单词 | chinook |
释义 | Chinookn. U.S. a. A jargon which originated in the intercourse of the Hudson Bay Company's servants with the Indians of Oregon and Columbia, and is used by the latter as a means of intercourse between different Indian groups and with white people. Chinook wind n. a warm, dry, and often turbulent wind that blows for hours or days at a time down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains and over the adjacent plains (see also quot. 1967); also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > Chinook Chinook18.. Siwash1902 Wishram1907 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry > katabatic > in Rockies Chinook wind18.. 18.. J. Miller Mem. & Rime (1884) 134 All Indian [N. Am.] dialects, except the ‘Chinook’, a conglomerate published by the Hudson Bay Company for their own purposes. 1846 H. Hale U.S. Exploring Exped.: Ethnogr. & Philol. 635 The trade-language, or..Jargon..was formed by drawing upon the Tshinuk for such words as were necessary. 1860 A. J. Thibodo Diary 1 Apr. in Pacific Northwest Q. (1940) XXXI. 347 Pleasant warm weather, high winds from S.W., they call it the Chinook wind. 1876 Idaho Daily Avalanche (Silver City) 18 Mar. 2/2 In winter however it is somewhat blustery, the wild, yet balmy chinook, sweeping with intense force from the open south and west country. 1884 Boston Jrnl. 6 Mar. Our cold weather..is tempered by the ‘Chinook’ wind from the Pacific coast. 1887 West Shore Snow..is frequently removed in short order by the chinook, as the warm ocean wind is called. 1887 Governor's Rept. in Puget Sound Gaz. July 1888 The Chinook is the natural enemy of the odious east wind. 1889 Illustr. London News 2 Mar. 266 (title) The Chinook. 1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. v. 97 The chinook wind in Alberta, Canada, may raise the temperature in a very short time from -10° to more than 20° C. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies x. 87 The potency of the Chinook winds. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies x. 87 Under a Chinook the snow does not melt, it evaporates. 1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 1151/2 Chinook winds may occur in summer but are less noticeable then. The term chinook has mistakenly been used for any warm and moist oceanic wind on the windward side of the [Rocky] mountains. b. In full Chinook salmon = quinnat n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook) red fish1763 spring salmon1776 gorbuscha1784 keta1824 quinnat1829 Chinook salmon1851 coho1869 king salmon1871 silver trout1873 kokanee1875 salmon1884 sockeye1888 chisel-mouth1889 pink salmon1899 spring1900 tyee1902 pink1905 blackmouth1906 chum1908 greenback cut-throat1989 1851 San Francisco Picayune 15 Oct. 2/5 A supply of Chenook salmon. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 177 Quinnat—..Chinnook salmon, Columbia River salmon, Sacramento Salmon. 1884 L. Stone in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 479 On the Columbia River the name ‘Chinnook Salmon’ is in universal use. 1889 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 4 Nov. 5/1 He..landed after a most exciting fight, a chinook or chisel-mouth of large size. 1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) i. 479 Oncorhynchus Tschawytscha... Chinook Salmon. 1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) i. 479 This species [sc. the redfish] enters the Columbia River with the spring run of the Chinook Salmon. 1897 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) in Congress. Rec. 16 Dec. 221/2 The number of fat Chinook salmon coming into the Columbia would be greatly increased. 1911 F. J. Haskin Amer. Govt. xii. 151 The bureau of fisheries..has tried to establish the chinook salmon in Atlantic coast waters. 1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 24 In the United States... In 1872 the Bureau of Fisheries distributed 30,000 eggs of the Chinook salmon. 1940 Geogr. Jrnl. 96 241 Forty-two million salmon of one variety (chinook) alone. 1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 72/3 The other five salmon species, all on the Pacific Coast, are the Chinook (also called the king salmon), the sockeye, the silver, the humpback, and the chum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.18.. |
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