单词 | joining |
释义 | joiningn. 1. The action of join v.1, or the fact of being joined. a. Connection, combination, union. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > joining together conjoiningc1386 joining1398 knittinga1420 accession1570 joindera1616 assemblage1728 annexation1765 association1775 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xix. (Bodl. MS) 172 b/1 Glew..is good to Ioynynge of schippis. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30 §1 Ioynyng of issues, and other pleadynges. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 178 Syntaxis is a part of Grammar, that teacheth the true joyning of words together. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 9/2 The joyning of those two Arches, intersecting each other, makes an Angle. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 175 Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect. b. The action of coming together in conflict; engagement, encounter. Also joining of battle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > joining of battle joiningc1400 buckling1563 c1400 Rowland & O. 454 Thies kene knyghtis to-gedir gan glide,..theyre Ioynynge was so harde that tyde. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 12 Be for the iunyng of ane battel. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 352 That his souldiers should in the first ioyning with the enemie sing certaine Hymnes. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. vi. 144 An huge earthquake at the ioyning of the battels..had forewarned our rash Generall of the euent. c. The occupation or work of a joiner; joinery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > joinery joining-work1562 contignationa1631 joinery1678 joining1680 joinering1839 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xi. 193 The Office of Smoothing Plains in Joyning and Carpentery. 2. quasi-concrete. a. An instance of such action or state; the place where two things or parts of something join or are joined; a junction, joint. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > a join or junction juncturea1382 jointure1382 joiningc1384 commissure?c1425 shuttingc1440 concourse?a1560 abutment1644 internodium1653 shut1721 uniting1728 conjuncture1747 join1825 junction1841 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. ii. 19 Al the body, by bondis and ioynyngis to gidere vndirmynistrid and maad. 1483 Cath. Angl. 199/2 A Iunynge, compages, compago, iunctura. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 235/1 Ioyning of bordes, joincture. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xxii. 3 Dauid prepared yron..for the nailes for the doores of the gates, and for the ioynings. View more context for this quotation 1764 T. Reid Inquiry Human Mind (1801) vi. §22. 395 In the steeple..the joinings of the stones are clearly perceptible. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 149 These joinings are unavoidable: these divisions..are among the tests of fresco painting properly so called. b. Something that joins or connects two things; a piece forming a junction. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > that wherein or whereby things are joined juncturea1382 joiningc1384 gemew?a1400 joint14.. spondyle1650 piecing1688 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 97 Eke the halle and euery boure, Wythouten peces or ioynynges. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. xv. 498 Each group connected with those next it by slight joinings of wax. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as joining-place n. (in quot. = place for joining battle).† joining-work n. Obsolete = joiner's work; see joiner n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] fieldeOE place?c1225 fletc1275 champ of battlec1300 champany?a1400 o laundon?a1400 palaestrac1425 battle-stead1487 fighting-stead1487 open fielda1500 spear-field1508 joining-place1513 camp1525 foughten field1569 battleground1588 Aceldama1607 champian?1611 field of honour1611 champaign1614 standing ground1662 fighting-field1676 battlefield1715 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > joinery joining-work1562 contignationa1631 joinery1678 joining1680 joinering1839 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. viii. 47 Formast he bownys to the ioynyng place. 1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 162 One counter of joynyng work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2021). joiningadj. 1. That joins; connecting, uniting, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > joining joining1483 knitting1532 conjoining1579 conjunctive1581 junctive1898 1483 Cath. Angl. 199/2 Iunynge, coniungens. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 60 Our hopes joyning blisse. 1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 13 Produce the joining line to cut OI in I′. 2. Adjoining, adjacent, contiguous: see join v.1 8. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > adjacent joiningc1385 joinantc1405 adjacentc1425 adjoinant1429 adject?a1475 adjoined?1556 adjoining1577 conjoining1579 bystanding1622 annexed1634 verging1796 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 1962 The tour..Was Ioynynge in the wal to a foreyne. ?1560 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. A.iiv Other that syt ioyninge by them. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. F3 I haue a Castle ioyning nere these woods. 1747 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 473 A pretty field..joining to my garden. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 8 Jan. in French & Italian Notebks. (1980) i. 13 The Tuilleries joining on to the Louvre. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.c1384adj.c1385 |
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