nexusn.

Brit.

/ˈnɛksəs/, U.S.

/ˈnɛksəs/

Inflections: Plural nexuses, (rare) nexus Brit.

/ˈnɛksuːs/, U.S.

/ˈnɛkˌsus/.

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

Etymology: < classical Latin nexus (plural nexūs ) the action of binding, a bond, tie, a type of legal obligation, a combination, connected group < nectere to bind, connect (see net n.¹) + -tus, suffix forming verbal nouns.

a. A bond, link, or junction; a means of connection between things or parts; (also) the state of being connected or linked.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > fact or action of being linked or linking > one who or that which > a connecting link

link1548

copulative1615

root1632

copula1656

nexus1663

juncturea1676

tie1711

connecting link1797

interlinka1834

hyphen1868

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. 241 Changing the Motion and nexus or Juncture of their parts.

1709 Brit. Apollo 20–22 July What is the Nexus of Matter?

1776 J. Adams in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 113 It is the nexus of the northern and southern colonies.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism vi. 58 Cash Payment had not then grown to be the universal sole nexus of man to man.

1864 Spectator in Littell's Living Age 1 Oct. 42/1 The translation of ‘serait’ by ‘is’ destroys the nexus of the sentence and obliterates the meaning of its latter clause.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 158 The nexus of cause and effect is not given in sensitive experience.

1936 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 156 Before 1930 there was no nexus in law between the insurance company and a plaintiff who was suing the assured of that..company..when that assured had been insured.

1958 Listener 3 July 23/3 Conditions would exist that would justify a renewal of the nexus between Church and State; there might be a sort of neo-Elizabethan settlement.

1996 N. Davies Europe 359 The Crusades..served to strengthen the nexus between Western Christendom, feudalism, and militarism.

b. Grammar. Otto Jespersen's word for: a group of words (with or without a verb) expressing a predicative relation; a construction treated as such. Cf. junction n. 1c.Quot. 1917 illustrates an earlier use of nexus by Jespersen in a somewhat different sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > other specific syntactic constituents

terminant1589

absolute1709

adjectival1866

word group1871

nexus1924

immediate constituent1933

case marker1941

syndeton1954

group1959

placeholder1964

1917 O. Jespersen Negation in Eng. & Other Langs. 42 The negative notion may belong logically either to one definite idea or to the combination of two ideas (what is here called the nexus).]

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. vii. 97 If now we compare the combination a furiously barking dog..with the dog barks furiously, it is evident that the same subordination obtains in the latter as in the former combination... We shall call the former kind junction, and the latter nexus.

1936 J. R. Aiken Commonsense Gram. xvii. 212 The clause is basically a nexus performing a single function within a communication.

1951 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. (ed. 2) 261 Jespersen has given to this subject-predicate relation..the name of ‘nexus’.

1996 Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 28 139 An exploration of the temporal element of nexus..draws on Chinese examples.

c. Cell Biology. An area of fusion or close contact between two adjacent cell membranes, which is characterized by low electrochemical resistance.

ΚΠ

1962 M. M. Dewey & L. Barr in Science 31 Aug. 671/3 There are both morphological and functional reasons for denoting the intercellular contacts described here by the unique term, the nexus... By the term nexus we mean a region where the plasma membranes of two excitable cells are fused.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. xxxiii. 851/2 The morphologic sites of the low-resistance connections are most probably the so-called close junctions or nexuses, regions in which the opposing cell membranes appear to fuse.

1980 Nature 8 May 101/1 We have investigated these alternatives by examining the permeability of nexuses of septa of the median giant axon of Lumbricus terrestris.

2. A connected group or series; a network.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession

row?1510

processiona1564

sequencea1575

succession1579

pomp1595

suite1597

rosary1604

sequel1615

series1618

rope1621

success1632

concatenation1652

sorites1664

string1713

chain1791

course1828

serie1840

daisy chain1856

nexus1858

catena1862

litany1961

1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery II. 359 The letters are often united in nexus or ligatures.

