单词 | bursting |
释义 | burstingn. 1. a. The process or action of breaking suddenly and violently, as under tension. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] breachOE breakingc975 brusure1382 breaka1400 crasure1413 chininga1420 bursting1487 bruisinga1500 fraction?a1560 chinking1565 springingc1595 infraction1623 disruption1646 abruption1654 diruption1656 chapping1669 chopping1669 fracturea1676 rumple1746 breakage1775 disrupture1785 fracturing1830 disruptment1834 snapping1891 fractionation1926 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 158 Thar wes of speris sic bristing. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. iii. sig. Aiiiv We wold not greatly care For bursting of her huckle bone. c1600 Rob. Hood (Ritson) i. iv. 47 And it were not for bursting of my bowe, John, I thy head wold breake. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxx. 14 There shall not be found in the bursting of it, a sheard. View more context for this quotation b. spec. by internal force or pressure. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > bursting rupture?a1425 rumpurea1492 bursting1526 busting1576 abruption1654 dissilition1660 burst1832 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gvii The body is nat able to receyue it all, without feare of brastynge. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 38 The wretched annimall heau'd forth such groanes That their discharge did stretch his leatherne coat Almost to bursting . View more context for this quotation 1885 Manch. Examiner 22 Sept. 5/2 The damage caused by the bursting of an embankment. c. figurative. A financial breakdown. U.S. ΚΠ 1834 H. Clay in Congress. Deb. 27 Feb. 747 You must lend us $300.000. to prevent a general bursting. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > hernia or rupture herniac1386 crepaturec1400 ramex?a1425 rupture?a1425 burstenness1483 rimburst1505 ruption?1541 mollification1543 bursting1544 burstness1552 film-bursting1578 bubonocele1597 rimburstennessc1600 burstning1607 gut-bursten1607 strangulated hernia1771 hypogastrocele1811 herniation1897 sliding hernia1910 incisional hernia1912 Morgagni hernia1958 1544 T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1560) U viij b To remove the swelling of the coddes proceding of ventositie, or of anye other cause (except brustyng). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] clapc1440 back-blast1577 bouncea1616 blast1635 fulminating1651 fulmination1651 detonation1677 blow1694 explosion1736 bursting1771 blowing up1772 blowing1799 blow-up1807 pong1823 chunk-chunk1898 chunking1902 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 61 The bursting, belching, and brattling of the French-horns in the passage. 4. Rushing impetuously from restraint or rest. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint rush1838 bursting1871 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 86 The lion..With a step, a roar, a bursting unarrested of any brake. 5. In combinations with various adverbs (cf. the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion heatc1200 gerec1369 accessc1384 braida1450 guerie1542 bursting1552 ruff1567 riot1575 suddentyc1575 pathaire1592 flaw1596 blaze1597 start1598 passion1599 firework1601 storm1602 estuation1605 gare1606 accession?1608 vehemency1612 boutade1614 flush1614 escapea1616 egression1651 ebullition1655 ebulliency1667 flushinga1680 ecstasy1695 gusta1704 gush1720 vehemence1741 burst1751 overboiling1767 explosion1769 outflaming1836 passion fit1842 outfly1877 Vesuvius1886 outflame1889 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 50 Brestynge downe, prostracio. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Aposthume Brasting out. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 474. ⁋2 The occasional burstings out into laughter. Compounds bursting charge n. the charge of powder required for bursting a shell or case-shot; a small charge of fine powder placed in contact with a charge of coarser powder to ensure the ignition of the latter. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > charge > bursting charge burster1611 bursting charge1858 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 134 The bursting charge is very small, but it suffices to break the shell into about 30 pieces. 1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 194 Loaded shells should never be fired with less than the authorized bursting charge. bursting point n. the internal pressure at which an enclosed vessel will explode; usually transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > pressure > internal pressure likely to cause explosion pent1674 bursting point1902 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience x. 236 The tension of subliminal memories reaching the bursting-point. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. iv. 81 Their columns had been stuffed to bursting-point with superlatives. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise i. 9 A small, inconvenient cubicle, crowded at the moment to bursting-point. 1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source iii. 168 There came the bursting point of a complexity of hideous fears and pressures. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). burstingadj. That bursts (see senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > [adjective] > rising (of emotion) swollenc1386 swellinga1616 bursting1667 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > bursting into rain bursting1777 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to bursting big?1541 with child1548 swelling1594 pent1597 bursten?1624 strutted1648 burstened1697 stretcheda1711 bursting1847 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > bursting, shattering, or breaking into pieces shiveringa1400 shattering1577 splintery1808 splintering1828 bursting1868 brisant1905 smithereening1959 a1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 272 Untrumnissa ðæs lichoman þæt is berstende lic. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 98 Bursting passion. View more context for this quotation 1714 E. Young Force of Relig. ii. 210 Afar his bursting groans were heard. 1777 W. Jones Palace of Fortune 15 As distant thunder breaks the bursting cloud. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. ii. 99 From our bursting barns they would feed. 1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea IV. v. 280 Fragments..from a bursting shell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.c1440adj.a1000 |
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