单词 | separate table |
释义 | > as lemmasseparate table b. Belonging or peculiar to one, not common to or shared with the other or the others. In a hotel or boarding-house: separate table. Also spec. of rooms, etc., to which each of a married couple retires separately.separate maintenance: see maintenance n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > own > own private privyc1300 private1442 appropriate1628 separate1673 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adjective] > special or private sunderlyeOE sundrilyeOE singularc1380 private1526 alonely1567 sole1597 separate1673 exclusive1765 secluded1790 undivided1867 1673 W. Temple Let. to Duke Ormond in Wks. (1757) II. 235 This point can only be gained by a separate peace between us and Holland; for if the war should come to end in a general treaty [etc.]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Separate, distinct, particular, different. 1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 86 Have not those two Realms their separate Maxims of Policy, which must operate in Times of Peace? 1756 F. Brooke et al. Old Maid 15, 86 I have proposed separate beds, but that he will never hear of. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 268 That each of them should act his separate part, with honour and integrity to the public. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiv. 111 ‘Kind host,’ he said, ‘our needs require A separate board and separate fire.’ 1817 J. Austen Let. 20 Feb. (1995) 330 I wd recommend to her & Mr D. the simple regimen of separate rooms. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. xiv. 341 Each pressed forward upon his separate object. 1838 H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Trav. I. 236 We..had..a separate table, at Mrs. Peyton's boarding-house. 1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 514/2 One poem, which..has a characteristic or separate beauty of its own. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xiii. 84 A married woman, although having separate estate, and living apart from her husband. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 Luther and Calvin in their separate ways brought into splendid prominence their new ideas of moral order. 1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide 1008 (advt.) White Lion... Coffee Room (separate tables), Billiard Room. 1971 J. Fleming Grim Death xi. 161 A Private Hotel on the sea-front where they had dinner at night and separate tables. 1977 C. Storr Tales from Psychiatrist's Couch iv. 36 She sleeps in a twin bed in London, but in the cottage we have separate rooms. < as lemmas |
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