单词 | cupola |
释义 | cupolan. 1. a. Architecture. A rounded vault or dome forming the roof of any building or part of a building, or supported upon columns over a tomb, etc.; esp. applied to the pointed or bulbous domes of Saracenic architecture. Often spec.: A diminutive dome rising above a roof; a dome-like lantern or skylight; in practical Architecture, the ceiling of a dome. Also spec. the dome of the building in which the French Academy meets (la coupole de l'Institut). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > dome or cupola tipe1532 cupola1549 thole1633 dome1656 tholosc1660 imperial1826 onion dome1868 domelet1883 geodesic dome1952 geodetic dome1957 geodesic1977 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > learned association > dome of French Academy cupola1900 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 137v Ouer the queere is an whole vaulte called Cupola, facioned like the halfe of an egge. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 161 Out of the Temple there arise two ample coupulos. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 166 This Round is couered with a Cupolo. 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 13 A Noble Paire of Staires should have a Cupelo, and no Windowes on the sides. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 188 On the top of it [sc. the Domo of Florence] stands mounted a fair Cupola (or Tholus) made by Brunelleschi. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 75 The Mosques..have their high Cupuloes covered with Lead. 1716 Protestant Mercury 7 Aug. 6 The Dome or Cupilo of the Cathedral of St. Paul's. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 358 The roofe of the Cloisters being divided into several Cupelos or Domes. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Cupolo,..an arched room or turret, standing on the very top of a dome or great building, in form either of a circle or polygon. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §66 In the very top of the lantern, that is, in the cupola. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV civ. 123 A little cupola, more neat than solemn, Protects his dust. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 529 Beneath the spreading cupolas of a Byzantine basilica. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 300/1 The word dome is applied to the external part of the spherical..roof, and cupola to the internal part. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 21 June 1/3 It is only by a majority of one that M. Hervieu is called ‘under the cupola’. 1920 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 276 These guardians of the Cupola. 1920 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 279 On the 20th of March 1919, M. René Boylesve..was received under the Cupola by the poet, M. Henri de Regnier. b. The revolving dome of an observatory. ΚΠ 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. xiii. 369 The practical astronomer has but to look through the cleft in his revolving cupola. c. transferred. ΚΠ 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xii. v. 220 Escuriall Tour's that seem Heav'ns Cupulas. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 98. ¶5 She [sc. Nature] seems to have designed the Head as the Cupola to the most glorious of her Works. 1869 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (ed. 2) xii. 398 The immense cupola of ice which is known to exist round the South Pole. 2. Mechanics. (In full cupola-furnace.) A furnace for melting metals for casting; so called from a cupola or dome leading to the chimney, which is now frequently absent. Also, a furnace for heating shot to be fired at inflammable objects.Now called at Sheffield, etc. cupelow, cupilo: cf. modern French cubilot, apparently from English workmen. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by shape philosophers' tower1688 cupola-furnace1716 ring furnace1842 shaft-furnace1874 stack-furnace1877 1716 London Gaz. No. 5425/9 The Lease for the Cupilo, or Copper-Works, at Lower Redbrooke. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 342 The casting or smelting-house, furnished with cupola blast furnaces for the smelting of iron. 1861 Times 23 July Cupolas for melting the iron for filling Martin's liquid shells..The cupola consists of a cylindrical shell of wrought-iron, lined with fire-brick, having a blast fan attached. 1885 Law Times Rep. 52 738/1 They had erected a number of cupola and other furnaces. 3. An armour-plated revolving dome to protect mounted guns on an iron-clad ship; a turret. Hence cupola-ship, cupola vessel. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > gun-turret citadel1860 cupola1862 turret1862 tower1889 1862 Ann. Reg. 100 He had caused experiments to be made with Captain Coles's cupola. 1862 Ann. Reg. 106 A cupola vessel to carry great guns. 1873 Brit. Q. Rev. Jan. We refer to the construction and trial [in 1861] of the first ‘cupola’, or ‘shield’, intended to protect guns mounted, with the shield, on a revolving turn-table. 4. In Anatomy, Zoology, etc. A dome-like organ or process; esp. the arched dome-shaped summit of the cochlea of the ear. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > dome cupola1829 the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > cochlea > parts of modiolus1705 cupola1829 basilar membrane1867 Reissner's membrane1867 the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > process, formation, or growth spur1681 acumen1775 cupola1865 1829 J. Bell & C. Bell Anat. & Physiol. Human Body (ed. 7) III. 174 When we cut away the cupola or apex of the cochlea. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 156 Polycystina. A prevailing type of form is a sort of dome or cupola, with an apical prolongation of spine. 5. Geology. A small dome-shaped projection on a batholith. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion > others laccolite1877 xenolith1894 bysmalith1898 stock1898 autolith1900 bathylite1902 phacolite1909 phacolith1910 cupola1911 lopolith1918 1911 R. A. Daly in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 47 69 Plutonic Cupolas... The juvenile gases tend to accumulate in any cupola-like irregularities in the roof. 1911 R. A. Daly in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 47 70 Round intrusive bosses or small stocks are characteristic cupola forms on large batholiths... It is evident that every such cupola increases as well as localizes the danger of true volcanic action. 1914 R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks & their Origin vi. 102 These projections of the igneous mass have been called ‘cupolas’, after the analogous relation of an artificial cupola to the building of which it is a part. Many stocks are cupolas on batholiths. 1954 M. P. Billings Structural Geol. (ed. 2) xix. 319 Cupolas are isolated plutonic bodies that presumably connect downward with the main batholith. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as cupola-painter, etc.; cupola-capped, cupola-roofed adjs.; cupola-wise adv. ΚΠ 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 153 The famous Cupola-Painter of those Times. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. iv. vii. 118/1 Having a fine Porch ascended by Steps, and covered at the top Cupulowise. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 205 A white building, with a cupola roof. 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden I. 282 Two lofty cupola-capped towers. C2. cupola-furnace n. (see 2). ΚΠ 1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 55 In a circle of five miles,..there are 11 stores, 2 cupola furnaces, two oil mills. 1849 E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer 319 It contains two large blast furnaces, two cupola furnaces, one forge. cupola-ship n. (see 3). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cupolav. transitive. To furnish or construct with a cupola. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > provide with domed or arched roof embow1481 envault1523 cupola1615 cope1705 dome1876 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 33 The Ottaman Mausoleas..built all of white marble, round in forme, coupled on the top. a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 209 Now hast thou..made Thyself a fame that's cupula'd. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 191 Another rich Ebony Cabinet Cupola'd with a tortois shell. 1881 Talmage in N.Y. Witness 13 Apr. The old structure will be..raised, and cupolaed, and enlarged. Derivatives ˈcupola'd adj. (also ˈcupolaed) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > dome or cupola coupled1615 cupolated1645 cupola'd1673 domic1823 dome-shaped1832 domy1833 domical1846 domed1855 domal1928 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries (1738) I. 246 Round rooms or halls cupulo'd. 1837 B. Disraeli Venetia III. 6 The hallowed form of some cupolaed convent. 1886 J. H. Shorthouse Sir Percival iii The low cupolaed arch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549v.1615 |
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