| 单词 | steel-thin |
| 释义 | > as lemmassteel-thin a. With the sense ‘resembling steel’ (in colour, hardness, etc.), as steel gloss; steel-bright, steel-hard, steel-sharp, steel-straight, steel-strong, steel-thin, adjs.; esp. with names of colour, as steel-black, steel-blue, steel-grey, steel-green adjs. and nouns. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > straightness > [adjective] rightOE straightc1350 rightfulc1384 line-rightc1400 rule-righta1450 streckc1480 unbent1483 straight forth1536 unwried1558 steel-straighta1560 untwisted1575 uncurled1597 rectified1598 cornerless1605 uncrooked1611 unbended1648 retent1656 uninflected1713 curveless1800 arrow-straight1834 unconvoluted1839 unwarped1855 curlless1861 undistorted1881 poker-straight1949 the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective] sharpc825 bitel?c1200 keena1225 carving?c1225 fellc1330 trenchantc1330 snarpc1480 cuttinga1533 tart?a1534 undullc1540 steel-sharpa1560 teen1578 unrebated1579 unbated1604 biting1607 eager?1611 unblunted1656 shrewd1878 cutty1903 the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very iron-hardOE bone?a1300 adamantinea1382 stony?1523 adamant1535 steel-harda1560 buff-hard1589 steely1596 diamantine1605 steela1607 rocked1610 Brazil1635 adamantean1671 osseousa1682 iron1708 ferreous1774 rock-likea1793 cast iron1886 bone-hard1924 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > very strong strongfula1400 steel-stronga1560 Herculean1596 steely1648 the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright > as or with specific things steel-brighta1560 eyebright1607 butter-bright1868 brass-bright1908 the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light > of or like precious stones, metals, or fabrics whiteOE orientc1400 steel-brighta1560 metalline1596 sparry1792 metallic1794 orichalceous1826 the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > dark green steel-greena1560 bottle-green1785 corbeau1810 forest-green1810 rifle green1829 spinach-green1845 pine green1892 army green1897 malachite1900 seaweed-green1937 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > metallic blue steel-bluea1560 iron blue1697 steely-blue1867 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > metallic blue steel-bluea1560 chalybeous1826 the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > iron or steel grey iron-greyeOE irona1398 steel-greya1560 steely1596 steel1851 the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [noun] > typical blackness > as other substances steel-blacka1560 velvet black1646 the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green steel-greena1560 moss green1705 bottle1784 corbeau1810 forest-green1810 rifle green1829 spinach-green1845 hunter's green1872 moss1897 army green1908 jungle green1946 loden1964 a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) x. sig. Ggj Wher neuer cessing soyle doth steelebright stuff send out from mines. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 88 Steel-blue Swallow. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 93 Top of the head..shining steel-black. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 97 Upper parts of the plumage black, with a steel gloss. 1833 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Humming-birds (Naturalist's Libr.: Ornithol. I) I. 146 On the throat is a patch of the clearest violet-blue, shading off to steel-blue on the sides. 1842 E. A. Parnell Elements Chem. Anal. (1845) 273 A steel-gray crust of metallic arsenic. 1882 W. Crookes Dyeing & Tissue-printing 197 Dark Steel Greens on Half Woollens. 1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 548 Manucodia atra is steel-green and black. 1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 8 The adamant core and the steel-hard chain. 1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 32 Dusty voice that throbs with heat, Hoping with its steel-thin beat To put stitches in my mind. 1921 J. Buchan Path of King i. 9 The world put on a new dress, all steel-blue and misty green... Spring had fairly come. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 23 Sit beside the steel-straight arms of your fair women. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 147 Steered and propelled by that steel-strong snake of a tail. 1944 E. Blunden Shells by Stream 4 Steel-sharp might Which blows the babe and nurse to atoms in the night. 1944 A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xiii. 105 Narrow temples and steel-grey eyes. 1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 95 She ascends where steelbright rays impinge. 1976 ‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal ii. i. 69 A steel-blue Mercedes coupé. 1977 A. Giddens Stud. in Social & Polit. Theory 23 His sombre characterization of the ‘steel-hard cage’ of the modern social order. 1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions iv. 73 The steel-grey curtain of the rain. < as lemmas |
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