单词 | fused |
释义 | fusedadj. a. Liquefied by heat, melted. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > melted moltena1400 fusilea1631 melted1660 fused1694 fritted1879 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. iv. 162/1 Fine cleanly poudred fused Salt. a1763 J. Byrom Verses intended to have been Spoken v. 10 The Forge wherein his fused Metals flow'd. 1837 D. Brewster Treat. Magnetism 135 He used a cylindrical needle of fused steel. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 213 The fused rocks in the depths of the earth which are vomited forth by volcanoes. b. Of the blood: Attenuated, thin. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [adjective] > thinness of blood fused1822 hydraemic1876 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 476 How are we to account for that crude, fused, or dissolved state of the blood? c. fused participle n. a participle regarded as being joined grammatically with a preceding noun or pronoun, rather than as a gerund that requires the possessive, or as an ordinary participle qualifying the noun (see quot. 1926). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > participle > types of present participle1705 past participle1798 fused participle1906 dangling participle1909 suspended participle1942 1906 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. ii. 119 The mistake is caused by certain types of sentence in which a real, not a fused participle is so used that the noun and its (unfused) participle give a sense hardly distinguishable from a possessive noun and a gerund. 1906 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. ii. 120 Long fused-participle phrases are a variety of abstract expression, and as such to be deprecated. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 205/2 Fused participle is a name given to the construction exemplified in its simplest form by ‘I like you pleading poverty’... The name was invented..for the purpose of labelling & so making recognizable & avoidable a usage considered by the inventor to be rapidly corrupting modern English style. 1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 124/2 Idiomatically, the excuse me doing form is generally understood to be positive; but it is much rarer than the excuse my doing form, especially since ca. 1920, when the fused participle doctrine began to ravage the land. 1954 E. Gowers Compl. Plain Words ix. 157 What they are not agreed about is whether it is also correct to..write ‘the Bill getting a second reading surprised everyone’. If that is a legitimate grammatical construction, the subject of the sentence, which cannot be Bill by itself, or getting by itself, must be a fusion of the two. Hence the name ‘fused participle’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasfused fused adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > furnished with a fuse fused1869 1869 Daily News 3 July The Horse Artillery..obtained 265 impressions with the Shrapnell; 323 with the segment, double fuzed. 1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 104 Each man will throw four fuzed grenades across the ditch. fused fused adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > fuse > [adjective] fused1934 1934 C. Haslett Electr. Handbk. for Women ix. 183 Fused plugs are available and are often found very useful. 1962 B.S.I. News Mar. 24/2 Socket-outlets requiring fused plugs must not accept unfused plugs. 1967 Do It Yourself Nov. 1283/2 Feed the circuit from a fused spur box situated in a conspicuous position on the landing. < adj.1694 as lemmas |
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