big-endiann.adj.

Brit.

/ˌbɪɡ ˈɛndɪən/, U.S.

/ˌbɪɡ ˈɛndiən/

Forms: also with capital initial(s).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: big adj., end n., -ian suffix.

Etymology: < big adj. + end n. + -ian suffix.

A. n.

1. In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels: a person who believes that eggs should be broken at the larger end before they are eaten. Hence allusively, esp. a party in a disagreement that is considered trifling. Cf. little-endian n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > creation or description of characters > specific character or creature

big-endian1726

Sleeping Beauty1729

little-endian1749

small-endian1819

panjandrum1825

shock-headed Peter1848

flopsy bunny1909

Pollyanna1921

Tarzan1921

hobbit1937

orc1937

superman1938

Moomin1950

Dalek1963

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iv. 74 The Books of the Big-Endians have been long forbidden.

1726 Mrs. Howard Let. Nov. in J. Swift Wks. (1824) XVII. 81 Many disputes have arisen here, whether the big-endians, and lesser-endians, ever differed in opinion about the breaking of eggs, when they were to be either buttered or poached?

1791 J. Priestley Appeal to Public on Riots Birmingham 81 The persecution of one sect of Protestants by another..is nothing better than..that of the Littleendians of Lilliput by the Bigendians.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Sept. 11/1 A..controversy..between the Big-endians and the Little-endians of female attire.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 10/2 The quarrel between the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians promises to be a merry one.

1937 Times 11 Mar. 17/4 To-day Big-Endians and Little-Endians, Polonians and Bolonians must all agree.

2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Book Reviews) 1 The war between the outlaws and the canonicals [sc. of American literature] was another dispute between Big-Endians and Small-Endians.

2. Computing. A person who favours a design for computer hardware in which units of data (as bits within a byte or bytes within a multi-byte data type) are stored or transmitted with the most significant units stored at lower addresses or transmitted first. Cf. little-endian n. 2.

ΚΠ

1980 D. Cohen On Holy Wars & Plea for Peace (Internet Engineering Notes) (Electronic text) No. 127. 4 The PDP10 and the [IBM] 360, for example, were designed by Big-Endians: their bit order, byte-order, word-order and page-order are the same.

2000 J. Larmouth ASN.1 Compl. xviii. 379 Little-endians will probably have drawn the arrow going left-to-right and big-endians will probably have drawn it going right-to-left.

B. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the big-endians. Hence allusively.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > specific character

big-endian1726

Sleeping Beauty1729

little-endian1828

Mickey Mouse1930

Sherlock Holmesian1958

Sherlockian1959

Dalek1963

Pooterish1963

Moomin-like1965

hobbitish1966

James Bondish1966

James Bond1967

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vii. 120 All the People of that Empire, who would not immediately forsake the Big-Endian Heresy.

1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 5 254 Its dome is but a foolish Big-endian or Little-endian chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted Dome.

1961 Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb ii. 18 Though what Jonathan Swift might have called the Small-Endian view seems to be in a certain vogue, the procedure here followed is Big-Endian.

1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 July x14 Had someone sent me (to borrow Swiftian terms) a Little-Endian book counter to my Big-Endian tastes, I would have sent it back.

2. Computing. Designating or relating to computer systems employing byte ordering in which the most significant byte has the lowest address. Cf. sense A. 2, and little-endian adj. 2.

ΚΠ

1983 Microprocessors & Microsystems 7 490/1 Kirrmann argues the case for a little-endian rather than a big-endian approach (ie such that the least significant digit or bit has the lowest number and is stored at the lowest address rather than having the highest number and being stored at the highest address).

1989 PC Mag. (U.K. ed.) May 50/3 The Bswap byte-swap instruction re-orders the bytes in a 32-bit register from little-endian to big-endian byte ordering.

1994 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Oct. 62/1 The most common addressing models are Big-endian, derived from the left-to-right order of writing in western-culture languages, and Little-endian, stemming from the right-to-left order of arithmetic operations in hardware processors.

