单词 | catchword |
释义 | catchwordn. 1. Printing. In an early printed book: the first word of a page printed at the lower right-hand corner of the preceding page, to facilitate the binding of pages in the correct order. Also in a manuscript: a word or phrase from the first line of a quire written on the final folio of the preceding quire, so as to assist the binder. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > catchword or catch-line catchword1693 catchline1761 1693 R. South Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Bk. (ed. 2) Errata sig. b4v P. 351. catch word for συνηθεία r. Greek Errata. 1737 J. Lewis Life W. Caxton 124 Like the other Printers of his Time, he never used any Direction or Catch-word, but placed the Signatures where that now stands. 1771 F. Vesey Cases High Court Chancery 2 To Binder sig. 8X2 By Mistake there are two Sheets marked 6 S... The Catch-word will direct which is to be placed first. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia I. 68 Catch-words, now generally abolished, were first used at Venice, by Vindeline de Spire. 1885 E. M. Thompson in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 144/2 Catch-words to connect the quires date back to the 12th century. 1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. xl Some quires of..f. 245v have catchwords. 2005 Rev. Eng. Stud. 56 564 An incorrect catchword, ‘With’, on page 18 was corrected in press to ‘At’. 2. A frequently used word or phrase, esp. one associated with a particular group or fashionable at a particular time; a topical slogan; a buzzword. Cf. catchcry n., catchphrase n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > word or cry > [noun] > slogan or catchword slogan1704 catchword1715 nayword1828 catchphrase1834 catchline1842 catchcry1843 yell1867 watch-cry1882 buzzword1946 in word1964 1715 D. Defoe Acct. Actions of James Butler 19 The Name of Ormond..has been the Catch-word of the Rabble, in the several Street-tumults. 1795 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XL. 122 The influence and dangerous tendency of these party catch-words could not be stronger exemplified than in the hacknied phrase of ‘Swinish Multitude’. 1812 Examiner 25 May 332/1 Public virtue is only the catch-word of knaves to delude fools. 1889 ‘M. Gray’ Reproach of Annesley III. v. i. 13 Some voices..shouted ‘the ballot’ and ‘extension of suffrage’, but..these were catchwords for the most part, caught up from perpetual iteration in recent speeches and newspapers. 1952 Manch. Guardian 16 July 7/7 The fabulous phase of life in Japan..was epitomised in the famous catchword of the occupation years, ‘You never had it so good’. 1985 Irish Times 13 June 10/6 The catchword among quiltmakers these days is purist. Twice I was taken aside and asked if I was a purist. 2015 J. Forssbæck & L. Oxelheim Oxf. Handbk. Transparency p. xiii ‘Transparency’ has become a catchword in the economic-political debate in recent years. 3. Theatre. The last word of an actor's speech, serving as a prompt to another actor to speak or take the stage; a cue. Now rare.In quot. 1961 as a cue to musicians to begin playing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > words spoken by actors > types of cue1553 anteloquy1623 aside1728 catchword1755 side soliloquy1842 gag1847 gravy1864 fluff1891 laugh line1913 rhubarb1919 curtain line1939 walla1949 1755 Refl. Theatr. Expression in Trag. Introd. 4 Stareing round the House, 'till the Catch-Word inform him 'tis his Turn to open his Mouth. 1798 E. S. Tomlins Rosalind de Tracey III. xiii. 201 Betrayed into the expression, like an actor at a catch-word. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xviii. 346 The others aspired at nothing beyond his remembering the catchword, and the first line of his speech. View more context for this quotation 1861 Players 30 Mar. 308/2 He forgot his catchword, and continued hemming for some minutes while the furious husband was standing between the side scenes. 1961 Illustr. Weekly India 9 July 45/1 The word, ‘Ho’,..is a catch-word for the musicians to start the music required. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > rhyme-word rhyme1577 catchworda1764 respondent1804 rhyme-word1832 a1764 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 115 More demands the critic ear, Than the two catch-words in the rear, Which stand like watchmen in the close, To keep the verse from being prose. 