单词 | rivalry |
释义 | rivalryn. 1. a. The action of rivalling; competition; the state of being rivals, an instance of this.sibling rivalry: see sibling n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] rivality1528 strife1530 envy1541 emulation1552 contention1576 pinglinga1578 countermatch1581 paragon1590 competency1594 corrivality1598 rivalry1598 concurrence1603 contestation1603 competitiona1608 rivalling1607 concurrency1609 strift1612 corrivalry1614 rivalty1631 contest1648 corrivalty1649 coping1678 co-rivalry1835 rivalism1850 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H8 Who enuies him? not I, For well he may, without all riualrie. 1613 T. Adams White Deuil 8 Let Rome haue the praise without our enuie or riualrie. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 208 Such a wonder of Ugliness..might more aptly have contended in Rivalry with some of Pluto's fiends for deformity. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 101 Those Antagonists who by their Rivalry for Greatness divided a whole Age. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxviii. 23 From those early marriages proceeds likewise the rivalry of parents and children. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. i. 18 Jealousies, rivalries, envy, intervene to separate others from our side. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xviii. 276 The innate selfishness and rivalry of human nature. 1918 R. H. Knyvett ‘Over There’ with Australians xvii. 133 There was a good deal of rivalry between us and another brigade. 1977 J. McPhee Coming into Country ii. 103 Their rivalry is intense to the point of unseemliness. 1989 Japan Times 16 May 6/2 Political rivalries have sharpened between Serbia..and Slovenia and Croatia. 2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 Jan. 56/3 The biathlon..started out as a friendly rivalry between Norwegian and Swedish border guards. b. Physiology. The alternation of perception between two different images that are presented separately but simultaneously to each eye. More fully binocular rivalry.The phenomenon occurs when the images are sufficiently different to prevent fusion of the two visual fields. It was described by C. Wheatstone in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1838) 128 371, and had been noted earlier by other writers. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers > impairment of perception rivalry1844 psychic blindness1886 agnosia1897 anhedonia1897 astereognosis1900 simultanagnosia1936 prosopagnosia1950 1844 R. Willis tr. R. Wagner Elements Physiol. iii. §2. iii. 593 §335 This harmony of the two retinæ, this capacity to combine double impressions into one, is manifested everywhere in both eyes, a fact which appears especially from the phenomenon that has been spoken of under the title of the rivalry of the fields of vision [Ger. der Wettstreits der Gesichtsfelder]. 1872 Westm. Rev. July 88/2 A very curious instance of the effects of attention is to be found in the so-called ‘rivalry’ (Wettstreit) of the fields of vision. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 431 The phenomenon is something like that of binocular rivalry. 1968 R. L. Vasa in M. A. Whitcomb & W. Benson Symp. Measurem. Visual Function 94 Dr. Enoksson found a correlation between binocular rivalry and stereoscopic acuity. 2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Jan. 36/4 In binocular rivalry a different picture is shown to each eye, but the subject sees only one picture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival > a body of rivalry1802 1802 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. Sept. 114/2 Rivality then ought to class among the abstract, and rivalry among the collective, terms. The apearance [sic] of Ulysses among the suitors of Penelope disappointed the rivality of the whole rivalry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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