单词 | seriate |
释义 | seriateadj. Chiefly Zoology and Botany. Arranged or occurring in one or more series or rows. Cf. seriated adj.Occasionally with preceding numeral indicating the number of series or rows.bi-, pluri-, triseriate, etc.: see the first element. See also multiseriate adj., uniseriate adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [adjective] arranged1489 ranged1530 ranked1550 well-marshalled1594 renged1609 marshalled1726 tiered1807 ordinate1826 seriate1845 seriated1853 1845 Calcutta Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 5 89 (note) Sheaths with very oblique mouths, excessively armed with the usual seriate thorns. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 137 Sedum acre..leaves obscurely 6-seriate. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxvi. 289 The remainder was a mere question of time and natural seriate changes. 1938 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 25 722 From Mt. Rea-Cooper, a bright vivid green form with short-tufted stem and flexuous, scarcely seriate leaves. 1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 656 Independent leucogranite rocks..have aplitic, equigranular, porphyritic, seriate, and pegmatitic textures. 2005 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 92 941 Within Marcgraviaceae, wide rays (more than five-seriate) are typical of the genus Marcgravia. Derivatives ˈseriately adv. in a series or row. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [adverb] a-rowa1300 a-rankc1300 alinec1400 elynec1480 a-ray1570 seriately1846 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 266 Disks seriately and reticulately budding. 1902 Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 2 166 Vesicle coarsely and seriately granular below. 1920 Chem. & Metall. Engin. 23 641/2 The following matters are discussed seriately: Types of research laboratories; co-operative laboratories; [etc.]. 2007 Bryologist 110 6/2 Stem leaves not or obscurely seriately ranked when dry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). seriatev. transitive. To arrange (items) in a sequence according to prescribed criteria. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > arrange in sequence or series [verb (transitive)] filec1470 settle1551 serialize1852 seriate1878 sequence1954 1878 W. Maccall tr. C. Letourneau Biology i. i. 8 This notion of autosaturation has enabled us to systematise a quantity of facts of organic chemistry, to create rationally new compounds, to classify and to seriate [Fr. sérier] groups. 1901 Amer. Anthropologist 3 603 In phytonomy time as causation steps to the front and heredity is the theme, for new individuals are seriated by heredity from generation to generation. 1944 Genetics 29 526 We shall refer to these and other genes in the series, requiring testers to distinguish them and to seriate them, as iso-alleles. 1968 D. L. Clarke Analyt. Archaeol. ii. xi. 453 Initially, the matrix technique was devised for seriating assemblages in terms of their proportions of component types. 1995 J. H. Schwartz Skeleton Keys vii. 210/1 If one is fortunate to have in the sample under study individuals in whom teeth are still erupting or growing in the jaws and these individuals can be seriated by dental age, one can construct a tooth-wear chronology. 2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Style section) c11 Paper dolls and Barbie clothes let 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds sort, seriate and classify colors and styles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1845v.1878 |
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