altn.¹

Brit.

/alt/, U.S.

/ɑlt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin altus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin altus high (see altus n.). Compare later alto n.²

1. Music. High pitch of voice or instrument; an instance of this, a high note. Chiefly in in alt: in the octave immediately above the top line of the treble stave. Cf. alto n.² 2.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > high pitch

alt1535

alto1597

height1597

trebleness1626

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adverb] > high > above treble stave

in alt1535

in altissimo1773

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 627 Mony trumpet into sindrie tune, Sum into bas, and sum in alt abone.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke i. 4 What in F fa vt in Base, may also be done in _ffa vt in alt.

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 3 Those above Ela are called Notes in Alt.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 52 In soaring Alts his Grand Ambition shew.

1762 G. Colman Musical Lady i. ii. 14 Your Ladyship's absolutely in alt... Yes, in Alt—Give me leave to tell your Ladyship that you have raised your voice a full Octave higher.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 296 Voice risen somewhat into Alt.

1864 R. Browning Youth & Art in Dramatis Personæ 155 As I shook upon E in alt.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby III. 138 The little soft ascending rocket, up to E in alt.

1922 S. H. Adams From Bench in our Square ii. 68 The voice of its bell, measured and mellow and pure, was unquestionably D in alt.

2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers xi. 508 The E-flat in alt exploded from the singing mask.

2. figurative. in alt: (of a person) in an exalted or excited condition or mood; (of a thing) in a superior or elevated state. Now archaic.Common in the 18th cent.; rare after early 19th cent., until revived in the mid 20th cent. in historical contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > in inspired state [phrase]

in alt1737

1737 Distress'd Fair 38 [They] returned to their company, that by this Time were all in Alt.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. iv. 72 The fair fugitive was all in Alt.

1784 European Mag. & London Rev. 5 425 I know you to be in alt, as to your religion.

1833 J. Galt Eben Erskine I. vi. 39 Every thing was so uncommonly fine;..all was in alt, from the folded shape of the napkins..to the dressed hair of the professors.

1836 F. Trollope Paris & Parisians I. xxi. 133 So saying, he departed,—leaving us all..a little less in alt about him than before.

1959 G. Heyer Unknown Ajax ix. 130 She is thrown into high fidgets... If she could school herself to be a little less in alt she would go on better.

2007 L. Carlyle Never Lie to Lady xvi. 363 Gibbons was in alt—having all of twelve coats to choose from instead of just the two.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† altn.²

Forms: 1500s–1700s alt, 1600s alte.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French alte, halte.

Etymology: < Middle French alte, variant of halte (16th cent. in faire alte to make halt: see halt n.¹). Compare earlier alto n.¹ and also halt n.¹

Military. Obsolete.

A halt, esp. on a march or journey. Chiefly in to make alt. Cf. alto n.¹

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > on or in the course of a journey [phrase] > make a halt

to make altc1599

c1599 J. Harington Rep. to Queen Elizabeth in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 159 The vauntgarde..was commaunded to make alt.

1616 J. Bingham tr. Ælian Tactiks xxxii. 137 The rest open their rankes in mouing forward and make Alte.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 61 Cherisophus, that at other times vpon the receit of such messages made vsually Alt, made not Alt then.

1653 S. Clarke Life Tamerlane 44 The Sultan..making divers Alts with four thousand horse.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 532 To descrie the distant foe..In motion or in alt .

1715 Hist. Wars Charles XII. King of Sweden 171 General Schuylemberg, who saw himself surprized, and that it was impossible for him to reach the Place he aimed at,..made Alt in the Plain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

Altadj.¹n.³

Brit.

/ɒlt/,

/ɔːlt/, U.S.

/ɔlt/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: alternate v.

Etymology: Shortened < alternate v.

Computing.

A. adj.¹ (attributive).

1. Alt mode n. now disused an escape key on some types of mainframe computer.

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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys

space bar1887

function key1930

delete key1963

esc1963

Alt mode1964

carriage return1965

return1965

return key1965

enter1966

Alt key1968

home key1968

arrow key1969

tab1969

control1976

delete1977

control key1978

cursor key1979

Alt1981

delete button1981

escape key1982

hot key1983

1964 PDP-6 TECO (MIT Memorandum MAC-M-191) (Electronic text) 4 alt mode. Echoes line $ and is used to terminate a Search or Insert string.

1966 Supervisor Planning Document No. 17 (University Math. Lab., Cambridge) (Electronic text) At present, alt mode sets fault 65 and is used to signify end of input in input modes.

1974 DEC's 1974 PDP-8 Pocket Ref. Card (Digital Equipment Corp.) (Electronic text) Altmode..Special break character for Teletype input.

1988 D. A. Norman Psychol. Everyday Things iii. 68 ‘To load this program, put the floppy diskette into drive A and type alt mode, control-shift-x, delete.’ This is rote learning, the bane of modern existence.

