单词 | mired |
释义 | miredn. Photography. A unit of reciprocal colour temperature equal to 10−6 per kelvin, used to measure the chromaticity of light. ΚΠ 1933 I. G. Priest in Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 23 41 It is proposed that reciprocal temperature..be adopted as a conventional parameter for specifying the chromaticity of incandescent illuminants and various phases of daylight. It is recommended that the micro-reciprocal-degree absolute centigrade be adopted as the most convenient unit for expressing reciprocal temperatures.] 1936 Trans. Illuminating Engin. Soc. 31 998 As the term micro-reciprocal degree is rather long to write frequently, Dr. Roger S. Estey has suggested that it be contracted to ‘mired’ pronounced ‘my red’. 1949 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Pict. Engin. 52 160 (caption) Intervals shown are 20 mireds (μrds) from 400 to 100, with equivalent color temperatures indicated. 1984 J. Eggleston Sensitometry for Photogr. i. 8/2 A reddish filter will reduce the blue content and thus decrease the colour temperature, whilst a bluish filter will reduce the red content and thus increase the colour temperature. Such filters are said to produce a ‘mired shift’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). miredadj. 1. a. Involved in trouble, difficulty, or delay; confounded, perplexed. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > having difficulty > beset with difficulties poseletc1390 withstad14.. ystadea1440 mireda1522 hard-set1572 hard-pressed1707 necessitous1711 hard pushed1785 hard-run1834 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. iii. 106 Rutylianys wolx affrayit wyth myndis myryt [1553 myrit]. c1617 Drunkards Dyall (single sheet) How comes it now to passe, you are so myred, A pot of Ale quoth he hath my brains fired. ?1760 S. Haliburton Mem. Magopico ix. 31 The Gentleman is mired, and seems not to know well what to plead for himself. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners iii. 63 ‘About personality?..’ suggested Paul, when she seemed to be mired. 1991 D. Mortman Wild Rose iv. xxix. 577 Matthew found himself mired in a conundrum. b. literal. Stuck fast in the mud or mire. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast > in mud or bog mired1621 bemired1654 bogged1854 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. vi. 420 As a mired horse that struggles at first with all his might and meane to get out. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. 91 Cowards, old Odin held..sank..like mired cattle, to all eternity in the unfathomable peat-slime. ?a1928 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) I. 233 He surged up Like a mired bull. 2. Chiefly literary. Bespattered with mire; soiled or discoloured with mud. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy fennyc897 bymodereda1307 slutchedc1400 muddyc1450 miry?c1475 slabby1542 mired1558 mudded1598 muddied1642 mucksy1665 shabby1705 sludgy1782 slushy1791 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. 534 Thou hedlong threwst thy self on myryd heapes of enmyes slayn. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. iv. 11 The..Sun..did shine vpon the Oesie plasshes myerd. 1891 ‘Q’ Noughts & Crosses 207 My mired boots played havoc with the neatly sanded floor. 1897 T. C. De Leon Jealous God v, in Novelette Trilogy 127 Lifting tenderly the mired, limp and senseless form of a shriveled old woman, struck down by them [sc. the horses]. 1948 R. Jeffers Double Axe 145 They made a blaze And pushed it into the pit, and they fed it high, around the mired sides Of their huge prey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936adj.a1522 |
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