单词 | fair-shaped |
释义 | > as lemmasfair-shaped fair-shaped adj. (a) having a shape that is attractive, desirable, or fitting; (b) (in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics) designed to minimize drag; streamlined; cf. sense A. 11d. ΚΠ 1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux lxii. f. 11 Vnto the faire-shapt body of thys praise Fame adds a head, more beautious, more diuine. a1637 B. Jonson Fall of Mortimer i. 292 in Wks. (1640) III Let my longing eyes enjoy their feast, And fill of thee; my faire-shap'd, God-like man. 1867 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 353/2 A fair-shaped one [sc. a horse], with better shoulders than many, that the seller wanted £14 for. 1894 Proc. Internat. Conf. Aerial Navigation 249 The usual calculation made for the resistance of a ‘fair-shaped’ body is from 1/10 to 1/20 of the resistance offered by its largest cross section. 1916 Aerial Age Weekly 18 Sept. 16/2 Similar series of experiments have been conducted on struts and fair-shaped wires, as well as on wing forms; while the effect of change of scale on the region of unstable flow has been examined for aerofoils of special type. 1968 Star News (Pasadena, Calif.) 15 May 17/2 The surf was fair shaped at most beaches, but only about two-feet. 2005 O. Darrigol Worlds of Flow vii. 280 He [sc. William Froude] believed that the resistance of any fair-shaped ship was mainly due to skin friction. < as lemmas |
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