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单词 digitize
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digitizev.

Brit. /ˈdɪdʒᵻtʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒəˌtaɪz/
Forms: 1600s–1700s 1900s– digitize, 1700s 1900s– digitise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: digit n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < digit n. + -ize suffix. With sense 3 compare slightly later digitalize v.2With digitized adj. at Derivatives compare slightly later digitalized adj.2
1. transitive. To touch or manipulate with the fingers. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)]
repeOE
warpa1225
treatc1384
feela1400
palp1534
palpabrize1593
fista1616
handa1616
thrumble1632
to set (one's) hand to1638
to feel of ——1678
digitize1689
1689 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies i. 172/1 It has been observed that in such a uterine Suffocation, that all the Symptomes have ceased upon Copulation, or the evacuation of Seed upon the Midwife's digitizing [L. obstericis digiti frictione] the part affected.
1700 E. Ward Frolick to Horn-fair 6 My Linnen was made by an Inns-of-Court-Sempstress, and was Digitiz'd with her Handle-Bauble Fingers, into as much Formality as a Ladies Head-Dress.
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 110 None but the Devil besides your self, could have digitis'd a Pen after so Scurrilous a manner.
?1707 J. Marten Treat. Venereal Dis. (1708) v. 394 'Twas the same Diogenes that disappointed the Harlot..Titillating his Virilities to the casting forth his Seed, telling her, that by his digitizing himself he had celebrated Hymen's Rites without her.
2. transitive. To indicate with a finger. Cf. finger v. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [verb (transitive)] > express with fingers > point to
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fingera1425
point1477
indigit1603
indigitate1623
digit1628
digitate1658
digitize1736
indicate1808
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Britannicum To Digitize, to point to with the finger.
3. transitive. To convert (analogue data, esp. in later use images, video, and text) to digital form, typically for storage or processing by a computer; to represent in digital form.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > convert to digits
digitize1953
digitalize1955
1953 Proc. IRE 41 1456/2 It is..desirable to digitize the analog input signals as near to the system full scale as possible.
1976 Nature 29 Jan. 294/2 The three detected voltages were digitised, pre-processed and recorded on magnetic tape for later computer processing.
1989 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 7 vi. 24/1 One of the hot items on the micro-computer publishing and graphics horizon is 24-bit color scanning, which lets you digitize a color image.
2006 New Scientist 26 Aug. 5/3 A global effort is under way to digitise paper-based archives so that the entire history of the subject is available electronically.

Derivatives

ˈdigitized adj. converted to digital form; digital (digital adj. 2).
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1954 U.S. Patent 2,666,912 3 A device wherein a digitized output is produced by means of electrical relays rather than an intermittent mechanical motion.
1975 Nature 16 Oct. 554/1 As page composition from digitised information replaces the manual assembly of type, the printing industry struggles.
2006 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 17 Sept. 35/1 In a change from the current face-to-face checks, the new Smart-Gates will compare the face of the traveller with a digitised photo on the chip.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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