| 单词 | word after word |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword after word a. word by word: (a) = word for word adv. (formerly also †fro word unto word, †word after word, †word in word); (b) spec. (in alphabetization) taking each word in turn (opposed to letter by letter: see letter n.1 Phrases 2). Also attributive (with hyphens). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > arrangement in alphabetical order > specific word by wordeOE the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > in alphabetical order > specific word by wordeOE the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > word-for-word word by wordeOE word for word?1611 verbatim1834 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adverb] > word for word fro word unto wordeOE word after wordeOE word by wordeOE word in wordeOE word for wordc1400 after the worda1450 verbatim?1503 verbatimly1587 verbally1588 verbatim et literatim1642 syllabically1654 totidem verbis1659 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [adverb] > word for word fro word unto wordeOE word by wordeOE word for wordc1400 verbatim1563 metaphrastically1577 literally1591 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) Pref. 7 Ða ongan ic..ða boc wendan on Englisc ðe is genemned on Læden Pastoralis.., hwilum word be worde, hwilum andgit of andgiete. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) Proem 1 Hwilum he sette word be worde, hwilum andgit of andgite. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 17 (MED) Ich wille..segge ou þe crede word after word. 1379 MS Gloucester Cathedral 19 No. 1. i. iii. lf. 7 All that I have sayde yn this chapitre Isaac techith word by word. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 144 The now late named psalmes..ben ouer long to be rehercid word bi word here. 1493 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 308/2 Þe bill of Complaint..of þe quhilk þe tenour folowis word in word. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3187 (MED) Geffray the letters After breke and rayd, For [perh. read Fro] wurde unto wurd. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. iiv Then turnyng hymself to his accuser, [he] declared worde by worde what he had said. 1575 (title) A commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians first collected and gathered word by word out of his preaching. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. x. 151 You are to dictate, or deliuer vnto them word by word, the English of the sentence. 1680 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Epist. Pref. sig. A8 Metaphrase, or turning an Author word by word, and Line by Line, from one Language into another. 1718 J. Dart Complaint Black Knight 33 I took my Pen with hasty speed to write His sad Complaint, and fix it to Record Near as I could remember Word by Word. 1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 193 Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 52 The kind of word-by-word examination of your author which is rightly called ‘reading’. 1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 12 There are two methods [of alphabetization] in use: 1, ‘letter by letter’; 2, ‘word by word’, or ‘nothing before something’. In the former method ‘Newton’ precedes, in the latter it follows, ‘New York’. 1979 Amer. Speech 1976 51 149 This dictionary uses word-by-word rather than letter-by-letter alphabetizing. 2004 Hist. in Afr. 31 484 Le Rwanda ancien was not translated word by word, but sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph. < as lemmas |
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