单词 | round-nosed |
释义 | round-nosedadj. 1. Of a person or an animal: having a round nose or a round snout. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1611 |
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