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单词 endurance
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endurancen.

Brit. /ᵻnˈdjʊərəns/, /ᵻnˈdjʊərn̩s/, /ɛnˈdjʊərəns/, /ɛnˈdjʊərn̩s/, /ᵻnˈdʒʊərəns/, /ᵻnˈdʒʊərn̩s/, /ɛnˈdʒʊərəns/, /ɛnˈdʒʊərn̩s/, /ᵻnˈdjɔːrəns/, /ᵻnˈdjɔːrn̩s/, /ɛnˈdjɔːrəns/, /ɛnˈdjɔːrn̩s/, /ᵻnˈdʒɔːrəns/, /ᵻnˈdʒɔːrn̩s/, /ɛnˈdʒɔːrəns/, /ɛnˈdʒɔːrn̩s/, U.S. /ᵻnˈd(j)ʊrəns/, /ɛnˈd(j)ʊrəns/
Forms: Also 1500s–1700s indurance.
Etymology: < endure v. + -ance suffix; in Old French endurance.
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.
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.
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.
b. Durance, captivity, imprisonment. Obsolete.
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.
β. 1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland 2 Others more late and of lesse indurance.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xiv. §1. 450 The long indurance of the siege [of Troy].
b. ? Protraction of an existing condition. Obsolete. rare.
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.
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?
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.

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).
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