| 单词 | sliding scale |
| 释义 | > as lemmassliding scale 8. sliding scale: extracted from slidingadj. a. A sliding rule. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > sliding ruler slide rule1663 sliding rule1663 sliding gauge1683 sliding scale1706 logarithmical scales1728 nonius1732 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sliding-Rules or Scales, are Mathematical Instruments [etc.]. 1788 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 126 A small thermometer with a sliding scale. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2210/2 Sliding-scale, a rule with a sliding member. b. A scale or standard (of payments, wages, etc.) which rises or falls in proportion to, or conversely to, the rise or fall of some other standard. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > measurement or grading according to scale > a scale scale1780 sliding scale1842 1842 C. Guest Jrnl. 14 Feb. (1950) vii. 129 His opinion that in times of scarcity the fixed duty he proposes would have to give way, which is exactly the argument the Tories use when advocating the sliding scale. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 71 Neither do we ascertain what kind of Corn-bill he passed, or wisely-adjusted Sliding-scale. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 183 The agricultural interest suffered…and we owed the latest sliding-scale to their importunities. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 226 Sliding Scale, a mode of regulating the amount of wages in mining districts by taking as a basis for calculation the market value of coal or iron. < as lemmas |
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