单词 | cubic inch |
释义 | > as lemmascubic inch a. A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot. Hence, a measure of surface and of solidity (explicitly square inch or superficial inch, cubic inch or solid inch) equal to the content respectively of a square or cube the sides of which are of this length. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > inch inchc1000 in.1636 prime1836 c1000 Laws of Æthelbert c. 67 gife ofer ynce, scilling; æt twam yncum, twegen. c1000 Laws of Ælfred c 45 Wund inces lang. c1000 in Sal. & Sat. (Kemble) 180 He [Adam] wæs vi and cx ynca lang. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11961 He wunde afeng feouwer unchene long. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1034 An inch or more. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3302 Þer ne wanteþ noȝt enches foure. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxix. 1380 An vnche is þe leste party of mesures of feldes. a1400–50 Alexander 3675 And þe thinnest was a nynche thicke quen þai ware þurȝe persed. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 128 Þis is .v. inche thycke. 1493 Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 134 Whiche wall we Fynde xxij yenchis thycke by the grownde. c1500 Melusine (1895) xix. 104 Whiche at his birth brought in hys mouthe a grete & long toth, that apyered without an ench long & more. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 56 In..measures, we do go from a barly corne, to a finger breadth: from a finger breadth, to an unch: from an unch, to an hand breadth. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 192 The Princesse bids you tell, How manie inches doth fill vp one mile? View more context for this quotation 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 784 9 London inches are equal to 8·447 Paris inches and decimals. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 200 A column of water equal to ten pounds on the [square] inch. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 213 Each inch being the thickness of six grains of barley. 1900 N.E.D. at Inch Mod. The gill contains 8·665 cubic inches. The pint contains 4 gills or 34·660 inches. < as lemmas |
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