单词 | notched |
释义 | notchedadj. 1. a. Marked with or having a notch or notches; nicked, incised, indented. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] > having notches nicked?1523 natched1578 notched1586 chappy1611 hackled1611 choppya1616 notchy1843 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 179 These bendes..are notched or nicked which thing the French worde Crenelle doth very aptlye signifie. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4v He lookes like a May-pole, or a notched stick. 1683 J. Crowne City Politiques v. 70 Because a Knight's notch'd in the Crown, and the Doctor's a little crack'd there. 1712 S. Cobb Mouse-trap 15 High on the Surface of the Fabric stands A Pole, on whose notch'd Head a Beam expands Its wooden Arms. a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) 12 The thin razors, which young learners please, Grow notch'd, and edgeless. 1774 S. Johnson Diary Journey N. Wales 3 Aug. (1964) V. 441 At an iron work I saw round bars formed by a notched hammer and anvil. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 112 The oak-tree, gnarl'd and notch'd, Lifts its..furrow'd side. 1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 163 To describe an Ellipse by Means of..a piece of notched Lath. 1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxiii. 57 The notched door of the portcullis was open. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. i. 22 Patterns..notched charts which followed the changing stature and figures of the Misses St. Peter from early childhood to womanhood. 1947 E. A. Yunker et al. in H. J. Reich Very High-frequency Techniques II. xxiv. 592 A notched coaxial cable is a cheap and easily made substitute for a slotted line. 1987 A. Miller Timebends i. 47 Boys left home with a notched stick from which hung a napkin. b. Botany. Of a leaf or petal: having indentations along the edge. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > jagged, notched, or sharp-edged purfled?a1500 jagged?1523 snipped1578 cultellated1657 notched1682 crenated1688 emarginated1731 runcinated1773 runcinate1776 ancipital1785 ancipitous1859 ancipitate1879 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. App. 176 The Belly'd..[flowers] are also Even Edged, as in Convolvulus; or Notched, as in Trachelium. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 310 The leaves of this tree are..notched about the edges. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 200 Petals..heart-shaped, bent inwards, and notched at the end. 1824 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (1828) II. 345 Petals 5, flat, spreading, notched. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand vii. 82/2 The huge sharp green notched aloe-leaves and fern shoving here and there out of it [sc. the water]. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 51 Petals notched, and with a notched scale. 1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) 30 Fucus serratus, the ‘Notched wrack’ which..has toothed serrations along the edge of the fronds. 1959 New Phytologist 58 299 A typical mature lamina of Lyriodendron..has two upper lobes extending beyond the truncate and notched apex of the midrib. 1991 Shepherd's Garden Seeds Catal. 31/2 Oakleaf lettuce's notched light green leaves look like their namesake in shape. c. Zoology. Of a body part: having notches or indentations. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > having notches notched1704 1704 Nat. Hist. iii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 200 The Horned-Hog. A small flat Fish, with a Horn on his Head, notcht on one side only. 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 1/2 Echinus planus,..Double notch'd Sea Pan-cake. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 359 The two great claws..are usually notched, like a saw. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 26/1 Ears..a little notched on their external border. 1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 330 Pectoral fins not notched at their origin. 1918 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Sacred Beetle & Others i. 7 The clypeus, or shield, that is, the edge of the broad, flat head, is notched with six angular teeth arranged in a semicircle. 1959 Amer. Midland Naturalist 61 9 At the proximal end the belly is notched to accommodate the tendon of insertion of the Il. troc. ant. 1991 Birder's World Oct. 30/2 The slightly notched primaries of the male produce a distinctive trill as the bird flies, similar to the buzz of a cicada. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > cut or shaved nottOE shavenc1330 rounded?a1439 clipped1483 poll-shorn1556 notched1597 nott-pated1598 well-shaved1600 shaveling1607 nott-headed1612 cropped-eared1641 round-headed1641 polled1653 crop-eared1680 lop-eared1798 shaved1837 crop-headed1842 county-cropped1849 cropped1856 colled1877 crop-haired1879 prison-cropped1882 bob-haired1923 bobbed-haired1928 bobbed-hair1953 slap-headed1994 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. vii. 66 All Brittish bare vpon the bristled skin, Close noched is his beard both lip and chin. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bertaudé, curtalled; also, notched, or cut vneuenly. c1648 W. Davenant Vacation in London in Wks. (1673) 289 For Prentice notch'd he strait does call. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar Prol. 21 sig. Aivv Ev'n as notcht Prentices whole Sermons write. a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1715) I. 150 And freely pay my Taxes without grudging. No more notch'd Levi's holy Buckram hear. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 365/1 A votary of the desk—a notched and cropt scrivener. Compounds notched-bar test n. Engineering any of several impact tests (such as the Izod or the Charpy test) which measure the energy absorbed in breaking a notched bar of metal or similar material with a single blow. ΚΠ 1918 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers 12 250 Untreated bright drawn mild steel bar..usually gives a low result on the notched bar test. 1985 L. C. Love Princ. Metall. ii. 44 A standard value of toughness is measured by the notched-bar impact test in units of foot-pounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type of blude-black1647 music-stamper1713 red bat1775 Geoffroy's bat1829 reddish-grey bat1837 notch-eared bat1840 pachyote1865 notched-eared bat1871 valve-tailed bat1871 Negro-bat1885 1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 307 The Notched-eared Bat (Vespertilio emarginatus), found in Central and Southern Europe, and extending eastward into Persia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1586 |
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