单词 | paragraphing |
释义 | paragraphingn. 1. The action or occupation of writing newspaper paragraphs (paragraph n. 1c). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > [noun] > writing paragraphs paragraphing1806 paragraphism1846 paragraphy1858 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. iii. 71 Many powerful rivals have started in the art of paragraphing, and the mystery itself has considerably sunk in its credit. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxi. 212 Instead of caucusing, paragraphing..promising, and lying, as with us. 1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds II. 230 About whom every one in the paragraphing line wrote paragraphs. 1908 Daily Chron. 10 Jan. 4/7 The time is ripe—as he writes himself in his callow paragraphing days—for the pressman to reap a little of the benefits of the better times which are coming to Australia. 2. The arrangement or division of a text into paragraphs; (also) the division of a musical composition into sections. Cf. paragraph n. 1d. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > distinct passage of closely connected sentences > divisions into paragraphs paragraphing1848 1848 Amer. Rev. July 110/1 Possibly this overmuch paragraphing was invented by the printers. 1881 Athenæum 23 Apr. 562/1 The arrangement is different and the paragraphing is altered, but otherwise the matter is to a large extent a reprint. 1899 F. C. Conybeare in Amer. Jrnl. Theol. Oct. 705 I have..reproduced the punctuation and paragraphing of the MS. 1938 Amer. Lit. 10 226 It presents the same material in nine paragraphs fewer than the Todd manuscript has; eight of these changes involve faulty paragraphing. 1974 Gramophone Nov. 890/1 It is a performance so utterly coherent—so big in its paragraphing..—that it is irresistible. 1992 N. Postman Technopoly iv. 62 Pagination led inevitably to more accurate indexing..which..was accompanied by innovations in..paragraphing, title-paging, and running heads. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1806 |
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