单词 | erecting |
释义 | erectingn. 1. a. The action of erect v., in various senses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] bigginga1325 rearinga1325 buildingc1394 edifying1432 upbringing1484 rising?a1500 upmaking1513 upbigging1525 edification1549 erecting1553 structure1604 erection1614 compilementa1639 architecture1646 exstruction1652 built1654 edifice1663 fabric1730 upbuilding1732 builth1805 the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding fasteningeOE stablishinga1300 groundingc1380 stablingc1380 ordinancec1384 establishingc1400 foundationc1400 fundament1440 stablishment1444 institutionc1460 upsetting1470 erection1508 instituting1534 foundingc1540 erecting1553 constitution1582 establishment1596 plantation1605 instauration1614 institute1641 bottoming1642 ordaining1643 settlement1646 planting1702 incardination1897 the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [noun] > setting upright upsettingc1449 up-putting1513 erecting1553 erection1622 uprighting1881 1553 tr. Erasmus Epist. Perswade Young Ientleman Mariage in T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 25 No buildinge of pillers, no erectinge of arches. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xi. 35 It seemeth to be done..after the erecting of the Bishoprick of Ely. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 67 A judicious erecting of the Sounding-boards. b. Used gerundially with omission of in, adj. ΚΠ 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vii. 681 She was ignorant of that fatall Theater, which was erecting within sight of hir Window. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. II. lii. 216 One or two small salt-works are erecting in New Bedford. 2. attributive, as in erecting-eye-piece, erecting-glass, erecting-prism: (see quots.) ΚΠ 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 144 No achromatic erecting eye-piece..can be made with so few as three lenses. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Erecting eye-piece, a combination of four lenses used for terrestrial telescopes, and so arranged as to exhibit the objects viewed in an erect position. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Erecting-glass, a tube with two lenses, slipped into the inner end of the draw-tube of a microscope, serving to erect the inverted image. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Erecting-prism, a contrivance of Nachet's for erecting the inverted image produced by a compound microscope, by means of a single rectangular prism placed over the eye-piece. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). erectingadj. That erects; in quot. 1654 stimulating. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] cooling?c1425 comfortablec1440 refreshing1534 rousing1576 vegetant1576 reviving1579 refriscative1582 refrigerating1583 cordial1584 airy1591 freshing1591 animating1595 fertile1597 recreating1600 refective1611 refreshfula1614 comforting1623 refrigerant1626 erecting1654 cordialine1674 refocillating1675 corroboratinga1680 refectory1693 invigorating1694 restoring1697 freshful1734 enlivening1746–7 livelya1754 tonic1756 stimulatory1758 vivifying1768 energizing1786 stimulative1791 refreshening1807 vitalizing1813 stimulating1827 recuperative1843 invigorative1860 innerving1868 breezy1870 tonicizing1890 reparatory1893 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 68 He is to be interdicted Oats and all Flatulent and erecting dyet for a Moneth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online January 2018). < n.1553adj.1654 |
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