单词 | prominency |
释义 | prominencyn. 1. The quality of being prominent (in various senses); conspicuousness; = prominence n. 1, 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence prominence1533 prominency1650 markedness1846 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] projecture1563 jutting1565 project1596 juttying1611 prominence1611 excursiona1626 extancy1644 outjetty1650 projection1664 projecting1726 jetting1754 saliency1834 salience1849 protrusion1853 prominency1871 pout1880–4 out-thrust1955 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 323 The prominency of this extravagant Tower. 1755 J. G. Cooper Lett. conc. Taste 24 Raphael's [pieces]..had not that Prominency, nor seem'd to come out from the Canvass so boldly. 1793 E. Gibbon Let. 11 Nov. (1956) III. 359 Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia. 1836 Rand. Recoll. Ho. Lords xi. 241 Brought before the public..with some degree of prominency. 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 12 The prominency of..his organs of vision. 1928 Soc. Forces 7 44/1 There exists..a correlation between leadership, or prominency, or intelligence, and the mobility of individuals. 1976 Acta Musicologica 48 159 The prominency of Isaac and his work..has obscured..the accomplishments of other musicians. 2000 Chest (Nexis) 1 May 299 s COPD and chronic asthma broadly separate in terms of the prominency of inflammatory cell types. 2. A physically prominent thing, a projection, a protuberance; = prominence n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part hornc1275 outshooting1310 nosec1400 startc1400 spout1412 snouta1425 outbearingc1425 outstanding?c1425 relish1428 jeta1500 rising1525 shoulder1545 jutting1565 outshootc1565 prominence1578 forecast1580 projection1592 sprout1598 eye1600 shooting forth1601 lip1608 juttying1611 prominent?1611 eminence1615 butting1625 excursiona1626 elbow1626 protrusion1646 jettinga1652 outjetting1652 prominency1654 eminency1668 nouch1688 issuanta1690 out-butting1730 outjet1730 out-jutting1730 flange1735 nosing1773 process1775 jut1787 projecture1803 nozzle1804 saliency1831 ajutment1834 salience1837 out-thrust1842 emphasis1885 cleat1887 outjut1893 pseudopodiuma1902 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. ii. 143 Those Atoms which exhale from the Cavities or Deprest parts of the superficies of any Concretion, and those which exhale from the Prominencies, or Eminent Parts. a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 335 A perpendicular hollow cliffe..with now & then a craggy prominency jetting out. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 183 Cut off the prominencies that are not concentrick to the Axis. 1813 Examiner 29 Mar. 205/1 All obtrusive prominencies are levelled down. 1889 Loudon's Nat. Hist. 532 The Snipe Shell.., so called on account of the length of the prominency coming out of the shell. 1940 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 28 565 Presumably the presence of these ‘horns’ was due to individual variation... In the two known skulls and Calops there is no trace of such prominencies. 1968 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 9 147 The glowing blood-red prominencies of the Sun. 2005 Materials Lett. 59 3282/1 Once any sporadic prominencies occur on the solid–vapor interface, the comb-teeth can project towards the colder ZnO vapor in front. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650 |
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