单词 | new york |
释义 | New Yorkn. Only in attributive use. 1. a. Designating things originating in, characteristic of, or associated with the city or (less frequently) state of New York. New York dressed: (of poultry) sold by weight without having the entrails, head, or feet removed. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in U.S.A. > New York New York1711 west side1834 New Yorkish1838 Manhattanese1842 New Yorky1874 1711 Boston News-let. 22 Oct. 2/2 160 Barrels of New-York Flower, & 25 Mill Bread, to be seen at Mr. Lillies Ware-house. 1714 S. Sewall Diary 14 Apr. (1973) II. 755 I had my New York Biscuit to eat. 1775 J. Hancock Let. 30 June in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) 15 We..do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant Colonel of the fourth Regiment of the New York Forces. 1817 J. Preston Every Man his own Teacher 90 Federal Value of Silver. One eighth of a Dollar, or New-York Shilling = Cents. 12.5. 1862 Amer. Ann. Cycl. 1861 307/2 The highest, lowest, and average quotations..at the New York Stock Exchange for the stocks most largely dealt in. 1892 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 386/1 A fellow-pupil dictated to him Latin and Greek, and he printed the text in New York point. 1955 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) xii. 275 New York jazz, even at its best, was inept. 1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 4/7 The poultry industry..called in a slim blonde to wheel to the platform a 30-lb New York dressed turkey—New York dressed being a dying species. 1992 Metro (San Jose, Calif.) 7 May 62/2 The menu boasts flavorful New York steaks, pork chops, marinated chicken and superior barbecued ribs. b. New York minute n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) a very short period of time; a moment, an instant. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 1870 Leavenworth (Kansas) Bull. 12 July 4/3 Drivers and pleasure seekers try to fly from one end of town to the other in about a New York minute. 1954 Galveston (Texas) News 15 Aug. 22/5 Betty Jean Bird of the Pirate Club has what she claims the smallest French poodle in the nation... It's no bigger than a New York minute and that's only thirty seconds. 1974 M. Ivins in Washington Post 20 Jan. c3/3 He'd vote the CRC version in a New York minute if he can just get initiative, referendum and recall added. 2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon xxxiv. 515 He'd tell Director Murray, and Murray would tell President Ryan in half a New York minute. 2. spec. in the names of animals and plants. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > family Vespertilionidae > miscellaneous types of New York bat1771 pipistrelle1771 serotine bat1771 barbastelle1791 nyctophilet1840 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 367 New York Bat with a head shaped like that of a mouse. 1842 Nat. Hist. N.Y., Zool. i. 6 The New-York Bat..is the most common species in our state. 1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 523 Red, or New York Bat, Atalapha borealis (Müller), ‘Der Neu-jorker’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > member of New York shiner1814 acanthopterygian1835 actinopterygian1897 ray-fin1945 1814 S. L. Mitchill Rep. Fishes N.-Y. 459 New York Shiner... Lives in the ponds. 1847 J. H. Mather Geogr. State of N.Y. 45 Family 2. Cyprinidæ... New York shiner. 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 477 Stilbe, includes the New York Shiner, S. chrysoleucas. 1874 Amer. Naturalist 8 328 DeKay has described as two generically distinct fishes, under the names of ‘Variegated Bream’.., and ‘New York Shiner’, the cyprinoid designated above as Stilbe Americana. c. New York fern n. (also New York shield fern) an evergreen fern of eastern North America, Thelypteris noveboracensis (family Thelypteridaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 1843 J. Torrey Flora State N.Y. II. 497 Aspidium Noveboracense... New-York Shield-fern. Moist woods and thickets. 1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 316 Dryopteris noveboracensis... New York Shield Fern... Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. 1956 B. Cobb Field Guide to Ferns 50 The Marsh Ferns, the Massachusetts Ferns, and the New York Fern have upright, narrow, oblong leaves. 1990 Ecology 71 208/1 Goldenrod (Solidago spp.), New York ferns (Thelypteris novaeboracensis [sic]) and asters were the major herbs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1711 |
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