单词 | rebuilding |
释义 | rebuildingn. The action or an act of building again. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > constructing again re-edification1473 re-edifying?a1475 rebuilding1585 re-erection1643 recomposition1655 reconstruction1791 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. i. iv. 151 The tyme that passed from the rebuilding of the temple of Ierusalem after their deliuerance from Babylon. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xl Brought with other timber for the rebuilding of the foresaid bridge. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxi The Fire and Rebuilding of London. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 222 The buildings, re-buildings, and repairs of ships of war in his Majesty's yards. 1788 J. Byng Diary 24 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 375 Mr Gd..was at the head of the rebuilding committee. 1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. v. 399 Through all the rebuildings of that wonderful pile, the memory of the hero..still lived. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 254 The rebuilding of the entire college on a new site was undertaken. 1940 K. Mannheim Man & Society v. i. 244 Deliberate rebuilding of human groups in terms of more elastic organization. 1978 Archit. Design 5 June 317/1 The initial importance of street lines was respected in any rebuildings in these years . 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 9 Sept. 19/6 (heading) Political point-scoring is undermining the rescue and rebuilding needed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585 |
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