单词 | arctic pole |
释义 | Arctic Polen. 1. Astronomy †The Pole Star (Polaris, α Ursae Minoris) (obsolete). Also: the north celestial pole (now historical and rare). See also the earlier pole arctic n.Quot. 1509 appears to show ‘Arctic pool’, which may perhaps have arisen by confusion with Arctic pole. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > [noun] > pole > north pole north polea1398 Arctic Pole1565 pole arctic1632 the world > the universe > star > kind of star > giant > [noun] > supergiant > Pole star North Stara1387 polea1398 shipman-star1398 pole arcticc1400 tramontanec1400 transmontane starc1400 pommel1503 sail-star?c1510 Pole Star1555 star?1555 Arctic Pole1565 polar star1578 northern star1590 cynosure1596 Polaris1675 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) v. 25 To attayne, in her artyke poole Her gylted dewe.] 1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 150 About our Artick pole ye myght The lyttle Beare fyrst see. ?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea i. sig. A.iv The artick pole of the Zodiack, or rather the Ecliptick, and the Antartick pole of the Zodiack. 1594 Praise of Contented Mind in Willobie his Auisa f. 64v The Articke pole that neuer moues, by which the shipmen saile. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iii. 140 Fixt..Beneath the right arme of Andromeda, Eying the Articke Pole. 1680 M. Livingstone Albion's Elegie 4 Those..Whose direct Zenith is the Artick Pole. 1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 45/1 A comet was discovered..in the constellation of the Dragon, about 30 deg. from the Arctic Pole. 1908 H. R. Mill et al. Siege of South Pole i. 4 If the new form of the Earth could be entertained by reasonable people there was no reason why there should not be another Habitable World under the Antarctic pole of the heavens to balance that which lay under the Arctic pole. 2. The North Pole of the earth. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > pole polec1392 pole antarcticc1400 Arctic?a1425 north pole?a1475 south pole1553 Antarctic Pole1559 Arctic Pole1604 Antarctic1656 magnesa1657 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xii. 159 To conclude, the straight [sc. passage] of the Artike Pole [Sp. polo Artico] (if there be any) hath not been yet discovered. 1683 P. Lorrain tr. P. Muret Rites Funeral xii. 167 Though the custom of casting the Dead into the Water be no less barbarous..yet has it been practised by several Nations, as the Hyperboreans, or those who inhabit near the Artick Pole. 1725 P. Shaw Philos. Wks. R. Boyle II. 174 Nations that lie very near the arctic pole, want many conveniencies and advantages enjoy'd by the inhabitants of the temperate zones. 1776 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies IV. iii. 170 The two continents seem to form as it were, two broad slips of land, that begin from the arctic pole, and terminate at the tropic of Capricorn. 1838 Times 1 June 5/1 The French expedition to the Arctic Pole was on the point of sailing. 1871 Nature 7 Dec. 102/2 This explains why the barometer cannot be lower at the Arctic Pole than near Iceland in winter. 1928 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 372 Norse mythology appropriately made its infernal regions a realm of ice and storm and darkness, fittingly typified by the great lone lands and raging seas about the Arctic Pole. 2007 D. R. Rothwell & S. V. Scott in L. K. Kriwoken et al. Looking South ii. 9 Alexander VI gave..all territory from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole west of a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1565 |
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