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单词 nautic
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nauticadj.n.

Brit. /ˈnɔːtɪk/, U.S. /ˈnɔdɪk/, /ˈnɑdɪk/
Forms: 1600s nautick, 1600s nautike, 1600s– nautic.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nautique; Latin nauticus.
Etymology: < Middle French, French nautique of or relating to sailors (early 16th cent.), of or relating to navigation (mid 16th cent.), and its etymon classical Latin nauticus of or relating to ships, seafaring < ancient Greek ναυτικός of or belonging to ships, seafaring < ναύτης sailor (see -naut comb. form) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier nautical adj. With use as noun compare earlier nautical n.
A. adj.
Chiefly poetic and literary. Nautical. Now archaic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > on the sea
nautical1552
oversea1552
maritimal1587
maritime1588
nautic1613
seagoing1895
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [adjective]
tar-breech1582
nautic1613
tarpaulin1647
altumal1711
tarpaulian1719
maritime1743
tarrish1841
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 46 Cutting off the Mogols Nautike hands in hindring the mutuall Traffike of their Subiects.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. vi. 75 Neptune..was made to be the God of Nautic Science.
1691 T. Heyrick Submarine Voy. in Misc. Poems i. xv. 10 There lies a Broken Anker, on whose Trust The Lives of all the Nautick Crew were Weigh'd.
1763 W. Falconer Ode Duke of York 18 The incense of a nautic muse!
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 305 Orators, as well as poets, celebrate the nautic song.
1813 R. Southey Life Nelson II. 85 Part of them were drafted into the different regiments, and the remainder formed into a corps, called the nautic legion.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Introd. 10 The most general nautic dishes and refections.
1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 124 Did ever he walk the twenty-six wards of the city, within and extra, did he cast his nautic eye on her clere and lusty under kell in the troia'd lanes of the city?
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 16 Mar. g13 The gasoline shortage eliminated the ‘nautic means’ and there was no fishing.
B. n.
colloquial. A sailor, esp. one in the Royal Navy.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun]
water?1570
man-of-war1599
navy-man1679
man-of-war's-man1745
blue jacket1776
ocean-warrior1801
blue1806
web foot1846
gobby1883
nautic1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 4/2Nautics’ love the spray of the waves more than they do the dust of the roads.
1943 B. J. Hurren Eastern Med. vi. 76 A complete reversal of policy was now thrust upon an eager company of flying nautics.
1951 P. Brickhill Dam Busters xix. 244 A certain..personality at Bomber Command..when he heard the Tirpitz was sunk, [said] ‘That's one in the eye for the Nautics!’
1973 Sunday Tel. 4 Mar. 38/1 The Army did as they had been done by in the first-half. Now it was the Nautics who were under hideous pressure.

Compounds

nautic mile n. = nautical mile n. at nautical adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > nautical mile
geometrical1597
maritime mile1632
geometric1670
nautical mile1730
knot1748
nautic mile1762
sea-mile1796
air mile1919
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 44 Next, Delos in th' Aegëan Sea appears, And westward seventy nautic miles it bears.
1844 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 14 290 The coast-line and the soundings were then laid down on the working scale of..3 inches to the nautic mile.
1890 E. F. Knight Cruise of ‘Alerte’ viii. 131 Trinidad is roughly 680 nautic miles from Bahia.
1994 Ambio 23 181/1 The Spratly Islands encompass more than 600 coral reefs..scattered across an area north of Sabah..stretching for more than 300 nautic miles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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