单词 | rounding-up machine |
释义 | > as lemmasrounding-up machine rounding up n. (in various senses of the verb); also attributive as rounding-up machine, rounding-up tool, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > round-up rodeo1819 roundup1847 bang-tail muster1870 rounding up1876 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > rounding up calling?a1425 muster1841 roundup1847 mustering1860 rounding up1876 count-muster1891 1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 47/1 The concavity or hollow of the upper stone exceeds that of the convexity or rounding up of the lower. 1871 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1869 II. 276/2 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (41st Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 102) XIII For use in the stock a of a ‘rounding-up’ machine, the knife made with a cylindrical pivot, b, grooved across, substantially as and for the purpose described. 1876 M. Whilldin Descr. Western Texas 16 It soon became evident that a place near us had been selected for ‘rounding up’. 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 134 The fraises do not supersede the Rounding Up Tool. 1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 70 A little rounding up of the abdomen. 1916 Daily News 6 Sept. 4 There can rarely..have been a better example of the insolence of Zabernism than the ‘rounding up’ of crowds of unoffending people at the stations. 1932 W. C. Holden Rollie Burns xiii. 172 Our rounding-up outfit was camped about eight miles from the Yellow House Canyon. 1976 C. Birtwistle Electronic Calculator iii. 35 23 is rounded down to 20 and 28 is rounded up to 30. Where is the critical point at which rounding down changes to rounding up? Obviously it is the half-way mark, 25. 1993 Z. Bauman Postmodern Ethics 228 Mass deportations, roundings-up, hostage-taking and concentration camps are well-remembered as cost-effective. < as lemmas |
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