metan.¹

Brit.

/ˈmeɪtə/,

/ˈmiːtə/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdə/,

/ˈmidə/

Inflections: Plural metae Brit.

/ˈmeɪtʌɪ/,

/ˈmeɪtiː/,

/ˈmiːtʌɪ/,

/ˈmiːtiː/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdaɪ/,

/ˈmeɪdi/,

/ˈmidaɪ/,

/ˈmidi/.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mēta.

Etymology: < classical Latin mēta; further etymology uncertain and disputed. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (mī·tă) /ˈmiːtə/, plural (mī·ti) /ˈmiːtiː/.

A boundary or boundary-marker; (Roman History) either of the markers, typically consisting of three conical structures, situated at each end of the arena of a circus or hippodrome to indicate the turning places for chariot races. Cf. mete n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > boundary marker

meta1587

field boundary1812

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]

goalc1350

bounda1387

list1389

finea1400

frontier1413

enda1425

limit1439

buttal1449

headroom1462

band1470

mete?1473

buttinga1475

bounder1505

pale?a1525

butrelle1546

scantlet1547

limesa1552

divisec1575

meta1587

line1595

marginc1595

closure1597

Rubicon1613

bournea1616

boundary1626

boundure1634

verge1660

terminary1670

meta1838

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. i. 2/1, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I So that the aforesaid line shall henceforth be their Meta & partition from such as are to be ascribed to America.

1662 J. Ray Three Itin. iii. 183 In Somersetshire they have a way of setting their mows of corn on a frame..standing upon four stones cut with a shank, and upon that an head like a meta.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy ii. 96 You see where the Carceres, or the starting place was, where the Meta; where the Guglia were.

1740 W. Stukeley Stonehenge ix. 41 There is an obscure barrow or two, round which they return'd, as it were, a meta.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 16 The space between the two metæ or goals was filled with statues and obelisks.

1845 Athenæum 1 Feb. 126 We have the cross erected between two ‘metæ’.

1894 H. Nettleship & J. E. Sandys Seyffert's Dict. Classical Antiq. (ed. 3) 138/1 The starting-point was marked by three conical pillars (metae), standing on a substructure. Three other similar metae..stood at the other or semicircular end of the circus.

1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle ii. xxxi. 573 No stranger shall cross this meta.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Metan.²

Brit.

/ˈmɛtə/, U.S.

/ˈmɛdə/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: metaldehyde n.

Etymology: Shortened < metaldehyde n.

A proprietary name for: metaldehyde, esp. metaldehyde in block or tablet form, used as a fuel or as a slug poison. Frequently attributive.Registered as a trademark in the United Kingdom in 1921 (as a fuel) and in 1938 (as a molluscicide).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > solid

solid fuel1891

Sterno1915

Meta1921

grain1952

1921 Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Feb. 355 Meta... Artificial fuels and fire lighters.

1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 v. 102 Our loads..comprise one 10-lb. tent, two sleeping bags, food and ‘meta’ (solid spirit).

1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 106 The meta cooker doing its indifferent best to produce half a pot of warm water.

1938 Times 26 Nov. 15/6 Tablets of Meta crushed and used by itself or mixed with bran, may be put about among plants before dark and the victims collected in the morning.

1947 F. Smythe Again Switzerland vi. 120 He carries with him a packet of ‘meta’ fuel.

1955 P. Bauer Kanchenjunga Challenge iv. iv. 196 We went on travelling light with perhaps the Zdarsky sack and a small meta-tablet cooker.

1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 10 Snails and slugs..will ravage the young [asparagus] spears. Meta bait pellets or snail pellets are readily available to remedy this problem.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

metaadj.adv.n.³

Brit.

/ˈmɛtə/, U.S.

/ˈmɛdə/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: meta- prefix.

Etymology: < meta- prefix; in senses A. 1 and B. compare meta- prefix 4b, and in senses A. 2 and C. compare meta- prefix 2.

A. adj.

1. Chemistry. Now frequently italicized. Designating a configuration of a benzene ring in which substituent groups are attached to two carbon atoms separated by one carbon atom (i.e. in the 1,3 configuration); characterized by or having this configuration; located at the second carbon atom from a given substituent. Cf. meta- prefix 4b, ortho adj.¹ 1, para adj.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > naming conventions > [adjective] > independent words

meta1876

ortho1876

para1876

P1899

onium1905

ol1907

oxo1935

nido1967

the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [adjective] > benzene > position prefix

meta1876

ortho1876

para1876

1876 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 29 237 The author places the sulpho-acids obtained by the action of sulphuric acid on..iodobenzene in the meta (1:3) series.

