| 单词 | locomotive power |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocomotive power locomotive power n. [compare post-classical Latin locomotiva potentia (1538 or earlier)] (a) power used or available for the purpose of locomotion; an instance of this; (b) power provided by railway locomotives. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun] > faculty or opportunity of coursec1400 locomotive faculty1612 locomotive power1640 locomotive1649 locomotivity1752 mobility1777 locomobility1785 travel1816 locomotility1828 motiveness1828 1640Loco-motive power [see sense A. 1a]. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. ii. 5 The Homunculus is..endowed with the same loco-motive powers and faculties with us. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iii. 62 As if the passive page of a book..instantly assumed at once loco-motive power. 1825 J. Parkes Statement of Claim to Act of Parl. 42 The current charges for the maintenance of the Rail-road and Loco-motive Power..will enable the Company to carry Goods at a rate less by one-third. 1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 184 The company is authorized to use locomotive power on the tramways at Holyhead harbour. 1909 Econ. Jrnl. 19 26 Such are the costs directly dependent on the use of locomotive power. 1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) 534 Absence of distinct head and foot, and lack of locomotive power, distinguish them from the mollusks. 2003 Southern Econ. Jrnl. 70 238 Higher train speeds are likely to increase costs because of the..higher level of locomotive power required to operate faster trains. < as lemmas |
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