| 单词 | quarter-turn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-turn quarter-turn n. (a) a turn of 90°; this action or manoeuvre; †(b) a firearm with a barrel whose rifling (rifling n.3) twists through 90° down its length (obsolete). ΚΠ 1637 R. Monro Abridgem. Exerc. in Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 189 Close the Ranks and Files,..then say. To the right hand the quarter turne halfe or whole, as the occasion and the ground doth permit, and then say. 1692 J. Moxon Epitome Whole Art of War i. 27 The three Files G, make a quarter turn to the right. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. xvi. 73 Have a Pipe with a Stop-cock,..so that upon a half, or a quarter Turn, it may continually supply a little Stream of hot Water. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 272 A quarter turn, which is the kind of rifle the line uses. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 303 It made a rigid quarter-turn. 1995 Denver Post 11 June t6/2 In double-jacking, one miner would hammer a 4-foot hand steel while another held it, rotating it a quarter-turn after each strike. quarter-turn quarter-turn v. (a) transitive to turn through 90°, spec. to turn (a bell) 90° on its stock; (b) intransitive to make a quarter-turn. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > turn round or to face a direction > make a quarter turn quarter-turn1906 the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > turn (something) to a (different) direction > turn round > by a quarter turn quarter-turn1906 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > bell > [verb (transitive)] > cause bell to make quarter-turn quarter-turn1906 1906 Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 7 404 The Tenor..and 7 larger of the other bells..were ‘quarter-turned’ at the canons; to give a new surface of the sound-bow, in place of that indented by 150 years' uninterrupted wear, to the clapper. 1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 73 Rector was saying the other day as she [sc. a bell] did soon ought ter be quarter-turned. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 384 Some twenty men with a sergeant, who halted and quarter-turned and stood them at ease. 1964 G. C. Kunzle Parallel Bars ix. 403 Quarter turn into handstand on one bar, squat off with straight legs dismount. 1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 98/3 Slit through the fold with a sharp knife. Quarter turn the paper to the right, fold in half again and slit. < as lemmas |
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