2. Alt key n. = sense B.

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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys

space bar1887

function key1930

delete key1963

esc1963

Alt mode1964

carriage return1965

return1965

return key1965

enter1966

Alt key1968

home key1968

arrow key1969

tab1969

control1976

delete1977

control key1978

cursor key1979

Alt1981

delete button1981

escape key1982

hot key1983

1968 Hewlett-Packard Jrnl. Nov. 12/1 HP basic will ignore any message terminated by pressing the esc or alt key on the teletypewriter.

1989 Byte Aug. 108/2 You can also set up various macros to be executed by Control or Alt keys.

1995 T. Clancy & S. Pieczenik Op-Center xx. 89 Hood pushed the alt key to acknowledge.

2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 May c11/3 Hold down the Alt key and click on a word in a document that you are writing, and GuruNet will hie out to the Internet to find what it can about the word.

2009 W. E. B. Griffin & W. E. Butterworth Traffickers v. 166 He stuck it in a USB slot on the side of the laptop, and simultaneously hit the control, alt, delete keys.

B. n.³

A specific function or control key on certain types of keyboard; esp. the control key labelled ‘Alt’ found at the lower left of IBM-style keyboards.

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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys

space bar1887

function key1930

delete key1963

esc1963

Alt mode1964

carriage return1965

return1965

return key1965

enter1966

Alt key1968

home key1968

arrow key1969

tab1969

control1976

delete1977

control key1978

cursor key1979

Alt1981

delete button1981

escape key1982

hot key1983

1981 Orthogonal Command Structures in fa.editor-p (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Dec. Is deleting to end of the paragraph (‘D1EPAR’ in EDT, or ‘C-<alt>]C-w’ in default Emacs) an easy or a hard thing?

1982 Byte (Nexis) Jan. 36 Three keys must be pressed simultaneously to restart the system: Ctrl, Alt, and Del.

1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 33/4 You can CTRL-Alt-Del in a DOS window and reboot just that window off a floppy disk.

2000 Times (Electronic ed.) 27 Sept. Hitting Alt and the Space Bar together gives you a menu to Minimise, Maximise or Close an application.

2002 Computer Music Jan. 57/3 By holding down Alt (Ctrl on the Mac) you can move the part in the much-smaller tick increments.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

altadj.²

Brit.

/ɔːlt/,

/ɒlt/, U.S.

/ɔlt/,

/ɑlt/

Forms: 1900s– alt, 1900s– alt. (with point).

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: alternative adj.

Etymology: Shortened < alternative adj., chiefly after alt-rock n. In alt-country n. at Compounds after alternative country n. at alternative adj. and n. Compounds.The frequent use of the form alt. suggests the influence of alt. in names of newsgroups within a Usenet hierarchy: see e.g. quot. 1988² at main sense

Alternative; spec. denoting a version of some cultural phenomenon (originally and esp. music) that is regarded as outside the mainstream of its genre. Cf. alt-rock n.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard

exorbitant1534

unorthodox1629

aberrant1778

aberrated1786

divergent1801

radical1869

nonstandard1870

non-regular1896

non-regulation1953

non-conformant1960

alternative1962

sideways1969

alternate1970

marginala1988

alt1988

1988 Advocate (Los Angeles) 24 May 82/2 (advt.) Gay film stdnt, 21 sks male 35-55... I'm into cinema, alt. music, art, science & the outdoors.

1988 Alt Party at Toad Hall after Usenix in soc.net-people (Usenet newsgroup) 23 May Since it's San Francisco, you may find alt.sex (.safe), or alt.sources of alt.drugs.

1990 J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 117 This cry was taken up by the alt coms [i.e. comedians]—Benny and Jenny and Lenny and Dawn—who would bang on about Reagan being an actor.

1996 Time Out N.Y. 14 Feb. 14/3 So if the mainstream's ability to mine fringe culture has just about matured, whither alt. culture?

2005 Time Out N.Y. 18 Aug. 123/4 System of a Down [sc. a band] is an alt-metal phenomenon with all the right elements.

Compounds

alt-country n. a style of country music influenced by alternative rock; = alternative country n. at alternative adj. and n. Compounds.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [noun] > country and western

country music1942

country-western1949

bluegrass1955

country and western1960

Nashville1963

country1969

newgrass1972

alternative country1990

alt-country1993

1993 KZSU 90.1 FM Summer Program Guide in alt.music.alternative (Usenet newsgroup) 22 July Alt. country, bluegrass and folk.