1905 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 104 The ionic hydroxyl (OH)· of the diazonium hydroxide takes the place of the bromine in the ortho or para position, but not in the meta position.

1924 E. J. Holmyard Outl. Org. Chem. xix. 367 The para isomer C₆H₄X₂ can yield only one trisubstitution product C₆H₃X₃, while the ortho can give two and the meta can give three.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 449/1 It has also been found that substituted phenols containing hydroxyl groups in the meta configuration (for example, resorcinol) block the organification of iodine.

1999 Jrnl. Chromatogr. A. 839 145 (caption) Packed-column SFC-UV (273 nm) of metoprolol and its meta analogue.

2. Originally and chiefly U.S. Frequently in predicative use. Designating or characterized by a consciously sophisticated, self-referential, and often self-parodying style, whereby something (as a situation, person, etc.) reflects or represents the very characteristics it alludes to or depicts.

ΚΠ

1988 New Republic 5 Sept. 17/2 He predicts that, like ‘retro’..‘meta’ could become independent from other words, as in ‘Wow, this sentence is so meta’. If so, you heard it from me first.

1993 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 8 Aug. When anchorwoman Connie Chung made a guest appearance on sitcom Murphy Brown to advise anchorwoman Murphy not to sacrifice her journalistic integrity by making a guest appearance on a sitcom, that was just plain meta.

1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia iii. x. 127 Everything relates to house in a self-conscious or ‘meta’ way.

1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 58/1 An enterprise such as Brill's Content is inherently ‘meta’, since it doesn't review movies, for example, it reviews the reviewers who review movies.

B. adv.

Chemistry. Now frequently italicized. In or to a meta position; at the next carbon atom but one to another substituent group. Cf. meta- prefix 4b, ortho adv., para adv.

ΚΠ

1938 L. F. Fieser in H. Gilman Org. Chem. I. ii. 146 There is..no such enormous difference in reaction rate..as there is between the ortho-para directing amines and the meta orienting ammonium salts.

1949 J. English & H. G. Cassidy Princ. Org. Chem. vi. 106 Why should one group orient predominantly ortho and para, and another predominantly meta?

1968 R. O. C. Norman Princ. Org. Synthesis xi. 357 Position a, which is ortho to acetamido and meta to methyl, is more reactive than position b, which is meta to acetamido and ortho to methyl.

1992 J. March Adv. Org. Chem. (ed. 4) xi. 514 When a meta-directing group is meta to an ortho-para-directing group, the incoming group primarily goes ortho to the meta-directing group rather than para.

C. n.³

Originally and chiefly U.S. Something that is self-parodying and self-referential in reflecting or representing the characteristics it alludes to or depicts.

ΚΠ

1993 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 8 Aug. I can talk about a trendy example of meta: The Player—a movie about movies, a movie about movie-making.

1996 Village Voice (N.Y.) 16 Apr. 49/4 Dig the Tick's superhermeneutics as he hectors his sidekick... ‘On the surface, oh sure, we were pursued by Swiss industrial spies, trapped in the belly of a whale. But what really pursued us? Where were we really trapped? C'mon Arthur! Get meta with me!’.. The Tick spews meta like a grasshopper spits tobacco juice.

1999 Village Voice (N.Y.) 9 Nov. 148/3 One searches in vain for the meta in his madness, but Some Fish Can Fly's determination to be a movie-within-a-movie is subverted.

Compounds

meta key n. Computing (a) a key used as an additional control key; (b) a function key.

ΚΠ

1982 Meta Keys in fa.editor-p (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Dec. As to the meta key: It might be nice to have a keyboard with umpteen different prefix or shift keys, but I find the Emacs dependence on Control and Meta to be excessive.

1983 Byte (Nexis) Oct. 591 Meta key, and an RS-232C printer interface with local and remote print and copy functions are standard.

1991 C Users Jrnl. (Nexis) Sept. 9 On Hewlett-Packard workstations, for example, the Meta key is labeled Extend Char. On Sun Type 4 keyboards..the diamond-shaped key next to the Alt key is the default Meta key.

