单词 | offshoot |
释义 | offshootn.ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of intangible things or particles from an object > that which streamc1374 expiration1576 project1596 deflux1603 defluxion1603 effluence1603 resultation1603 resultance1611 resultancy1613 effluxion1625 effluency1646 emanation1646 efflux1647 issue1659 emission1664 offshoot1674 elapsea1677 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 28 The body is..reeking out whole steams of little unseen off-shoots. 2. a. A collateral branch of or descendant from a particular family, race, or people. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collateral descendant offshoot1710 offset1711 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch > collateral branch by-channel1628 offshoot1710 offset1711 lateral branch1869 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋10 [She] finds her self related, by some Off-shoot or other, to almost every great Family in England. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. ix. 188 An offshoot of the great house which had already given Dukes to Florence. 1896 F. Brinkley Japanese-Eng. Dict. 1555/1 Although the offshoots from these noble families took various names.., yet these were not, strictly speaking, the family names or uji in the now-accepted sense. 1907 P. R. T. Gurdon Khasis 11 We can..suppose that the Khasis are an offshoot of the Mon people of Further India. 1946 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 53/2 The later Seminole, who were primarily an offshoot of the Creeks and Hitchiti, were also a Muskhogean people. 1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples II. v. v. 182 A hitherto little-noticed Member for Cambridge, Oliver Cromwell, rather rough in his manners, but an offshoot of Thomas Cromwell's line. 1988 N. Lowndes Chekago v. 189 Long ago he had come to hate every sprig and offshoot of Len's appalling family tree. b. Something which originated or developed from something else. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else daughtereOE outcasting1340 impc1380 childa1398 outgrowing?a1425 proventc1451 provenuec1487 excrescency1545 sprig1575 procedure?1577 proceed1578 derivative1593 offspring1596 superfetation1603 excression1610 shootc1610 excretion1615 slip1627 excrescence1633 derivation1641 derivate1660 offshoot1801 offtracta1806 deduction1835 outgrowth1837 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vi. 222 Off-shoots from the Saturnalian disfigurement. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ix. 139 A large school in the town, which has offshoots in the surrounding villages. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 9 The much older settlement of which it may have been an offshoot. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 318/1 Nor is it possible to regard the..Fulah, and many other Soudanese tongues as fragments or offshoots of Bantu. 1948 K. Davis Human Society xx. 576 Chiropractic and naturopathy, offshoots of osteopathy. 1968 R. Gittings John Keats (1971) I. v. 111 These sonnets..were, however, only offshoots of a long personal poem. 2002 Independent 21 June i. 5/4 His Luton-based budget airline, which has spawned offshoots involving car rentals and online shopping. 3. a. A side shoot or branch springing from the trunk or other part of a plant; a lateral shoot. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > sucker or side-shoot scourgea1382 by-sprouting1562 sucker1577 lateral1578 offset1642 spiney1649 side shoot1658 appendix1664 by-shoot1669 water sprout1688 turion1725 tiller1733 surculus1775 suckler1796 suckling1798 offshoot1814 stool1818 base shoot1835 side-tiller1903 toe1952 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > offshoot scionc1384 explantation?a1425 sprig1575 offset1642 ramification1755 off-branch1793 offshoot1814 1814 J. Murray in S. Smiles Publisher & his Friends (1891) I. xi. 254 Stunted offshoots of felled trees. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 23 The rosette-like off-shoots of House-leeks. 1929 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. vi. 113 Dormancy is not confined to seeds, however, but is also characteristic of many offshoots such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, etc. 1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 390 The cactus grows some offshoots. 2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 126 Papaya..grows rapidly and spawns offshoots readily in any garden. b. A lateral branch projecting from the main part of a material thing, as a nerve trunk, road, mountain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > ramification > a branching part sprig1634 offshoot1851 offset1853 outbranching1855 offsetting1857 1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 230 The vesicular matter of the retina is an offshoot (so to speak) from that of the optic ganglion. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 242 Lonscale Fell is the most eastern offshoot of Skiddaw. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill vi. 193 Adam bore to the left, along a tramroad up an offshoot of the gill. 1999 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 11 Jan. 10 A lush, shaded walkway..along an offshoot of the San Antonio River. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1674 |
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