英语词汇“half-compass”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

half-compass n. now rare a hemisphere; a semicircle; cf. compass n.¹ 5b.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. sig. B^v If it be parted iuste by the centre..then is it called a semicircle, halfe compasse.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 82 The daysunne..which inlighteneth not onely the halfe compasse [Fr. Hemisphere] whereon he shineth, but also euen a part of that which seeth him not.

1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. vi. 110 The horizontal line is that great circle of the sphere, which in that place divides the upper hemisphere, or half compass of the heavens above, from the lower hemisphere which is under us, and hid from our sight.

2008 T. McClelland Third Coast vi. 71 When you stand on that long, bleached boulevard of sand, you face a half-compass of blue water, filling the curve of the Earth.

† half-compass n. Obs. hemisphere: see compass n.¹ 5b.

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1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 82 The daysunne..which inlighteneth not onely the halfe compasse whereon he shineth, but also euen a part of that which seeth him not.

单词	half-compass
释义	> as lemmas half-compass half-compass n. now rare a hemisphere; a semicircle; cf. compass n.¹ 5b. Π 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. sig. B^v If it be parted iuste by the centre..then is it called a semicircle, halfe compasse. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 82 The daysunne..which inlighteneth not onely the halfe compasse [Fr. Hemisphere] whereon he shineth, but also euen a part of that which seeth him not. 1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. vi. 110 The horizontal line is that great circle of the sphere, which in that place divides the upper hemisphere, or half compass of the heavens above, from the lower hemisphere which is under us, and hid from our sight. 2008 T. McClelland Third Coast vi. 71 When you stand on that long, bleached boulevard of sand, you face a half-compass of blue water, filling the curve of the Earth. extracted from halfadj. half-compass † half-compass n. Obs. hemisphere: see compass n.¹ 5b. ΚΠ 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 82 The daysunne..which inlighteneth not onely the halfe compasse whereon he shineth, but also euen a part of that which seeth him not. extracted from half-comb. form < as lemmas
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