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单词 nautilus
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nautilusn.

Brit. /ˈnɔːtᵻləs/, /ˈnɔːtl̩əs/, U.S. /ˈnɔdələs/, /ˈnɑdələs/
Inflections: Plural nautili Brit. /ˈnɔːtᵻlʌɪ/, /ˈnɔːtl̩ʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈnɔdl̩aɪ/, /ˈnɑdl̩aɪ/, nautiluses.
Forms: 1600s nautilos, 1600s– nautilus.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nautilos.
Etymology: < classical Latin nautilos paper nautilus (Pliny) < ancient Greek ναυτίλος sailor, seaman, paper nautilus < ναύτης sailor (see -naut comb. form) + -λος , suffix forming nouns. Compare Italian nautilo (a1498), Middle French, French nautile (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny: compare quots. 16011 at sense 1, 16012 at sense 1), Portuguese náutilo (17th cent.), Spanish nautilo.
1. Any of several free-swimming cephalopods of the genus Nautilus (the sole extant genus of the subclass Nautiloidea), which have numerous short tentacles and a smooth coiled external shell that is lined with mother-of-pearl and contains a series of gas-filled chambers (also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus); esp. the common N. pompilius. Also: the shell of such a cephalopod; a fossil resembling this shell; (in form Nautilus) the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 709.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Tetrabranchiata > family Nautilidae > species nautilus
nautilus1601
chambered nautilus1777
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Octopoda > family Argonautidae > member of
nautilus1755
paper sailor1815
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. 250 (heading) Of the Calamarie, Cuttles, Polypes, and Boat-fishes called Nautili.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. 250 Among the greatest wonders of Nature, is that fish, which of some is called Nautilos.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 111 It must needs extravagantly exceed the biggest Nautilus or Porcellane-shell, both in latitude and number of turns.
1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 148 There are no Nautili..comparable in bigness to that Nautilus-stone of twenty eight pound found by Mr. Waller.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 128/1 The fourth Tribe called Nautiluses.
1831 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) X. 130 A fairy cup made out of a Nautilus shell.
1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 294 Ammonites, which are allied to the nautilus of our present seas.
1915 St. Nicholas June 746/2 The argonaut is found in many semi-tropic seas in colder water than its kinsman, the chambered nautilus of many arms.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 48 The enormously larger shells of sea-snails and Nautili.
1986 New Scientist 23 Oct. 40/1 Most individual nautiluses collected are adults.
2. In full paper nautilus. Any of several free-swimming octopods of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has webbed sail-like arms and secretes a thin coiled papery shell to protect the eggs; an argonaut. Also: the false shell of this octopod.The paper nautilus was formerly believed to sail on the surface of the sea by spreading its membranous arms.
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1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 179 Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin Oar, and catch the driving Gale.
1792 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist's Misc. III. pl. 101 The Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus.
1824 W. N. Blane Excurs. through U.S. 7 The nautili, if in danger of being run over, will, as the sailors term it, capsize.
1854 A. Catlow Pop. Conchol. (ed. 2) 28 The curious and beautiful shells of the Argonauta Argo, or Paper Nautilus, are found in the seas of warm latitudes.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad v. 48 The nautilus is nothing but a transparent web of jelly.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 76/1 Thus the ‘paper nautilus’, known to most of us solely as an empty shell sitting on a mantlepiece, is rendered a living thing.
3. A kind of closed diving bell whose buoyancy is altered by means of compressed air. Obsolete.The name had earlier been given to one of the first successful submersible craft, built in France in 1800 by the American engineer Robert Fulton.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel
diving-engine1601
diving-bella1684
submarine boat1713
bellc1715
diving-bladder1753
boat1802
diving-boat1802
bell-vessel1816
submarine1828
nautilus1875
submersible1900
bathysphere1930
bathyscaphe1947
mesoscaphe1955
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1515/1 Nautilus, a European form of diving-bell. It requires no suspension.
4. Usually with capital initial. A proprietary name for: a type of weight training machine in which the user raises and lowers padded bars attached by pulleys to variable weights.
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1974 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 June tm29/2 Nautilus... For manually activated exercise machines for physically exercising parts of the human body... First use Dec. 11, 1972.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Apr. 58/2 A weight room, Nautilus equipment and other facilities do exist.
1986 Strength Athlete June 46/1 Barbells are designed to make it easy to lift a heavy resistance. Nautilus is designed in the opposite manner: to make weight training harder, rather than easier.
1998 K. Lette Altar Ego xviv. 221 By the time we got to the nautilus machines, a shame-faced Darius was stammering out the usual excuses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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