单词 | nautilus |
释义 | nautilusn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1601 |
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