单词 | rehandling |
释义 | rehandlingn. 1. The action of handling a material thing for a second or further time; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1825 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 16 May Some of the tobacco..has been taken to the country for re-handling and re-packing. 1852 W. F. Lynch Official Rep. U.S. Exped. Dead Sea & River Jordan iii. iii. 143 The conglomerate of which Tell Qŭbes now consists, shews at various points a secondary rehandling of the old materials. 1890 E. G. Spilsbury Wire Rope Tramways 8 Mining cars..can then be..run out to the terminus of the tramway, and shipped again without any re-handling of the material. 1919 Educ. Found. 30 471/1 In order to have the railroads serve the waterway as a feeder, you have got to have a transfer of the freight, involving a re-handling. 1995 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. Vandersteel said his tube system would reduce the need for warehousing and rehandling of many materials. 2. A new version or treatment of a literary source or theme; the action or an act of treating a literary source or theme in a new way. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > remodelled hash1653 rifacimento1757 réchauffé1805 hash-up1827 rehandling1855 1855 R. C. Trench in Theol. & Literary Jrnl. 7 696 A great writer of the Latin church, at the close of his life wishing to amend..his various published works,..gave to the book in which he carried out this intention..this very name of ‘Retractations’, being strictly ‘Rehandlings’. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 5 We cannot turn up the originals [of these stories]..so we must take the rehandlings. 1896 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 562 The author undertook a thorough rehandling of the work. 1938 S. B. Hemingway in W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 App. 387 The rehandling is different in character in the verse and prose elements. 1964 Shakespeare Q. 15 85 Rehandling which is perfunctory or merely technical is foredoomed to failure. 2000 K. Varty Reynard the Fox Introd. p. xviii A new version appeared... This longer rehandling of the epic is entitled Reynaerts Historie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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