| 单词 | short head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort head short head n. (a) Physical Anthropology a brachycephalic person; (b) Horse Racing a distance less than the length of a horse's head; a horse that has lost by a short head; also attributive and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > distance between two horses horse-head1623 nose1851 neck1865 short head1883 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > horse by performance lightweight1773 sticker1779 maiden1807 favourite1813 mile-horse1829 outsider1836 heavyweight1857 stayer1862 stoner1862 rank outsider1869 pick1872 pot1874 timer1881 resurrectionist1883 short head1883 pea1888 cert1889 stiffa1890 wrong 'un1889 on the mark1890 place horse1890 top-weight1892 miler1894 also-ran1895 selection1901 loser1902 hotpot1904 roughie1908 co-favourite1922 readier1922 springer1922 fav1935 scratch1938 no-hoper1943 shoo-in1950 scorer1974 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > that finishes in particular position throw-in1855 short head1883 place horse1890 whipper-in1892 also-ran1895 loser1902 scorer1974 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [noun] > types of skull > person having macrocephalus1626 long head1650 microcephalus1848 brachycephales1863 dolichocephali1863 brachistocephali1866 mecistocephali1866 Mesocephali1866 roundhead1867 microcephale1873 microcephalic1873 dolichocephal1876 mesorrhinian1878 mesocephal1883 short head1883 mesorrhine1885 platyrrhine1886 brachycephal1901 1883 J. Greenwood Odd People 107 Fancy him having that horribly anathematized ‘short head’ all his own and in hand to do as he likes with—to revile it, and punch it. 1892 Athenæum 3 Dec. 781/3 The long-headed race kept up a desultory warfare with the short-heads for many years. 1898 A. E. T. Watson Turf 133 There are legends of judges having made mistakes in short head verdicts. 1921 Daily Mail Year Bk. 79/1 His stable companion Comrade beat Embry by a short-head. 1928 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 10/2 To get her home by as much as half a length, although you would have thought that there was only time for a short head victory. 1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms vii. 55 Teckla took the lead on the straight and won by a short-head from Bomba II. 1976 Ld. Home Way Wind Blows xiii. 186 Had these two pulled their weight, I have no doubt at all that our short-head defeat would have been converted into a narrow victory, and a win at that time for the Conservative Party could well have smashed the Socialists. 1977 Irish Times 8 June 2/1 Frozen Tiger beat the flying outsider, Poppy Fields, by a diminishing short head. < as lemmas |
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