单词 | air-swept |
释义 | > as lemmasair-swept (b) Instrumental, as air-bred, air-spun, air-swept, etc. ΚΠ ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E3 v Ayre bred Eagles. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. D4 Ayre-bred moystie vapors. 1657 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella (ed. 3) i. 4 Best-tuned Voice! whilst wanton part Chants th' Ayr-bred Eccho. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 330 Those air-bred people, and their goat-nurs'd Jove. 1778 J. H. Moore Poet. Trifles 40 Each air-form'd spectre. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 60 How fair these air-born shapes! 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 135 This air-filled bowl. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 202 And air-swept lindens yield Their scent. 1890 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 11 Apr. 2/4 Now comes the silent, air operated station annunciator. 1901 Guide to Felixstowe (Ward, Lock) 2 It is an air-swept place, this sunny Felixstowe. 1956 S. Bellow in It all adds Up (1994) 50 All his life long he sold non-existent property, concessions he did not own, and air-spun schemes to greedy men. 2001 Mod. Railways Sept. 10/2 Alstom disclosed that the fault was in a Vacuum Circuit Breaker, the air-operated high-voltage switch which connects traction equipment and transformer to the current collection pantograph. < as lemmas |
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