单词 | marshalling |
释义 | marshallingmarshalingn. The action or an act of marshalling someone or something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > action of arranging > specific people marshallinga1475 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > action of arranging disposingc1440 raying1552 marshalling1591 position1616 arrangement1728 ordering1828 placement1844 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms > the various coats combined on a shield > combining two or more coats marshalling1768 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > arraying in order of battle embattling1531 marshalling1816 a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 194 Thus may ye devise youre marshallynge..to þe honoure and worshippe of youre souereyn euery where. 1501–2 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 139 To Robe Galloway..for merschaling of foure hors of the Kingis, ix s. 1564 Linlithgow Sheriff Court 23 July in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The wrangus persute..for the merschelling & slauchtir of ane hors. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. F4 The marshalling of the letters in the alphabet. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D2v If I be not a little mistaken in their names, and Marshalling. 1747 J. Robertson True Manner reading Hebrew iv. 83 This Rhythmus is nothing but the marshalling or ranking of long and short Syllables intermixed. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 105 The marshalling of coat-armour..is now greatly disregarded. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxviii. 17 The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xv. 127 Marshalling..is the practical application of the Principles which guide Heralds..when they would employ it to chronicle History, and to record Biography. 1884 M. N. Forney Car-builder's Dict. (ed. 2) 114/2 Marshaling (English). American equivalent, Switching or drilling. Arranging the cars of a freight train in proper station order. 1923 H. Crane Let. 18 Feb. (1965) 124 The actual statement of the thing, the marshalling of the forces, will take me months. 1985 Truck & Driver June 21/2 As far as Brands [Hatch] is concerned, the marshalling and organisation were first class. 1997 Agric. Res. Jan. 10/3 This internal threat warrants a marshaling of the immune system's biggest guns, the more comprehensive cell-mediated response. 2013 M. Freeden Polit. Theory of Polit.Thinking viii. 277 All those debates were focused on power as an empirical outcome in the realm of behaviour, institutional arrangements, and the marshalling of human resources. Compounds marshalling siding n. a railway siding in which wagons or carriages can be marshalled. ΚΠ 1875 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 41 14 Here the trucks should accumulate until near the hour of the train's departure, when they would be passed through a set of marshalling sidings to put them in their proper order. 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway xi. 172 At certain important places throughout the country..schemes of marshalling sidings of elaborate construction and great extent have been laid down. 1906 Harmsworth Encycl. VIII. 536/1 The wagons are allowed to run down by gravitation, each one being turned into its proper marshalling siding to make up the trains that are to proceed in direction c. 1983 R. Davies & M. D. Grant London & its Railways 146/2 Shunters would then uncouple the train into sections or ‘cuts’, corresponding to the marshalling siding into which the wagons should be placed. marshalling yard n. a railway yard in which trains can be assembled from individual wagons or carriages. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > yard wagon-yard1827 yard1827 train depot1833 railway yard1854 trainyard1866 marshalling yard1877 rail yard1888 1877 J. N. Shoolbred tr. C. Couche Permanent Way, Rolling Stock & Techn. Working Railways I. 486 These various operations just enumerated are now often concentrated at a single spot, near to a junction for example; and called a marshalling yard. 1906 Railway Mag. 18 180/1 On one side of the line is seen the recently constructed sorting and marshalling yard. 1940 Times 25 Sept. 4/1 One of the aircraft which bombed a marshalling yard only a few miles from the heart of Berlin. 1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 56 I started to draw a double direction marshalling yard. 1986 I. Banks Bridge iii. i. 192 It wound sinuously, slowly, through a great marshalling yard towards a long, low station. 2003 J. Kelly Trackside Scenes you can Model 12/1 At the marshalling yard. the loaded cars are assembled (marshalled) into longer cross-country trains, and the incoming empties are divvied out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈmarshalling ˈmarshalling adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [adjective] > arranging marshalling1855 1855 E. Bulwer-Lytton Clytemnestra 329 All the orient skies Are husht, and breathing out a bright surprise Round morning's marshalling star. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxvii. 457 The first scouts of the marshalling forces of the clouds came up in flying shreds. 1908 J. Miller Poems 229 No marshaling troop, no bivouac song; No banners to gleam and wave. < n.a1475 as lemmas |
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