| 单词 | on the bias |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the bias a. A slanting or sloping line, a diagonal; spec. a (notional) line running diagonally or at an angle to the warp or weft of a woven fabric; (also) an edge, cut, seam, etc., of a fabric following such a line. Now chiefly in on the bias (formerly also in bias, in the bias): (with reference to woven fabric) diagonally or at an angle to the warp or weft.Fabric stretches most along the true bias (true bias n.), which runs at 45 degrees to the warp and weft. A bias at any other angle may be distinguished as a garment bias or dressmaker's bias. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > that which inclines > a line bias1530 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [noun] > diagonal bias1530 diagonal1571 diagon1656 diagonial1668 diagony1690 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [adverb] > cut on the bias bias1811 on the cross1872 on the bias1880 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. xx Byas of an hose, bias. c1570 Ld. Sempill 3 Taverners ix Now gif ye..shape it precyslie, The ellwand wald be grit & lang, Gif the byess be wyde, gar lay it on side. 1697 tr. R. Descartes Use Geom. Playing Cards 4 An Oblique Line, which is neither Horizontal, nor a Plumb-line, but of a Bias, as F G. 1715 J. Hawkins Cocker's Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) at Ellipsis A crooked line in the bias. 1819 La Belle Assemblée Aug. 85/2 Another ball dress..is trimmed with full puckered net..confined by stripes, in bias, of light blue satin. 1873 Little Rock (Arkansas) Republican 22 Oct. The waist proposed here..gathers into a belt five or six inches wide, with gores (or darts or biases) to fit the figure. 1880 Melbourne Bull. 29 Oct. 5/1 The clothing..may not be cut on the bias. 1973 L. Olsheim Compl. Bk. Handicrafts 56/2 The strips may be cut on the straight grain or bias of the fabric. 2000 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 21 May a7/4 U.S. [route] 56..that cuts a bias across Kansas from Mission Hills to Elkhart. 2007 Vanity Fair Apr. 194/1 Hems were hand-rolled and hand-piped, edges picoted, cuffs cut on the bias. < as lemmas |
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