单词 | y-shaped |
释义 | > as lemmasy-shaped 2. The letter considered with regard to its shape; a figure or marking of this shape. Also in combination y-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > object or shape resembling specific letter Y1513 tee1610 Ha1616 Z1680 W1798 V1832 Z-bar1877 zed1891 vee1933 T-junction1954 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 120 Palamedes byrdis crouping in the sky, Fleand on randoune schapin lik ane Y. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 182 I heare the Crane (if I mistake not) crie, Who, in the Clouds forming the forked Y,..Instructeth Souldiars in the Art of Warre. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 265 The centre of the town is a pretty expansion, in the form of the Roman Y. 1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. v. 324 (note) A rich orphrey..dividing itself a little way below the neck, takes the shape of the letter Y, and passes, in that form, over the shoulders. 1861 H. Hagen Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer. 214 Between the antennæ is a black Y. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 511 The bucket is then lowered into the Y-shaped rests. 1907 C. C. Brown China in Legend & Story xvi. 233 A Y-shaped divining rod. < as lemmas |
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