单词 | from end to end |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom end to end a. One of the two extremities of a line, or of the ‘length’ or greatest dimension of any object; that part of anything that includes the extremity of its length. from end to end: from one extremity to the other; throughout the length. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > of a line or of a length of something enda1250 head1791 the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > from one end to the other [phrase] from end to end1632 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > in longitudinal extent [phrase] > from end to end from out to out1620 from end to end1632 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 195 Ðe wel bloweð. went þene neruwure ende of þe horne to his owune muðe. c1394 J. Malverne Contn. Higden (Rolls) IX. App. 3 Perrexitque ad locum qui Anglice vocatur ‘Mile ende.’ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 23201 Þe pitte of helle pin It es sa dep..Þat end ne bes þar neuir apon. 1420 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 17 Als wele at the ta nende als at the other. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxv. 75 Oberon satte at the tables ende. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8795 Euer folowand the fell to þe fyngur endys. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xiv In the eande of the other line. 1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) ii. vi. 32 Your Hobby will meete you at the lanes end. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 22 I haue trod foure seuerall times from end to end of it [Italy]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 79/1 The Billberry, or Windberry, is round at the end. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 159 The Air Ground-pipe, laid the whole length of the Green-house..and reaching from end to end. 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. An iron hook made fast to the end of a rope. 1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 Mutton chops, off the worst end. 1760 J. Wesley Jrnl. 30 June (1827) III. 9 I was quickly wet to my toe's end. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 39 The end of his own nose. 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 166 On the floor of the cage or at the ends of a rod passing through its upper bar. < as lemmas |
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