emergencyn.

Brit.

/ᵻˈməːdʒ(ə)nsi/, U.S.

/əˈmərdʒənsi/,

/iˈmərdʒənsi/

Etymology: < late Latin ēmergentia: see emergence n. and -ency suffix.

1. The rising of a submerged body above the surface of water; = emergence n. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > of submerged body

emergency1646

emersion1667

emergence1833

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vi. 194 A Tyrant..to prevent the emergencie of murdered bodies did use to cut off their lungs.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 689 They [sc. the Goodwin Sands]..may be of late Emergency.

1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ix. 169 Repeated submergencies and emergencies of the land.

†2.

a. The process of issuing from concealment, confinement, etc.; = emergence n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from concealment, confinement, or obscurity

coming out?c1425

breaking-out1552

emergency1647

emergence1755

emerging1813

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > process of becoming

emergency1647

emergence1755

emersion1763

emerging1813

transpiration1827

transpiry1884

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 8 Congratulate his.. emergency from that course he was plunged in.

1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) Pref. Gen. 14 The..immediate emergency of Vitality from Spirit.

1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours iii. xvii. 231 The emergency, Pyrophilus, of Colours upon Coalition of the Particles of such Bodies..is very well worth our attentive Observation.

†b. Astronomy. = emergence n. 2b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > reappearance

apparition1556

emersion1633

egress1664

emergencea1727

expurgation1727

emergency1763

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > of heavenly body

coming out?c1425

emersion1633

emergencea1727

emergency1763

1763 S. Dunn in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 579 I had compared it with the fixed stars, and the Moon, after emergency from the aforementioned clouds.

†3. The arising, sudden or unexpected occurrence (of a state of things, an event, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events > occurrence of

emergency1661

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xix. 179 Most of our Rarities have been found out by casual emergency.

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 2 The Emergency of an unexpected Case.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 383 The emergency of war very frequently required their presence on the frontiers.

4. concrete.

(a) (The ordinary modern use.) A juncture that arises or ‘turns up’; esp. a state of things unexpectedly arising, and urgently demanding immediate action.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events

went1338

emergent1620

emergencya1631

counter-turninga1668

emergencea1676

counter-turn1744

go1783

contretemps1809

turn-up1884

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > sudden, extreme, or emergency

needOE

needinga1400

exigentc1475

plunge1519

opportunity1526

push1563

dead lift1567

heft1587

exigence1588

exigency1601

emergent1620

lift1624

emergencya1631

emergencea1676

emergementa1734

amplush1827

crisis1848

situation1954

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 51 The Psalmes minister Instruction..to every man, in every emergency and occasion.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 196 Relief on sudden emergencies.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 138 On great emergencies, The law must be remodell'd or amended.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 342 The bishop, beautifully equal to the emergency, arose.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland ii. 24 On an emergency he would even undertake to measure land.

(b) Hence sometimes used for: Urgency, pressing need. ‘A sense not proper’ (Johnson).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > extreme or urgent need

exigence1581

heft1587

exigency1589

emergency1716

emergence1781

1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 10 In any Case of Emergency, [he] could employ the whole Wealth of his Empire.

1891 N.E.D. at Emergency Mod. It is a case of great emergency.

†b. plural. Casual or contingent profits. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > other types of profit

improvement?1449

mesne profitsa1558

intromissionc1650

emergencya1662

trading profit1717

building-rent1776

turn1796

sturt1850

redemption yield1921

hidden reserve1930

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 151 Rents, Profits and Emergencies belonging to a Bishop of Bath and Wells.

c. Cricket, etc. An emergency man, a substitute. (No longer current.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > side > substitute

emergency1851

1851 Nottingham Rev. 5 Sept. 3/4 Emergency Williams, Esq., b. Goodrich.

1862 in W. G. Grace Cricketing Remin. (1899) i. 12 With this ball (presented by M.C.C. to E. M. Grace), he got every wicket in 2nd innings, in the match played at Canterbury, August 14, 15, 1862, Gentlemen of Kent v. M.C.C. for whom he played as an emergency, and in which, going in first, he scored 192 not out.

1885 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 41) 59 George Alexander..only played as an emergency.

d. spec., as a political term, to describe a condition approximating to that of war; occasionally as a synonym or euphemism for war; also state of emergency, wherein the normal constitution is suspended.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > [noun]

MarsOE

war1154

warc1374

irona1387

guerre?a1475

Mart?a1475

(the) feat of warc1503

militia1641

sport of kings1735

emergency1958

1958 Spectator 17 Jan. 65/2 He has declared a state of emergency to suppress a strike of African railway workers.

1958 Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 374/2 The unmentionable word ‘war’ decently euphemised as ‘emergency’.

