单词 | williams |
释义 | Williamsn.1 1. In the genitive or as a modifier: designating a juicy variety of the Bon Chrétien pear, which typically has golden yellow skin with a reddish blush and ripens in September. Also: the variety itself. Also called (in North America) Bartlett. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of calewey1377 honey peara1400 pome-pear1440 pome-wardena1513 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 worry pear1562 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 pound pear1585 poppering1597 wood of Jerusalem1597 muscadine1598 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 mollart1600 roset1600 wax pear1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 Venerian pear1601 musk pear1611 rose pear1611 pusill1615 Christian1629 nutmeg1629 rolling pear1629 surreine1629 sweater1629 amber pear1638 Venus-pear1648 horse-pear1657 Martin1658 russet1658 rousselet1660 diego1664 frith-pear1664 maudlin1664 Messire Jean1664 primate1664 sovereign1664 spindle-pear1664 stopple-pear1664 sugar-pear1664 virgin1664 Windsor pear1664 violet-pear1666 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 squash pear1676 rose1678 Longueville1681 maiden-heart1685 ambrette1686 vermilion1691 admiral1693 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 pounder pear1697 vine-pear1704 amadot1706 marchioness1706 marquise1706 Margaret1707 short-neck1707 musk1708 burree1719 marquis1728 union pear1728 Doyenne pear1731 Magdalene1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 Monsieur Jean1736 muscadella1736 swan's egg1736 chaumontel1755 St Michael's pear1796 Williams1807 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 Bartlett1828 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 snow-pear1860 Comice1866 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 snowy pear1884 1807 ‘A. McDonald’ Compl. Dict. Pract. Gardening at Pyrus The Williams's Seedling Pear, which resembles a Summer Bonchrêtien, but is more juicy, is a great bearer, and ripens in September. 1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 690 Useful and profitable orchard Pears... Williams's Bon Chretien. 1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 11/1 The..juicy flavour of the famous William Bon Chrétien now in all the shops. 1903 Proc. 2nd Ann. Meeting (N.Y. State Fruit Growers' Assoc.) 144 The principal French varieties are Williams, Duchess, Buerre Hardy and Glou Morceau. 1978 G. E. Russell Plant Breeding for Dis. & Pest Resistance vii. 206 Varietal differences in the resistance of pears to pear decline have been reported.., Williams and Red Bartlett being badly damaged by the disease. 2017 @Haggewoods 20 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Feb. 2021) I wouldn't swear to it, but it looks like Williams Bon Chretien pear, in your garden? A cultivar of Pyrus communis. 2. A pear of this variety. Also as a modifier. ΚΠ 1871 Florist & Pomologist Nov. 251 The arrivals of early William Pears (Williams' Bon Chrétien)..have been..superabundant, and the fruit remarkably fine, even to the matter of flavour. 1941 H. J. Massingham Fall of Year ii. 109 I have a range of cordon pears that take six months for the picking, and if Williams are picked after the middle of September, even the pigs will leave them till the last. 1973 Times 9 Nov. 4/7 Some pear prices are down..although..Williams are still 15p. 2012 Gay Times May 121/3 How about seared, locally-shot venison loin with pea puree followed by poached William pear with hazelnut brittle, toffee and vanilla custard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Williamsn.2 Computing (now historical). As a modifier. Designating a cathode-ray tube used in some early computers to store an array of spots representing bits; (also) designating or relating to computer memory based on such tubes. Esp. in Williams tube.The Williams tube was the first practical kilobit random-access storage device. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > cathode-ray tube selectron1947 Williams tube1950 1950 W. W. Stifler High-speed Computing Devices (Engin. Res. Associates) x. 202 The proposed machine will have an electrostatic storage system consisting of a bank of Williams tubes. 1953 National Bureau of Standards Techn. News Bull. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) Oct. 147/2 This makes it possible for the calculator to use fully the speed of the Williams-tube memory, doing complete arithmetic operations in a few microseconds. 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing x. 150 The Williams memory had many weaknesses but until the middle fifties it was the only available memory in the microsecond class apart from the expensive flip-flop registers. 1975 R. Malik And Tomorrow..the World iii. 55 By then they had dropped the Williams storage and its regenerative memory and switched to core memory. 2001 Australian (Nexis) 30 Jan. 49 What became known as the Williams Tube was ready to form the nucleus of a digital computer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Williamsn.3 Medicine. As a modifier, esp. in Williams syndrome, Williams elfin facies syndrome. Designating a congenital condition characterized by distinctive facial characteristics, some degree of intellectual disability, vascular abnormalities, esp. narrowing of the aorta above the aortic valve, and often hypercalcaemia.Williams syndrome results from deletion of a small part of one copy of chromosome 7, including the elastin gene. ΚΠ 1967 L. Turano et al. Progress Radiol. Internat. Congr. Series No. 105 I. 153 Two of the 4 cases in the series with supravalvular aortic stenosis had multiple peripheral stenotic lesions of the pulmonary arteries, one with a complete Williams syndrome. 1975 Jrnl. Pediatrics 86 718/1 The purpose of the present report is to present a balanced evaluation of 19 patients with the Williams elfin facies Syndrome (Williams syndrome). 1997 Independent on Sunday 11 May (Review Suppl.) 48/1 In addition to language skills, Williams syndrome children are sociable, with great awareness of body language and emotions. 2019 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 18 Deborah discovered the rare condition of Williams syndrome, which matched a lot of Martha's traits and was later confirmed by a geneticist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11807n.21950n.31967 |
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