单词 | what-coloured |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat-coloured C1. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘of what ——’, ‘having what ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in what-coloured, what-fashioned, what-natured, what-numbered, what-shaped, what-sized adjs. Also with man or woman as the final element, in what countryman, what countrywoman: see countryman n. 2, countrywoman n. 3. ΚΠ 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. P1v Some of you knowe what natured men they be. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 237 [One] may well doubt whether lockesmithes..vsed files..or rather what fashioned files they had. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. f. 177 I doe not think..That in it selfe it is materiall ought, What shaped Robes I weare. 1765 J. Cleland Surprises of Love (ed. 2) 11 All the men gaze on the person, but hardly one of them brings away the remembrance of what colored gown she had on. 1815 Literary Panorama Mar. 830 What sized vessels are they, and by what number are they navigated? 1873 C. C. Reeks Elementary Astron. vi. 39 In what-shaped orbit does the earth move? 1935 National Surv. Educ. Teachers (U.S. Dept. of Interior) ii. i. 116 Beginning with your oldest brother or sister, what numbered child are you, i.e., are you the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, or what child of your parents? 2004 W. Marchment Sci. Study Guide Years 9–10 iii. 85 If gene ‘B’ represents brown eyes and ‘b’ represents blue eyes, what coloured eyes will this person have? 2014 L. Evans Crooked Heart (2015) 168 ‘I need to change a banknote.’ ‘What sized banknote?’ ‘Twenty.’ < as lemmas |
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