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单词 percur
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percurv.

Inflections: Present participle percurring; past tense and past participle percurred;
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin percurrere.
Etymology: < classical Latin percurrere to run, move quickly over or through ( < per- per- prefix + currere to run: see current adj.), perhaps after concur v., occur v. Compare French parcourir to cross, to travel throughout (beginning of the 16th cent. in Middle French as percourrir; attested earlier in an isolated attestation in Old French (13th cent.)). N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (pəɹkɒ̄·ɹ) /pəˈkɜː(r)/.
Obsolete.
transitive. To pass along or through; to traverse, cross. Also occasionally intransitive.
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the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > extend over or across
overstretch?a1425
span1624
percur1657
overspan1697
surmount1829
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)]
thoroughfareeOE
overrunOE
through-goOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
traverse?a1400
go1483
transcur1528
sweep1600
oversweep1612
supermeate1656
percur1835
overmeasure1896
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Pp2 A leaf..with three strokes percurring [L. excurrentibus] its longitude.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 384 The fan produces its greatest effect when the points of its wings percur in revolving about eighty feet per second.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 692 The sum of the spaces percurred by the piston in a minute.
1855 R. Hare Exper. Investig. Spirit Manifestations 385 It may be conceived that the time taken to percur a few inches of wire must be almost infinitely brief.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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