1997 D. Taylor & J. C. Armstrong Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours 282 If you don't have a Meta key, the sequence is Escape, followed by x.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> see also

also refers to : meta-prefix

n.¹1587

n.²1921

adj.adv.n.³1876

单词	meta
释义	metan.¹ Brit. /ˈmeɪtə/, /ˈmiːtə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdə/, /ˈmidə/ Inflections: Plural metae Brit. /ˈmeɪtʌɪ/, /ˈmeɪtiː/, /ˈmiːtʌɪ/, /ˈmiːtiː/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdaɪ/, /ˈmeɪdi/, /ˈmidaɪ/, /ˈmidi/. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mēta. Etymology: < classical Latin mēta; further etymology uncertain and disputed. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (mī·tă) /ˈmiːtə/, plural (mī·ti) /ˈmiːtiː/. A boundary or boundary-marker; (Roman History) either of the markers, typically consisting of three conical structures, situated at each end of the arena of a circus or hippodrome to indicate the turning places for chariot races. Cf. mete n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > boundary marker meta1587 field boundary1812 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] goalc1350 bounda1387 list1389 finea1400 frontier1413 enda1425 limit1439 buttal1449 headroom1462 band1470 mete?1473 buttinga1475 bounder1505 pale?a1525 butrelle1546 scantlet1547 limesa1552 divisec1575 meta1587 line1595 marginc1595 closure1597 Rubicon1613 bournea1616 boundary1626 boundure1634 verge1660 terminary1670 meta1838 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. i. 2/1, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I So that the aforesaid line shall henceforth be their Meta & partition from such as are to be ascribed to America. 1662 J. Ray Three Itin. iii. 183 In Somersetshire they have a way of setting their mows of corn on a frame..standing upon four stones cut with a shank, and upon that an head like a meta. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy ii. 96 You see where the Carceres, or the starting place was, where the Meta; where the Guglia were. 1740 W. Stukeley Stonehenge ix. 41 There is an obscure barrow or two, round which they return'd, as it were, a meta. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 16 The space between the two metæ or goals was filled with statues and obelisks. 1845 Athenæum 1 Feb. 126 We have the cross erected between two ‘metæ’. 1894 H. Nettleship & J. E. Sandys Seyffert's Dict. Classical Antiq. (ed. 3) 138/1 The starting-point was marked by three conical pillars (metae), standing on a substructure. Three other similar metae..stood at the other or semicircular end of the circus. 1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle ii. xxxi. 573 No stranger shall cross this meta. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Metan.² Brit. /ˈmɛtə/, U.S. /ˈmɛdə/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: metaldehyde n. Etymology: Shortened < metaldehyde n. A proprietary name for: metaldehyde, esp. metaldehyde in block or tablet form, used as a fuel or as a slug poison. Frequently attributive.Registered as a trademark in the United Kingdom in 1921 (as a fuel) and in 1938 (as a molluscicide). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > solid solid fuel1891 Sterno1915 Meta1921 grain1952 1921 Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Feb. 355 Meta... Artificial fuels and fire lighters. 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 v. 102 Our loads..comprise one 10-lb. tent, two sleeping bags, food and ‘meta’ (solid spirit). 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 106 The meta cooker doing its indifferent best to produce half a pot of warm water. 1938 Times 26 Nov. 15/6 Tablets of Meta crushed and used by itself or mixed with bran, may be put about among plants before dark and the victims collected in the morning. 1947 F. Smythe Again Switzerland vi. 120 He carries with him a packet of ‘meta’ fuel. 1955 P. Bauer Kanchenjunga Challenge iv. iv. 196 We went on travelling light with perhaps the Zdarsky sack and a small meta-tablet cooker. 1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 10 Snails and slugs..will ravage the young [asparagus] spears. Meta bait pellets or snail pellets are readily available to remedy this problem. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). metaadj.adv.n.³ Brit. /ˈmɛtə/, U.S. /ˈmɛdə/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: meta- prefix. Etymology: < meta- prefix; in senses A. 1 and B. compare meta- prefix 4b, and in senses A. 2 and C. compare meta- prefix 2. A. adj. 1. Chemistry. Now frequently italicized. Designating a configuration of a benzene ring in which substituent groups are attached to two carbon atoms separated by one carbon atom (i.e. in the 1,3 configuration); characterized by or having this configuration; located at the second carbon atom from a given substituent. Cf. meta- prefix 4b, ortho adj.¹ 1, para adj.