单词 | squarer |
释义 | squarern. 1. a. One who reduces wood, stone, etc., to a square form. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who shapes > specific shape squarer1422 bower1579 baller1825 fluter1858 beveller?1881 rounder?1881 slabber1921 1422–3 Foreign Acc. 1 Hen. VI i Carpentarii vocati fellers & squarers. 1440 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 29 Hewerrys of wode with axe and squarerys of tymbyr with chippynge axe. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Quadratarius, a squarer of marble. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Esquarrisseur, a squarer of stones, or timber. 1664 Keymer's Observ. Dutch Fishing 7 She imployeth..at Land..also Squarers of Timber,.. Carpenters, Shipwrights, Smiths. b. With out (see quot. 1611). ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Squadra mondi, a squarer out of worlds, an Astrologer. c. One who aims at squaring the circle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] > one who reasons > so as to square circle squarer1852 1852 Sir W. R. Hamilton Let. 15 Apr. in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 350 A squarer of the circle said to me..about some three lines [etc.]. 1865 De Morgan in Athenæum Oct. 504 The new squarer who advertises..that, having read that the circular ratio was undetermined [etc.]. 1879 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 293 Mathematicians do not stop to argue with squarers of the circle or with reasoners that the earth is flat. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person conteckerc1300 brawler1377 strivera1400 debater1413 tuilyier1444 briguer1496 Sir Wrig-wraga1529 brabbler1570 squarer1600 pickeerer1656 rafflerc1750 roit1825 pickeer1888 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 77 Is there no yong squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the diuell? View more context for this quotation Categories » 3. Scottish. ‘One who squares his elbows for fighting; a sparrer’ (Ogilvie, 1850). 4. Electronics. A device that converts a sinusoidal or other periodic wave into a square wave of the same period. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > rectifier rectifier1895 metal rectifier1927 phanotron1931 ignitron1933 squarer1965 1965 Wireless World Aug. 402/1 If the square wave output is integrated and used to bias the first transistor, and if the squarer is d.c. coupled throughout and has an odd number of stages, then the feedback maintains the mark-to-space ratio constant. 1971 Physics Bull. July 427/1 The basic module was an inverter and was demonstrated as a squarer, then two or more were joined together to produce various logic gates and multivibrators. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1422 |
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