| 释义 |
▪ I. exploring, vbl. n.|ɛkˈsplɔərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. explore.
1841–4Emerson Ess., Manners Wks. (Bohn) I. 203 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee Islanders getting their dinner off human bones. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. Georgia 261, I went on an exploring expedition round some distant fields. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 326 Deepdale is wild and beautiful..and will repay exploring. 1883Stevenson Treasure Isl. ii. xii. (1886) 96 When you want to go a bit of exploring, you just ask old John [etc.].
2. Comb. exploring coil Electr., a small flat coil of insulated wire connected with a galvanometer, used for determining the strength of a magnetic field from the current induced in the coil when it is quickly turned over or withdrawn from the field; a search coil; exploring conductor (see quot.); exploring needle, trochar, surgical instruments for ‘exploring’ tumours, etc.; exploring wire (see quots.).
1884S. P. Thompson Dynamo-Electric Machinery iv. 60 At 0° a certain number of lines of force would thread themselves through the exploring coil. 1913Year-bk. Wireless Telegr. & Telephony 316 The moveable exploring coil is attached to a handle and index.
1879Noad's Text-bk. Electr. 75 The Exploring Conductor at Kew Observatory.—This is a conical tube of thin copper raised 16 feet above the dome of the building, carrying at the top a small lantern or collecting lamp, provided with a little cowl.
1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Exploring needle, trochar.
1879Noad's Text-bk. Electr. 83 The late Mr. Crosse and the late Mr. Weekes examined the electrical condition of the lower regions of the atmosphere..by means of exploring wires insulated on appropriate supports. 1892Mrs. A. Crosse Redlet. Days I. 178, I have an apparatus arranged for testing the electricity of the atmosphere. It is connected with exploring wires carried on high poles for more than a mile round the woods.
▪ II. exˈploring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That explores.
1680Boyle Produc. Chem. Princ. Pref., To doubt whether they be agreeable, to..the exploring Experiments of the fire. 1771Fletcher Wks. (1795) II. 43 This life begins by an exploring desire.
Hence exˈploringly adv.
1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man ii. 79 To go exploringly forward into the obscure future. 1889L. Keith Hurricane in Petticoats I. viii. 167 Teddy looked at him exploringly, as if to test the sincerity of the apology. |