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单词 no-cover
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no-cover
b. Forming nouns with the sense ‘that is absent’, ‘that does not exist’, as no-confidence, no-cover, etc.In quot. 1948 the sense is adverbial: ‘without the use of the hands’.
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1613 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (rev. ed.) ii. xii. 247 To make them feele the emptinesse, vacuitie, and no worth of man.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. ix. 344 Under the paine of a no-remission.
1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice Pref. sig. c6 Subjects would discover..the no-necessity of those reasons produced for their separation.
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 204 Walking in the middle Temple..to get them a Stomach to their No-dinners.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 214 Dobchick or Notail.
1835 Court Mag. 6 9/2 His cab is the perfection of ‘quiet’ no-pretence.
1896 W. St. C. Boscawen Bible & Monuments 166 The land of No-Return, the region of darkness.
1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 253 A vote of no-confidence was carried in the Lower Chamber.
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. xviii. 92 Ralph showed off, riding no-hands and skidding in the loose metal.
1956 J. G. Porter in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 142 Adaptable as he [sc. man] is, can he exist for any length of time under conditions of no-gravity?
1957 L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 158 The four years of the legislature's statutory life (which is, of course, always liable to be shortened by a vote of no-confidence).
1960 Times 5 July 18/2 Edwards has had 10 contests and won nine of them, featuring rather unluckily in a no-contest (or double disqualification).
1977 Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 29/5 When there are three draws (score or no-score) in your ten selections.
1986 Teacher 26 May 8/2 Immediate no cover in secondary schools and emergency only cover in primary schools is continuing in Nottinghamshire.
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