单词 | for want of a better name |
释义 | > as lemmasfor want of a better name P5. for want of a better name and variants: in the absence of a name which is more accurate, pleasing, appropriate, etc.; because no better name has been conceived. ΚΠ 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 85 I haue as yet heard no English name of Phalaris, but for lak of a better name it may be called peti panik, of the likenes that it hath with the ryght panic. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xxiii. 1148 Tragacantha..in English for want of a better name, Goates Thorne. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 7 A little red mass, which I called the liver, for want of a better name. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Ess. (1860) I. 58 That propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism. 1866 H. James in Nation 22 Feb. 247/1 In the tale before us this same want of judgment, as we may still call it in the absence of a better name,..is shown. 1891 C. Eliot in Charles Eliot: Landscape Architect (1924) xx. 366 The art which, for want of a better name, is sometimes called Landscape Architecture. 1920 Lancet 23 Oct. 848/2 We have called the condition about to be described ‘senecio disease’ for want of a more appropriate name. 1964 J. A. M. Meerloo Hidden Communion iii. 68 There exists a disease, which for lack of a better name is still called schizophrenia. 1995 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 2 July 11 The less assertive, but still masculine Ken (for want of a better name) treats his barbie like a chess-board. < as lemmas |
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