单词 | necked |
释义 | neckedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [adjective] > types of neck > having neckeda1398 bull necked?a1400 well-necked?1548 thick-necked1591 lean-necked1608 swan-necked1703 crane-necked1822 pencil-neck1868 no-neck1955 pencil-necked1956 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 294 Onocentaurus..is a beste leccherous as an asse and strong nekked and nolled as a bole. a1425 in W. H. Hulme Middle-Eng. Harrowing of Hell (1907) p. xxv (MED) Heded as an ox; Tayled as fox; Comly as a kyng; Nekkyd as a dukyng. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fivv A Grehounde shulde be heded like a Snake, and necked like a Drake. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 519 She was nothynge plesant; Necked lyke an olyfant. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xviii. 205 The one is called of the Æthyopians, the Nabis, necked like an horse. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 51 A model of grace and symmetry, necked and crested like an Arabian. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad li. 547 ‘Arabian mares’ spined and necked like the ichthyosaurus in the museum, and humped and cornered like a dromedary! 2. With prefixed adjective forming established compounds, as long-, narrow-, short-, stiff-necked, etc.: see the first element. (Now the usual use.) 3. That has a neck (in various senses). Now chiefly Archaeology: designating an item of pottery distinguished by having a neck. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > like neck of bottle necked1545 bottlenecked1828 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [adjective] yswerreda1400 halsedc1540 cragged1607 cervical1681 necked1841 1545 Rates Custome House sig. Aviij Cappes double tarfed & necked and all other of frenche makyng. 1841 E. Newman Familiar Introd. Hist. Insects iv. v. 260 Necked capricorn-beetles, or Lepturites. 1864 P. H. Gosse in Good Words Dec. 891/2 Necked Barnacles, so long believed..to be legitimately descended from..a certain species of goose. 1923 Man 23 7 Common to the two groups are the conical dishes with moulded profiles..and necked jars. 1955 Archaeol. News Let. 6 15 Professor Piggott proposed the replacement of the alphabetical classification by descriptive terms... Classes A and C should be known as ‘necked beakers’. 1979 Antiquaries Jrnl. 59 260 Necked bowl with cordon above carination in grey ware with dark grey surface. 2000 Oxoniensia 64 185 At Slade Farm..necked or shouldered jars occurred in grog-tempered fabrics. 4. Caught by the neck. rare. ΚΠ 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. viii. 153 ‘No more necked calves,’ they announced. 5. Engineering. Reduced in width as a result of having been subjected to tension. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > breadth or width > lack of breadth or narrowness > [adjective] > narrowed > at one point pinched1514 necked1959 1959 C. E. Birchenall Physical Metall. vi. 136 Af is the cross-sectional area in the necked region. 1964 R. E. Reed-Hill Physical Metall. Princ. xviii. 555 Fracture begins at the center of the necked region on a plane that is macroscopically normal to the applied tensile-stress axis. 1972 Sci. Amer. Dec. 54/3 The Taslan process feeds a filament into a rapidly moving airstream at the necked region of a nozzle. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) ii. 37 Another indication of ductility is the percent reduction in area that occurs in the necked region of the specimen. Compounds necked-down adj. narrowing at or into a neck. ΚΠ 1944 Science 21 Apr. 328/2 With continued stretching, the necked-down, oriented section grew at the expense of the larger unoriented sections. 1992 Chicago Tribune 6 Aug. c6 He encountered a flat in a necked-down area where the water was 8 degrees warmer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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