英语词汇“seventeen-foot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventeen of the specified thing’, as in seventeen-foot, seventeen-mile, etc. Also forming adjectives with the sense ‘having seventeen ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in seventeen-branched, seventeen-sided, etc.

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1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained i. 16 The Doctor made the experiment on the papers of Mr. Senex's seventeen inch globe; and found the sea papers to weigh 349 grains, and the land only 124.

1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. iv. 438 Gilbert Macdoual..who held the seventeen-mark lands.

1861 H. Hagen Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer. 207 Sector 1 seventeen-branched.

1866 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 815/1 One of them was a loud-mouthed fellow, who, having elaborated some thousand or so of his seventeen-syllabled imprecations to the other, had stopped to rest.

1875 C. Pfoundes Fu-so Mimi Bukuro 30 Hokku is the five, seven and five, or seventeen syllable poem.

1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 29 June 4/5 The seventeen-foot Union Jack.

1954 K. Vonnegut Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 159 He bought whatever caught his fancy, a twenty-three-room house outside Chicago, a seventeen-room house in Miami.

1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxxvi. 870 Gauss invented the method of least squares and at nineteen he showed that the 17-sided regular polygon is constructible.

1992 News of World 15 Nov. 38/1 I worked 17-hour days, seven days a week just to keep my head above water.

2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) vii. 123 The salt producers built a seventeen-mile wall.., which prevents the flooding of 4,400 acres of salt ponds.

单词	seventeen-foot
释义	> as lemmas seventeen-foot b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventeen of the specified thing’, as in seventeen-foot, seventeen-mile, etc. Also forming adjectives with the sense ‘having seventeen ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in seventeen-branched, seventeen-sided, etc. ΚΠ 1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained i. 16 The Doctor made the experiment on the papers of Mr. Senex's seventeen inch globe; and found the sea papers to weigh 349 grains, and the land only 124. 1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. iv. 438 Gilbert Macdoual..who held the seventeen-mark lands. 1861 H. Hagen Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer. 207 Sector 1 seventeen-branched. 1866 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 815/1 One of them was a loud-mouthed fellow, who, having elaborated some thousand or so of his seventeen-syllabled imprecations to the other, had stopped to rest. 1875 C. Pfoundes Fu-so Mimi Bukuro 30 Hokku is the five, seven and five, or seventeen syllable poem. 1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 29 June 4/5 The seventeen-foot Union Jack. 1954 K. Vonnegut Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 159 He bought whatever caught his fancy, a twenty-three-room house outside Chicago, a seventeen-room house in Miami. 1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxxvi. 870 Gauss invented the method of least squares and at nineteen he showed that the 17-sided regular polygon is constructible. 1992 News of World 15 Nov. 38/1 I worked 17-hour days, seven days a week just to keep my head above water. 2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) vii. 123 The salt producers built a seventeen-mile wall.., which prevents the flooding of 4,400 acres of salt ponds. extracted from seventeenadj.n. < as lemmas
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