单词 | twenty-two |
释义 | twenty-twon. A twenty-two calibre rifle; = two-two n. (a) at two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. Also attributive, as twenty-two rifle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of three-o(h)-three1683 air rifle1801 yager1817 big bore1838 seventy-five1840 telescopic rifle1850 Minié rifle1851 needle rifle1856 pea rifle1856 Lancaster1857 six-shooting1858 Whitworth1858 Henry1861 polygroove1863 telescopic-sighted rifle1863 spencer1866 magazine rifle1867 Snider rifle1868 chassepot1869 Martini–Henry rifle1869 Winchester1871 Mauser rifle1872 Martini1876 saloon rifle1881 express1884 express rifle1884 Mannlicher1884 Mauser1887 Lee-Enfield1888 Flobert1890 pump gun1890 take-down1895 two-two1895 Ross rifle1901 hammer-rifle1907 sporter1907 French 751914 twenty-two1925 machine-gun rifle1941 assault rifle1950 assault weapon1968 kalashnikov1970 assault rifle1975 1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 200 I went back to the house, and got the little twenty-two rifle. 1937 J. Steinbeck Red Pony 13 Jody took his twenty-two rifle up to the cold spring at the brush line. 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) xiii. 134 I've got three guns. A shotgun, a twenty-two, and a big-game rifle. 1967 K. S. Prichard in Coast to Coast 1965–6 182 Quick as light, Mac swung his twenty-two. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > as lemmastwenty-two twenty-two carat adj. colloquial = twenty-four carat adj. (b) above; also elliptical as twenty-two. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real soothc888 soothlyc888 soothfastc1175 germanec1384 truea1398 sickera1400 upright?a1500 uncounterfeita1542 righteous1543 legitimate1551 truepennya1556 arrant1570 uncounterfeited1571 real1573 current1578 genuinal1599 unforged1610 unpretended1611 legitime1614 unabusinga1628 Lubish1632 genuine1639 undissembled1651 undissimulate1652 ingenuine1661 infallacious1677 real live1684 unfalsified1688 unmistaken1694 pukka1776 undissimulated1776 unassumed1818 uncynical1824 Simon Pure1834 sure-enough1837 unsimulated1840 straight-out1848 true blue1852 veritable1862 really (and) truly1864 authentic1868 true-metal1868 kosher1896 twenty-four carat1900 honest to goodness1905 echt1916 dinky-di1918 McCoy1928 twenty-two carat1962 right1969 1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers iv. 45 You come out twenty-two carat. 1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers iv. 47 I tell you they're absolutely twenty-two. 1974 W. J. Burley Death in Stanley St. ii. 46 I've got a twenty-two carat alibi. 1981 J. Barnett Firing Squad vi. 61 Lady Lowderton was no nutter and her title was twenty-two carat. twenty-two b. Combined with the numerals below ten (one to nine) to express the numbers between twenty and thirty; formerly (and still occasionally) one and twenty, two and twenty, etc. (rarely twenty and one, etc.); now commonly twenty-one, twenty-two, etc.; similarly with the ordinals from first to ninth, forming the ordinals corresponding to the above ( twenty-first, twenty-second, etc.), in modern use substituted for the earlier one-and-twentieth, two-and-twentieth, etc. (see twentieth adj. 1c). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twenty twentyc893 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. vi. ii. 256 Þara twa & twentigra monna þe he him to fultume hæfde acoren. a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124 Þes kinges cnihtes..namen..fif and twenti oðre cnihtes. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1532 Vif & twenti ȝer. a1400–50 Alexander 3930 Aȝt & tuenti men of armes. 1526 Proclam. 5 Nov. in Pat. Roll 18 Hen. VIII ii. m. 2 d The Soueraygne..shalbe curraunt..for twenty two shillynges and sixe pens. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 150 Four and tuentie cubites hich. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xviii. 177 I haue gone ouer twenty and seauen riuers vpon that coast. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. ii. 163 In the parallel of twenty-two degrees of latitude. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 216 What he called his Silver-feast, being the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage. 1820 R. Southey Life Wesley I. 53 More than four-and-twenty pounds. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 204 Allowing the..mixture to stand for twenty-four hours. < as lemmas |
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