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单词 depot
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depotn.

Brit. /ˈdɛpəʊ/, /ˈdiːpəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdiˌpoʊ/, /ˈdɛˌpoʊ/
Forms: Also depôt, dépôt.
Etymology: < French dépôt /depo/, in Old French depost (14th cent. in Littré and Hatzfeld), (= Italian deposito , Spanish deposito ), < Latin dēpositum : see depositum n., deposit n., depost n., all forms of the same word. N.E.D. (1895) gives the pronunciation as (dipōu·) /diːˈpəʊ/. Earlier English dictionaries down to 1860–70 similarly give /diːˈpəʊ/ or /deɪˈpəʊ/.
1. The act of depositing; deposit, deposition. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid > fact of depositing
precipitationa1550
precipitating1639
depot1794
deposition1799
depositation1806
deposit1823
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 72 Some [mountains] have.. been formed by successive depôts in the sea.
2. A deposit or collection (of matter, supplies, etc.); = deposit n. 3, 1 Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > person or thing in another's care > something in safe-keeping
depostc1384
deposition1592
depositum1592
deposita1660
depot1835
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xxxvii. 513 To fetch a third depot of fish.
1850 W. B. Clarke Wreck of Favorite 133 The nelleys had discovered our depôt of blubber and had eaten a portion of it.
3. Military.
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a. A place where military stores are deposited.
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b. The head-quarters of a regiment, where supplies are received and whence they are distributed.
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c. A station where recruits are assembled and drilled, and where soldiers who cannot join their regiments remain.
d. attributive. Applied to a portion of a regiment which remains at home when the rest are on foreign service.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun]
stationa1325
steadc1330
ward1487
post1642
position1781
field posta1783
field position1785
depot1798
battle station1830
1798 Beresford in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 412 Large quantities of arms are in their possession. Dublin is the great depôt.
1812 W. C. in Examiner 25 May 334/2 Barracks and Military Depots are building.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 80 By the continual transit of Officers between the Service and Depôt Companies.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 82/2 Regiments embarking for India usually leave one company at home, for the purpose of recruiting, which is called the depôt company.
1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 85 When men leave a depôt battalion to join the service companies.
1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 7 The island [of Chusan]..from its central position, would form a good depôt for troops.
e. A place of confinement for prisoners of war.The name used both in France and England during the War with Napoleon.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > camp for prisoners of war
depot1803
cage1919
Oflag1940
Stalag1940
Stalag Luft1940
1803 J. Forbes Let. 24 May in Lett. from France (1806) I. xxiii. 231 Prisoners of war..[at] Fontainbleau and Valenciennes, the two principal depots appointed for that purpose.
1814 D. H. O'Brien Narr. Captiv. & Escape 87 We were safely lodged in Sarre Louis jail. This is a dépôt for seamen, and one of punishment for officers who may transgress.
1839 36 Years Sea-faring Life 29 Fearing death almost as little as a life of misery in a French depot.
4.
a. A place where goods are deposited or stored; e.g. a grain depot, furniture depot; a store-house, depository, emporium.coal, oil depot: see the first element.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored
aumbry1356
promptuary?a1425
repository1485
staple1523
magazine1583
reposement1592
repertory1593
rendezvous1608
reserve1612
conservatory1624
reconditory1633
dormerc1640
stowagea1641
depositum1646
repositary1650
magazine storehousea1654
deposit1719
reservoir1739
battery1748
depository1750
storage1775
depot1795
depositary1797
repertorium1797
rua1831
stowaway1913
1795 tr. K. P. Moritz Trav. Eng. 241 There was written on the sign: ‘The Navigation Inn’; because it is the depôt, or storehouse, of the colliers of the Trent.
1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal vi. 138 It is not practicable to render Great Britain, the general depot of saltpetre.
1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 142 Lake Winipic..seems calculated..to become the grand depot of this traffic.
1819 E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 180 The Hudson..the great maritime depo of the state.
1863 Sir G. G. Scott in Archaeologia Cantiana 5 7 (note) The church was used as the coal depôt for the castle.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 154 Grain brought down to the maritime depots..in the Crimea.
b. Physiology. The site of an accumulation or deposit of a substance (esp. fat) in an animal body. So attributive, applied to any substance stored for eventual absorption by the organism, or to an action or process concerned with the deposition of such a substance.
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 515/2 Depots of matter take place in the disorganized tissue.
1906 L. Hill Rec. Adv. Physiol. & Bio-Chem. xi. 288 The proteid metabolism..only begins to increase in the final stage of starvation when the reserve of depôt fat is almost exhausted.
1912 E. H. Starling Princ. Human Physiol. xi. 884 From the physiological standpoint the most important intracellular depôt of fat is in the liver.
1930 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 87 148 Fat obtained from the various depots.
1930 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 87 148 The total depot fat.
1936 Nature 21 Mar. 479/1 As we pass from depot fats of aquatic to those of land animals we find marked simplification in the mixed fatty acids.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 601/1 The composition of the fat depots is practically identical with the fat in the food.
1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 345/1 A steroid preparation which is highly concentrated, and has a depot effect.
1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 577/2 Daily injections..were replaced by a single intramuscular depot injection.
1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. vi. 16/2 There are two main types of insulin in clinical use, those with a rapid onset and short duration of action, and those whose action is slow in onset and lasts longer, the depot insulins.
5. U.S. A railway station.In Great Britain formerly, and still sometimes, a goods station at a terminus: cf. sense 4a.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station
station1830
station house1833
train depot1833
railway station1836
railroad station1837
depot1842
rail station1848
rail1850
train station1856
gare1870
1830 H. Booth Acct. Liverpool & Manch. Railway 46 This Railway will cost above £800,000 including the..stations and depots at each end.
1837 F. Whishaw Anal. Railways 286 When there are warehouses attached to a station the whole is called a depôt.]
1842 H. W. Longfellow Let. 15 Feb. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. xxiii. 415 To borrow the expression of a fellow-traveller, we were ‘ticketed through to the depot’ (pronouncing the last word so as to rhyme with teapot).
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. 20 With all ou' doors for deepot [rhyme teapot].
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xii. 108 You cannot pass into the waiting-room of the depot till you have secured your ticket.
1892 Camden Town Directory 71 London and North-western Goods Depôt, Chalk Farm Road.]
6. Fortification. (See quot.)
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1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 82/2 In fortification, the term is likewise used to denote a particular place at the trail of the trenches, out of the reach of the cannon of a besieged place. It is here that besiegers generally assemble, when ordered to attack the outworks or support the troops in the trenches.

Compounds

C1. attributive. (See spec. use in sense 3d.)
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1881 Chicago Times 16 Apr. The company is constructing a depot building..at Leaf River.
1884 C. R. Markham in Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. 1/2 The party should never have been left without a depot ship wintering within accessible distance.
C2.
depot-wagon n. U.S. ‘formerly a square-box wagon with a detachable top; now a rockaway with a trap-door at the rear end which can be converted into a baggage-rack’ (Cent. Dict. Suppl.).
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1908 Daily Chron. 29 Sept. 7/1 Resisting a little as he drew her out, down the stairs, and aided her to enter the depot-wagon.

Derivatives

depot v. (transitive) to place in a depot.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in a concealed or remote place
to stow away1795
stash1797
cache1856
depot1921
squirrel1939
1921 H. G. Ponting Great White South 274 When near the summit, Captain Scott told off four more of the party to depôt their surplus and return.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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