单词 | several-fold |
释义 | several-foldadj.adv.n. Used like manifold adv., but with the implication of not very many. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adverb] > many times several-fold1738 multiply1881 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adjective] somec950 somea1122 sundryc1275 diverse1387 divers1393 diverse and sundry1484 plurala1538 various and sundry1652 several?1661 several-fold1833 pluralistic1837 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [noun] pluralitya1398 multiplicityc1454 moreness1611 manya1620 plural1655 multeity1814 several-fold1892 1738 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope (ed. 2) I. 194 Some of the grown Women have above a Hundred of those Rings upon each Leg, lying several-fold one upon another. 1833 T. Carlyle Count Cagliostro in Fraser's Mag. July 26/2 As for the other question, of his resources, these we perceive were several-fold, and continually extending. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 33 In P[eperomia] magnoliifolia and rubella, it [the epidermis] exceeds several-fold the rest of the substance of the leaf, and in P. pereskiifolia it exceeds it seven-fold. 1892 Advance (Chicago) 13 Oct. There is a growing interest in the cause, and..we may look for an increase of severalfold. 1945 Times 7 Aug. 4/2 The Secretary of War..said later that an improved bomb would be forthcoming soon. It would increase by ‘severalfold’ the present effectiveness of the new weapon. 1979 Nature 29 Mar. 468/1 The rate of protein synthesis increases severalfold during the early cleavage stages. 1981 Spectator 7 Nov. 29 The reasons were severalfold. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.adv.n.1738 |
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