| 释义 |
▪ I. † decollate, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.
[ad. L. dēcollāt-us, pa. pple. of dēcollāre: see next.]
Beheaded: in early use as pa. pple.
c1470Harding Chron. lxx. iii, He was heded with swerd and decollate. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. xii. 268 All five, to-day, have suffered death..he, Decollate by mere due of privilege, The rest hanged decently and in order.
▪ II. decollate, v.1|dɪˈkɒleɪt, ˈdɛkəleɪt|
[f. L. dēcollāt-, ppl. stem of dēcollā-re to behead, f. de- I. 6 + collum neck. As adaptation of L. dēcollāt-us, decollate as pa. pple. was in use before any other part of the verb: see prec.]
1. trans. To sever at the neck; to behead.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 30/2 With on blow beheaded, or decollated. 1635Heywood Hierarch. vii. 474 A statue with three heads..two of them were quite beat off and the Third was much bruised but not decollated. 1656H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 257 Sir Walter Rawleigh decollated. 1782W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 720 The murderer..is instantly decollated. 1814Southey in Q. Rev. XII. 223 Upon taking off the cloth he beheld a human head just decollated.
2. Conch. To break off the apex of (a shell).
1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 96 The inner courses of this shell probably break away or are ‘decollated’ in the progress of its growth.
▪ III. decollate, v.2|diːkəˈleɪt, ˈdɛkəleɪt|
[f. de- II. 1 + collate v.]
intr. To separate sheets of paper, etc., esp. multi-part continuous stationery, mechanically into different piles. Hence decoˈllating vbl. n. Cf. decollator2.
1967D. Wilson in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 46 A wide range of document-handling equipment is marketed, which will decollate (separate carbons from printed sheets). 1979Fortune 12 Mar. 27 There's no need for..printing and storing preprinted forms. Going through the trouble of changing them. Or bursting, decollating, reloading or retyping. 1982Computerworld 29 Nov. sr/19 One-part computer paper costs $33 per thousand pages... To that must be added the costs for the actual printing, collating, decollating and distribution. 1984Mag. Bank Admin. Jan. 84/3 [The] T7070 burster bursts and slits one to four-ply forms at a rate of up to 300 feet per minute and can also decollate as it bursts. |