英语词汇“to round to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Nautical.

intransitive. Of a ship or boat: to turn into the wind and come to a standstill. Cf. heave to at heave v. 20c. Also figurative.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward > in heaving to or stopping

to round to1799

to round up1854

1799 Naval Chron. 2 250 We immediately rounded to, and gave her a broadside.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 199 The frigate..now prepared to round to.

1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 8 He [sc. Ovid] would..travel at every point of the compass,..some famous adventure always occurring just as he ‘rounded to’, or while stationary.

1890 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea 458 As she rounded to, a whole green sea struck her full abeam.

1913 J. C. Mills O. H. Perry & Battle Lake Erie iii. 37 The ship rounded to and sent an officer on board the Revenge to learn the character of her convoy.

1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command iv. 88 Yet his anxious, worn expression did not lighten when she rounded to and lay there under the Raisonable 's quarter.

2007 D. Weber Off Armageddon Reef (2008) 622 Her single mast crashed over the side, and she rounded to as the wreckage dragged at her.

单词	to round to
释义	> as lemmas to round to to round to Nautical. intransitive. Of a ship or boat: to turn into the wind and come to a standstill. Cf. heave to at heave v. 20c. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward > in heaving to or stopping to round to1799 to round up1854 1799 Naval Chron. 2 250 We immediately rounded to, and gave her a broadside. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 199 The frigate..now prepared to round to. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 8 He [sc. Ovid] would..travel at every point of the compass,..some famous adventure always occurring just as he ‘rounded to’, or while stationary. 1890 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea 458 As she rounded to, a whole green sea struck her full abeam. 1913 J. C. Mills O. H. Perry & Battle Lake Erie iii. 37 The ship rounded to and sent an officer on board the Revenge to learn the character of her convoy. 1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command iv. 88 Yet his anxious, worn expression did not lighten when she rounded to and lay there under the Raisonable 's quarter. 2007 D. Weber Off Armageddon Reef (2008) 622 Her single mast crashed over the side, and she rounded to as the wreckage dragged at her. extracted from roundv.² < as lemmas
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