单词 | east coast |
释义 | East Coastn. The eastern coast of a country or region; spec. (a) the easternmost part of the North Island of New Zealand, esp. the area between Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty; (b) the eastern coastal region of the United States, esp. the north-eastern states. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] jurisdictionc1380 East Coasta1382 roomth1537 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > Atlantic states East Coasta1382 Atlantic States1789 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xii. 1 These been þe kyngys whom smetyn þe sonys of Jrael & weeldedyn þe lond of hem byȝonde Iordan at þe sonne arisynge, fro þe streem of arnon vnto þe hul of hermon, & al þe est coost þat byholdeþ þe wildernes. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 53 Saylynge forwarde from hence, he came to the Easte coasts of Vraba, whiche thinhabitantes caule Caribana. 1644 W. Castell Short Discov. Coasts & Continent Amer. 40 On the East coast, then are onely these two Ports Saint Iames and Yabucoa. 1746 Rep. Conduct Sir J. Cope 184 We..have no other Way of carrying ‘Mouth Provision’ with us but by the East Coast. 1840 J. S. Polack Manners & Customs New Zealanders II. xvii. 183 The east coast is the choice locality of the country. The harbours indenting its shores are all valuable, few on the North Island being obstructed by sand-banks. 1894 Overland Monthly June 653/2 In 1869 the first spats were brought by way of the newly completed overland railroad from the East Coast. 1926 World's Work Sept. 500/1 The danger that the completion of trans-African railways may carry the fever to the East Coast. 1990 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 33 200/2 A particularly high return from the East Coast and a poor return from the small Auckland Central sample. 2006 C. Mandell tr. B.-H. Lévy Amer. Vertigo (U.K. ed.) i. 9 It was here, not too far south of Boston, on the East Coast, which still bears the mark of Europe so clearly, that Alexis de Tocqueville came ashore. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1755 Misc. Corr. 112/1 in Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. Halifax is finely situated for commanding the east coast fishery. 1869 J. Hawthorne Dark Chapter N.Z. Hist. 10 By 1867, manifold conflicting interests had grown up in Poverty Bay and East Coast districts, in the shape of land purchases. 1880 Westm. Rev. Oct. 240/2 The east-coast farmers of the United States have opened up the far west. 1896 Daily News 14 July 9/7 The new vestibule East Coast train. 1904 Poverty Bay (N.Z.) Herald 14 Dec. 2/6 Her father was the chief who signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of the East Coast tribes. 1912 Mariner′s Mirror 2 383/1 May not the word dann, used by Kentish and East Coast fishermen, be the Dutch ton, i.e., barrel, in disguise? 1957 C. G. Seligman Races Afr. (ed. 3) ix. 197 East Coast Bantu..includes the Sambara and Sagara of north-east Tanzania. 2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June b1/5 East Coast companies..are viewed from California as..slow-moving and obsessed with Wall Street. C2. East Coast fever n. †(a) a febrile disease epidemic among humans in South Africa (not identified) (obsolete rare). (b) Veterinary Medicine = theileriasis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1881 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day iv. 93 (heading) The East Coast Fever. 1904 A. Theiler in Rep. S. Afr. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 203 The disease was originally called Rhodesian Redwater... An improvement in the nomenclature was the words Rhodesian Tick Fever: a still better name is East Coast Fever. 1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. II. i. v. 79 East Coast fever, or ‘African Coast fever’, a very virulent and highly fatal form of piroplasmosis. 2009 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 11 Mar. 22 Its main target is east coast fever in cattle, a disease endemic in east Africa. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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