| 单词 | dot-connecting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdot-connecting dot-connecting n. and adj. [after to connect the dots at Phrases 5] (a) n. the action or activity of doing a connect-the-dots puzzle; (usually figurative) the action or fact of making connections between ideas or drawing conclusions; (b) adj. designating a line drawn between dots, as in a connect-the-dots puzzle; (usually figurative) straightforward, formulaic; (also) that makes connections between ideas.Cf. dot-to-dot adj. and n. at Phrases 7, connect-the-dots adj. and n. ΚΠ 1948 Trained Nurse & Hosp. Rev. Mar. 220/2 From the first page to the last it is an absorbing child-world chock full of board games; dot-connecting pictures; funny poems..and lessons in cartooning for the ‘art-minded’. 1962 K. A. Menninger et al. Man. Psychiatric Case Study (ed. 2) 156 This device for daily nursing records requires only four pencil dots per day and four dot-connecting lines drawn once a month! 1992 USA Today (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Final ed.) (Life section) 3 d A dreary dot-connecting flashback script, which reduces people and events to walk-ons. 1999 L. J. Davis Truth to Tell v. 138 The Latin expression for such fallacious dot-connecting is ‘post hoc, ergo propter hoc’. 2017 @pragmatist20152 28 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I really do appreciate your sleuthing, dot-connecting threads. < as lemmas |
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