5. Botany. = emergence n. 4.

ΚΠ

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 90/2 When the cells of hairs are hardened by thickening of the cell-wall..they are called Prickles... By some these are not considered as hairs, but are termed emergencies.

Compounds

attributive.

C1. spec., esp. in Emergency man: (in Ireland) an occasional bailiff's officer, recruited for special service, esp. in evictions.

ΚΠ

1881 Let. 14 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) II. viii. 377 The Emergency Committee..was a purely Orange emanation.

1883 Ann. Reg. i. 1 Three Emergency men [were] attacked by an armed party.

C2. In general adjectival sense ‘used, issued, called upon, or arising in an emergency’.

ΚΠ

1896 Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 11/6 She had been asked by the medical officer to take charge of the emergency brandy.

1898 Daily News 13 May 5/2 The emergency ration is never served out for more than five days consecutively.

1900 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 21 Sept. 802/2 The fitting of emergency brakes.

1902 Young Engineer 1 47/2 Doors are provided both for regular use and as emergency exits.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/1 Directly the current between the Bank Station and the stations as far as the British Museum was cut off, an emergency current was turned on.

1904 F. F. Moore Original Woman xxiv. 265 He was a man who had always at hand an emergency exit opening outward by which he could escape from any situation that was getting too hot for him.

1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 348/1 All of the [beaver-]ponds are equipped with ‘emergency exits’ in the form of holes in the bank.

1920 Act 10 Geo. V c. 5 (title) An Act to continue temporarily certain emergency enactments.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §729 Emergency man..a tramway conductor..who is held in readiness to replace anyone of depot cashier's assistants who may be on leave or sick.

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxx. 296 He asked you to do an emergency job for him in the [operating] theatre.

1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xx ‘Have you a girl on your staff called Glade?’ ‘Not on my staff... Miss Glade is one of my emergency-calls. I get her when I want her, if she is available.’

1929 Star 21 Aug. 12/1 Glamorgan's emergency bowlers.

1935 Archit. Rev. 77 206 (caption) Looking along the outside wall of the lecture hall, and at one of the lecture hall emergency exits.

1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 397 Many of whom [sc. lawyers] were chosen as chairmen of tribunals and committees under one or other of the Emergency Acts.

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft v. 102 Carry an emergency ration in the shape of a tobacco tin of salt and oatmeal, well mixed.

1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress iii. 64 An emergency card for her rations.

1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 259 The fliers returned to an emergency landing at Okinawa.

1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 338/2 Data for the occurrence of disease were derived from the Emergency Bed Service (E.B.S.) of the King Edward Hospital Fund for London.

1970 Lancet 19 Sept. 604/2 The past decade has seen the establishment of emergency call services to supplement practice rota systems.

Draft additions June 2015

emergency room n. chiefly North American a hospital ward or department providing immediate treatment for urgent cases of illness and injury; a casualty department.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department

ambulatorium1834

emergency room1886

emergency department1889

recovery room1894

accident and emergency1898

outpatients1910

X-ray1916

casualty1927

abortorium1933

out1933

ER1955

A and E1966

emerg1978

1886 Lancet 20 Nov. 985/2 The question has been..raised whether hospital authorities can be held responsible for the safety of persons who having attempted suicide, are successfully treated..in an emergency room.

1948 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 31 July 7/2 Doctors and nurses on duty in emergency rooms never know what will be next..an explosion or fire victim or a brawl casualty.

1997 Financial Post (Canada) 15 Feb. 31/5 One man was admitted to a hospital emergency room with severe anemia.

2010 S. Mukherjee Emperor All Maladies (2011) 437 I was a medical resident triaging patients in the emergency room of Mass General.

Draft additions January 2018

emergency department n. originally North American a casualty department; = emergency room n. at Additions; abbreviated ED.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department

ambulatorium1834

emergency room1886

emergency department1889

recovery room1894

accident and emergency1898

outpatients1910

X-ray1916

casualty1927

abortorium1933

out1933

ER1955

A and E1966

emerg1978

1889 Ann. Rep. Commissioners District of Columbia 191 The regular work of the dispensary has been continued..and the emergency department open and ready for work all the time.

1941 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 41 903/1 All patients have tags tied securely on their left wrists upon arrival in the Emergency Department.

1989 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 23 May The director of the emergency department at the Royal Hobart Hospital..said Tasmania had Australia's most lax fireworks laws.

