单词 | the rise of |
释义 | > as lemmasthe rise of P4. U.S. the rise of: more than, above, (a specified amount or period of time) (now rare); †and the rise: and more (obsolete). Cf. rising adj. 6b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > rather more than and morec1230 and (also or) upward1555 and upwards1570 upward of1623 upwards of1721 rising1808 the rise of1834 1834 in J. S. Bassett Southern Plantation Overseer (1925) 66 I muste plante the rise of a hundred aceres in coten. 1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 379/1 It is the rise of a week since I last shifted. 1845 Congress. Globe App. 154/1 I do not propose myself to number [the States yet to be admitted]; but I set them down at twenty and the rise. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) The phrase and the rise, is used in some parts of the South to mean ‘and more’;..‘I should think there were a thousand and the rise’, i.e. a thousand and more. 1905 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 820/1 I've seen the rise of $50,000 at a time in that tin grub box that my adopted father calls his safe. 1914 E. B. Bronson Vanguard xiv. 274 Bill..rose and emptied his safe drawer and proceeded to pass over to the winner the rise of ten thousand dollars. < as lemmas |
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