单词 | renaming |
释义 | renamingn. The action or fact of giving a new name to a person or thing; an instance of this. ΚΠ a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) viii. 122 By that odious renaming of sin. 1816 J. Morier Journey through Persia 387 The re-naming of Shah Seffi, who then became Shah Soleyman. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 468 From the time of Noah's descent from the Ark until Lot's flight from Sodom and God's re-naming of Abram, nature strove with the Holy Spirit in man. 1944 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 34 254/2 The renaming of the unit of retinal illumination as the troland, in honor of Dr. L. T. Troland, its originator,..is recommended. 1989 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Mar. Without renaming, the window class inherits tree features with all their arboreal nomenclature clinging to them. 2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Nov. 74/2 The Triangle is thus certainly a Greek renaming of a Mesopotamian star group between the time of Thales and Eudoxus. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1660 |
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