| 释义 |
ˈout-turn
[out- 7, from turn out.]
1. a. The quantity turned out or yielded; produce, output; spec. Econ., an amount or result attained, as distinct from an estimate.
1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Proc. Parl. 35/1 The prospects of the year 1799–1800 will be found to vary but little in the aggregate from the actual out-turn of the preceding year. 1863Gladstone Sp. Ho. Comm. 16 Apr., I estimated..the probable outturn of the revenue at 70,190,000l. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 423 The outlay, as regards labour,..is the same whether the out-turn is large or small. 1928R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. ix. 115 Both [the farmer and the gardener] take such measures as they can to improve the quality and increase the outturn of their field or garden crops. 1930Economist 5 July 19/2 The wheat harvest has begun in the south-west... The out-turn promises to be about as large as last year. 1932Times 29 Sept. 15/3 The Budget had been balanced on paper, but it remained to be seen what the actual result would be at the end of the financial year. The outturn proved the soundness of the balancing. 1957Times 18 Nov. (Ann. Financial & Commerc. Rev.) p. xxxii/1 Barring frosts or other calamities, the out-turn delivered to the market can be reduced only by the action of growers or of some intermediary agency in withholding stocks. 1963Guardian 15 Mar. 3/2 The figures for the outturn of defence expenditure in 1961–62 are provisional. 1972Accountant 21 Sept. 350/1 Some indication of the out-turn for the current year. 1976Daily Tel. 3 Apr. 17 There is little point in the Government producing White Papers on public expenditure since the outturn has been so consistently different from official projections.
b. gen. A result, outcome.
1881W. Paul Past & Present of Aberdeenshire 19 Rahab, spoken of in the Bible, made a bad beginning, but she had a fine out-turn,—she had a fine out-turn, she married Salmon. 1961Atom Feb. 12/2 Any statement on the future cost of power involves a complicated judgment of the out-turn of many factors.
2. Curling. A turning motion given to a stone which causes it to curve to the left.
1890J. Kerr Hist. Curling 411 No curler is..entitled to be reckoned a graduate of arts in curling until he has mastered the knowledge of the in-turn and the out-turn. 1900― in A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 200 The in-turn is made when the curl is to be toward the right, the out-turn when it is to the left. 1969R. Welsh Beginner's Guide Curling xi. 82 The..‘in-turn’ and ‘out-turn’, are activated in different ways. |