单词 | dissected |
释义 | dissectedadj. 1. That has been cut up, divided into pieces, or anatomized. dissected map or picture, a map or picture mounted on a thin board and divided into variously shaped parts, to be put together as an exercise or puzzle. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [adjective] > cut into pieces ychoppidc1430 cutc1440 chopped1538 shorn1597 shared1598 dissected1634 slitted1797 junked1827 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > dissected map dissected map or picture1807 play-map1825 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 184 Laying vpon each piece of the dissected Betele, a little Arecca. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 31 Not to be entred but by a long narrow dissected path or trench. 1668 Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 628 A dissected Head of a Sharke. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. I. vi. 69 They have..dissected maps which they combine into a whole. 1824 L. Stanhope Greece 10 She [Greece] is like a dissected map in the hands of children, all the pieces are there, but the children cannot make them fit. 18.. Ruskin (O.) Or must every architect invent a little piece of the new style, and all put it together at last like a dissected map? 2. a. Of a divided form or structure; spec. in Botany (of leaves): Cut into many deep lobes; much divided. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > divided or segmented slit1607 dissected1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 185 A little chin signes one envious..a dissected, and retorted chin, libidinous. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 182 The finely-dissected leaves of Fennel. 1884 A. Henfrey Elem. Bot. (ed. 4) 62 When the leaves are subdivided a fourth time, or even where tripinnatisect leaves have filiform segments, the term dissected is usually employed. b. Physical Geography. Formed by the dissection of a once flat plateau or plain. ΚΠ 1902 W. M. Davis Elem. Physical Geogr. ix. 278 An excellent illustration of a well dissected upland is found in the Ozark plateau of southern Missouri. 1902 W. M. Davis Elem. Physical Geogr. ix. 278 The maturely dissected surface has much less strength of relief than the plateau of West Virginia. 1949 W. G. Moore Dict. Geogr. 51 Dissected plateau, a plateau into which a number of valleys have been carved by erosion; its origin as a plateau is patent, however, when the tops of the mountains and ridges are seen to be level against the skyline, showing that they once formed part of a continuous surface. 1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xix. 573 (caption) A maturely dissected plateau of the Gondwana cycle being invaded by the valley flats of the present cycle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1634 |
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