单词 | reg |
释义 | Reg.n.1 Chiefly Law. In the titles of laws and legal cases: a graphic abbreviation of Regina n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > one who accuses of crime > the prosecution Reg.1622 king1675 queen1713 Reginaa1715 rexa1715 crown1725 prosecution1746 state1783 people1801 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo ii. vi. 283 (margin) The Indenture of Eliz. Reg. a1650 S. D'Ewes Jrnls. Parl. Queen Elizabeth (1682) Pref. sig. A2 A Journal of the Passages of the same House in An. 39, & 40 Reg. Eliz. exceedingly defective. 1717 S. Blackerby Cases in Law 11 Rex & Reg. against Marriot. 1792 W. Boscawen Treat. Convictions Penal Statutes 48 Reg. v. Matthews. 1848 E. W. Cox Rep. Cases Crim. Law II. 422 Reg. v. Hawkes..settles that question, about which some doubt had been previously entertained. 1901 Manitoba Morning Free Press 21 Jan. 7/2 As a judge he has tried some cases of more than common interest, among them being Reg. vs. Connolly and McGreevy. 1952 Jrnl. Criminal Law, Criminol., & Police Sci. 43 10 Hence the style of the case-name as The Queen versus John Doe or Reg. vs. John Doe. 2006 A. Aggrawal in M. Tsokos Forensic Pathol. Rev. IV. x. 313 Reg vs Hargreaves, Hampshire (Winchester) Assizes, April 1962. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). regn.2 Physical Geography. A flat area of desert covered with gravel or boulders as opposed to sand; stony desert. Cf. erg n.2, hammada n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > stony serir1843 reg1904 1904 A. Knox Gloss. Geogr. & Topogr. Terms 324 Reg, firm level ground, generally without vegetation, a barren, naked plain. 1915 Jrnl. Ecol. 3 52 The soil of the reg..is fine alluvial and is relatively or actually deep. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. June 341/1 Beyond the harbour,..away to the east, lies open stony ‘Reg’, and thence the vast, empty desert. 1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxvi. 196 I was somewhere near the edge of a reg, one of those huge flat plains of gravel which are, more than anything, the true desert. 1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xxiii. 226 The going changed to the gravelly surface of the ‘reg’ and then to rough ‘washboard’. 2002 M. Palin Sahara (2003) 192 The driver..is at this very moment carrying me across a swathe of flat, gritty desert (reg as opposed to erg). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). regn.3 colloquial. Chiefly in plural; = regulation n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule lawa1225 precepta1325 line1340 observancea1382 rulea1387 reglec1475 regimentc1485 reuglec1485 instruction1526 maxima1564 maxim1578 preception1620 reglement1622 positure1624 gnomon1627 regulationa1640 parapegm1646 rubric1891 reg1904 1904 World (N.Y.) 1 May (Mag. section) 6/5 [In the slang of Naval cadets at Anapolis] regulation is contracted into ‘reg’, requisition into ‘req’, and ‘zip’ is the same as ‘zero’. 1942 T. J. Reynolds & L. E. Kent Struct. Steelwork (ed. 3) iii. 41 In shop fabrication L.C.C. regs. permit the use of black bolts for the end cleat connections of secondary floor beams. 1952 M. Shaara in Mag. of Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Oct. 4 Wisher had decided..to follow the regs without question. For without the regs, the Mapping Command was a death trap. 1971 J. Sangster Your Friendly Neighbourhood Death Pedlar iv. 86 I'm sorry I can't do what you ask. Company regs. 1998 Wired Aug. 140/1 Because of Europe's..lenient air-quality regs, autos coming into the US have been detuned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). regn.4 British colloquial. The registration number of a vehicle. Frequently preceded by a letter, as A-reg, B-reg, etc., indicating the date of registration (and hence typically also production of the vehicle). Also more fully reg number.In 1963 a single letter suffix was added to new registration plates to indicate the date of registration. In 1983 this was superseded by a single letter prefix. The practice was discontinued in August 2001, since when the date of registration has been indicated by a two-digit code (cf. quot. 2005). ΚΠ 1968 Times 7 Aug. 12/7 (advt.) F reg...Daimler Sovereign. 1975 Times 9 Sept. 23/6 (advt.) Wanted any car with reg. DCA. 1998 I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) xiii. 163 At least now we've got a licence plate... ‘Give me the reg.’ Pryde read out the letters and numbers. 2003 A. O'Neill tr. P. Lalander Hooked on Heroin iv. 69 I know most of the registration numbers. I can rattle off, maybe eight, nine, ten reg numbers. 2005 Wellington (Somerset) Weekly News (Nexis) 30 Mar. 35 Proud owners who drove away new 05-reg cars on March 1 could have a shock when they realise their shiny new car will have already lost an average of £500 in value just a month later. 2008 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 10 The worst car I've ever had was a D-reg Astra when I'd been fired from one of my radio jobs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11622n.21904n.31904n.41968 |
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