单词 | barring |
释义 | barringn.1 The action of bar v.: Thesaurus » a. Fastening up, in, or out, with a bar or bars. b. Exclusion, prohibition. c. Marking or ornamentation with bars. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > striping barringc1386 bendingc1386 striping1731 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > stripes or bars barc1385 barringc1386 bendingc1386 palingc1390 pale1415 candy stripe1875 broken line1937 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋343 The cost of embrowdynge the degise, endentynge, barrynge..and semblable wast of clooth. 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 24 Barrynge of dorys, repagulacio. Barrynge of harneys, stipacio. 1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) iii. 32 The exclusion and barring of haynous offenders from the assembly of Christians. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 448 The barring of any subsequent suit. 1922 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 6) ix. 88 The cock in a pure breeding strain of Plymouth Rocks is homozygous for the barring factor. 1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles IX. 2 The breast is also russet in colour, merging into black barring on the abdomen. d. barring-out: a mode of schoolboy rebellion, when they shut the schoolroom or house against the master, and refuse to admit him until their demands are conceded. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [noun] > by schoolboys barring-out1729 1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 5 Not Schooll-boys at a Barring out Rais'd ever such incessant shout. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Concl. 174 Revolts, republics, revolutions, all No graver than a schoolboys' barring-out. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 188 Another barring-out in the high School of Edinburgh, ended more tragically. e. attributive, as in barring engine: small auxiliary engine for starting large mill engines; so called from the employment of a crowbar to move a fly-wheel round for a portion of a revolution, and assist in setting the engine going. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > other specific engines ballast engine?1748 reciprocator1769 bellows-engine1834 jack engine1847 power producer1859 trunk-engine1864 naphtha engine1876 jinny1877 barring engine1885 shifter1904 yarder1911 mill1918 rocket1919 booster1944 monobloc1944 1885 Engineer 22 May New Patent Barring Engine. f. The division of music into bars: see bar n.1 16. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > division into bars barring1874 1874 W. Chappell Hist. Mus. I. viii. 166 When bars were first introduced, they were mere measures of time, therefore old barring is not to be followed implicitly. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 493/3 Latter-day music..shuns symmetrical barring and full closes. 1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music iv. 187 The same key, tempo, dynamics, phrasing, and barring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). barringn.2 Obsolete. cry of elephant: see barr v. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019). barringadj. Fastening up, in, or out; restraining, prohibitive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] bridling1559 barring1567 restraining1597 retracting1661 curbing1720 detaining1822 restrictionary1828 inhibitive1830 checking1861 inhibitory1870 withholding1898 staying1902 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Avv Unbearded youth, at last rid from The Tutors barring charge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). barringprep. Excluding from consideration, leaving out of account, omitting, excepting, except. ΚΠ 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. 283 vjxx. yardes, barin one pese, of lynnen cloth. 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) iii. ix. 169 It is allow'd..to a Christian, barring the wrong done to Religion, to make use of the help and advice of the Devil. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 38 Barring its being so near the stable. 1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 281 That immense army (barring accidents) will be completed. 1845 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 122/2 Nobody else, barring the author, knew. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1c1386n.2adj.1567prep.1481 |
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