英语词汇“a nail breadth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†3. a nail (also nail's) breadth, and variants [compare classical Latin transversum unguem] : an extremely small space or distance (frequently in negative expressions). Cf. hairbreadth n., hair's breadth n. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount

tokenworth1631

a nail (also nail's) breadth1637

least1656

styme1776

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xii. sig. Tvij All this coulde nat remoue me the breade of my nayle from my dere frende Gysippus.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Aviij The see doth ebbe and flowe, And varyeth not a nayle.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies ii. i. 9 The position..which we maintaine.., and from which we will not departe the breadth of one naile, is this.

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events To Rdr. sig. a 2 He may not swerve a nailes breadth.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xi. 265 I have a greater regard for a nail's breadth of my soul, than for my whole body.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. vii. 257 I'd not bate one nail's breadth of the honest truth.

单词	a nail breadth
释义	> as lemmas a nail (also nail's) breadth †3. a nail (also nail's) breadth, and variants [compare classical Latin transversum unguem] : an extremely small space or distance (frequently in negative expressions). Cf. hairbreadth n., hair's breadth n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount tokenworth1631 a nail (also nail's) breadth1637 least1656 styme1776 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xii. sig. Tvij All this coulde nat remoue me the breade of my nayle from my dere frende Gysippus. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Aviij The see doth ebbe and flowe, And varyeth not a nayle. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies ii. i. 9 The position..which we maintaine.., and from which we will not departe the breadth of one naile, is this. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events To Rdr. sig. a 2 He may not swerve a nailes breadth. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xi. 265 I have a greater regard for a nail's breadth of my soul, than for my whole body. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. vii. 257 I'd not bate one nail's breadth of the honest truth. extracted from nailn. < as lemmas
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