2014 Radio Times 20 Sept. (South/West ed.) 55/3 Connie strides into the emergency department in her spiked heels.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	emergency
释义	emergencyn. Brit. /ᵻˈməːdʒ(ə)nsi/, U.S. /əˈmərdʒənsi/, /iˈmərdʒənsi/ Etymology: < late Latin ēmergentia: see emergence n. and -ency suffix. 1. The rising of a submerged body above the surface of water; = emergence n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > of submerged body emergency1646 emersion1667 emergence1833 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vi. 194 A Tyrant..to prevent the emergencie of murdered bodies did use to cut off their lungs. View more context for this quotation 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 689 They [sc. the Goodwin Sands]..may be of late Emergency. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ix. 169 Repeated submergencies and emergencies of the land. †2. a. The process of issuing from concealment, confinement, etc.; = emergence n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from concealment, confinement, or obscurity coming out?c1425 breaking-out1552 emergency1647 emergence1755 emerging1813 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > process of becoming emergency1647 emergence1755 emersion1763 emerging1813 transpiration1827 transpiry1884 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 8 Congratulate his.. emergency from that course he was plunged in. 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) Pref. Gen. 14 The..immediate emergency of Vitality from Spirit. 1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours iii. xvii. 231 The emergency, Pyrophilus, of Colours upon Coalition of the Particles of such Bodies..is very well worth our attentive Observation. †b. Astronomy. = emergence n. 2b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > reappearance apparition1556 emersion1633 egress1664 emergencea1727 expurgation1727 emergency1763 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > of heavenly body coming out?c1425 emersion1633 emergencea1727 emergency1763 1763 S. Dunn in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 579 I had compared it with the fixed stars, and the Moon, after emergency from the aforementioned clouds. †3. The arising, sudden or unexpected occurrence (of a state of things, an event, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events > occurrence of emergency1661 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xix. 179 Most of our Rarities have been found out by casual emergency. 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 2 The Emergency of an unexpected Case. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 383 The emergency of war very frequently required their presence on the frontiers. 4. concrete. a. (a) (The ordinary modern use.) A juncture that arises or ‘turns up’; esp. a state of things unexpectedly arising, and urgently demanding immediate action. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events went1338 emergent1620 emergencya1631 counter-turninga1668 emergencea1676 counter-turn1744 go1783 contretemps1809 turn-up1884 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > sudden, extreme, or emergency needOE needinga1400 exigentc1475 plunge1519 opportunity1526 push1563 dead lift1567 heft1587 exigence1588 exigency1601 emergent1620 lift1624 emergencya1631 emergencea1676 emergementa1734 amplush1827 crisis1848 situation1954 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 51 The Psalmes minister Instruction..to every man, in every emergency and occasion. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 196 Relief on sudden emergencies. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 138 On great emergencies, The law must be remodell'd or amended. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 342 The bishop, beautifully equal to the emergency, arose. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland ii. 24 On an emergency he would even undertake to measure land. (b) Hence sometimes used for: Urgency, pressing need. ‘A sense not proper’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > extreme or urgent need exigence1581 heft1587 exigency1589 emergency1716 emergence1781 1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 10 In any Case of Emergency, [he] could employ the whole Wealth of his Empire. 1891 N.E.D. at Emergency Mod. It is a case of great emergency. †b. plural. Casual or contingent profits. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > other types of profit improvement?1449 mesne profitsa1558 intromissionc1650 emergencya1662 trading profit1717 building-rent1776 turn1796 sturt1850 redemption yield1921 hidden reserve1930 a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 151 Rents, Profits and Emergencies belonging to a Bishop of Bath and Wells. c. Cricket, etc. An emergency man, a substitute. (No longer current.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > side > substitute emergency1851 1851 Nottingham Rev. 5 Sept. 3/4 Emergency Williams, Esq., b. Goodrich. 1862 in W. G. Grace Cricketing Remin. (1899) i. 12 With this ball (presented by M.C.C. to E. M. Grace), he got every wicket in 2nd innings, in the match played at Canterbury, August 14, 15, 1862, Gentlemen of Kent v. M.C.C. for whom he played as an emergency, and in which, going in first, he scored 192 not out. 1885 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 41) 59 George Alexander..only played as an emergency. d. spec., as a political term, to describe a condition approximating to that of war; occasionally as a synonym or euphemism for war; also state of emergency, wherein the normal constitution is suspended. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] MarsOE war1154 warc1374 irona1387 guerre?a1475 Mart?a1475 (the) feat of warc1503 militia1641 sport of kings1735 emergency1958 1958 Spectator 17 Jan. 65/2 He has declared a state of emergency to suppress a strike of African railway workers. