porteen.

Brit.

/ˈpɔːtiː/,

/ˈpɔːteɪ/, U.S.

/ˈpɔrti/,

/ˈpɔrteɪ/

Forms:

α. 1600s– portée (chiefly in sense 2), 1700s– portee, 1800s– portie; English regional (in sense 1) 1800s porty, 1900s portay, 1900s portray.

β. English regional (in sense 1) 1800s porteth, 1800s portif, 1800s–1900s portiff, 1900s portieth, 1900s portith, 1900s portive.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French portée.

Etymology: < French portée collection of threads which form a warp (1302 in Old French in the specific use in textile industry; 13th cent. in sense ‘action of bearing a child’), effect, impact, importance, effectiveness (1585 in Middle French), (in mechanics or technology) supporting piece (19th cent.), specific uses as noun of portée , feminine of past participle of porter port v.²

1. Weaving. A number of threads grouped together to form a warp; = beer n.³

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > warp > threads of

portee1699

warping1824

α.

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 185 It will be proper to take a Skean out of the Parcels which you take from out of the Bale..to make the one eighth part of a Portée.

1751 M. Postlethwayt tr. J. Savary des Brûlons Universal Dict. Trade I. 508/2 Uniting several portees into one chain [on a loom].

1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. I. 30/3 Horn, or steel combs made use of by ribbon weavers to separate the portees of the warp, or chain, and keep the threads from entangling.

1840 Hand-loom Weavers: Rep. Pt. III 9 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 43-II) XXIII. 367 The Porteth is 38 threads of warp. [Note] It is sometimes written portie and portiff.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield at Portywoof A porty is forty ends, i.e. forty threads—in woollen.

1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 11 Apr. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 587/2 A porty is forty ends, woollen.

1910 L. Hooper Hand-loom Weaving i. ii. 37 It only remains to take the group of eight threads below and over peg A in order to finish the first portee, as such a collection of threads warped in one round is called.

1954 M. E. Pritchard Short Dict. Weaving 67 One portee makes two warp ‘ends’. The word..dates back to the days of the Huguenot weavers in England, deriving from the French portee, meaning ‘carried’.

1965 J. Tovey Technique of Weaving ii. 30/1 For convenience in keeping count of the number of threads warped, the ends of a strong yarn of a contrasting colour are crossed between groups of portées.

β. 1822 Ann. Reg. 1820 (Otridge ed.) i. Chron. 6/1 Take for instance, 25 warterns of slubbing to weave 63 portiffs—breadth ten and a half quarters—length 36 strings, which employ a man 21 days.1840 Hand-loom Weavers: Rep. Pt. III 9 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 43-II) XXIII. 367 The Porteth is 38 threads of warp. [Note] It is sometimes written portie and portiff.1887 J. Lawson Lett. to Young on Progress Pudsey vii. 29 It was a common thing to see weavers..trying to borrow gears, five, six, and, some odd times, it might be a seven, portif quarter gear, nine to ten or eleven quarters wide, etc.a1903 W. B. Turner in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 587/2 at Portywoof One lap, from end to end of a warp, was termed a ‘half’, two laps making the portith... The standard portith was 38 threads.

2. In form portée. Importance, import, weight; the consequences of an action or event.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun]

mund?c1250

steemc1330

greatnessc1410

substancec1425

importance1485

weight1521

moment1522

weightiness1530

importancy1531

importunance1546

import1548

reckoning1582

sequel1588

ponderosity1589

valure1594

consequence1597

significance1597

circumstance1599

consequent1599

eminency1622

importmenta1625

concernment1626

consideration1634

telling1636

signification1645

considerableness1647

concerningness1657

nearness1679

significancy1679

respectability1769

interest1809

noteworthiness1852

portee1893

valency1897

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > far-reaching consequences

portee1893

1893 H. James Ess. London & Elsewhere 148 With all his want of portée, as the psychological critics of his own country would say of him, poor Flaubert is one of the artists to whom an artist will always go back.

1899 W. James Let. 28 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) II. 136 You seem to take my intention in the lecture to have had a wider portée than I ever thought of.

1957 M. Raeff M. Speransky ix. 289 When speaking of peasants, Speransky had in mind only the state peasants which, of course, limited the portée of his proposals to a minority.

1994 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 45 646 In these cases of clearly pure serendipity it was documented that the discoverers resisted for a certain time against their own discovery and/or the portée of it.

3. Military. A self-propelled vehicle on which an anti-tank gun may be mounted.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured > self-propelled anti-tank vehicle

portee1942

portee wagon1958

1942 Times 22 Apr. 4/6 Finally, only two guns remained in action... Immediately afterwards one of these was destroyed and the portee of another was set on fire.

1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 28/2 Portee anti-tank guns.

1948 R. Farran Winged Dagger viii. 141 It was a large command for a subaltern—ten armoured cars of mixed varieties, eight Bofors guns, a two-pounder portee and a tank.

1952 Times 30 Aug. 5/6 Through it the light vehicles of 7th Armoured Division, portees, carriers, and light tanks, began to pass across our front as they skilfully drew on the enemy.

2000 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Feb. (Drive section) 7 The PU was used extensively in Palestine before the war. Specific 4x4 gun tractors and portees were also produced.

Compounds

portee cross n. Weaving a cross formed by passing a portee (sense 1) back across itself.

ΚΠ

1910 L. Hooper Hand-loom Weaving i. iv. 57 The fifty threads, taken all together, will pass above the first peg W, below the last one, then round it, and under the first, which completes the portee cross.

