单词 | tonguing |
释义 | tonguingn. a. The action of tongue v. in various senses (see the verb); spec. in playing the flute and other wind instruments: see quot. 1880. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > whip-grafting splicing1608 whipping1629 whip-grafting1657 tongue-grafting1710 tonguing1763 splice-grafting1815 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > sound made by > making sound abayc1330 yearning1531 babbling1568 earning?1578 chiding1600 opening1662 tonguing1851 tolling1869 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > cutting tongues or grooves snail-creeping1792 ploughing1793 tonguing1862 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > tonguing triple tonguing1879 tonguing1880 flutter1926 1682 T. D'Urfey Injured Princess ii. iv Tonguing, fingering and fighting, don't please her, The Devil's in her. 1687 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 247. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 217 The third method [of whip-grafting], which is an improvement of the last, is properly named tipping or tonguing. 1851 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn (rev. ed.) xli. 403 The tonguing of this dog was followed by the quick yelping of four or five others. 1862 Times 7 Mar. The tonguing and grooving by which the Warrior's plates are dovetailed together. 1880 W. H. Stone in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 459/2 Double tongueing,..Single tongueing,..signifies the starting of the reed-vibrations by a sharp touch from the tip of the tongue... Single tongueing is phonetically represented by a succession of the lingual letter T, as in the word ‘rat-tat-tat’. Double tongueing aims at alternating the linguo-dental explosive T with another explosive consonant produced differently, such as the linguo-palatals D or K, thus relieving the muscles by alternate instead of repeated action. 1895 H. Callan From Clyde to Jordan 136 You must give them a right good ‘tonguing’. b. The furnishing of boards with tongues (tongue n. 14j); concrete the tongues of boards collectively. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint > projecting part of joint tenon14.. tenora1485 rabbet1678 dovetail1691 relish1703 teaze-tenon1703 coak1794 table1794 tusk tenon1825 tonguing1841 tongue1842 pin1847 cog1858 stub-tenon1875 cross-tongue1876 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 22/2 Although the deal tongueing has been destroyed by the worms, the green~heart planking remains untouched and perfectly sound. Compounds General attributive, as tonguing plane. ΚΠ 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 992 Tongueing and grooving planes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmasˈtonguing ˈtonguing adj. (in quot. 1814, throwing out tongues). ΚΠ 1814 Apostate iv. iv, in New Brit. Theatre III. 336 The sense of guilt, With keener agony than tonguing flames Lick to the bone. < n.1682 as lemmas |
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