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单词 palindrome
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palindromen.adj.

Brit. /ˈpalᵻndrəʊm/, U.S. /ˈpælənˌdroʊm/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek παλίνδρομος.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek παλίνδρομος running back again < ancient Greek πάλιν back (see palinodia n.) + -δρομος running (see -drome comb. form).
A. n.
1. A word or a sequence of words that reads, letter for letter, the same backwards as forwards.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > palindrome
palindrome1636
1636 J. Philipot Camden's Remaines (new ed.) Epitaphes 419 Palindromes are those where the syllables are the same backward and forward... Ablata at alba... Si nummi immunis.
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 34 in Wks. (1640) III Had I..weav'd fittie [read fiftie] tomes Of Logogriphes, or curious Palindromes.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Palindrome A noble Lady..being for a time forbidden the Court..gave this Devise, the Moon covered with a cloud, and underneath this Palindrome for Motto: Ablata, at alba.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Palindrome..as Lewd did I live, and evil I did dwel.
1789 T. Sheridan Compl. Dict. (ed. 4) 552 Palindrome, a word or sentence which is the same read backward or forwards.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 170 The Palindromes, or Canorine, or recurrent verses, as they were called.
1862 H. B. Wheatley (title) Of anagrams,..lipograms, chronograms, logograms, palindromes.
1925 Times 4 Feb. 10/2 The line appears to be one of 27 palindromes composed by the Greek Emperor, Leo the Philosopher (886–911).
1943 T. Kitching Diary 15 Feb. in Life & Death in Changi (1998) x. 203 I went to sleep over a palindrome—the best I could produce was: Oi! Dark Nip Asahi has a pink radio.
2003 New Yorker 27 Jan. 29/3 He began composing ‘Dammit, I'm Mad’, which he believes is one of the longest, non-computer-generated sensemaking palindromes in English.
2. In extended use.
a. Music. A piece of music in which the second half is a retrograde repetition of the first half; the retrograde itself.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > palindrome
palindrome1947
1947 E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Music 430/1 Palindrome, a word or poem reading the same backwards as forwards. In m[usic] a piece constructed in the same way, more or less loosely, as e.g. the prelude and postlude in Hindemith's Ludus tonalis.
1961 Listener 21 Sept. 445/3 The palindrome is another symmetrical form that she has used several times, most notably and extendedly in the recent Symphonies where the strict symmetry of the reversed ‘reprise’ is relieved..by changes of scoring.
1979 Gramophone Aug. 327/2 Hers is a gorgeous performance, and its orchestral match may be summarized by the moment when Berg moves into a palindrome.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 8 Sept. 31 Berg scholars have drawn a special attention to his preoccupation with palindromes: structures that go into reverse half way as if to negate themselves or to deny a forward progression of time.
b. A number, or a date expressed numerically, that is unchanged when the order of its digits is reversed.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > other
digitusa1398
argumentc1405
geodeticala1690
known quantity1702
amicable number1743
summability1900
idempotent1903
modularity1927
repunit1964
palindrome1972
seed1972
1972 Times 1 Aug. 15/2 The sole point of this letter is the date [sc. 27.7.72] at its foot. Apart from the three rather less pleasing palindromes arising on the 27th of the 8th 9th and 11th months of this year, today's is the last palindromic date until 18.1.81.
1993 Personal Computer World Nov. 491/3 Composite palindromes with palindromic prime factors.
2001 Independent 16 Feb. ii. 2/4 Andrew Buncombe's date palindrome 10:02.2001..is a fine example of what we at the Institute of Homidamology call a Palindromic Damy.
c. Biology. A nucleic acid sequence that is identical to its complementary sequence when each is read in the same (usually 5′–3′) direction.
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1974 D. A. Wilson & C. A. Thomas in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 84 115 We call these regions in double-chain DNA palindromes, because, given the antiparallel arrangement of the polynucleotide chains, these sequences read the same both backwards and forwards.
1977 Nature 3 Nov. 10/2 If these inverted repeats are adjacent (forming a palindrome) renaturation produces a double-stranded hairpin.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2951/2 The optimal promoter binding site for the GCN4 protein is the well characterized palindrome 5′ ATGA(C/G)TCAT 3′.
B. adj.
That is a palindrome; esp. that reads, letter for letter, the same backwards as forwards.
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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > crab-like, can be read backwards and forwards
palindromic1795
palindrome1821
cancrine1846
palindromical1864
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adjective] > relating to palindrome
palindromic1795
palindrome1821
palindromical1864
1638 H. Peacham Truth of our Times 123 I caused this to be written over the porch of their free-schoole doore, Subi dura a rudibus: It is Palindrome.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 171 In English but one Palindrome line is known.
1991 K. Hafner & J. Markoff Cyberpunk 11 A palindromic music composition was considered a good hack (thus making Haydn, with his Palindrome Symphony, an honorary hacker).
2003 Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press-Gaz. (Nexis) 1 Jan. 7 a We've closed out the palindrome year of 2002.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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