单词 | outshoot |
释义 | outshootn.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [noun] > disemboguing outshoot1493 fall1511 disemboguing1605 disembogue1626 disembogure1653 disemboguement1828 disembocation1846 1493–4 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough of Leicester 30 Sept. (1901) II. 342 Item to the same for the owt shote of the water of the tenement late yn the holdyng of Robert Couper goyng owte throwe the Anteloppe 3d. 1498–9 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 90 For nayll' for the outschote. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxx. 70 It hath great Rivers of fresh waters; for the out-shoot of them colours the Sea in many places. 2. Something that shoots out or projects; a projection or extension. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part hornc1275 outshooting1310 nosec1400 startc1400 spout1412 snouta1425 outbearingc1425 outstanding?c1425 relish1428 jeta1500 rising1525 shoulder1545 jutting1565 outshootc1565 prominence1578 forecast1580 projection1592 sprout1598 eye1600 shooting forth1601 lip1608 juttying1611 prominent?1611 eminence1615 butting1625 excursiona1626 elbow1626 protrusion1646 jettinga1652 outjetting1652 prominency1654 eminency1668 nouch1688 issuanta1690 out-butting1730 outjet1730 out-jutting1730 flange1735 nosing1773 process1775 jut1787 projecture1803 nozzle1804 saliency1831 ajutment1834 salience1837 out-thrust1842 emphasis1885 cleat1887 outjut1893 pseudopodiuma1902 c1565 in R. R. Clarke In Breckland Wilds (1937) xii. 126 [He] leapt into the stream from a beam lying over the owteshoote of the mill. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. i. 35 That wall would haue vpon the inside..Iames or outshoots of stone or bricke. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 11 When the hinder eminence or out-shoote is wanting. 1883 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia (rev. ed.) II. iv. 48 They whirl A-tiptoe one pointed foot, And one horizontal outshoot. 1887 Amer. Missionary (N.Y.) May 129 Churches and schools, with all their multitudinous outshoots of work. 1977 Economist (Nexis) 10 Sept. 9 The forest of which it is an outshoot is much less frightening. 2002 Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, L.A.) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 1 e Smith's troops, meantime, are an outshoot of Gen. William T. Sherman's army. 3. Baseball. = outcurve n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > movement of ball curve1874 outcurve1881 incurve1886 outshoot1887 inshoot1892 pretzel bender1908 fade-away1909 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 5 May 6/3 He has a queer drop and out-shoot on which McQuaid failed to give him strikes. 1903 R. H. Barbour Weatherby's Inning xxiii. 230 Then followed an out-shoot and a drop, neither of which did Joe take to. 1911 W. Patten Bk. Baseball 63/1 The plain horizontal outshoot, by the way, is no more in fashion. 1972 B. Shaw Pitching v. 86 Years ago, terms like ‘drops’, ‘downer’, ‘out-shoot’ were used to describe the curve ball. 4. The action or an act of shooting or thrusting outwards. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > specific part of body > in some direction or purposefully protrusion1646 extension1741 poking1811 outputting1883 outshoot1897 1897 Outing 30 237/2 A smart out-shoot of the hands before commencing the swing forward [in rowing]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). outshootv. 1. Now chiefly literary and poetic. a. intransitive. To shoot outwards, project. Formerly also: †(of a river) to flow out (obsolete); †to shoot with a weapon (obsolete). Now rare. ΚΠ eOE Bounds (Sawyer 298) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 34 Ðonne up on afene oððæt ðe se alda suinhaga utscioteð to afene. OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 18 Be suðan Narbonense is se Wendelsæ, þær þær Rodan seo ea utscyt. c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 310 (MED) Euere as his tonge out schot, hit glowed as a synder clot. a1400 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Egerton) (1927) 1060 (MED) Þan þe king of Grece begynneþ to ryde, And besegeþ Troy in eche syde; Erles and Barouns outshote [v.r. schoten] fast, And mony a gynne outcast. 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 64 Out-shooting..like a meteor-star, Through a vast antre. 1830 E. Atherstone Fall of Nineveh II. viii. 70 Soon a glittering car Outshooting from the hostile ranks was seen. 1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 254 The long single spoke of the beacon..vanished into the full broadside of the yellow eye and, already outshooting, swept on again. b. transitive. To shoot out or project (something). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space to let flyOE shootc1290 bolta1420 dischargec1500 speeda1569 outshoota1586 emit1711 wing1718 wise1721 arrow1796 wing1970 bomb- a1586 King Hart l. 91 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 257 Richt as the rose vpspringis fro the rute..Nor waindis nocht the levis to outschut Ffor schyning of the sone. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 51 They..that are so far out-shot from natures weak bow. a1851 D. M. Moir Evening Tranquillity ii The woods outshoot their shadows dim. 1887 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights III. dlviii. 129 The sheen outshot from them dulled the shine of the sun. 1916 J. W. Riley Compl. Wks. V. 1149 His two little sunburnt legs outshot So straight from the saddle-seat you'd swear A spirit-level had plumbed him there! 1983 P. Riley Tracks & Mineshafts 61 The hollow spaces in our sensibilities, the results of ambition and restlessness, but that we thought we had reserved for finer things, outshot of the earth. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow, sprout, or bear fruit [verb (transitive)] > grow or shoot beyond outshoot1703 1703 tr. H. van Oosten Dutch Gardener v. xi. 277 If a Twig..should out-shoot his Neighbours..you must nip it off. 1772 in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 129 The first he grafted is six years old, and has out-shot his parent 2 feet in heighth. 1857 W. Smith Confession Faith Introd., in Thorndale (ed. 3) 424 The individual mind is progressive, and here and there one outshoots the others. 2. a. transitive. To surpass in shooting; to shoot further or better than. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > shoot better than outshoot1530 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > practise archery [verb (transitive)] > surpass in shooting outshoot1530 overshoota1586 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 650/1 I outshote, je oultretyre. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4 As if they had out shot Robin Hood. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Zz3v I doubt not but learned men with meane experience, woulde..outshoote them in their owne bowe. View more context for this quotation a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) xii. 404 Satan was outshot in his own bow. He plied another engine. 1793 F. Reynolds How to grow Rich v. i. 57 The fact is, the justice wants to outshoot the banker—the banker wants to outrun the justice—And the attorney wants to out-bowl them both! 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xi. 165 ‘You've outshot me, and I'm not ashamed to say it,’ said the wood chopper. 1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands 118 The gunsmiths are running headlong now into the opposite of their old error—when they found that fifteens and fourteens outshot vastly the old small calibres. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 6/3 Again we hear of our guns being outranged and outshot. 1990 TV Extra (Brisbane) 11 Nov. 4/3 Members say the curvy star can outshoot such musclemen as Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Sean Penn. b. transitive. Of an archer, an arrow, etc.: to shoot beyond (a mark or limit). Also in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [verb (transitive)] > other actions or types of play outshoot1545 football1599 pitch1717 make1819 to warm up1868 to draw out1893 bench1898 foot1900 cover1907 cannonball1911 telegraph1913 unsight1923 snap1951 to sit out1955 pike1956 to sit down1956 wrong-foot1960 blindside1968 sit1977 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus To Gentlem. Eng. This thyng maketh them summtyme, to outshoote the marke. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 149 Men are resolv'd never to outshoot their forefathers mark. 1753 E. Young Brothers 25 Shalt thou dare give Encouragement to Perseus? Unfold thy Purpose; I'll outshoot the Mark. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 972/1 When young or unskilful hands commence the game, then ensues confusion worse confounded—stones far outshooting, or sideward leaving the tee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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