单词 | embarkation |
释义 | embarkationn. 1. The action or process of embarking. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > action of taking ship embarkage1577 embarking1591 embarkment1596 embarkation1645 embark1655 society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > putting persons or things on board shipping1483 embarking1591 embarkment1596 embarkation1645 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvii. 32 I can find no commodity of embarcation at Saint Malos. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 23 Very sollicitous for the Embarcation of the Army. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 172 To hasten the embarkation of the troops. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 6 I shall delay the embarkation. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 222 The point of embarcation was close by the..abode of Godwine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > embarkation party embarkation1720 1720 London Gaz. No. 5877/1 The Transports..were taking on Board the third..Imbarkation. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 503 Another and much greater embarkation followed. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] shipc725 beamOE boardOE bargea1300 steera1300 vessela1300 treea1382 loomc1400 man1473 ark1477 bottom1490 keela1547 riverboat1565 craft1578 pine1592 class1596 flood-bickerer1599 pitchboard1599 stern-bearer1599 wooden horse1599 wooden isle1603 water treader?1615 water house1616 watercraft1618 machine1637 prore1642 lightman1666 embarkation1690 bark1756 prowa1771 Mudian1813 bastiment1823 hooker1823 nymph1876 M.F.V.1948 1690 London Gaz. No. 2525/1 They have..taken divers..small Embarkations. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4115/4 Sloops, and other Imbarcations. 1781 Rennell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 106 Embarkations..traverse the inundation. 1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal i. 5 The peasants repairing to the market..on embarkations. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xliii. 238 A..rotten and crazy embarkation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1645 |
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