2002 Machine Design 7 Feb. 57/2 Applications characterized by large files (such as MPEG images and Java-enabled Web pages) are big endian.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	big-endian
释义	big-endiann.adj. Brit. /ˌbɪɡ ˈɛndɪən/, U.S. /ˌbɪɡ ˈɛndiən/ Forms: also with capital initial(s). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: big adj., end n., -ian suffix. Etymology: < big adj. + end n. + -ian suffix. A. n. 1. In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels: a person who believes that eggs should be broken at the larger end before they are eaten. Hence allusively, esp. a party in a disagreement that is considered trifling. Cf. little-endian n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > creation or description of characters > specific character or creature big-endian1726 Sleeping Beauty1729 little-endian1749 small-endian1819 panjandrum1825 shock-headed Peter1848 flopsy bunny1909 Pollyanna1921 Tarzan1921 hobbit1937 orc1937 superman1938 Moomin1950 Dalek1963 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iv. 74 The Books of the Big-Endians have been long forbidden. 1726 Mrs. Howard Let. Nov. in J. Swift Wks. (1824) XVII. 81 Many disputes have arisen here, whether the big-endians, and lesser-endians, ever differed in opinion about the breaking of eggs, when they were to be either buttered or poached? 1791 J. Priestley Appeal to Public on Riots Birmingham 81 The persecution of one sect of Protestants by another..is nothing better than..that of the Littleendians of Lilliput by the Bigendians. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Sept. 11/1 A..controversy..between the Big-endians and the Little-endians of female attire. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 10/2 The quarrel between the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians promises to be a merry one. 1937 Times 11 Mar. 17/4 To-day Big-Endians and Little-Endians, Polonians and Bolonians must all agree. 2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Book Reviews) 1 The war between the outlaws and the canonicals [sc. of American literature] was another dispute between Big-Endians and Small-Endians. 2. Computing. A person who favours a design for computer hardware in which units of data (as bits within a byte or bytes within a multi-byte data type) are stored or transmitted with the most significant units stored at lower addresses or transmitted first. Cf. little-endian n. 2. ΚΠ 1980 D. Cohen On Holy Wars & Plea for Peace (Internet Engineering Notes) (Electronic text) No. 127. 4 The PDP10 and the [IBM] 360, for example, were designed by Big-Endians: their bit order, byte-order, word-order and page-order are the same. 2000 J. Larmouth ASN.1 Compl. xviii. 379 Little-endians will probably have drawn the arrow going left-to-right and big-endians will probably have drawn it going right-to-left. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the big-endians. Hence allusively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > specific character big-endian1726 Sleeping Beauty1729 little-endian1828 Mickey Mouse1930 Sherlock Holmesian1958 Sherlockian1959 Dalek1963 Pooterish1963 Moomin-like1965 hobbitish1966 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vii. 120 All the People of that Empire, who would not immediately forsake the Big-Endian Heresy. 1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 5 254 Its dome is but a foolish Big-endian or Little-endian chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted Dome. 1961 Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb ii. 18 Though what Jonathan Swift might have called the Small-Endian view seems to be in a certain vogue, the procedure here followed is Big-Endian. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 July x14 Had someone sent me (to borrow Swiftian terms) a Little-Endian book counter to my Big-Endian tastes, I would have sent it back. 2. Computing. Designating or relating to computer systems employing byte ordering in which the most significant byte has the lowest address. Cf. sense A. 2, and little-endian adj. 2. ΚΠ 1983 Microprocessors & Microsystems 7 490/1 Kirrmann argues the case for a little-endian rather than a big-endian approach (ie such that the least significant digit or bit has the lowest number and is stored at the lowest address rather than having the highest number and being stored at the highest address). 1989 PC Mag. (U.K. ed.) May 50/3 The Bswap byte-swap instruction re-orders the bytes in a 32-bit register from little-endian to big-endian byte ordering. 1994 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Oct. 62/1 The most common addressing models are Big-endian, derived from the left-to-right order of writing in western-culture languages, and Little-endian, stemming from the right-to-left order of arithmetic operations in hardware processors. 2002 Machine Design 7 Feb. 57/2 Applications characterized by large files (such as MPEG images and Java-enabled Web pages) are big endian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1726
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