单词 | resolver |
释义 | resolvern. 1. Chiefly Medicine. A resolvent medicine or agent; = resolvent n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing resolutivea1400 resolver?a1450 digester1578 discussive1583 discutient1585 discusser1617 resolvent1676 incider1722 incisive1726 incident1753 discutant1817 ?a1450 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (BL Add. 12056) (1894) 6 (MED) Of resolueres & manere of vndoynge & makynge nessche [L. De resolutiuis & modo resoluendi]. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 53 (MED) Yf thow take dissoluyng potages, it dissolueth, and retentif potages constreynen, but yf the resoluer be take be-fore, the constreyner, take after, is slippered and make light degestion and goode egestion. 1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 92 Heere strong resolvers are requisite..because the Impostume cannot by other meanes be resolued. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xviii. 276 Opium..proves sometimes a great resolver, and commonly a great Sudorifick. ?1734 P. Shaw Chem. Lect. xiii. 237 Camphire has considerable virtues, as a Perspirative, Sudorific, and Resolver. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §21. 153 Water..is found when not cold to be a great resolver of spasms. 1901 Lancet 9 Nov. 1297/1 The use of soft paper handkerchiefs ought largely to be encouraged as..they should find their way to that resolver and perfect cleanser of all dirt, the fire. 2. A person who or thing which answers a question, solves a doubt or difficulty, effects a resolution of a conflict or dispute, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > solution, explanation > one who provides resolver1585 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection ii. 126 They be supreme guiders of grammer, moderators of Logik.., resoluers of al doubtes, & iudges of al matters incident any way to reason. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 27 Hee is a sound Resoluer. 1643 (title of journal) The compleate intelligencer and resolver. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 88 A better Resolver thereof in all cases England never saw. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 480 It was said, that the serving an end was a good resolver of all cases of conscience. 1775 Ann. Reg. 82/2 A woman applied to a resolver of lawful questions..to be satisfied in relation to some future events. 1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 32/2 And we again set ourselves to have a small rally at the brandy and water, as a resolver of our doubts. 1872 Harper's Mag. Feb. 418/2 Lilly, in his capacity of professional astrologer, erecter of nativities, and resolver of all sorts of horary questions, had been for many years publishing a sort of almanac. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 19 171 Montefiore does not claim to be..a resolver of knotty points in Greek exegesis. 1962 R. L. Meier Communications Theory Urban Growth ix. 160 His role is usually that of a resolver of internal conflicts. 2003 M. Dodson & D. W. Jackson in S. Mainwaring & C. Welna Democratic Accountability Lat. Amer. viii. 253 Many of the normative expectations for judges involve being a fair and impartial resolver of disputes. 3. a. A person who formulates or supports a resolution. In early use: spec. = resolutioner n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > [noun] > one who makes or supports a resolution resolvera1699 resolutioner1816 resolutionist1818 a1699 J. Kirkton Secret & True Hist. Church Scotl. (1817) 54 The division of the church betwixt protesters and resolvers continued..for six or seven years. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 19 Though from human Infirmity the Resolver himself has sometimes forgot his vow. 1820 tr. J. J. von Görres Germany & Revol. in Pamphleteer 15 547 As was the case in England, the Protesters and Resolvers will be succeeded by the Millenians, who acknowledge no government. 1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 757 All these addressers and resolvers were taken in. 1873 Old & New June 675/2 Let the resolver ally himself, for his resolution, with as large a company as he can. 1918 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 11 Feb. 3/3 The Gene Stachler club was the King of all resolvers. It used to employ Stuart Booth to do nothing else but compile dignified and forceful resolutions. b. A person who has made a resolution (in later use esp. a New Year resolution). Cf. resolutionist n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > one who consciously intends something willer1435 meaner1532 resolver1758 resolutioner1908 1758 S. Johnson Idler xxviii, in Payne's Universal Chron. 14–21 Oct. 225/2 Habit is commonly too strong for the most resolute resolver though furnished for the assault with all the weapons of Philosophy. 1903 St. Nicholas Jan. 273/1 Typewritten resolves..observed only in a chance fashion, when the case in hand and the resolve happen to connect without any real effort on the part of the resolver. 1971 Transcript (North Adams, Mass.) 4 Jan. 12/3 A common form of resolution is the one where the resolver vows that he will refrain in the coming year from losing his temper. 1997 Church Times 3 Jan. 24/4 I am past resolution. Or rather, I am more a daily than a yearly resolver, getting up each morning determined to do this and not do that. 4. Electrical Engineering. A form of transformer used for measuring angular position, typically having a stator and a rotor and originally used for converting from polar to Cartesian coordinates. More widely: any electronic device which resolves an input signal into different components. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > [noun] > vector > transformer of resolver1946 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > device receiving signal > resolving into components resolver1975 1946 Aeronaut. Engin. Rev. June 5 Group of small synchros called ‘Precision Autosyns’ are now being manufactured in three basic types: transmitter or receiver, differential, and sine-cosine generator or resolver. 1970 Basic Electr. (U.S. Bur. Naval Personnel) (ed. 2) xxi. 435/1 The inputs to the resolver are (1) the magnitude of the value expressed as a voltage; and (2) its direction expressed as a mechanical rotation. 1975 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 29/1 The Neal resolver, for example, sorts out the signals from a stereo amplifier and passes to the rear loudspeakers the out-of-phase information—the peripheral elements of the sound. 1992 A. H. Slocum Precision Machine Design iii. 150 For applications to machine tools, resolvers generally provide better accuracy and resolution than synchros. 2003 G. W. Younkin Industr. Servo Control Syst. (ed. 2) iii. 33 The resolver is used..in position servos as applied to industrial controls. 5. Computing. A piece of software which enables a client to translate a domain name into an IP address, typically by means of a local cache or of the domain name system. More fully DNS resolver. ΚΠ 1983 J. Postel Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 881. 3 A host..makes a request on the domain server each time a name must be translated to an address. The code module in the host that implements the protocol to do this is called a ‘resolver’. The resolver may keep a cache of recently translated names and addresses for improved performance. 1988 Network World (Nexis) 29 Feb. 29 The resolver gives Fusion the ability to locate a network server to obtain listings of network addresses. 1995 A. N. Grosch Libr. Information Technol. & Networks iv. 162 The resolver finds out who provides ‘edu’ or another domain's services. Then, it contacts..the domain name server, which supplies it with a list of addresses of servers. 2002 S. Hagen IPv6 Essent. x. 228 An IPv6/IPv4 node needs a DNS resolver that is capable of resolving both types of DNS address records. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?a1450 |
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