请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 half-circle
释义 half-circle
1. The half of a circle; a semicircle.
1552Huloet, Halfe circle, semicirculus.1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 126 Describe in th' intersections in like maner, halfe circles.1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 104 A double course of half circles.1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. iii. 299 A little more than a half-circle.
2. attrib. (See quots.)
1853Stocqueler Milit. Encycl., Half-circle guard, in fencing, is one of the guards used with the broadsword to parry an inside cut below the wrist.Ibid., Half-circle parade, is a parade of the small sword, used against the thrust in low carte.
So half-ˈcircular a., semicircular.
a1847Mrs. Sherwood Life ii. 19 The half-circular window over the hall-door.
随便看

 

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/7 11:44:12