单词 | endurance |
释义 | endurancen. 1. a. The fact of enduring (pain, hardship, annoyance); the habit or the power of enduring; often absol. as denoting a quality, longsuffering, patience. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > long-suffering sufferancea1300 sufferinga1340 longanimityc1400 long-sufferancec1405 long-suffering1496 patiencec1500 endurance1600 enduring1603 endurementa1716 α. β. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 224 O shee misusde me past the indurance of a blocke. View more context for this quotation1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. i. 137 Not a grain more of Magnanimity, of Candour and calm Indurance.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 262 We can create,..and work ease out of pain Through labour and endurance . View more context for this quotation 1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV IV. 449 He was forgiving, and of long endurance. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 267 The disciplined endurance of the men. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner ix. 135 Their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 76 The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. 1888 Amer. Humorist 5 May 3/2 Prolonging his visit beyond all endurance. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] prisonOE wardc1290 prisoning1344 keepingc1384 imprisonment1389 prisonment1422 jail1447 fasteningc1460 warding1497 firmancea1522 incarcerationc1540 imprisoningc1542 limbo1590 limbus?a1600 endurance1610 jailing1622 restraint1829 carceration1870 holiday1901 Paddy Doyle1919 bird1924 1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1256 Which..composition..made in the absence and indurance of their Generall, was by the Turkes faithfully kept. c. Of inanimate things: the power of holding out; the capacity (e.g. of steel) of withstanding strain. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > attributes of vessel > fuel capacity endurance1890 1890 Daily News 13 Nov. 5/7 Her speed was 18 knots an hour. Her coal endurance is given as 475 tons stowage, and with that stowed she could have steamed 7,000 miles. 1911 Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. iv. 878 Annealed cast-steel showed rather less endurance than annealed mild-steel, in spite of the much greater tenacity of the cast-steel. 1930 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 122 597 The heat-treatment of the rails was found to have markedly increased the endurance of the steel. 1932 Discovery May 143/2 The endurance of spiral and laminated springs..is much less than that of the steel of which they are composed. 2. a. Duration or continued existence in time. Also, power of lasting, capacity of continued existence. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time lenghc888 longnessOE enduringc1374 length1388 continuing1398 long lasting?c1400 perdurability?a1425 perseverance?a1425 permanence1440 perdurablenessc1450 perdurationc1450 continuation1469 diuturnity?a1475 prolixityc1500 endurancea1513 sustention1515 continuance1552 long standinga1568 longitude1596 long-lastingness1598 sempiternity1599 consistence1606 persistence1621 long-livedness1652 abidingness1654 productedness1664 imperdibility1713 longiturnity1727 endurableness1795 lengthiness1829 endurability1837 perenniality1841 longevity1842 protractedness1855 enduringnessa1867 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxix. f. lxvv Somme accompt ye enduraunce therof, or [sic] ye laste yere of Burdredus. 1692 Lady Russell Lett. II. cxxxvii. 112 The joys of eternal endurance. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 74 The leases now commonly granted are of endurance nineteen years. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. ii. 27 Sermons of four hours' endurance. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 59 The undying endurance of an electric wire. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. i. 6 This is why Byron's poetry had so little endurance in it, and Goethe's so much. ΚΠ 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 122 I should haue tane some paines..to haue heard you Without indurance further. View more context for this quotation 3. concrete. That which is endured; a hardship. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > hardship > a) hardship(s) hardnesseOE hardship?c1225 fitc1325 hardinessa1398 a bitter spreada1500 endurancea1555 endurement1605 straina1628 a hard chapter1684 α. β. a1555 N. Ridley Wks. (1841) 428 I never had of him which suffered indurance at my entrance to the see of London, one penny of his moveable goods.1622 J. Rawlins Famous Recoverie Ship of Bristoll sig. B3v Which I must procure or incurre sorer indurances.1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 125 If thine considered proue the thousand part of my enduraunce, thou art a man. View more context for this quotation 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 158 Wee shall also unyoke our People from all heauie Burthens and Endurances. 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 134 The endurances we underwent in conjunction. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xiii. 286 Is my present endurance none? Compounds General attributive (esp. in spec. sense of the durability of metals). endurance limit n. ΚΠ 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 111 563 Increase in the elastic ratio increase, the ratio of endurance limit to tensile and torsional strength. endurance range n. ΚΠ 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 111 563 With low elastic ratio the full endurance range can be utilised only when the range is between nearly equal and opposite stresses. endurance test n. ΚΠ 1902 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 199 289 The breaking stress for annealed specimens of the type used in the endurance tests was 23·1 tons for Lowmoor iron, and 48 tons for cast-steel. 1930 Engineering 3 Jan. 27/3 Endurance tests on the complete springs. 1930 Daily Express 30 July 3/7 Fine weather at the Oval may mean an endurance test—perhaps a full week of slow batting and attack by process of attrition. 1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 109 Are you sure of passing the endurance test? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1513 |
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