单词 | side sketch |
释义 | > as lemmasside sketch g. With the sense ‘seen from the side; (of a drawing, plan, etc.) showing the side of something; in profile’, as side aspect, side elevation, side sketch, etc.Recorded earliest in side-face n. See also side view n. ΚΠ 1650 J. Lightfoot Temple xxxviii. 244 I have one reason to conjecture that they [sc. carved figures] had foure heads as well as foure faces, because it will otherwise be very harsh to imagine how his fore-face and right side-face should be set to looke before and behinde. 1771 G. Marshall tr. A. B. Desgodets Anc. Buildings Rome I. i. 8 The fourth plate represents the side-elevation of the whole temple and portico. 1838 W. H. Leeds Britton's Illustr. Public Buildings of London (ed. 2) II. 81 If the ‘extraneous pile’ on the top of the building..is offensive in a front view, it gives an air of picturesque grandeur to the side aspects. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 509 Fig. 1193. represents this twin furnace in a side elevation. 1893 Decorator & Furnisher Mar. 216/1 The suite is completed by the small side sketch of the chimney-piece to match. 1905 Aeronaut. Jrnl. Apr. 32/1 In Fig. I., of which Fig. II. is a side diagram, A and B are two rotating fans on the same horizontal shaft. 2010 Victorian July 22/4 The simple basilican-plan building is in a crowded residential area but its side elevations have tall two-light Gothic windows. < as lemmas |
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