| 单词 | sand-table |
| 释义 | > as lemmassand-table sand-table n. (a) a sand-covered surface on which letters or designs can be drawn and erased or models placed and removed; (b) = sand-trap n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > strainer sand-table1812 knotter1875 sieve-plate1891 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > [noun] > on a surface > types of picture card1707 sand-table1812 inset1881 shadowgraph1886 shadow-picture1889 sand-tray1893 cutout1905 standee1930 punch-out1934 pictograph1937 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > other materials for writing on > [noun] sand-table1812 ostracon1853 writing bed1891 sand-tray1893 1812 N. J. Hollingsworth Address Madras Syst. Educ. p. ix To the finger and sand-table may succeed the pencil and slate. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 728/2 To get rid of them [sc. impurities] the esparto pulp when washed and bleached is run from the potcher into storage chests, from which it is pumped over a long, narrow serpentine settling table or ‘sand-table’. 1928 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 4/4 A thorough groundwork of tactical knowledge has been formed by sand-table and week-end schemes during the winter. 1955 F. G. Patton Good Morning, Miss Dove 13 One group..modelled clay caribou for the sand table. 1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 67 With rifflers and sand tables the stock is passed at approximately 0·5% consistency along narrow channels. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 423 The sand table is a very ancient device and may be referred to by Isaiah ‘Now go write it before them in a table’. 1971 J. Wainwright Last Buccaneer ii. 243 ‘What..is a sand-table?’..‘It's usually a tray, filled with sand. The army uses them. It's possible to mould the sand into the contours of geographic locations for demonstrating military tactics.’ < as lemmas |
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