单词 | physicalize |
释义 | physicalizev. transitive. To express or represent by physical means or in physical terms; (spec. in Theatre) to represent (a concept, attitude, emotion, etc.) by means of an actor's bodily movements. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (transitive)] > express or accompany by gesture signc1520 gesture1589 gesticulate1616 beck1821 language1824 flicker1903 physicalize1947 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > an abstraction physicalize1947 a1866 [see physicalizing n. at Derivatives]. 1947 E. Kazan in T. Cole & H. K. Chinoy Directing Play (1953) 308 Stanley..is completely self-absorbed to the point of fascination. To physicalize this: he has a most annoying way of being preoccupied—or of busying himself with something else while people are talking with him. 1992 Premiere Jan. 81/1 He created a bold new comedy of character, turning black American life into breathtaking one-man theater, his rubbery face, multioctave voice, and lithe body physicalizing every situation. 2003 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 25 May 6 f He physicalizes thought with a precision that magnifies his native intelligence. Derivatives physicaliˈzation n. the representation of an idea by physical means; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] figuration1561 bodying forth1818 physicalization1936 imagery1962 1936 J. R. Weinberg Exam. Logical Positivism 280 An intersubjectively valid and unified science results from the rigorous application of the principles of physicalization of languages. 1947 E. Kazan in T. Cole & H. K. Chinoy Directing Play (1953) 297 An effort to put poetic names on scenes to edge me into stylizations and physicalizations. 1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars (new ed.) 205 If that trend held for long, Sax thought, it would lead to a kind of physicalisation of class. ˈphysicalizing n. ΚΠ a1866 J. Grote in Jrnl. Philol. (1872) 4 175 Since all abstract ideas, or noems other than precepts, are of necessity expressed in this manner, dianoematism or physicalizing is as necessary a step of language in their case as phonizing and writing. 1982 J. Benedetti Stanislavski: Introd. ii. 38 In the fourth process, ‘physicalizing’, the actor creates visibly, for himself. 2001 San Antonio Express-News (Texas) (Nexis) 1 h I've experimented with all kinds of different ways of physicalizing, of using my body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1866 |
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