1958 A. Hindson Designer's Drawloom vi. 55 The portee, or grouped, crosses must not be split when they are spaced in the raddle.

portee wagon n. Military = sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured > self-propelled anti-tank vehicle

portee1942

portee wagon1958

1958 M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More viii. 151 It was eight o'clock before they piled into the portee-waggon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	portee
释义	porteen. Brit. /ˈpɔːtiː/, /ˈpɔːteɪ/, U.S. /ˈpɔrti/, /ˈpɔrteɪ/ Forms: α. 1600s– portée (chiefly in sense 2), 1700s– portee, 1800s– portie; English regional (in sense 1) 1800s porty, 1900s portay, 1900s portray. β. English regional (in sense 1) 1800s porteth, 1800s portif, 1800s–1900s portiff, 1900s portieth, 1900s portith, 1900s portive. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French portée. Etymology: < French portée collection of threads which form a warp (1302 in Old French in the specific use in textile industry; 13th cent. in sense ‘action of bearing a child’), effect, impact, importance, effectiveness (1585 in Middle French), (in mechanics or technology) supporting piece (19th cent.), specific uses as noun of portée , feminine of past participle of porter port v.² 1. Weaving. A number of threads grouped together to form a warp; = beer n.³ ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > warp > threads of portee1699 warping1824 α. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 185 It will be proper to take a Skean out of the Parcels which you take from out of the Bale..to make the one eighth part of a Portée. 1751 M. Postlethwayt tr. J. Savary des Brûlons Universal Dict. Trade I. 508/2 Uniting several portees into one chain [on a loom]. 1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. I. 30/3 Horn, or steel combs made use of by ribbon weavers to separate the portees of the warp, or chain, and keep the threads from entangling. 1840 Hand-loom Weavers: Rep. Pt. III 9 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 43-II) XXIII. 367 The Porteth is 38 threads of warp. [Note] It is sometimes written portie and portiff. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield at Portywoof A porty is forty ends, i.e. forty threads—in woollen. 1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 11 Apr. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 587/2 A porty is forty ends, woollen. 1910 L. Hooper Hand-loom Weaving i. ii. 37 It only remains to take the group of eight threads below and over peg A in order to finish the first portee, as such a collection of threads warped in one round is called. 1954 M. E. Pritchard Short Dict. Weaving 67 One portee makes two warp ‘ends’. The word..dates back to the days of the Huguenot weavers in England, deriving from the French portee, meaning ‘carried’. 1965 J. Tovey Technique of Weaving ii. 30/1 For convenience in keeping count of the number of threads warped, the ends of a strong yarn of a contrasting colour are crossed between groups of portées. β. 1822 Ann. Reg. 1820 (Otridge ed.) i. Chron. 6/1 Take for instance, 25 warterns of slubbing to weave 63 portiffs—breadth ten and a half quarters—length 36 strings, which employ a man 21 days.1840 Hand-loom Weavers: Rep. Pt. III 9 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 43-II) XXIII. 367 The Porteth is 38 threads of warp. [Note] It is sometimes written portie and portiff.1887 J. Lawson Lett. to Young on Progress Pudsey vii. 29 It was a common thing to see weavers..trying to borrow gears, five, six, and, some odd times, it might be a seven, portif quarter gear, nine to ten or eleven quarters wide, etc.a1903 W. B. Turner in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 587/2 at Portywoof One lap, from end to end of a warp, was termed a ‘half’, two laps making the portith... The standard portith was 38 threads. 2. In form portée. Importance, import, weight; the consequences of an action or event. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] mund?c1250 steemc1330 greatnessc1410 substancec1425 importance1485 weight1521 moment1522 weightiness1530 importancy1531 importunance1546 import1548 reckoning1582 sequel1588 ponderosity1589 valure1594 consequence1597 significance1597 circumstance1599 consequent1599 eminency1622 importmenta1625 concernment1626 consideration1634 telling1636 signification1645 considerableness1647 concerningness1657 nearness1679 significancy1679 respectability1769 interest1809 noteworthiness1852 portee1893 valency1897 the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > far-reaching consequences portee1893 1893 H. James Ess. London & Elsewhere 148 With all his want of portée, as the psychological critics of his own country would say of him, poor Flaubert is one of the artists to whom an artist will always go back. 1899 W. James Let. 28 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) II. 136 You seem to take my intention in the lecture to have had a wider portée than I ever thought of. 1957 M. Raeff M. Speransky ix. 289 When speaking of peasants, Speransky had in mind only the state peasants which, of course, limited the portée of his proposals to a minority. 1994 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 45 646 In these cases of clearly pure serendipity it was documented that the discoverers resisted for a certain time against their own discovery and/or the portée of it. 3. Military. A self-propelled vehicle on which an anti-tank gun may be mounted. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured > self-propelled anti-tank vehicle portee1942 portee wagon1958 1942 Times 22 Apr. 4/6 Finally, only two guns remained in action... Immediately afterwards one of these was destroyed and the portee of another was set on fire. 1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 28/2 Portee anti-tank guns. 1948 R. Farran Winged Dagger viii. 141 It was a large command for a subaltern—ten armoured cars of mixed varieties, eight Bofors guns, a two-pounder portee and a tank. 1952 Times 30 Aug. 5/6 Through it the light vehicles of 7th Armoured Division, portees, carriers, and light tanks, began to pass across our front as they skilfully drew on the enemy. 2000 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Feb. (Drive section) 7 The PU was used extensively in Palestine before the war. Specific 4x4 gun tractors and portees were also produced. Compounds portee cross n. Weaving a cross formed by passing a portee (sense 1) back across itself. ΚΠ 1910 L. Hooper Hand-loom Weaving i. iv. 57 The fifty threads, taken all together, will pass above the first peg W, below the last one, then round it, and under the first, which completes the portee cross. 1958 A. Hindson Designer's Drawloom vi. 55 The portee, or grouped, crosses must not be split when they are spaced in the raddle. portee wagon n. Military = sense 3. 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