单词 | reattach |
释义 | reattachv.ΚΠ 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Hhh3v Where a man is reattached for his appearance vpon all writs of Assise lying against him. 1652 tr. A. Fitzherbert New Natura Brevium 451 [If he] is re-attached and appeareth not, but maketh default,..the Defendant shall have a special writ to the said Iustice. 1740 Student's Law Dict. at Reattachment The Defendant, when reattached, must plead de novo. 1794 J. Vaillant tr. J. Dyer Rep. Cases II. 118.a. A precept was made to the sheriff without writ or teste of the Chief Justice to reattach the defendant. 2. a. transitive. To attach (a person or thing) again; to rejoin, reconnect. Usually with to. Frequently reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > again reattach1751 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (reflexive)] > again reattach1751 1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb 33 Her husband..left her with a middling provision for life, which did not hinder her from re-attaching herself to her lady. 1768 Summer-house I. i. xi. 87 I deemed it more prudent to..endeavour to re-attach him to me alone by the mildness of my carriage. 1802 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 23 June The idea of re-attaching Louisiana to the domain of France, is..the wisest and the most important. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 20 The poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole. 1882 A. W. Tuer Bartolozzi & Wks. II. xli. 58 Having been skilfully re-attached, the ear recovered its power. 1909 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 27 Feb. 2/1 Brockton, who had reattached himself to the group, thought he had never seen her more entirely beautiful. 1957 G. Ryle in C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-century 254 The notion of meaning had been..partly detached from the notion of naming and re-attached to the notion of saying. 1988 R. Dole & E. Dole Doles ii. 54 Taking a piece of muscle sheathing from my left leg, he reattached the arm as if threading a needle. b. transitive. Medicine and Dentistry. In passive. Esp. of a tooth or the retina: to be reconnected to a supporting structure or tissue. ΚΠ 1841 W. Mackenzie Cure Strabismus 22 After a time, the muscle will become re-attached to the sclerotica. 1868 C. Heath Injuries & Dis. Jaws ii. 16 Teeth which are merely loosened, generally become reattached and useful. 1913 Lancet 21 June 1736/2 In three months the retina had become reattached. 1921 O. E. Inglis Burchard's Text-bk. Dental Pathol. & Therapeutics (ed. 6) vi. xxviii. 777 The first indication has ever been acted upon by parents who have quickly pressed teeth into their places where they became reattached. 1952 W. H. Archer Man. Oral Surg. i. 41/2 The tooth became re~attached, and circulation into the pulp tissue was re~established. 2003 Japanese Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 47 591 The subretinal fluid disappeared and the sensory retinas gradually became reattached. c. transitive (reflexive). To reform into a whole, having been split or broken into pieces; to come together again, esp. at other than the point of separation. ΚΠ 1857 J. Tyndall & T. H. Huxley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 147 329 The ice broke, as was expected, but it soon re-attached itself. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxii. 347 The ice was crushed, but the crushed fragments soon re-attached themselves. 1957 J. C. Evvard in A. F. Donovan & H. R. Lawrence Aerodynamic Components of Aircraft at High Speeds e. i. 619 As the shock moves forward the flow separation region may reattach itself ahead of the throat. 1989 J. D. Collinson & D. B. Thompson Sedimentary Structures iii. 22 The flow is said to..reattach itself downstream at a reattachment point or line. Derivatives reaˈttached adj. ΚΠ 1863 Secrets of my Office ix. 266 The reattached relict died in giving birth to a daughter, and lucky James Marie Balfe possessed the estate. 1895 Lancet 23 Nov. 1294/1 Considerable pigmentation occurred in the reattached area. 1928 H. K. Box Treatm. Periodontal Pocket iii. 117 The arrangement of the reattached tissues on the curetted cemental surface. 1988 D. J. Tritton Physical Fluid Dynamics (BNC) 283 Although the initial attached laminar layer might be stable, the final reattached layer remains turbulent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1607 |
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