in Parl. Deb. 1357 The noble lord..could not disprove figures. 1884 Punch 5 Apr. 161/1 Mr. B., A.R.A., sends a ‘single figure’,—for which he asks three figures. 1884 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. ii. ii. 64 Lancashire, with a good batting side, could not reach three figures either time. 1955 Times 9 May 15/1 His figures..were rather battered about by Perks, who hit him far and wide against the spin. < as lemmas |
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