单词 | water slide |
释义 | water sliden. 1. a. A stretch of sloping ground down which water flows. Cf. slide n. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > moving water > [noun] quicka1300 backwatera1387 main flood?1556 main tide1605 confluence1615 swash1671 flow1802 sweep1816 water slide1824 slide1869 run-off1915 1824 T. C. Croker Researches S. Ireland ii. 24 This cascade is situated in a fine park..and may be described rather as a steep water-slide than a fall. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xix. 214 I came to remember the steepness and the slippery nature of the water-slide. 1916 Ann. Bot. 30 16 [The plants] were growing at the bottom of a great water-slide of perhaps 150 feet in height, with a slope of 30°. 2001 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 11 Nov. 1 h Slide Rock State Park..is the perfect place to..go slooshing down the 30-foot water slide worn in the rocks of the creekbed. b. An artificial slide or chute which descends into water, and which is typically also flowing with or made slippery by water, esp. one at a swimming pool, or a large one which is an attraction at an amusement park. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > waterfall > [noun] > cascade > artificial water shute1667 water chute1834 water slide1889 watershoot1897 1889 J. Inglis Brit. Patent 12,884 (1890) 1 The object of this invention is to make Artificial Cascades or Water Slides, to be used for recreation or amusement. 1896 Longman's Mag. Dec. 173 There were a captive balloon and a water slide, lectures, concerts, balls. 1919 N.Y. Times 4 July 4 (advt.) Manhattan Beach Baths... Kiddies' pool..good restaurant..water slide. 1990 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. c1/4 Riders become momentarily airborne as they race down a 60-foot high water slide at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour before splashing into a pool. 2010 Guardian 15 May (Travel section) 6/1 There is a wave machine and loads of water slides in the aquapark. 2. On a gasolier or gas chandelier: a water seal in the form of a sliding water-filled tube. Also: a chandelier or gasolier incorporating such a seal (more fully water-slide chandelier, water-slide gasolier). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp > parts of > gas-burner gas burner1807 water slide1839 1839 Scotsman 11 Dec. 1/4 (advt.) Two-light water slides, with obscured jet shades. 1840 Liverpool Mercury 28 Aug. (advt.) A great variety of 2, 3, and 4 light chandeliers, with and without water slides. 1864 Mechanics' Mag. 21 Oct. 289/1 Improvements in gaseliers, of the kind commonly called ‘water slide gaselier’. 1904 H. O'Connor Hughes's Gas Works (ed. 9) xx. 371 Of recent times the cork-slide pendant has taken the place of the water-slide. 1921 Gas Manuf., Distribution & Use (Brit. Commerc. Gas Assoc.) ii. 82/2 Water-slide chandeliers..are dangerous owing to the possibility of their dropping and causing the gas pipe to become unsealed. 1999 D. Gledhill Gas Lighting (ed. 2) 21 (caption) Water slide gasolier (chandelier) with upright burners, about 1870. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1824 |
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