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单词 one pound, three pounds weight
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one pound, three pounds weight
a. A portion or quantity weighing a definite amount. Often preceded by an expression indicating the amount: in Old English in the genitive, as anes pundes, þreora punda wiht; now in attributive or appositive form, as one pound, three pounds weight. Often abbreviated wt. weight for weight: (see for prep. 27); also (with hyphens) used attributively.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > amount determined by weighing
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > quantity weighing a definite amount
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > as determined by weighing [phrase] > being of the same weight
weight for weight1964
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 374 Genim..of ælcere þisne wyrte xx penega wiht.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1106 The barres were of gold ful fyne..Full heuy gret and no thyng lyght, In eueriche was a besaunt wight.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. V. 397 Þe monkes..took wiþ hem..a weyȝte of brede for the iorney [L. pondus panis diurni].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21429 If he his mone [Fairf. money] moght not gett,..þat ilk weght þat þar was less, He suld yeild of his aun flexs.
c1430 Chev. Assigne 155 She sente aftur a golde-smyȝte to forge here a cowpe; And..delyuered hym his weyȝtes.
1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 314 For iij pund wecht foure vnce..of gold.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 41 Youle aske me why I rather choose to haue a weight of carrion flesh, then to receaue three thousand ducats. View more context for this quotation
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §99 How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high as one pound falleth.
a1672 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Art of Metals (1674) i. 12 Lemnian-Earth..is esteemed as rich as Gold, and sold so weight for weight.
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 164 Mix the Pulp and Meat together, and take the weight and half of Sugar.
1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 55 The grass..produced from the water-meadows, is chiefly inferior to that (weight for weight) which grows..upon unwatered ground.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 150 Close-planting, pruning, and other means are employed to obtain what is considered the greatest possible ‘weight of wood’.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. v. 26 About 112 lbs. weight of biscuits are put into the oven at once.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 236 The quantities of heat contained in equal weights of water and air at the same temperature.
1964 W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism vi. 71 In the perfused cat hind limb it is as active as acetyl~choline on a weight-for-weight basis.
1968 Times 3 Dec. 10/8 Female rats were given daily doses reckoned to be about eight times as powerful on a weight-for-weight basis as those taken by the tribeswomen.
1974 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Jan. 107/2 Special care needs to be taken over the use of Lanoxin brand [of digitalis], which is now twice as potent on a weight-for-weight basis as formerly.
figurative.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. iv. 17 [The] liȝt thing of oure tribulacioun worchith..the euerelasting weiȝte of glorie in vs.a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. v. 88 Is she with Posthumus? From whose so many waights of basenesse, cannot A dram of worth be drawne. View more context for this quotation1706 M. Prior Ode to Queen x Impartial Justice holds Her equal Scales; 'Till stronger Virtue does the Weight incline.1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 240 One, upon whose hand and heart and brain Once the weight and fate of Europe hung.in extended use.1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ II. 493 [In the New Organ] there are several reservoirs producing different weights of wind.
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