单词 | surface-borne |
释义 | > as lemmassurface-borne a. General attributive, locative, and objective, as surface crevice, surface light, surface ornament, surface product, surface production, surface stone, etc.; surface-borne, surface dry, surface-scratched, etc., adjectives; surface-hoe, etc., verb.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland vii. 48 The Surface-Productions..peculiar to the Mountains, Heaths, or Dales. 1836 Farmer's Mag. May 379/1 If weeds arise and threaten to surmount the plants, they must be kept under by surface-hoeing to the depth of an inch, with the ‘Dutch’, or thurst-hoe. 1843 J. C. Buckler Remarks upon Wayside Chapels 53 It is in fact, a surface ornament, employed to obliterate blank spaces of stone-work in Churches, screens, or monuments. 1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions iii. §5. 289 Chiselling away the surface stone. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 17 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Undrained, surface-scratched fields, so numerous in the defective cultivation of the present day. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xxi. 151 This prevents the chance of any of the prints getting surface-dry. 1897 A. Geikie Anc. Volcanoes Brit. I. 27 The surface-products of volcanic action. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xiii. 224 A pilot might sight..a submarine and a surface-borne craft like a cruiser or destroyer. 1944 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 63 218 The depth to which 1.0 per cent of the surface light penetrated..varied. 1985 Amer. Midland Naturalist 114 93 The majority of seeds were buried in surface crevices. < as lemmas |
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