| 单词 | single-boating |
| 释义 | > as lemmassingle-boating a. With present participles, as single-cutting, single-driving, single-living, single-shooting. Also with verbal nouns, as single-boating, single-manning, single-spacing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing in company > not sailing in company single-boating1934 society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > spacing between lines single-spacing1956 triple spacing1957 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > operating vehicle alone single-manning1965 1563 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xxxv. 349 Single-living men, that is to say, unmaried, and especially unmaried priests. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 549 The cone countersink may be viewed as a multiplication of the common single-cutting drill. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 559 Single-driving rear-steerers were at this time [1877] very common. 1891 Daily News 4 Feb. 3/3 All magazine rifles must be more costly than single-shooting rifles. 1934 W. Wood Fleeters iv. 59 Men who are only used to Iceland and single-boatin' aren't any good at this fleetin' job. 1956 F. C. Avis Bookman's Concise Dict. 273/1 Single spacing, the style of typewriting in which the lines of characters follow immediately after each other without any interlinear spacing, equivalent to ‘Solid’ typesetting. 1958 E. Newby Short Walk in Hindu Kush ii. 21 A great spate of letters..neatly typed in single spacing. 1965 Times 22 Oct. 8/7 The proposal that single manning of locomotives should be introduced within a year or two. 1973 Guardian 31 Dec. 13/8 London Transport..has launched..single-manning... But the single~manned buses..take up to five times as long at stops. 1978 Church Times 21 July 5/4 A letter of more than two pages in single-spacing. < as lemmas |
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