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单词 panzer
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panzern.

Brit. /ˈpanzə/, U.S. /ˈpænzər/, /ˈpɑn(t)sər/
Forms: frequently with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Panzer.
Etymology: < German Panzer tank (1934 or earlier in this sense; 1916 in compound Panzerkraftwagen ), either specific use of Panzer armour, coat of mail (12th cent. in Middle High German, also as panzier : see pauncher n.), or short for Panzerwagen armoured car < Panzer + Wagen car (see wain n.1).German Panzerkraftwagen occurs in 1917 as an unassimilated loan in the title of a short story by Captain F. Britten Austin. With panzer division compare German Panzerdivision, which is also attested slightly earlier than panzer division as an unassimilated loan:1939 Fortune Nov. 64/2 Each Panzerdivision consists of 11,000 men and about 3,000 vehicles, including 500 tanks.1940 Economist 20 Apr. 729/1 It is more than silly..to calculate the speed at which Germany's panzerdivisionen could traverse the Hungarian plain. O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) also gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (pan·tsər) /ˈpantsər/.
Military.
A German armoured unit; a German tank. Frequently attributive, esp. in panzer division. Also figurative.
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1938 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 July 4/1 Germany's ‘Panzer’ or armored divisions roar to mimic war.
1939 Washington Post 11 Oct. 4/1 Had our mechanized units met the German Panzers we would have been outnumbered in combat cars, in light tanks, and in medium tanks.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 5 You were in danger of breaking your leg by falling over a complete panzer division of dachshunds moving from bar to shove ha'penny table on a broad front.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. iii. 234 Just after Glubb's panzers had begun the shelling of the Jewish quarter.
1962 S. Plath Daddy in Coll. Poems (1981) 224 I have always been scared of you, with your Luftwaffe..your Aryan eye, bright blue Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You.
1965 New Statesman 14 May 759/1 They tried to defend the Book of Genesis against Darwin's panzers.
1975 Times 24 June 4/7 Three new brigades have been added to the West German army... The number of tanks in a Panzer battalion is being reduced.
1989 Atlantic Aug. 34/1 They would inevitably be destroyed in an open encounter with an equal number of German panzers.
1997 A. Roberts in N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. v. 298 On Friday 24 May 1940, General Heinz Guderian's 1st Panzer Division reached the Aa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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