单词 | judder |
释义 | juddern. 1. Esp. as a characteristic of something mechanical or motor-driven: the action or fact of shaking or vibrating rapidly, forcefully, and often noisily; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > violent shaking > instance or state of judder1926 1926 Manch. Guardian 10 Dec. 4/6 The hand brake..came into action powerfully yet smoothly, there being no suspicion of a ‘judder’. 1952 Times 18 Dec. A pronounced judder was felt..and in spite of two corrective movements of the control column [of the aircraft] the judder continued. 1972 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 13/5 It is not difficult to get a touch of wheelspin and axle judder by fierce acceleration in the lower gears. 2003 M. Booth Islands of Silence xxxvi. 242 We moved gracefully away, without so much as a judder, down the drive. 2. Vibration, oscillation, or shaking of something other than a physical object, esp. the voice or a video image. ΚΠ 1946 F. C. Field-Hyde Vocal Vibrato, Tremolo & Judder iii. 10 Judder consists of marked, rapid changes in intensity during the emission of tone, due to involuntary variations..of the vocal tension. 1958 Jrnl. Television Soc. Oct.–Dec. 526/1 This discontinuity is often sufficient to cause a ‘frame roll-over’ or picture judder on the average receiver. 2005 Video Syst. Nov. 16/2 You must shoot as you would film in order to avoid introducing motion judder. Compounds judder bar n. New Zealand (originally) = rumble strip n. at rumble n.1 Compounds; (now more usually) = speed bump n. at speed n. Compounds 4; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > surface > ridge to slow traffic hump1924 speed breaker1940 rumble strip1957 judder bar1960 sleeping policeman1972 road hump1974 speed hump1974 speed bump1975 1960 Times of India 3 May 8/3 ‘Judder Bars’ of tough rubberised bitumen have appeared recently in New Zealand. 1987 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 6 Dec. New Zealanders have a different vocabulary: supermarket trollies are ‘trundlers’, speed bumps are ‘judder bars’. 1991 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 4 Dec. 15 The only unusual aspect of the past year has been the Government quietly accepting the role of judder bar to a media steamroller. 2012 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 12 Dec. 17 [He] drove over a judder bar at about 40kmh in the car park before driving on and doing a handbrake slide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). judderv. intransitive. Esp. of something mechanical or motor-driven: to shake or vibrate rapidly, forcefully, and often noisily; to shudder; to move while shaking in this way. Also of the voice in singing: to oscillate between greater and less intensity. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake > shake violently aresec885 to-quakec1275 to-shakea1300 judder1931 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle i. xii. 213 The train entered this tunnel. It entered slowly,..juddering in every bolt and rivet of its frame as the hurricane assaulted [it]. 1960 New Scientist 21 Apr. 1015/2 The drum must run perfectly true and not ‘judder’ at its circumference more than 1/1,000 inch. 1965 Punch 3 Feb. 175/1 As the train juddered a few yards back towards Westminster, he flung a huge arm round my shoulder to steady himself. 1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 120 Beggars with heroic deformities lay juddering in the gutter. 1973 Shorter Oxf. Eng. Dict. Addenda Judder,..of the voice in singing, to oscillate between greater and less intensity. 1977 S. R. Donaldson Power that Preserves ii. 28 ‘Asuraka speaks.’ Her voice juddered like a branch in a high wind. 2011 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 21/3 The car would judder as the engine was starved of fuel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926v.1931 |
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