单词 | overdeck |
释义 | overdeckadj. Designating or relating to something situated over a deck or on a deck over something else. ΚΠ 1883 R. F. Walsh Irish Fisheries 16 Superior speed, extensive over-deck room, and the removal of the engines and boilers. 1964 Times 28 Jan. 6/6 Over-deck plan for Victoria. An ‘all-change’ area for rail, coach, and air travellers on a deck to be built over Victoria station..is suggested by the town planning committee of Westminster City Council. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 1 Mar. 2 A brief that said that the housing should be a heavy pre-cast concrete system, and include overdeck dwellings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overdeckv.ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] beteec893 wryOE heelOE hilla1240 forhilla1300 covera1400 curea1400 covertc1420 paviliona1509 overdeck1509 heild?a1513 deck?1521 overhale1568 line1572 skin1618 operculate1623 endue1644 theek1667 to do over1700 sheugh1755 occlude1879 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxixv If that he hir suspect With a hode shall he unwars be ouerdect. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 114/2 He causeth the sayede Image to be overdeckede with an Oxehyde. 2. transitive (chiefly in passive). To deck or adorn (a person or thing) to excess. Chiefly with with. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn excessively overdeck1712 overlard1819 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 282. ⁋6 Out Clerk..has this Christmas so over-deckt the Church with Greens, that he has quite spoilt my Prospect. 1718 E. Settle Lady's Triumph iv. 48 I have not had the Happiness to be so well Acquainted with that Face, till I now see it All over deck'd with those fair Marks of Honour. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 633 Their heads and necks are overdecked with jewels, feathers, and flowers. 1998 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 19 Dec. 32 Cloaked in black and thankfully not overdecked in chains, Megquier's Marley is a messenger of Dickens' lengthy and important narration. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > froth or scum barmc1000 yeastc1000 overdecking1605 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iii. 61 The ouerdecking or couering of beer came to bee called berham & afterward barme. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Barm Yest, the flourring, or over-decking of Beer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1883v.1509 |
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