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > naming conventions > [adjective] > independent words meta1876 ortho1876 para1876 P1899 onium1905 ol1907 oxo1935 nido1967 the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [adjective] > benzene > position prefix meta1876 ortho1876 para1876 1876 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 29 237 The author places the sulpho-acids obtained by the action of sulphuric acid on..iodobenzene in the meta (1:3) series. 1905 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 104 The ionic hydroxyl (OH)· of the diazonium hydroxide takes the place of the bromine in the ortho or para position, but not in the meta position. 1924 E. J. Holmyard Outl. Org. Chem. xix. 367 The para isomer C₆H₄X₂ can yield only one trisubstitution product C₆H₃X₃, while the ortho can give two and the meta can give three. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 449/1 It has also been found that substituted phenols containing hydroxyl groups in the meta configuration (for example, resorcinol) block the organification of iodine. 1999 Jrnl. Chromatogr. A. 839 145 (caption) Packed-column SFC-UV (273 nm) of metoprolol and its meta analogue. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. Frequently in predicative use. Designating or characterized by a consciously sophisticated, self-referential, and often self-parodying style, whereby something (as a situation, person, etc.) reflects or represents the very characteristics it alludes to or depicts. ΚΠ 1988 New Republic 5 Sept. 17/2 He predicts that, like ‘retro’..‘meta’ could become independent from other words, as in ‘Wow, this sentence is so meta’. If so, you heard it from me first. 1993 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 8 Aug. When anchorwoman Connie Chung made a guest appearance on sitcom Murphy Brown to advise anchorwoman Murphy not to sacrifice her journalistic integrity by making a guest appearance on a sitcom, that was just plain meta. 1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia iii. x. 127 Everything relates to house in a self-conscious or ‘meta’ way. 1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 58/1 An enterprise such as Brill's Content is inherently ‘meta’, since it doesn't review movies, for example, it reviews the reviewers who review movies. B. adv. Chemistry. Now frequently italicized. In or to a meta position; at the next carbon atom but one to another substituent group. Cf. meta- prefix 4b, ortho adv., para adv. ΚΠ 1938 L. F. Fieser in H. Gilman Org. Chem. I. ii. 146 There is..no such enormous difference in reaction rate..as there is between the ortho-para directing amines and the meta orienting ammonium salts. 1949 J. English & H. G. Cassidy Princ. Org. Chem. vi. 106 Why should one group orient predominantly ortho and para, and another predominantly meta? 1968 R. O. C. Norman Princ. Org. Synthesis xi. 357 Position a, which is ortho to acetamido and meta to methyl, is more reactive than position b, which is meta to acetamido and ortho to methyl. 1992 J. March Adv. Org. Chem. (ed. 4) xi. 514 When a meta-directing group is meta to an ortho-para-directing group, the incoming group primarily goes ortho to the meta-directing group rather than para. C. n.³ Originally and chiefly U.S. Something that is self-parodying and self-referential in reflecting or representing the characteristics it alludes to or depicts. ΚΠ 1993 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 8 Aug. I can talk about a trendy example of meta: The Player—a movie about movies, a movie about movie-making. 1996 Village Voice (N.Y.) 16 Apr. 49/4 Dig the Tick's superhermeneutics as he hectors his sidekick... ‘On the surface, oh sure, we were pursued by Swiss industrial spies, trapped in the belly of a whale. But what really pursued us? Where were we really trapped? C'mon Arthur! Get meta with me!’.. The Tick spews meta like a grasshopper spits tobacco juice. 1999 Village Voice (N.Y.) 9 Nov. 148/3 One searches in vain for the meta in his madness, but Some Fish Can Fly's determination to be a movie-within-a-movie is subverted. Compounds meta key n. Computing (a) a key used as an additional control key; (b) a function key. ΚΠ 1982 Meta Keys in fa.editor-p (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Dec. As to the meta key: It might be nice to have a keyboard with umpteen different prefix or shift keys, but I find the Emacs dependence on Control and Meta to be excessive. 1983 Byte (Nexis) Oct. 591 Meta key, and an RS-232C printer interface with local and remote print and copy functions are standard. 1991 C Users Jrnl. (Nexis) Sept. 9 On Hewlett-Packard workstations, for example, the Meta key is labeled Extend Char. On Sun Type 4 keyboards..the diamond-shaped key next to the Alt key is the default Meta key. 1997 D. Taylor & J. C. Armstrong Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours 282 If you don't have a Meta key, the sequence is Escape, followed by x. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : meta-prefix < n.¹1587n.²1921adj.adv.n.³1876 see also
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Compounds

> see also

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