单词 | salt water |
释义 | salt watern.adj. A. n. a. (with stress salt ˈwater). Water impregnated with salt; sea-water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > salt brinea1000 salt watera1000 run1440 brine-water1594 rin1787 the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > from the sea seawaterc1000 salt waterc1440 salt or bitter sea1602 stay-liquor1682 seawaters1706 a1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxxvi. 13 Sweg micel sealtera wætera. a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 151 Ðe wop þe man wepeð for his agene sinne is swiðe biter alse saltwater. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 441/1 Salt water, or see water, Nereis. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 129 Gonnepoudre wett in saltwater. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/1 Saltewater, saulmevre. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 37v I laboured no otherwise then..he that hauing sore eyes rubbeth them with salt water. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 268 Salt-waters, out of which they boile salt. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 5 By watering the place with brine or Salt water. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 8 Seeng his Spot of Territory incircled with Salt-water. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 368/2 Hot parts of the world where the soil is saline or there is salt water in the vicinity. b. Applied humorously to tears. (See salt n.1 2e.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > a tear > tears watereOE salt waterc1400 moisture?c1425 brine1594 rheum1597 dew1598 lachrymas1602 c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15694 He wepis..Many a tere of salt watir. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 71 How much salt water cast away in waste, To season loue, that of loue doth not taste. View more context for this quotation 1612 J. Webster White Divel K 'Faith, for some few howers salt water will runne most plentifully in euery Office o' th Court. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 128 Let us hear what all this salt water is about. c. Applied to the sea. Hence, a jocular form of address to a sailor. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] sea-floodc893 brimc937 streamc950 foamOE mereOE seaOE sea of (the) oceanc1300 brookc1400 float1477 strand1513 breec1540 burnc1540 broth1558 Thetisie1600 fishpond1604 brine1605 pond1612 Thetisc1620 brack1627 herring-pond1686 tide1791 black water1816 lave1825 briny1831 salt water1839 blue1861 swan's bath1865 puddle1869 ditch1922 oggin1945 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] shipmanc900 seamanOE buscarlOE shipperc1100 ship-gumec1275 marinerc1300 skipper1390 marinela1400 waterman1421 maryneller1470 seafarer1513 sea-fardingera1550 navigator1574 marinec1575 sailer1585 Triton1589 Neptunist1593 canvas-climber1609 sea-crab1609 tar-lubber1610 Neptunian1620 salt-rover1620 sailora1642 tarpaulin1647 otter1650 water dog1652 tarpauliana1656 Jack1659 tar1676 sea-animal1707 Jack tar1709 sailor-man1761 tarry-breeks1786 hearty1790 ocean-farera1806 tarry-jacket1822 Jacky1826 nautical1831 salt water1839 matelotc1847 knight of the tar-brush1866 main-yard man1867 gobby1883 tarry-John1888 blue jersey1889 lobscouser1889 flat-foot1897 handyman1899 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. vi. 111 ‘Hark'ee, Ben,’ said the old sailor,..‘you may try, but dash my timbers if you'll ever cross the Thames to-night.’ ‘And why not, old saltwater?’ inquired Ben. 1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet I. xv. 253 When this sun will have disappeared behind the salt-water. B. adj. (with stress ˈsalt-water). a. Of, relating to, consisting of, or living in salt water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > salt salt water1528 salt-watery1812 the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > consisting of or containing water > salt salt water1796 1528 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 2232 The warffs gittes and saltwater bancks, beginning at Calais and continuing to Graveling. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 65 Notable Pyrate, thou salt-water Theefe. View more context for this quotation 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 129 Salt water ditches between Greenwich and Woolwich. 1810 W. Scott Let. 19 July (1932) II. 359 The salt-water loch called Loch an Gaoil. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table i. 10 It does not follow that I wish to be pickled in brine because I like a salt-water plunge at Nahant. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xii. 384 Salt~water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to live in fresh water. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends i. iv The train..crossing the Harlem, skirts that pretty little salt water river. b. In specific names of sea animals. ΚΠ 1828 H. Davy Salmonia (1840) 72 The salt-water louse adheres to his sides. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 405 The bluefish, which is called the ‘Salt water Tailor’. 1892 Chambers's Encycl. at Terrapin The terrapin par excellence is the Malacoclemmys palustris, the diamond-back salt~water terrapin. c. Caribbean and U.S. (originally colonial). Designating a person who was born abroad or is a recent immigrant.ⓘRecorded earliest in salt-water Negro.In early use often with reference to enslaved people not born in the Caribbean or United States. See salt-water Creole n., salt-water Negro n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [adjective] > relating to immigrants > types of immigrant salt water1708 transplanted1765 new chum1865 first-generation1896 second-generation1928 totok1963 1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. II. v. 122 The Creolian Negroes are every way preferable to the new Comers, (which they call Salt-Water Negroes). 1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 93 If I had my will there should never be a salt-water man employed in the States. 1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom xxi. 323 The salt water slave who hung in the guards of a steamer..has, by the publicity given to the circumstance, set a spy on the guards of every steamer departing from southern ports. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 39 Irish informants use turkey and saltwater turkey to designate a recent immigrant. 2011 @ImpData 14 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 23 Nov. 2020) Big ups to all my salt water trinis out here on twitter lol aka trini americans. d. saltwater taffy (taffy n.11, variant form of toffee n.) U.S., a type of confectionery made chiefly from corn syrup and sugar, frequently sold at North-eastern (chiefly New Jersey) seaside resorts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee taffy1817 Everton toffee1822 toffeea1825 hardbake1825 stickjaw1827 tom trot1829 tameletjie1838 butterscotch1847 peanut candy1856 caramel1884 treacle toffee1885 Harrogate toffee1890 brittle1892 peanut brittle1892 saltwater taffy1894 brickle1907 spin1913 hokey-pokey1939 1894 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 July 410/1 (caption) The representation of a four masted schooner with the words ‘The Original Atlantic City Salt Water Taffy’. 1910 H. T. Peck New Baedeker ii. vi. 309 And there are also itinerant venders of every sort of edible..from ‘salt-water taffy’..down to peanuts and ‘hot dogs’. 1933 National Geographic Mag. May 520/2 Next to the visitor, Atlantic City's biggest ‘Industry’ is the making and shipping of ‘salt-water taffy’. Legend says that in the early eighties a man had a candy stand on the beach. One day an unusually high tide splashed over a batch of old-fashioned, pulled taffy on a slab. Being an enterprising person, he told his customers that he had something new—‘salt-water taffy’. 1954 W. Richmond Choice Confections xxi. 385 This formula produces a salt water taffy or kiss of very fine quality... The formula can be used for regular kiss-shaped pieces or long sticks of salt water taffy. 1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 65 Through the grimy windows of the salt-water taffy counter you see the cold steel arms of the taffy puller motionless and empty-handed. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 48 Vermont cheese and maple syrup, salt-water taffy along the New Jersey shore..are all specialties of their respective regions. Derivatives salt-watery adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > salt salt water1528 salt-watery1812 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 167 All very greasy, blowsy, dabby, dusty, salt-watery, and so on. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.a1000 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。