单词 | passaging |
释义 | passagingn.1 Horse Riding. The action of moving sideways in riding. Cf. passage v.1 ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > moving sideways passaging1796 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun] > sideways movement passaging1833 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 13 Passaging and reining back are lessons of the manage, and necessary in opening or closing of ranks. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 81 The motion of the horse's legs in ‘Passaging’ is the same as that in ‘Shoulder-in’, but the head is turned differently. 1992 C. de Kunffy Athletic Developm. Dressage Horse ii. 8 Horses will often create desireable action unsolicited by their rider. Such action has various causes: 1. Instinctive reactions, such as passaging when excited. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). passagingn.2ΚΠ 1798 S. T. Coleridge Nightingale in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 66 They answer and provoke each other's songs—With skirmish and capricious passagings. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. ix. 263 There was diplomatic passaging in these weeks. 2. The action or an act of crossing something, or of passing back and forth. Also: travelling; voyaging, sailing. ΚΠ 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. viii. 61 Your steps will be steady and respected, though your passaging be slow. 1824 J. Galt Rothelan I. i. xv. 141 Few pastimes are more soothing to a wounded spirit than easy passagings..on the bosom of the generous river Thames. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 21 Low stifled growling, and rapid passaging to and fro against the bars of the dens. 1983 Yachting (Nexis) 153 76 The transom pilot berth layout..is a very open one, with a good berthing arrangement for offshore passaging. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 21 July (City ed.) (News Features section) 9 You turn to port and enter the Abbey river, a 1 km stretch where substantial dredging has made passaging much safer. 3. Medicine and Biology. The action or an act of subjecting microorganisms, cells, or parasites to passage (passage n. 10b). ΚΠ 1965 Acta Virologica 9 502 (title) Effect of various modes of passaging on the cytopathic activity of Tahyna virus. 1985 Jrnl. Virol. 56 860 After 3 to 4 months of passaging, constitutive synthesis of EA was no longer detectable in these cell lines. 2003 Biotechnol. Progress 19 238 During serial passaging in cell culture, FP mutants were rapidly selected. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11796n.21798 |
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