单词 | re-enforced |
释义 | re-enforcedadj. Chiefly U.S. 1. Reinforced, strengthened.Quot. 1857 is quoting a 1776 letter from George Washington to Joseph Reed, but other sources record the manuscript as giving reinforced here. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [adjective] > reinforced reinforced1796 re-enforced1857 1857 J. S. Barry Hist. Mass. III. ii. 74 To have one army disbanded, and another to raise, within the same distance of a reënforced enemy. 1862 in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. IV. ii. 244/1 Orders to attack and break what I supposed would be the reënforced line of the enemy. 1887 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 50 The reënforced knee-jerks show a similar difference. 1930 N. S. B. Gras Industr. Evol. xiv. 167 A patent..for a tag with a re-enforced hole, may be said to have put the firm upon a secure foundation. 1996 Home Oct. 45/2 (advt.) Look out for..cultured marble or re-enforced plaster designs. 2. Of a rule, law, etc.: enforced for a second or further time. ΚΠ 1925 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. 6/1 (heading) Ottinger urges agents to speed up prosecutions under re-enforced law. 1936 W. E. Rappard Govt. of Switzerland ii. 25 The totally revised Constitution..had four main objectives which may be defined as national centralization, extended democracy, reënforced anticlericalism and state intervention in the social and economic fields. 2002 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Sports section) 8 The re-enforced obstruction rules that prohibit holding forwards up at the blue line. Compounds re-enforced concrete n. = reinforced concrete n. at reinforced adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > types of tabby1802 beton1813 granolithic1881 reinforced concrete1891 ferro-concrete1896 armoured concrete1898 re-enforced concrete1902 breeze-concrete1930 mass concrete1930 Siporex1938 grano1940 shell concrete1949 no-fines1960 1902 Archit. Rec. Sept. 394 Reënforced concrete is concrete with steel strands of small cross-section. 1971 G. de Jong in J. Saunders Mod. Brazil xiii. 339 A column of iron, steel, or re-enforced concrete supporting a building. 2007 Cape Argus (Nexis) 11 Oct. 5 The truck..had apparently..launched over the Du Plessis' re-enforced concrete wall and come to a stop in the middle of the house. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1857 |
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