| 单词 | landpassage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-passage land-passage n. †(a) an isthmus; (b) passage by land. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journey across or through > across land land-passage1601 overland1840 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus halse1488 necka1544 balka1552 isthmus1555 distrait1562 strait1562 strictland1577 land-passage1601 land-strait1601 isthm1609 land-neck1619 land-connection1876 thoroughfare1876 land-bridge1897 tombolo1897 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 78 Another land passage or Isthmus there is of like streightness..and of equall breadth with that of Corinth. 1642 Declar. Chas. I to Parl. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 602 He hath..cut the Banks, and let in the Waters to drown the Land-passages, and to make the Town inaccessable by that way. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 190 There is no Land-passage from this Elder World unto that of America. land-passage a. General attributive passing into adj., with the sense ‘belonging or attached to, or characteristic of, the land; living, situated, taking place, or performed upon land (as opposed to water or sea); terrestrial’: as in land-admiral, land-battery, land-battle, land-communication, land-company, land-engine, land-fight, land-goods, land-gunner, †land-herd, land-journey, land-life, land-monster, land-passage, land-pilot, land-plant, land-power, land-prospect, land-siren, land-soldier, land-spout, land-trade, land-travel, land-wages, land-war, land warfare, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military power > [noun] swordc1000 strengthOE powerc1300 force1303 land-power1490 bayonet1775 sword-arm1838 sabre1851 sword-craft1855 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil delverc888 tillman940 tiliec1000 acremanOE earth-tilieOE land-tiliec1275 tillerc1300 earth-tillera1325 diggerc1400 land-herd1490 earth-tilther1495 tilther1495 land-tiller?a1500 manurerc1500 tillsman1561 tilth-man1638 cultivator1661 1490 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 1. §1 If any Captain..give them not their full Wages..except for Jackets for them that receive Land-wages. 1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B3v The fields In which dame Cynthia her landheards fed. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. vi. 285 Impatient of land-life, they lanch againe into their water. 1625 Purchas (title) Purchas his Pilgrimes contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 51 I intreated him for a commission and patent for a land company in Flanders. 1637 J. Milton Comus 11 To find out that..Would overtask the best land-pilots art. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 488 Their Land-voyage from Pekin to Goa. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Apr. (1974) VIII. 149 I made him merry with telling him how many land-Admiralls we are to have this year. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. To Rdr. A most useful Instrument for all Land and Sea Gunners. 1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iii, in Wks. (1721) I. 44 Curse on these land-syrens! 1694 London Gaz. No. 3023/3 They..are to be provided for in their way as Land-Soldiers are in their march. 1695 M. Prior Eng. Ballad 4 The Water-Nymphs are all unkind, We hope the Land-Nymphs are not so. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 289 Anchoring at Sea, remote from all Land-Prospect. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 395 The nature..of these land spouts. 1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation p. vi Roads for land-communication and carriage. 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 316 Of the lords of the Admiralty, three of the sea officers, and one of the land lords, were efficient officers. 1822 Brunel Specif. Patent 4683 3 The common governor usually applied to land engines cannot act regularly at sea. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 335 Being exposed to the fire of the land-batteries as well as of the shipping. 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxxii. 665 If the preparations for land-warfare were thus stupendous, those for sea-warfare were fully equal if not superior. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 300 The foliage of land-plants. 1928 Observer 1 Apr. 14/3 Sea-power took the place of land-power in the sixteenth century. 1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 182 h/1 In theory a branch of geopolitics,..geo-strategy treated warfare as total, embracing the entire populations and resources of the contesting states... It helped to make Germany the first country to realize that airpower could take a position alongside seapower and landpower. 1962 Listener 29 Mar. 543/1 A world which, seen from Moscow, is divided into three or four land masses, and a number of similar areas which can be dominated by land power. < as lemmas |
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