单词 | longwise |
释义 | longwiseadj.adv. 1. Extending lengthways. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. k.ijv In men they [sc. ballockes] are longwyse & rounde, and in women they be rounde and flat. 2. Long in relation to breadth, oblong. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] longOE eavelonga1387 long-warpeda1400 oblong?a1425 long-shaped1575 longwise1600 oblongish1665 elongate1828 elongated1828 oblongitudinal1892 1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome i. i, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1348 The Viminall hill... The forme thereof is longwise [L. oblongam]. B. adv. = longways adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in longitudinal direction alongc1300 endlongc1300 afterlong?a1425 endlonges1473 alength?1523 longways1525 longwise1548 alongst1562 longstways1566 longstwise1566 lengthwisec1580 longst1581 lengthways1599 longitudinally1695 plankwise1815 axially1855 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. C.ij Dunbar, a toun stonding longwise vpon ye seasyde. 1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories xvi. 95 They are all parted per pale..that is, parted longwise in the midst. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 67 That kernell..as our Hazle nuts in England, will part in the middle long-wise. c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture III. vii. 16 Upon which..are laid other beams longwise. 1789 J. Bonner Bee-master's Compan. xvi. 111 Take honey-combs, and cut them longwise so as to reach from one side of the eek to the other. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 213 Standing it [sc. a letter] long-wise and broad-wise on his table. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xvi. 151 Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise. 1922 H. A. MacMichael Hist of Arabs in Sudan iii. i. 203 The Bedayría have adopted the fashion of wearing their hair in several thick sausage-like rolls laid longwise back from the forehead. 2006 State Jrnl.-Reg. (Springfield, Illinois) (Nexis) 17 June 17 Get a ruler, or fold a piece of paper in half longwise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.?1541 |
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