| 单词 | sinking-in |
| 释义 | > as lemmassinking-in sinking-in n. (a) caving in, falling inwards; (b) Painting the process by which pigments in an oil painting sink into or become absorbed by the ground; (c) deterioration, reduction; (d) the process of registering something in the mind. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down settlingc1440 sinking1440 declining1601 subsiding1607 subsidency1650 sedation1661 sinking-in1678 subsidence1754 sinkage1783 settlement1793 1678 Extract Jrnls. Two Several Voy. 21 July in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1695) 19 131 We were troubled with Rat-holes in great numbers, like Coney-boroughs, which by the sinking in of the Earth, very much incommoded our Horses and Mules. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Absorptions of the Earth, a term used by Kircher and others, for the sinking in of large tracts of land, by means of subterranean commotions. 1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts I. i. vi. 202 The sinking in of the colours..is attended with several inconveniences. 1937 W. B. Yeats Vision 178 A sinking-in of the body upon its supersensual life. 1939 H. Hubbard Materia Pictoria 231 The chief causes of sinking-in are: (A) The porousness of the Painting-ground or Priming [etc.]. 2001 J. Porter To be Indian i. 23 These were the years of the sinking in of ideas. < as lemmas |
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