单词 | mig |
释义 | mign.1 Now English regional (northern). Urine; (also) the drainings from manure. †Also figurative (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun] migeOE addleOE lantc1000 urinec1325 pissa1387 stalea1400 watera1400 stalingc1420 lage1567 urine-river1633 emiction1666 sig1691 tea1693 piddle1870 number one1902 pee-wee1909 pee-pee1923 widdle1925 wee-wee1937 pee1957 wee1968 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xvii. 198 His micgge bið blodread swilce hio blodig sie. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) vii. 258 [D]rince eft buccan micgan & ete nardes ear. ?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) cxxxiv. 135 Þane miȝan [OE Vitell. migðan] hit hrædlice ȝehrymð. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 43 His anwlita byþ blac and his migga byþ hwit, and he sceal ȝelomelice miȝan. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 205 Grickisch fur..ne mei na þing bute Migge ant Sond & eisil..acwenchen. a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 190 Fyre gregays..ne noþing aquenchen bot mugge & aysil. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 58 (MED) Þe swyn of vnclennes drowniþ himself in þe mig of lecherie. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Mig, liquid manure; the fluid which runs away from the midden, or from the stall drains of a cow-house, &c. 1895 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 30 Mar. 3/8 Meg, liquid manure. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 82/2 Mig, liquid manure—i.e., the fluid which drains away from the manure-heap, the byre, styes or the fodgarth. 1957 H. Bagster Country Practice 53 The geese and the ducks paddling in the trickles of mig from the mire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mign.2 regional. Chiefly U.S. A marble, esp. one made from baked clay; (in plural) the game of marbles; = miggle n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] marble1681 marloes1827 mig1886 miggle1890 long johns1970 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of nicker1675 alley1720 blood alley1821 commoney1837 Rouge Royal1837 peewee1848 stoney1856 knicker1860 bonce1862 plunker1863 dobber1875 agate1886 mig1886 glassy1887 miggle1890 shooter1892 aggie1896 knuckler1896 milkie1908 ghoen1913 miggie1916 immy1928 glarney1953 1886 G. Schermerhorn Let. 8 Dec. in Lett. to Phil (1982) 17 The good shots would have bags half as large as their heads, full of ‘migs,’ ‘China Alleys’ and ‘Real agates’. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 398 Migs, marbles. 1926 Amer. Speech 2 66 Hear the chatter that comes out of a marble-shooting ring... [T]he ‘migs’..and ‘pottries’ they talk about. 1937 C. Day Life with Mother 215 We could tell at a glance just which boy every marble belonged to, except those made of clay which we called migs. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren 132 The would-be swopper says ‘I'll coop yer my migs..for yer small dag.’ 1960 J. Kerouac Excerpts Visions of Cody 113 Cody's roach kit includes old roaches from 1951..; and a marble, a mig, like the ones I raced. 1993 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) (at cited word) We played ‘migs’, I think a generic name for ‘marbles’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). MiGn.3 I. Compounds. 1. General attributive. Designating any of various types of Russian fighter aircraft designed by the team of Mikoyan and Gurevich. a. With a following number denoting the specific model. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > type of fighter MiG1942 1942 Aviation Aug. 92/3 The Nazis were met by new types of Soviet planes. One in particular, the powerful MIG-3, rapidly won deserved fame and respect. 1949 Mech. Engin. 71 417/1 The Mig-7 jet..is powered by probably two German BMW 003 turbojets. 1951 Aviation Week 11 June 17/1 They have a jet engine in the MiG 15 that is superior to any jet engine that we have today. 1977 C. Thomas Firefox (1978) ix. 251 The second test-pilot on the Mig-31 project was at fifty thousand feet, his nose-probe buried in the udder of a refueling plane, with which the Mig had made rendezvous minutes before. 1992 Daily Star 2 July 8/4 Our fighter fleet will soon be hopelessly out-dated by Russia's so-sophisticated MIG 29s. b. MiG aircraft, MiG fighter, MiG jet, MiG series, MiG-type, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > of specific manufacture Vickers1913 MiG aircraft1947 1947 Aeroplane Spotter 8 Mar. 43/2 In collaboration with Gurek, he produced the ‘MIG’ series of fighters... The MIG-1 and MIG-3 are now obsolete, but other ‘MIG’ designs are believed to be under development. 