2005 C. Willman Rednecks & Bluenecks 211 There's an old joke..about alt country being the one form of music where the musicians outnumber the fans.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1535

n.²c1599

adj.¹n.³1964

adj.²1988

单词	alt
释义	altn.¹ Brit. /alt/, U.S. /ɑlt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin altus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin altus high (see altus n.). Compare later alto n.² 1. Music. High pitch of voice or instrument; an instance of this, a high note. Chiefly in in alt: in the octave immediately above the top line of the treble stave. Cf. alto n.² 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > high pitch alt1535 alto1597 height1597 trebleness1626 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adverb] > high > above treble stave in alt1535 in altissimo1773 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 627 Mony trumpet into sindrie tune, Sum into bas, and sum in alt abone. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke i. 4 What in F fa vt in Base, may also be done in _ffa vt in alt. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 3 Those above Ela are called Notes in Alt. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 52 In soaring Alts his Grand Ambition shew. 1762 G. Colman Musical Lady i. ii. 14 Your Ladyship's absolutely in alt... Yes, in Alt—Give me leave to tell your Ladyship that you have raised your voice a full Octave higher. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 296 Voice risen somewhat into Alt. 1864 R. Browning Youth & Art in Dramatis Personæ 155 As I shook upon E in alt. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby III. 138 The little soft ascending rocket, up to E in alt. 1922 S. H. Adams From Bench in our Square ii. 68 The voice of its bell, measured and mellow and pure, was unquestionably D in alt. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers xi. 508 The E-flat in alt exploded from the singing mask. 2. figurative. in alt: (of a person) in an exalted or excited condition or mood; (of a thing) in a superior or elevated state. Now archaic.Common in the 18th cent.; rare after early 19th cent., until revived in the mid 20th cent. in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > in inspired state [phrase] in alt1737 1737 Distress'd Fair 38 [They] returned to their company, that by this Time were all in Alt. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. iv. 72 The fair fugitive was all in Alt. 1784 European Mag. & London Rev. 5 425 I know you to be in alt, as to your religion. 1833 J. Galt Eben Erskine I. vi. 39 Every thing was so uncommonly fine;..all was in alt, from the folded shape of the napkins..to the dressed hair of the professors. 1836 F. Trollope Paris & Parisians I. xxi. 133 So saying, he departed,—leaving us all..a little less in alt about him than before. 1959 G. Heyer Unknown Ajax ix. 130 She is thrown into high fidgets... If she could school herself to be a little less in alt she would go on better. 2007 L. Carlyle Never Lie to Lady xvi. 363 Gibbons was in alt—having all of twelve coats to choose from instead of just the two. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † altn.² Forms: 1500s–1700s alt, 1600s alte. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French alte, halte. Etymology: < Middle French alte, variant of halte (16th cent. in faire alte to make halt: see halt n.¹). Compare earlier alto n.¹ and also halt n.¹ Military. Obsolete. A halt, esp. on a march or journey. Chiefly in to make alt. Cf. alto n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > on or in the course of a journey [phrase] > make a halt to make altc1599 c1599 J. Harington Rep. to Queen Elizabeth in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 159 The vauntgarde..was commaunded to make alt. 1616 J. Bingham tr. Ælian Tactiks xxxii. 137 The rest open their rankes in mouing forward and make Alte. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 61 Cherisophus, that at other times vpon the receit of such messages made vsually Alt, made not Alt then. 1653 S. Clarke Life Tamerlane 44 The Sultan..making divers Alts with four thousand horse. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 532 To descrie the distant foe..In motion or in alt . View more context for this quotation 1715 Hist. Wars Charles XII. King of Sweden 171 General Schuylemberg, who saw himself surprized, and that it was impossible for him to reach the Place he aimed at,..made Alt in the Plain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021). Altadj.¹n.³ Brit. /ɒlt/, /ɔːlt/, U.S. /ɔlt/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: alternate v. Etymology: Shortened < alternate v. Computing. A. adj.¹ (attributive). 1. Alt mode n. now disused an escape key on some types of mainframe computer. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys space bar1887 function key1930 delete key1963 esc1963 Alt mode1964 carriage return1965 return1965 return key1965 enter1966 Alt key1968 home key1968 arrow key1969 tab1969 control1976 delete1977 control key1978 cursor key1979 Alt1981 delete button1981 escape key1982 hot key1983 1964 PDP-6 TECO (MIT Memorandum MAC-M-191) (Electronic text) 4 alt mode. Echoes line $ and is used to terminate a Search or Insert string. 