单词 | dissect |
释义 | dissectv. 1. transitive. To cut asunder, cut in pieces, divide by cutting. literal and figurative. (Now more or less associated with 2 and 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] cutc1300 shed13.. tamec1400 to-carvec1400 discidea1513 share?1566 shred?1566 dissect1608 slit1638 disecta1690 sned1889 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 42 Young chickins, beeing dissected or cut in peeces when they are warme, ought to be layde to the stinged part. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 178 Hee that dissected Gordions knot. a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) iv. v. 94 To dissect thee, Eate thie flesh of with burninge corosiues..weare iustice. 1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 131 This eminence is dissected into six terraces. 1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 161 The manner of dissecting this prism. 1886 F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 7 292 The aggregationists before them undertook to dissect the Iliad into its constituent lays. 2. a. spec. To cut up (an animal body, a plant, etc.) for the purpose of displaying the position, structure, and relations of the various internal parts; to anatomize. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > dissection anatomize?1541 discarve?1541 dissect1611 dissecate1615 skeletonize1644 skeleton1888 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Dissettare, to desect or cut as an Anatomie. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια (1631) i. ix They say, he [Galen] hath giuen vs onely the Anatomy of bruit Beasts, and not of Man, hauing neuer dissected a Mans body. 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 2 If we take a Bean then and dissect it [etc.]. 1724 J. Arbuthnot Reasons against Exam. Drugs 6 The Power given to Physicians to dissect the Bodies of Malefactors. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 51 Two Doctors in the camp Dissected the slain deer. b. to dissect out: to excise (an organ or a diseased part) so as not to remove any adjoining part with it. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > incision > make an incision in or cut [verb (transitive)] > dissect to dissect out1864 mince1896 1864–70 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. II. 119 In dissecting out the cyst. 1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1030 I made an incision..from the mouth over the prominent cyst wall and dissected the tumour out..The wall of the cyst was so thin that when nearly dissected out it ruptured. 3. figurative and transferred. To take to pieces, so as to lay bare every part; to examine minutely part by part, to analyze; to criticize in detail. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 70 That soule that is dissected and anatomized to God. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires Sat. i. 14 Yet old Lucilius never fear'd the times; But lash'd the City, and dissected Crimes. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 25 Persons of all conditions took great license in..dissecting all his infirmities. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. i. 7 I never could dissect and map out my own being, or my neighbour's, as you analysts do. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 43 He dissected the pretensions of the great East India Company. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 413 No other thinker has ever dissected the human mind with equal patience and minuteness. ΚΠ 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 156 O'er great, o'er small extends his physic laws, Empalms the empyrean or dissects a gaz. Categories » 5. Business. To analyze an invoice or account of goods bought or sold, picking out the various items, and allotting them to the special departments to which they severally belong.See dissecting n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1608 |
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