5. a. A word written or printed (often in large or bold letters) at the top of a page, paragraph, or other section of text, serving to indicate the contents or draw the reader's attention; a word constituting a heading, esp. of an entry in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other reference work. Cf. catchline n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > line or word placed to catch the eye catchword1833 catchline1868 call-out1986 society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > heading > types of heading epigraph1633 under-title1687 subhead1744 side head1822 catchword1833 side heading1836 subject line1836 subheading1842 catchline1845 subject heading1853 cut-line1883 box head1899 caption1923 overline1923 underline1924 strap1960 strap-line1960 1833 N.-Y. Spectator 28 Feb. On opening the Pennsylvania Inquirer this morning, the first article which caught our eye, was one under the catch-words placed at the beginning of this paragraph. 1851 Norton's Literary Advertiser Sept. 41/2 The author of this Dictionary has arranged..all those extracts which serve to illustrate the idea in the catch-word under which they are placed. 1885 Law Q. Rev. 297 The Digester should..revise every catch-word in the Reports. 1905 Nation (N.Y.) 15 June 488/3 The absence of any system of headlines or running-titles, or catch-words at the top of the page. 1928 T. F. Tout Chapters in Admin. Hist. Mediaeval Eng. IV. xii. 224 The wardrobe keeper often had a house in London..and wardrobe accounts were commonly enrolled under the heading, or catchword, London. 1998 A. Cormack Definitions iii. 169 In a dictionary, we..look up a catchword..and under this we search for the meaning of the particular word. b. Chiefly Library Science. A significant or memorable word from the title or text of a book or other publication used in cataloguing or indexing. Frequently attributive, as catchword catalogue, catchword index, etc. See also catchword entry n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 1852 Army & Navy Pension Laws U.S. Index 693 The simple alphabetical arrangement of ‘catch words’..that..enable the reader to find the subject with which such words are connected in the text of the volume. 1861 9th Ann. Rep. Trustees Public Libr. (Boston) 32 These cards contain..the titles in full, under the names of authors, with cross-references from the names of subjects treated of, and from important catch words of titles. 1878 Libr. Jrnl. 3 232/2 Some of the classes having been catalogued by subjects, some by titles, some by authors, and some by means of a catchword reference. 1912 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. 8 235/2 The author and title catalog is distinguished from the author and catch-word catalog by the entry of anonymous titles under the first word rather than under the most significant word. 1970 A. Kent et al. Encycl. Libr. & Information Sci. IV. 256 The catchword seemed to be the logical way to supplement the author list by serving to group materials of a like nature (form or subject) rather than to scatter them by title. 1986 D. L. Bosworth Intellect. Prop. Rights 45 The researcher intent on isolating which headings are relevant to a particular subject area is aided by the Catchword Index. Compounds catchword entry n. Library Science (chiefly historical in later use) a method of entering a publication in a catalogue under a significant or memorable word from the title (as opposed to the author, subject, or first word of the title); (also) a catalogue entry made using this method; cf. sense 5b and title entry at title n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > book list > [noun] > list of books in library or libraries > entry in title entry1875 catchword entry1876 1876 C. A. Cutter Rules Dict. Catal. in Public Libraries U.S.A.: Special Rep.: Pt. II (Dept. Interior, Bureau Educ.) 14 Important-word, or catch-word-entry, such entry made from some word of the title other than the first word and not indicative of the subject, but likely to be remembered and used by borrowers in asking for the book. 1903 Papers & Proc. 25th Gen. Meeting Amer. Libr. Assoc. 179/2 If confined to a list of selected titles..catchword entry may be admitted to have some advantage. 1942 Libr. Q. 12 523 Subject and catchword entries at first resorted to and later changed to regular subject headings. 1972 K. G. B. Bakewell Man. Cataloguing Pract. (1974) v. 71 Catchword entry does not list everything on a subject in one place. 1981 L. M. Chan Cataloging & Classif. vii. 125 Early library catalogs were primarily finding-lists providing author and catchword entries for each item and a symbol indicating its location. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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