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单词 straddling
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straddlingadj.

/ˈstradlɪŋ/
Etymology: < straddle v. + -ing suffix2.
1. That straddles, in the senses of the verb.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adjective] > so as to lie across something
straddling1592
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > with legs wide apart
straddling1592
straddle-breech1682
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adjective] > with legs wide apart or close together
straddling1592
near-leggeda1616
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] > parts of wheel > spoke > relating to spoke
spokeless1842
straddling1875
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 v At length..I lighted vppon an olde straddling Usurer.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 102 Epiplois postica..diuided into two stradling branches.
1653 A. Brome in R. Brome Five New Playes To Stationer sig. A3, No stradling Tetrasyllables are brought To fill up room, and little spell, or nought.
1679 London Gaz. No. 1403/4 A Strawberry py'd Gelding,.. all his paces, and a stradling gate behind.
1765 H. Walpole Let. to Miss A. Pitt 25 Dec. May the chimney be widened, without which it can never be a French chimney, which is always very low and straddling?
1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 165 [In anchylosis] the horse..has a curious straddling action.
1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man i. 9 The shadows..making..the very tongs upon the hearth, a straddling giant with his arms a-kimbo.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Straddling (Vehicle), applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. Also said to be staggered.
2. Botany. Divaricate.
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the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > spreading or divergent
spoky1551
patulous1657
spreading1682
patent1753
divaricate1788
pervious1789
straddling1796
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 84 Straddling (divaricatus) branches standing wide from each other.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 26 Bulbs straight, not much straddling.
1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 25 M[alva] divaricata, straddling Mallow.
in combination.1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 399 Straddling-branched Star Wort.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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ˈstraddling
ˈstraddling n.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [noun] > legs
stridingc1440
footing1545
straddle1611
stridea1627
straddling1673
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > with legs wide apart
straddling1673
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of
area bombardment1918
straddling1919
pattern-bombing1933
terror-bombing1933
dive-bombing1935
firebombing1935
blind-bombing1940
blitzing1940
coventrating1940
nuisance bombing1940
scatter bombing1940
coventration1942
carpet bombing1943
obliteration bombing1943
skip-bombing1943
shuttle bombing1944
atom bombing1945
atomic bombing1945
clobbering1948
loft-bombing1956
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > ranging by shot
bracketing1914
straddling1919
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > deliberate
prolocution1679
double-talk1948
straddling1949
double-speak1957
codespeak1987
1673 J. Bunyan Differences Judgm. 44 Your putting in that way of his receiving which is invisible to us, is but an unhandsome straddling over my Argument, which treateth only of a visible receiving.
1761 B. Victor Hist. Theatres Lond. & Dublin II. 74 By walking the Decks of the Ship from a Boy, he had contracted a Stradling in his Gait.
1919 Athenæum 23 May 360/1 For a well-known method of range-finding..the Navy [has] the term ‘straddling’.
1949 San Francisco News 14 Mar. 14/2 Despite the local board's straddling, the Legislature, fortunately, voted to continue the centers for another year.
1957 O. Parkes Brit. Battleships lxxviii. 458 He proposed that the armoured cruiser..should be placed at his disposal for..‘straddling’ tests.
extracted from straddlev.
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adj.1592
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