单词 | neutrally |
释义 | neutrallyadv. In a neutral manner or sense. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [adverb] neutrally1571 averagely1832 mediocrely1982 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > indefinitely indefinitely1471 indeterminably1471 infinitely1530 grossly1537 indeterminately1571 neutrally1571 undeterminately1571 indefinitively1622 vaguely1781 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [adverb] > neutrally neutrally1571 indifferentlya1616 non-committally1861 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adverb] > intransitively neutrally1571 intransitivelya1638 neuterly1774 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xx. 7) It is no new thing among the Hebrewes for woordes to be put newtrally which properly are transitive. 1585–6 Earl of Leicester Corr. (1844) 141 Some other places, also, that lyved newtraly before. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 243 Not much condemning, neither absolutely qualifying them, but shall (as it were) neutrally nominate..those places. 1672 Kirkcaldy Burgh Rec. 10 June That the debaitable marche..shall be submittit to four men newtraillie to be chosen. 1837 T. Arnold Let. in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold (1844) II. viii. 96 It was then impossible to give even physical instruction neutrally. 1884 Manch. Examiner 24 Nov. 4/6 What may be conveniently, because neutrally, described as a ‘transaction’. 1923 Mind 32 334 Two human beings cannot meet neutrally: there is always a socially-begotten tension. 1967 A. S. Byatt Game 32 Cassandra surveyed this child, whom she did not expect to like, neutrally. 1992 N.Y. Mag. 3 Feb. 50/2 There's a mid-nineteenth-century sile flat-weave..with a bold design of patterned birds within red and blue bands, and a more neutrally toned Senneh rug. Compounds neutrally buoyant adj. having the property of remaining at a certain depth within a liquid without rising or sinking, because of having the same density as the fluid. ΚΠ 1957 J. C. Swallow in Deep-sea Res. 4 93 Some improvements have been made in the method of tracking the floats, and in determining the depths at which they become neutrally buoyant. 1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 102/3 The neutrally buoyant ring at the base of the FPV can be made releasable from both the inclined section of the tubing bundles above it and from the FPV. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes v. 63/1 If a fish is neutrally buoyant at a given depth and descends in the water column, the increase in ambient pressure will decrease the volume of the gas bladder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1571 |
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