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 374/2 The unmentionable word ‘war’ decently euphemised as ‘emergency’. 5. Botany. = emergence n. 4. ΚΠ 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 90/2 When the cells of hairs are hardened by thickening of the cell-wall..they are called Prickles... By some these are not considered as hairs, but are termed emergencies. Compounds attributive. C1. spec., esp. in Emergency man: (in Ireland) an occasional bailiff's officer, recruited for special service, esp. in evictions. ΚΠ 1881 Let. 14 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) II. viii. 377 The Emergency Committee..was a purely Orange emanation. 1883 Ann. Reg. i. 1 Three Emergency men [were] attacked by an armed party. C2. In general adjectival sense ‘used, issued, called upon, or arising in an emergency’. ΚΠ 1896 Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 11/6 She had been asked by the medical officer to take charge of the emergency brandy. 1898 Daily News 13 May 5/2 The emergency ration is never served out for more than five days consecutively. 1900 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 21 Sept. 802/2 The fitting of emergency brakes. 1902 Young Engineer 1 47/2 Doors are provided both for regular use and as emergency exits. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/1 Directly the current between the Bank Station and the stations as far as the British Museum was cut off, an emergency current was turned on. 1904 F. F. Moore Original Woman xxiv. 265 He was a man who had always at hand an emergency exit opening outward by which he could escape from any situation that was getting too hot for him. 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 348/1 All of the [beaver-]ponds are equipped with ‘emergency exits’ in the form of holes in the bank. 1920 Act 10 Geo. V c. 5 (title) An Act to continue temporarily certain emergency enactments. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §729 Emergency man..a tramway conductor..who is held in readiness to replace anyone of depot cashier's assistants who may be on leave or sick. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxx. 296 He asked you to do an emergency job for him in the [operating] theatre. 1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xx ‘Have you a girl on your staff called Glade?’ ‘Not on my staff... Miss Glade is one of my emergency-calls. I get her when I want her, if she is available.’ 1929 Star 21 Aug. 12/1 Glamorgan's emergency bowlers. 1935 Archit. Rev. 77 206 (caption) Looking along the outside wall of the lecture hall, and at one of the lecture hall emergency exits. 1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 397 Many of whom [sc. lawyers] were chosen as chairmen of tribunals and committees under one or other of the Emergency Acts. 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft v. 102 Carry an emergency ration in the shape of a tobacco tin of salt and oatmeal, well mixed. 1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress iii. 64 An emergency card for her rations. 1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 259 The fliers returned to an emergency landing at Okinawa. 1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 338/2 Data for the occurrence of disease were derived from the Emergency Bed Service (E.B.S.) of the King Edward Hospital Fund for London. 1970 Lancet 19 Sept. 604/2 The past decade has seen the establishment of emergency call services to supplement practice rota systems. Draft additions June 2015 emergency room n. chiefly North American a hospital ward or department providing immediate treatment for urgent cases of illness and injury; a casualty department. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department ambulatorium1834 emergency room1886 emergency department1889 recovery room1894 accident and emergency1898 outpatients1910 X-ray1916 casualty1927 abortorium1933 out1933 ER1955 A and E1966 emerg1978 1886 Lancet 20 Nov. 985/2 The question has been..raised whether hospital authorities can be held responsible for the safety of persons who having attempted suicide, are successfully treated..in an emergency room. 1948 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 31 July 7/2 Doctors and nurses on duty in emergency rooms never know what will be next..an explosion or fire victim or a brawl casualty. 1997 Financial Post (Canada) 15 Feb. 31/5 One man was admitted to a hospital emergency room with severe anemia. 2010 S. Mukherjee Emperor All Maladies (2011) 437 I was a medical resident triaging patients in the emergency room of Mass General. Draft additions January 2018 emergency department n. originally North American a casualty department; = emergency room n. at Additions; abbreviated ED. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department ambulatorium1834 emergency room1886 emergency department1889 recovery room1894 accident and emergency1898 outpatients1910 X-ray1916 casualty1927 abortorium1933 out1933 ER1955 A and E1966 emerg1978 1889 Ann. Rep. Commissioners District of Columbia 191 The regular work of the dispensary has been continued..and the emergency department open and ready for work all the time. 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 41 903/1 All patients have tags tied securely on their left wrists upon arrival in the Emergency Department. 1989 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 23 May The director of the emergency department at the Royal Hobart Hospital..said Tasmania had Australia's most lax fireworks laws. 2014 Radio Times 20 Sept. (South/West ed.) 55/3 Connie strides into the emergency department in her spiked heels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1631
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