单词 | at a heat |
释义 | > as lemmasat a heat 9. figurative. A single intense effort or bout of action; one continuous operation; a stroke, a ‘go’. Chiefly in at a heat. (Sometimes associated with 8b.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action turnc1230 heatc1380 touch1481 pluck?1499 push?1560 bout1575 yoking1594 pull1667 tirl1718 innings1772 go1784 gamble1785 pop1839 run1864 gang1879 inning1885 shot1939 the world > action or operation > doing > in action [phrase] > in one bout of action at a heat1676 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2762 Capouns y-bake al-so tok he foure in þilke hete. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10288 Miche harme, in þat hete, happit to falle. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 16 I'll strike my Fortunes with him at a heat: And give him not the leisure to forget. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar Ep. Ded. Neither can a true just play, which is to bear the test of ages, be produced at a heat. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 26/2 One..shewed him a piece of Painting, with a boast, that he had done it at a single heat. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. p. iv The new articles..having been ‘thrown off at a heat’, stood particularly in want of re-revision. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. ii. viii. 13 On one occasion he hanged twenty heretics, including a minister, at a single heat. < as lemmas |
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