单词 | squaring |
释义 | squaringn. 1. a. The action of making square or of reducing to a square form. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > squaring squaringc1440 swardingc1480 quaring1611 the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > quadrilateral > square > making square squaringc1440 squaring1611 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 471 Squarynge, quadracio, conquadracio. 1476–7 Sarum Ch.-w. Accs. (Swayne, 1896) 363 The fellyng of ij Elms and swaryng, iiijd. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 155/1 Now consider, that ye make him by & by fall to ye squaryng of his stones. 1552–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 52 Thomas Watson carpender for ye squarynge, framynge, and settinge up..a wall of..timbre. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 198 Ordnance of brasse..very well proportioned in bore and squaring. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 92 The Squaring the Face and Stems of the Punch. 1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 32 Enough for squaring of this Rail. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 125 Squaring by the lifts makes them [sc. yards] horizontal. b. With off, out, or up. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > quadrilateral > square > making square squaringc1440 squaring1611 (a) (b)1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 294 Squaring-off, in ship-building, signifies plugging off and otherwise tightening the treenails [etc.].a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 849/2 Squaring~off Saw, a circular saw,.. to square the ends of work.(c)1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 501 When the works are planed with rebates, grooves, or mouldings, the squaring up of the four sides is always the preliminary step.1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.Q 16. 1 It is capable of performing..grooving, tongueing, and squaring-up.1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2813/2 The squaring-up and facing tables are on the other side.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Equarrissement, a measuring, or squaring out, by a Squire. c. The manner in which a thing is squared or set square. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at right angles to something > [noun] > manner in which something is set square squaring1832 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. xviii. 279 Look at..the squaring of her topsails. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] sakea1000 chestc1000 pleac1275 threapa1300 noisec1300 checkc1330 debate1340 chopping1377 controversyc1384 briguea1398 tuilyieing1444 quarrellingc1460 lite1493 frayinga1500 falling out1539 square1545 overthwarting1552 mutiny1567 squaring1579 debatement1590 swaggeringa1596 quarrel1605 simultation1605 warbling1632 barrating1635 throwing1897 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 198 Hannibal hearing of their iarre and squaring together, sought straight oportunitie to make their discord finely to serue his turne. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Rissa,..a quarrell,..a strife, a squaring. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. ix. 515 All the centuries besides without any squaring and variance elected the very same. 1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. 153 Hee desired and sought some pretext..to bolster out and apologize his iarring and squaring with his wife. 3. Multiplication of a number by itself. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself quadratec1450 squaring1579 affection?1683 figurationa1690 involution1706 exponentiation1903 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 52 Multiplication of moytie in itselfe whiche I name Squaring. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 70 Performed by squaring, cubing, biquadrating, etc. of the terms. 4. The process of finding a square equivalent to another magnitude. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > action or process > finding square equivalent quadrature1569 squaring1704 tetragonism1704 quadrability1743 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The Quadrature or Squaring of the Circle, is the finding a Square equal to the Area of a Circle. 1798 C. Hutton Course Math. II. 95 It seems intended to make an allowance for the squaring of the tree. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. ii. 22 Several articles on angular sections, and the squaring of curves. 1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. ii. 36 This is the celebrated problem of the Squaring of the Circle. 5. Adaptation, adjustment. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] commodation1578 justing1582 suiting1601 adaptation1610 adapting1610 accommodation1612 adaption1615 adjustment1644 contemperation1654 squaring1702 adaptment1786 adjustage1819 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > adjustment for accuracy or smooth operation squaring1838 truing1852 tuning1863 calibrating1897 fine tuning1915 tune-up1933 tune1971 tweaking1975 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 362 The squaring of a man's thoughts, wishes, and desires to the lot that providence has set out for us, is both a blessing and a duty. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. ii. 238 I do not understand this new-fangled policy—this squaring of measures, to please the opposition. 6. Assumption of a boxing attitude. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > taking up fighting attitude squaring1850 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. xxxix. 380 He..started..into what is called an attitude of self-defence, and..began the operation which is entitled ‘squaring’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). squaringadj.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelsome sakfulc1000 strifefula1382 litigiousc1384 barratous1430 tuilyier-like1444 mellyvousc1450 toilousc1450 debatous1483 debatefula1492 sturtinga1500 squaringc1530 striving1530 contentious1533 factious1533 quarrellous?1567 quarrelsome1576 bateful1582 mutinous1589 discordful1596 tuilyiesomec1598 brabbling1603 bangling1615 brangling1621 rixosous1623 pugnacious1642 stickling1642 pugnatory1656 litigiose1677 vitilitigious1683 fire-eating1811 wranglesome1817 vitilitigating1819 combativea1834 brawlsome1845 battlesome1877 fighty1888 scrappy1895 tasty1974 c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Piij If thou be besy, or squarynge of langage Thou mayst peraduenture walke on ye same passage. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Sj v Nay holla squaring Dick, I am no but for euerie boult. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Dissentioso,..contentious, squaring, quarrelsome. 2. squaring band, squaring piece (see quots.). ΚΠ c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 The topmasts have squaring pieces at the heel, to fit the mast hole. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 399/1 Upon the under side of the carriage there are wheels placed in a horizontal position, round which the ‘squaring bands’ are passed. 3. That multiplies a quantity by itself. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > multiple > multiplying > by itself squaring1961 1961 Technology Feb. 44/2 An automatic neon overload indicator..detects signal peaks exceeding the range of the squaring unit. 1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 514 The squaring map a→a2, determined by this Jordan product, is the same as that determined by functional calculus. 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