单词 | of communication |
释义 | > as lemmasof communication b. of communication: (as a postmodifier) affording access or connection.Earliest in line of communication (see line n.2 26a); in later use esp. with reference to access between parts of a building, as door of communication, etc. ΚΠ 1637 H. Hexham True & Briefe Relation Famous Seige of Breda 15 This night also the line of Communication, was begun betweene the French and the English. 1676 W. Carr Partic. Acct. Siege Mastricht 10 He went round the whole Bastion, but could not find any door of Communication from the Town. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (ed. 3) 62 The Canal of Communication, which goes between the Pulmonick Artery and the lower or descending Branch of the Aorta. 1770–4 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1803) I. 294 The pipe of communication between the seminal and coronal roots. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1047 Traverse, a gallery or loft of communication in a church or other large building. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. viii. 157 I..walked off to the kitchen..leaving the door of communication open. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) 145 The muscular fibres are so disposed as to form a sort of sphincter around the aperture of communication. 1902 Times 30 Aug. 2/6 In the house previously occupied by me there had been a door of communication into the third house occupied by the other tenant. 1964 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 7) II. 280 There is thus formed a temporary passage of communication between the medullary canal and the archenteron. 2004 H. Evans tr. J. Cepl Hans Kollhoff 342/3 The glazed corridor of communication faces onto this hortus conclusus on one side. < as lemmas |
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