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单词 talus
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talusn.1

Brit. /ˈteɪləs/, U.S. /ˈteɪləs/
Forms: Also 1600s talu, talud.
Etymology: < French talus (16th cent.), in Dict. Acad. 1696 talut , Old French (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) talu slope < late popular Latin *tālūtum , derivative of tālus ankle (taken in sense of French talon heel): compare talus n.2
1.
a. A slope; spec. in Fortification, the sloping side of a wall or earthwork, which gradually increases in thickness from above downwards.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > parapet > parts of or connected with
talus1645
superior slope1686
bonnet1688
brisure1706
genouillere1802
crémaillère1828
crest1830
plonge1853
plunge1859
apron1918
1645 N. Stone Enchiridion of Fortification 3 On the inward side they gave them [the walls] a Talud or slooping which increased them in thicknesse towards the bottom.
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4081 The first Wall..being much broader below by reason of the Talu or slope.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Talus, or Talut, properly signifies any Thing that goes sloping, as the Talus of a Wall in Masonry... In Fortification, the Talus of a Bastion or Rampart, is the Slope allowed to such a Work whether it be of Earth or Stone.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxi. 88 To determine the depths..of the ditches,—the talus of the glacis, and the precise height of the..parapets.
1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables iii. vii The enemy's guns had opened a break from the parapet to the talus.
b. The sloping side of a trench or the like.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > a sloping object, surface, etc. > of side of a trench
talus1727
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch > edge of
dike1487
ditch1569
shore1602
talus1727
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Garden There must be one on the Brink of the Trench to spread the Dung upon the Talus.
2.
a. Geology. A sloping mass of detritus lying at the base of a cliff or the like, and consisting of material which has fallen from its face; also, the slope or inclination of the surface of such a mass.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus
shot-heuch1574
slide1664
scree1813
shot-brae1822
earthslide1829
talus1830
slip1838
rockslide1845
earthslip1859
landslip1872
spout1883
shingle-slip1900
slump1905
stone stripe1934
shingle slide1944
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. ii. xx. 266 It is only at a few points that the grassy covering of the sloping talus marks a temporary relaxation of the erosive action of the sea.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xvii. 343 Huge taluses of fallen drift.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi vii. 171 The talus of each portal, keeping close together northwards, makes a narrow, upright-sided trough from the cataract up to Pajodze.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xv. 275 The cemented fragments of a terrestrial talus or scree.
1881 C. Darwin Form. Veg. Mould 279 An old talus of chalk-fragments (thrown out of a quarry) which had become clothed with turf.
attributive and in other combinations.1867 H. Macmillan in Macmillan's Mag. No. 99. 256/2 Great talus-heaps of débris.1904 Daily Chron. 24 Mar. 3/1 There was no stratification as might be expected if it were a talus-formation.1906 Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 4/2 The water getting into the talus rock, a mass of soft stuff without any regular drainage.
b. A descending slope of a mountain, etc., without reference to its mode of formation.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > side
mountainsidea1425
face1632
talus1830
versant1851
adret1922
ubac1922
1830 T. D. Lauder Moray Floods (ed. 2) 230 We found an extensive marl bank reposing on the inclined talus at the foot of the hill.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xv. 108 One of these bergs presented a long inclined talus, which was evidently part of an original slope, unaltered by after changes in equilibrium.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xv. 169 A slide down an inclined plane, whose well-graded talus gave me ample time to contemplate the contingencies at its base.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi ii. 61 One point of view on the talus of mount Morumbwa.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 100 Beyond the second ridge a talus slopes gradually down northwards to the general level of the lunar surface.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

talusn.2

Brit. /ˈteɪləs/, U.S. /ˈteɪləs/
Forms: Plural tali.
Etymology: < Latin tālus ankle.
1. The ankle-bone or astragalus; also applied to an analogous part in birds and insects.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > tarsal bone
talus1684
tarsal1881
mesopodial1890
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > legs > bones of
metatarsus1682
talus1684
tibia1826
tarsus1828
suffrago1842
tarso-metatarsal1851
tarso-metatarsus1854
boot1864
tibiotarsus1883
metatarse1894
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > bones of foot > [noun]
navicular?a1425
metatarsus?c1425
heel bone1516
astragalus?1541
bonket1552
cube-bone1615
die-bone1634
os calcis1634
foot bone1658
tarsus1676
pterna1684
talus1684
navicular bone1696
astragal1728
calcaneum1728
cuboid bone1829
cuboid1836
metatarsal1837
metapodium1844
tarso-metatarsal1851
arch1858
intermedium1878
tarsal1881
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 277 Talus, see Astragalus.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Talus, (lat.) the Ancle or Huckle-Bone, otherwise call'd Astragalus; the Pastern of a Beast; also a Die to play with.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 385 Talus (the Ankle), the apex of the Tibia [of an insect], where it is united to the Tarsus.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 556 The capsule of the ankle-joint was loose and lax, the talus smooth and oblique.
2. Pathology. A variety of clubfoot in which the toes are drawn up, the heel resting on the ground.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot
club-foota1552
baker feet1656
valgus1800
varus1800
inversion1825
talipes1842
pommel foot1857
inturn1860
talus1864
flat-foot1870
spurious valgus1872
flat-footedness1882
Friedreich('s) foot1940
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1887 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI.
3. A nodular concretion somewhat resembling an astragalus bone.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > concretion
stonec1000
felta1548
toph1598
gravel-stone1606
tophus1607
concretion1646
talusa1728
calculus1732
osteid1855
concrement1885
inolith1886
milkstone1892
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 81 Of the Septa, or Partitions, that parcel out this Body into various Masses or Tali.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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