1966 Supervisor Planning Document No. 17 (University Math. Lab., Cambridge) (Electronic text) At present, alt mode sets fault 65 and is used to signify end of input in input modes. 1974 DEC's 1974 PDP-8 Pocket Ref. Card (Digital Equipment Corp.) (Electronic text) Altmode..Special break character for Teletype input. 1988 D. A. Norman Psychol. Everyday Things iii. 68 ‘To load this program, put the floppy diskette into drive A and type alt mode, control-shift-x, delete.’ This is rote learning, the bane of modern existence. 2. Alt key n. = sense B. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys space bar1887 function key1930 delete key1963 esc1963 Alt mode1964 carriage return1965 return1965 return key1965 enter1966 Alt key1968 home key1968 arrow key1969 tab1969 control1976 delete1977 control key1978 cursor key1979 Alt1981 delete button1981 escape key1982 hot key1983 1968 Hewlett-Packard Jrnl. Nov. 12/1 HP basic will ignore any message terminated by pressing the esc or alt key on the teletypewriter. 1989 Byte Aug. 108/2 You can also set up various macros to be executed by Control or Alt keys. 1995 T. Clancy & S. Pieczenik Op-Center xx. 89 Hood pushed the alt key to acknowledge. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 May c11/3 Hold down the Alt key and click on a word in a document that you are writing, and GuruNet will hie out to the Internet to find what it can about the word. 2009 W. E. B. Griffin & W. E. Butterworth Traffickers v. 166 He stuck it in a USB slot on the side of the laptop, and simultaneously hit the control, alt, delete keys. B. n.³ A specific function or control key on certain types of keyboard; esp. the control key labelled ‘Alt’ found at the lower left of IBM-style keyboards. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys space bar1887 function key1930 delete key1963 esc1963 Alt mode1964 carriage return1965 return1965 return key1965 enter1966 Alt key1968 home key1968 arrow key1969 tab1969 control1976 delete1977 control key1978 cursor key1979 Alt1981 delete button1981 escape key1982 hot key1983 1981 Orthogonal Command Structures in fa.editor-p (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Dec. Is deleting to end of the paragraph (‘D1EPAR’ in EDT, or ‘C-<alt>]C-w’ in default Emacs) an easy or a hard thing? 1982 Byte (Nexis) Jan. 36 Three keys must be pressed simultaneously to restart the system: Ctrl, Alt, and Del. 1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 33/4 You can CTRL-Alt-Del in a DOS window and reboot just that window off a floppy disk. 2000 Times (Electronic ed.) 27 Sept. Hitting Alt and the Space Bar together gives you a menu to Minimise, Maximise or Close an application. 2002 Computer Music Jan. 57/3 By holding down Alt (Ctrl on the Mac) you can move the part in the much-smaller tick increments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). altadj.² Brit. /ɔːlt/, /ɒlt/, U.S. /ɔlt/, /ɑlt/ Forms: 1900s– alt, 1900s– alt. (with point). Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: alternative adj. Etymology: Shortened < alternative adj., chiefly after alt-rock n. In alt-country n. at Compounds after alternative country n. at alternative adj. and n. Compounds.The frequent use of the form alt. suggests the influence of alt. in names of newsgroups within a Usenet hierarchy: see e.g. quot. 1988² at main sense Alternative; spec. denoting a version of some cultural phenomenon (originally and esp. music) that is regarded as outside the mainstream of its genre. Cf. alt-rock n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard exorbitant1534 unorthodox1629 aberrant1778 aberrated1786 divergent1801 radical1869 nonstandard1870 non-regular1896 non-regulation1953 non-conformant1960 alternative1962 sideways1969 alternate1970 marginala1988 alt1988 1988 Advocate (Los Angeles) 24 May 82/2 (advt.) Gay film stdnt, 21 sks male 35-55... I'm into cinema, alt. music, art, science & the outdoors. 1988 Alt Party at Toad Hall after Usenix in soc.net-people (Usenet newsgroup) 23 May Since it's San Francisco, you may find alt.sex (.safe), or alt.sources of alt.drugs. 1990 J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 117 This cry was taken up by the alt coms [i.e. comedians]—Benny and Jenny and Lenny and Dawn—who would bang on about Reagan being an actor. 1996 Time Out N.Y. 14 Feb. 14/3 So if the mainstream's ability to mine fringe culture has just about matured, whither alt. culture? 2005 Time Out N.Y. 18 Aug. 123/4 System of a Down [sc. a band] is an alt-metal phenomenon with all the right elements. Compounds alt-country n. a style of country music influenced by alternative rock; = alternative country n. at alternative adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [noun] > country and western country music1942 country-western1949 bluegrass1955 country and western1960 Nashville1963 country1969 newgrass1972 alternative country1990 alt-country1993 1993 KZSU 90.1 FM Summer Program Guide in alt.music.alternative (Usenet newsgroup) 22 July Alt. country, bluegrass and folk. 2005 C. Willman Rednecks & Bluenecks 211 There's an old joke..about alt country being the one form of music where the musicians outnumber the fans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1535n.²c1599adj.¹n.³1964adj.²1988
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altn.1

† altn.2

Altadj.1n.3

altadj.2

Compounds

altn.¹

† altn.²

Altadj.¹n.³

altadj.²