1955 World Politics 7 249 There are enough Mig and Yak jet rocket fighters to man the enormous Communist air defense area. 1955 Internat. Organization 9 418/2 Certain wrongful acts said to have been committed by MIG-type aircraft. 1967 Listener 31 Aug. 265/2 The Chinese have supplied some MiG fighters and light tanks. 1979 P. Cave Foxbat 29 I think this is wildly over-optimistic. I can't really go along with these performance figures—not given our last intelligence reports on the MiG projects into the 80's. 1998 What Hi-Fi? May 97/2 There's also a stunning dogfight involving F-15 and MiG planes, the sky chock full of screaming missiles. 2. MiG alley n. U.S. during the Korean War (1950–3), an area of north-western Korea over which aerial combat with MiGs was particularly intense. ΚΠ 1951 in J. F. Loosbrock & R. M. Skinner Wild Blue (1961) 448 We fight a private little war up in MIG Alley. 1953 Life 8 June 29/1 Many U.S. pilots have shot down Red jets over Korea, but 2nd Lieut. Edwin Aldrin is the first to get pictures of an enemy pilot bailing out. After riddling a MiG 15 over MiG Alley, Aldrin took this..sequence with the wing-mounted camera on his Sabre jet. 1956 Mil. Affairs 20 245/1 The Hunters is a fascinating account of the MIG Alley Campaign over the Yalu river in the Korean War. 1992 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 56 98 The North Korean defenses were heaviest in the area between the Yalu and Chongchon Rivers (‘Mig Alley’). II. Simple uses. 3. An aeroplane of this type. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > fighter > of specific manufacture Spad1917 Messerschmitt1938 Spit1941 widowmaker1944 MiG1953 1953 Times 30 Apr. 7/5 (headline) Dollars for a MIG. 1953 Times 4 May 9/5 A pilot..might feel impelled to deliver a MIG to the United Nations Command. 1959 Listener 12 Mar. 445/1 We may see the Yemen welcoming Soviet submarines and Indonesia flying nothing but Migs. 1973 E. Pace Any War will Do (1974) III. 206 The Nigerian air force was largely a ragtag collection of mercenaries flying newly arrived Mig's. 1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xxviii. 457 When the MiGs got to within sixty miles, the AWACS aircraft shut down their radars and dove for the ground to avoid the attack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). MIGn.4 Engineering. In full MIG welding: a form of metal arc welding in which the electrode and the welding surface are shielded by an inert gas such as argon or helium, so as to avoid the formation of oxides. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIV. 467/1 Inert-gas metal-arc welding with consumable, continuous electrodes (called MIG welding, for Metal Inert Gas) requires no flux and produces welds without a slag cover. The arc is in an atmosphere of argon or helium supplied at 5–100 ft3/hr from the gas cup of the torch. 1963 Encycl. Engin. Materials & Methods at Arc welding Inert gas shielded-arc welding... This process is often called inert-gas welding for short. There are two major subdivisions: TIG and MIG... Inert gas spot welding is a modification of the basic TIG and MIG welding methods. 1971 Engineering Apr. 88/1 Specialists in..metallic arc, tungsten arc (TIG) and metal inert-gas arc (MIG) construction. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 40 272 The first set gives fracture toughnesses of MIG welds. 1988 Tool World 147/2 Mig welding..is a simple process which does not require the technique of brushing electrodes against the surface. 1989 A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding (ed. 9) I. i. 36 Argon..is extensively used..in the welding of aluminium, magnesium, titanium, copper, stainless steel and nickel by the TIG and MIG processes. 1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 29 (advt.) Robotic mig and spot welding. 1994 Barbados Advocate 10 Aug. 33/6 (advt.) Welding equipment. MIG welders... Plasma Cutters [etc.]. 1998 Amer. Machinist 142 58/2 Anyone working with pulsed MIG clearly understands how these variables affect the arc... Pulsed MIG requires the operator to maintain an arc gap, which helps decrease the amount of spatter produced. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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