单词 | unpacked |
释义 | unpackedadj.1 1. Esp. of goods in storage or transit: not made into a package; not packed into a box, bag, etc.In quot. c1887: (of a playing card) not forming part of a pack. ΚΠ 1495 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 220 xxv sekkis of vnpakkit woll. 1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 270 To imbale four or five fardells yett unpacked. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Last Of Unpacked Herrings, Eighteen Barrels make a Last. 1782 G. Chalmers Introd. Hist. Revolt Colonies I. 280 The fair trader and the national revenue had long equally suffered from the exportation of unpacked tobacco. 1841 Merchants' Mag. Feb. 188/2 (table) Insurance... Looking-glasses, in packages, 10 [cents] Looking-glasses, unpacked, 25. c1887 M. W. Jones Games of Patience 40 Any other unpacked card has a chance of being moved, but not so the King. 1955 R. L. Spangler & L. E. Ide Prepar. Fresh Tomatoes for Market 13 There is less likelihood of injury to fruit packed in containers for shipment than to unpacked fruit. 2001 D. Reed Mabelvale xv. 77 He was..turning off lights, adjusting the thermostat, retrieving as yet unpacked toiletries from the bathroom. 2. Of a package, bag, etc.: that has not had its contents removed; (of goods or belongings) not taken out of a package, bag, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > still covered or not removed from its covering > not unpacked unpacked1720 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > packing > packed > unpacked unpacked1720 1720 R. Mead Short Disc. conc. Pestilential Contagion ii. 35 The waiting a Month, or longer, from the Death of the last Patient will avail no more, than keeping a Bale of infected Goods unpack'd; the Poyson will fly out, whenever the Pandora's Box is opened. a1721 M. Prior Ess. Opinion in Dialogues of Dead (1907) 195 Loads of ill Pictures, and worse Books.., lye unpacked and unthought of when they come into the Country. 1768 C. Anstey App. to Patriot 55 There they stand, ev'ry one, in a Bundle unpack'd! 1812 M. W. Roberts Rose & Emily ix. 132 Like the good woman, who..pined till she knew what was in one, covered dish, so did poor Rose..look and wonder at the unpacked case. 1856 A. Palmer Life W. Palmer xv. 170 You can see..square canvas blocks of unpacked goods, bound round with bands of iron. 1912 8th Rep. State Entomologist & Plant Pathologist Virginia 1910–11 43 Nursery stock brought into State must remain unpacked or unopened until permission is given by the Commissioner of Agriculture. 1978 M. F. Shyer Welcome Home, Jellybean (1988) viii. 55 Instead of the trash, she'd thrown my mother's unpacked bag of groceries down the chute. 2007 A. McNeney Post ix. 133 We ignored the boxes—both the ones that contained unpacked belongings and the ones we were planning to use as furniture. 3. Of snow, ice, etc.: not pressed into a compact or solid mass. Cf. pack v.1 7b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > loose texture loosec1374 solutec1440 dissolute1607 lax1615 fuzzy1616 incompact1616 waterish1665 incompacted1680 uncompact1705 laxy1716 unconsolidated1802 hover1851 unpacked1855 uncompacted1863 1855 R. C. McCormick Visit to Camp before Sevastopol vi. 65 Rendered somewhat short of breath by the long walk through the deep, unpacked snow, I sat down. 1864 W. K. Tweedie Life & Work Earnest Men ii. iv. 199 They were not to be turned aside, though the unpacked drift-ice and chaotic upheavals impeded their way. 1946 Hoosier Folklore 5 110 Those [horses] that died were stripped of their harness and rolled off the track to the unpacked earth below. 1979 Skiing Oct. 130 (caption) Snow is unpacked; even traverses seem like fall-line runs. 2014 Baker City (Oregon) Herald (Nexis) 12 Feb. Cars with studless tires stop sooner than cars with studded tires on pavement that's..covered with fresh, unpacked snow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). unpackedadj.2 Now chiefly historical. Of a jury, deliberative body, etc.: not packed (packed adj.2). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [adjective] > packed > not packed unpacked1629 1629 P. Bell Let. Mar. in V. A. Ives Rich Papers: Lett. Bermuda (1984) 314 It is to me the strangest & most unheard of thinge..that a whole unpacte & unpartiall Court or Companye should laye such a heavye blame & taxatione upon any man as is done on me. 1766 W. Sharpe Protestant p. iii How far the following remarks deserve the publick attention..is left to the decision of an unpacked Jury of Englishmen. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 188 To persuade either a Jury, even though unpacked, or his fellow Judges. 1921 Hibbert Jrnl. Oct. 150 I boldly..seized the occasion to bring theology and common sense with their opposing claims before an unpacked court of appeal. 1996 Social Hist. 21 350 The juries.., if uncorrupted, would certainly..have found the defendant innocent; which leaves us in the end puzzled by Wooler's conviction..by an unpacked jury. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). unpackedadj.3 That has been unpacked (in various senses of unpack v.). ΚΠ 1817 Revealer of Secrets II. 105 Agnes..went to the unpacked library of the stranger, which lay on the floor; she took up two or three volumes. 1848 G. P. R. James Thirty Years Since i, in Wks. (rev. ed.) XVIII. 4 In the far shadows..stood two or three red, blue, and yellow vehicles, all unpacked and unhorsed. 1891 Cent. Mag. June 203/2 Several groups of men and women..were gathered round unpacked luncheon-baskets. 1914 E. Wharton Let. 1 May (1988) 322 The only statue I cared for this afternoon in the museum was a newly unpacked one which hadn't yet been unveiled! 1966 R. S. Helfman MAP Fixed-point, Packing–Unpacking Routine for IBM 7094 Computer 2 Data to be recovered is the variable name into which a recovered (unpacked) data field is to be placed. 1985 Duke Law Jrnl. No. 3/4. 559 I am deeply indebted—both for the method of unpacking the concept of coercion and for the substance of the unpacked concept—to Robert Nozick's seminal essay. 2010 New Yorker 19 Apr. 82/1 A ledge bore a lifetime's haul of unpacked suitcases and emptied pockets. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.11495adj.21629adj.31817 |
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