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单词 light-struck
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light-struckadj.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪtstrʌk/, U.S. /ˈlaɪtˌstrək/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: light n.1, struck adj.
Etymology: < light n.1 + struck adj. With sense 2 compare earlier moonstruck adj.
1. Photography.
a. Of an image: produced by exposure to light. Obsolete. rare.In figurative context in quot. 1859.
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1859 W. Tomlinson Clouds & Light vi. 75 The image of her childhood's beauteousness Fell on the polished silver of his soul, And there a golden, light-struck image, lay A lustrous ever fair daguerreotype.
b. Of film, a photographic plate, etc.: damaged as a result of exposure to actinic light before or during development. Also of a photograph, an image, etc.: damaged as a result of overexposure of the film, plate, etc.
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1869 E. Muybridge in Philadelphia Photographer May 143/2 I prefer..a draw-shutter to my plate-holder that comes entirely out, and, before adopting my present cloth, was frequently troubled with light-struck plates.
1908 J. B. Schriever & T. H. Cummings Compl. Self-instructing Libr. Pract. Photogr. II. xx. 276 Leaky cameras or plate holders cause foggy or light struck negatives.
1910 Techn. World Mag. Aug. 723/1 It gives plenty of light for changing negatives and prints and does away with any chance of the paper becoming lightstruck.
1997 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 14 Dec. 1 e Hamilton..still has a thing for cheap plastic cameras. Their off-focus, sometimes light-struck images intrigue him.
2. Dazed, as a result of exposure to bright light. rare.figurative in quot. 1884.
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1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 177 Light-struck, stunned, dazed, disabled.
1956 C. Armstrong Dram of Poison (Electronic ed.) x The living room was dark, dark as night, to his light-struck eyes.
3. Esp. of beer or wine: having an unpleasantly sour, typically sulphurous, odour or flavour, resulting from exposure to light. Cf. skunked adj. 2.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [adjective] > qualities
strengthful1584
shire1721
deadish1742
entire1742
foxed1743
maltless1828
quarred1871
cocktail1888
fretty1897
light-struck1908
skunked1970
cask-conditioned1975
1908 Western Brewer Feb. (Advertising Suppl.) 159 The turbidity or sediment in pasteurized bottle beer consists of albumen, the disagreeable taste in ‘light struck’ beer is due to albumen.
1938 Washington Post 22 Mar. 14/2 It doesn't have a chance to lie around in warehouses and get light-struck or stale.
2018 Morning Advertiser (Nexis) 7 June A hugely common off-flavour, and one that occurs almost universally within bottled beer products,..is the result of specific wavelengths of light hitting a bottle, causing the beer within to become lightstruck.
4. Illuminated by, or as if by, bright light.
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the world > matter > light > illumination > [adjective] > illuminated or lit up
lightc1300
lightedc1450
illuminate?a1475
circumfulseda1513
illustrate1526
in light1534
lighted1596
illightened1609
enlightened1640
unblown1647
luminated1652
illuminated1664
lit1783
alight1817
lit-up1835
littena1849
light-struck1923
1923 J. C. Van Dyke Rembrandt & his School ix. 90 A warm, light-struck landscape that may suggest a possible painter for some of the so-called Rembrandt landscapes.
1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Nov. d1 A stenciled design..in the sun-drenched Mexican colors: sky blue, blinding orange, light-struck pink and green.
2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. (Late ed.) e34 A painter of well-ordered coastal scenes that echoed the light-struck, atmospheric renditions of the Hudson River School Luminists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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