| 单词 | to come into play |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come into (also †in) play c. to bring (also call, put) into (also †in) play: to bring into operation, make active, begin to exercise. to come into (also †in) play: (chiefly of a thing) to come into operation or effect, become active.The precise sense in quot. 1568 is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > become active or come into operation to take steadc1175 commencec1380 to take effect1385 to come into force (also to take force)1491 to come into (also in) play1568 inure1589 enure1607 to break out1862 to make with ——1940 bite1976 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > bring into activity or activate enter1563 inact1583 active1620 activate1624 yoke1630 animate1646 inactuate1651 to bring (also call, put) into (also in) play1799 to put onc1842 to bring on1860 mobilize1871 derepress1962 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. f. 138v Ffra tyme ȝe stank in to þe bank And drypoynt puttis in play. 1638 G. Langbaine tr. G. Ranchin Rev. Councell Trent ii. ix. 108 Boniface to take up the quarrell which was betwixt the King of England and Scotland,..came in play as to assist the Scotch. 1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 41 Salisbury liking not that any of Essex his faction should come into play. 1678 J. Phillips Maronides v. 52 With help of..Canvas saile (live ever they, That Canvas first did bring in play). 1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. vi. 34 How all this may be done, (without calling an immaterial Soul into play) to wit, by what helps..the Science of the Brutes is gotten or pollish'd, will be worth our Labour to shew a little more fully. 1706 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσια Revived (rev. ed.) ii. 148 A Distemper in England almost worn out, but now it begins to come in Play again. 1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres III. iv. iii. iii. 256 There are real beauties within our reach, all existing in the subject we are handling. All that is required is discernment to perceive them, and art to put them in play. 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 115 Those societies in which their kind of talents are not likely to be brought into play. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. v. 118 The muscular fibres of the stomach..next come into play. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §3 The reaction of his brain upon the impressions which called it into play. 1936 E. A. Atkins & A. G. Walker Electr. Arc & Oxy-acetylene Welding (ed. 3) xiii. 150 Slowly raise the hand lever..so as to bring the oxygen stream into play. 1962 D. Slayton in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 22 The recovery techniques which we would put into play to find and rescue the Astronaut and his capsule after they had landed. 1993 T. Hawkins Pepper i. 19 It's my recommendation that you call into play the little common sense I suspect you possess. < as lemmas |
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