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单词 round-nosed
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round-nosedadj.

Brit. /ˌraʊn(d)ˈnəʊzd/, U.S. /ˈraʊn(d)ˌnoʊzd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: round adj., nosed adj.
Etymology: < round adj. + nosed adj. Compare later round-nose adj.
1. Of a person or an animal: having a round nose or a round snout.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose > having
cammed?c1350
camoised1393
nosed?1440
hook-nosed1519
snat-nosed1519
flat-nosed1530
bottle-nosed1566
chamoy-nosed1598
saddle-nosed1598
swine-snouted1600
camois-nosed1601
round-nosed1611
nosy1620
flat-nose1636
simous1656
sharp-nosed1675
tutty-nosed1681
Roman-nosed1688
snut-nosed1706
snub-nosed1725
camois1745
blunt-nosed1772
pug-nosed1788
snipy1825
button-nosed1830
nip-nosed1831
leptorrhinian1878
leptorrhine1880
snub1883
knob-nosed1886
long-nose1896
Tartar-nosed1897
Ally Sloper1901
beaky-nosed1923
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Teste de Moine, a kind of blunt, and round-nosed Porpose.
1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 8 Round-nosed Whale.
1847 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 2 Oct. 209/1 She was, so to say, more ladylike than Grace—a laughing, mischievous, blue-eyed, round-nosed little person.
1910 R. L. Ditmars Reptiles of World ii. 69 (table) Caiman latirostris, Round-nosed Caiman.
2003 Independent on Sunday 9 Feb. 15/1 The vessels' vast nets are dragged along the seabed in the hunt for fish such as round-nosed grenadier (hoki).
2. Esp. of a tool: having a rounded end or edge. Cf. round tool n. at round adj. Compounds 2a.
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the world > space > shape > bluntness > [adjective] > having blunt end
pointlessc1330
unpointed1608
round-nosed1678
probe-pointed1748
round-nose1851
snoutless1862
blunt-pointed1881
butt-ended1892
blunt-topped1908
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 6 Plyers are of two sorts, Flat Nos'd and Round Nos'd.
1682 A. Martindale Countrey-surv.-bk. viii. 53 Good Iron-wyre, and curtain Rings to make it of, and a sharp edged File, and round nosed Plyars to make it with.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 337/1 It is blunt, or round nosed, with a little mouth.
1836 Sat. Mag. 17 Sept. 110/2 Here is a bit of soft brass-wire about one-eighth of an inch thick, and with these ‘round-nosed pliers’, as the workmen call them, I twist it into a neat little ring.
1898 Archaeol. Jrnl. 5 270 Among the relics were a few stone hammers or polishers, a number of ‘round-nosed’ chisels of bone.
1914 A. A. Dowd Machining Tapered & Spherical Surfaces (‘Machinery’ Ref. Bk. No. 121) ii. 29 The two round-nosed tools B were mounted on the tool-slide C and held in the ordinary manner.
1988 Guns & Weapons Winter 25/2 The other .38 pill was a bevel based round nosed bullet of a nominal 158 grains.
2004 A. Benson New Beadweaving 13 Round-nosed pliers are used mainly for forming loops in wire eye pins and head pins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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