| 单词 | off-drain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoff-drain (a) With other nouns, chiefly with the sense ‘lying or leading off from the main trunk, body, or area’, as in off-branch, off-corner, off-drain, off flow, off-spur, off-stream, off-street. Cf. off adv. 3. See also off-gas n., off-ramp n. Also with the sense ‘at a remove, at a distance, peripheral, subsidiary, partial, etc.’: see offbeat n., off-brand n., off-chance n., off-island n., off-rhyme n., off-verse n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > set apart or out of the way anglea1325 nooka1425 retreatc1500 odd corner1576 recess1611 off-corner1793 cubby1868 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] > side-stream or backwater wash1530 by-river1577 by-stream1615 float1629 slew1708 by-rilla1711 marigot1759 off-stream1793 slougha1817 spreader1845 backwater1863 by-water1863 by-channel1864 billabong1865 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > offshoot scionc1384 explantation?a1425 sprig1575 offset1642 ramification1755 off-branch1793 offshoot1814 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > side or cross side street1617 by-street1684 return1756 off-street1793 cross-street1827 rat-run1966 1793 W. Chapman (title) Report..on the means of working Woodford River,..as an off-branch from the Lough-Erne and Ballyshannon Navigation. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 23/2 The many off-streets and alleys which may be called the tributaries to those great second-hand marts. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 67 Crooked off-spurs of flat land. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 224 An off-stream from the river Styx. 1884 Kendal Mercury 8 Feb. 4/7 These smaller off-drains should be flushed into the main street drain. 1890 Antiquary 22 9 In an off-room is exhibited the Hermaphrodite statue. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 7/2 A very significant announcement is hid away in an off-corner of the Daily Telegraph. 1902 W. G. Hogarth Nearer East 79 The Fayum receives an off-flow of the Nile. 1937 Z. N. Hurston Their Eyes were watching God xvii. 224 He..squinched down into a chair in an off corner and din't open his mouth. 1945 R. M. Lockley Islands round Brit. 46 The off-islets of the Blaskets have their special charm. < as lemmas |
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