单词 | banked |
释义 | bankedadj.1 1. Surrounded by or featuring banks of earth, stone, etc.; (also) raised up on or forming a bank. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [adjective] > having banks bankeda1400 a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 663 (MED) Brode walles..with holwe diches vnder, Heye bonked aboue. ?c1525 (a1503) Receyt Ladie Kateryne (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) iv. 71 Within this rehersid gates there is a faire large and brode courte, curraunt, arraisid, and bankyd in the myddys for the rayne flough. 1629 H. C. Disc. Drayning Fennes sig. Cv Water could be taken into those banked draynes before it fall into the leuell of the Fennes. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver ii. 15 One Acre plaine or bancked. 1773 A. Jones Art of playing at Skittles 55 Some play at this game with banked ground, like our common skittle grounds. 1791 Ann. Agric. 15 90 The fine watered and banked meadows in this country, are no longer held in the estimation they were. 1835 C. Herbert Italy & Ital. Lit. ix. 101 One of the late Popes was obliged to construct a banked canal, half a mile in length, as a means of communication with the sea. 1837 Universalist & Ladies Repository Sept. 133/2 These beds are made somewhat lower than the banked up channel of water. 1881 E. Coxon Basil Plant II. 24 The banked hedge skirting the field. 1905 S. R. Crockett Maid Margaret of Galloway vii. 61 He showed me how to direct a little stream along a banked-up canal so that it would run freely. 1922 Cornhill Mag. July 81 The by-road dipped a little between hedges to an overhead arch where the banked railway crossed it. 2003 S. Hazzard Great Fire x. 141 Before reaching the sea, the Pearl River would pass through a banked channel. 2. a. Of earth, snow, etc.: formed into a mound; heaped, piled up. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > accumulated > heaping > heaped or piled upheapedc1380 heapedc1440 coppeda1552 piled1595 balked1598 up-piled1600 coacervate1626 castellated1780 piled-up1791 castellate1830 banked1838 coacervated1841 pyramided1866 1838 A. W. C. Lindsay Lett. on Egypt, Edom & Holy Land vi. 205 Fields of the richest verdure, irrigated by innumerable little canals, about a foot wide, of banked earth. 1895 Punch 2 Mar. 100/2 Then the banked snow shall be your pall. 1903 Nature 29 Jan. 305/2 The banked-up sand..is pouring down on the trees growing in the swampy ground. 1960 Observer 11 Dec. 38/5 Lean the trees spread against the banked earth. 2007 C. Tóibín Mothers & Sons 246 The only dread was having to turn back eventually, finding the limits which the banked-up snow had created. b. Of a fire: covered with tightly packed fuel so as to burn slowly. Frequently with up. ΚΠ 1859 B. F. Isherwood Engin. Precedents Steam Machinery II. 8 A small banked fire..was generally kept during the night. 1898 ‘M. Gray’ House Hidden Treasure ii. v. 255 She heard no sound, but the tinkle of cinders from the banked-up fire. 1917 Power 9 Oct. 495/1 When a banked fire is to be carried for a long period, replenish the fuel bed from time to time as required. 1949 F. Towers Tea with Mr. Rochester 136 Florence put on the light and poked the banked-up fire. 2003 C. Phillips Distant Shore (2004) 25 We sat together in silence, a banked fire glowing red in the grate. 3. Of clouds, mist, etc.: forming a large or dense mass, esp. one seen from a distance. Also with up. ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 298 Cirro-stratus..in heavy banked clouds in the horizon before and after sunset. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice lvii. 327 Banked-up..clouds. 1919 Harper's Mag. Apr. 702/1 She was alone with the menace of the dying day and the sinister calm of the banked clouds. 1983 B. Arnold Running to Paradise vii. 115 The leaves of the willow trees, narrow and flexible, turned their silvery undersides against the banked grey cloud. 2008 I. M. Banks Matter xiii. 233 Shaled continents of banked and broiling mists disappearing to the horizon. 4. Of a road, sports track, etc.: sloping upward towards the outer edge of a bend, to enable vehicles or persons to maintain speed as they go round it. Also: designating a bend of this type. ΚΠ 1896 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 24 Jan. 520/2 A few days ago, while watching some bicycle races on rather a small banked track, I was struck by the great inclination the cycles made. 1899 F. G. Aflalo Cost of Sport v. 332 A banked grass track should similarly cost from £800 to £1000 for a 4-lap track. 1926 Scotsman 2 Nov. 4/3 A ‘straight’ of over a mile in length..will be followed by a slightly banked bend. 1990 A. D. Foster Cyber Way (1993) 16 There was also a paved, lightly banked road for the use of those who might want to bicycle or powerskate. 2004 Daily Tel. 21 Sept. 15/1 Teams of feisty, scantily dressed young women on roller skates hurtle around a specially constructed banked track in an arena. 5. Of a motor vehicle or (more commonly) an aeroplane: tilted sideways, typically in the course of turning; (of a turn or manoeuvre) involving such a tilt. Cf. bank n.1 8, bank v.1 13. ΚΠ 1908 Auto 17 Oct. 1354/1 A motor car tilting up the road in front of it so that it is always ‘banked’ to just the correct angle to suit the speed at which a curve is taken. 1937 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 21 June 5/6 The pilot was apparently attempting to land when one of the wings fluttered away during a banked turn. 1956 Flying Jan. 42/1 Since the airplane is banked, the nose will actually rotate to the right and down. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 June a1 A horizon is a small instrument that tells whether a plane is going up or down and whether its wings are level or banked. 2011 N. H. McClamroch Steady Aircraft Flight & Performance x. 280 Consider the propeller-driven general aviation aircraft in a steady, banked turn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bankedadj.2ΚΠ 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvj Ritche in banqued goulde [L. positis in fenore nummis]. 2. Of money, valuables, etc.: deposited in a bank. ΚΠ 1865 London Miner & Workman Advocate 22 Apr. 7/3 He well knows if that banked money were laid out on the farm he would..be a great gainer. 1876 J. M. Saxby Daala-mist 286 Bartle had no live stock or banked money. 1917 McMaster's Commerc. Cases for Banker, Treasurer & Credit Man 20 16 Nearly a third of the world's stock of banked gold is congested in the United States. 1954 A. Ginsberg Let. 10 July (2008) 97 That's a good idea about investing small sums in plays... Anyway that's a good way to circulate some of the banked money. 1992 Financial Times 17 Sept. 28/2 The interest charge was £275,000; last time there was a credit of £385,000 because of the banked proceeds of the rights before the Egerton buy. 2014 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Feb. 1 That banked money is used to pay his $500 rent each time his private company uses the arena for an event. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1a1400adj.21567 |
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