1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 5 Dec. 734/2 The love-affair between Captain Molyneux..and Clara Ffolliot..is most deftly worked into the nexus of the story.

1882 New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. XXXVI. 178 The constabulary office belongs to a nexus of court institutions..of immemorial antiquity.

1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds ii. 19 That nexus of charitable bodies with which the Jews support their own kind cast its protective web around the whole transplanted community.

1982 V. Brome Ernest Jones xv. 145 Rank claimed that the original nexus of psychological complications began with the birth process.

1988 A. Storr School of Genius vi. 81 The less a person feels himself to be embedded in a family and social nexus, the more he feels that he has to make his mark in individual fashion.

3. A central point or point of convergence; a focus; a meeting-place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > position of being in the midst > point which forms centre for its surroundings > centre of activity, operations, etc.

metropolis1599

metropolitana1620

focus1796

foyer1799

nerve-knot1832

hub1858

nerve centre1870

storm centre1894

nexus1971

1971 in T. D. F. Barnard New Direct. in Librarianship 44 There are new trends towards treating the library as a nexus for resource centre development.

1987 W. Greider Secrets of Temple ii. ii. 52 Homespun tracts described it [sc. the Federal Reserve] as the secret nexus for sinister forces in the world.

1992 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. ix. 5/1 The Royalton has become the beanery of choice, the nexus for the elegant editors of the high-profile magazines and Seventh Avenue designers.

Compounds

Grammar. General attributive in sense 1b.

ΚΠ

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. ix. 122 A nexus-object is often found: ‘I found the cage empty’, which is easily distinguished from ‘I found the empty cage’ where empty is an adjunct.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. x. 138 Nexus-substantives are also often convenient in cases where idiomatic usage does not allow a dependent clause, as after upon in ‘Close upon his resignation followed his last illness and death’.

1957 S. Potter Mod. Linguistics iii. 71 General or nexus-questions which may be answered by ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

1966 Eng. Stud. 47 55 Those with nexus-objects (e.g. I believe Williams the murderer = Williams to be the murderer).

1994 Babel 40 103 The widespread use of verbal nexus-words in English has been shown to cause difficulties for translation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nexus
释义	nexusn. Brit. /ˈnɛksəs/, U.S. /ˈnɛksəs/ Inflections: Plural nexuses, (rare) nexus Brit. /ˈnɛksuːs/, U.S. /ˈnɛkˌsus/. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nexus. Etymology: < classical Latin nexus (plural nexūs ) the action of binding, a bond, tie, a type of legal obligation, a combination, connected group < nectere to bind, connect (see net n.¹) + -tus, suffix forming verbal nouns. 1. a. A bond, link, or junction; a means of connection between things or parts; (also) the state of being connected or linked. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > fact or action of being linked or linking > one who or that which > a connecting link link1548 copulative1615 root1632 copula1656 nexus1663 juncturea1676 tie1711 connecting link1797 interlinka1834 hyphen1868 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. 241 Changing the Motion and nexus or Juncture of their parts. 1709 Brit. Apollo 20–22 July What is the Nexus of Matter? 1776 J. Adams in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 113 It is the nexus of the northern and southern colonies. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism vi. 58 Cash Payment had not then grown to be the universal sole nexus of man to man. 1864 Spectator in Littell's Living Age 1 Oct. 42/1 The translation of ‘serait’ by ‘is’ destroys the nexus of the sentence and obliterates the meaning of its latter clause. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 158 The nexus of cause and effect is not given in sensitive experience. 1936 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 156 Before 1930 there was no nexus in law between the insurance company and a plaintiff who was suing the assured of that..company..when that assured had been insured. 1958 Listener 3 July 23/3 Conditions would exist that would justify a renewal of the nexus between Church and State; there might be a sort of neo-Elizabethan settlement. 1996 N. Davies Europe 359 The Crusades..served to strengthen the nexus between Western Christendom, feudalism, and militarism. b. Grammar. Otto Jespersen's word for: a group of words (with or without a verb) expressing a predicative relation; a construction treated as such. Cf. junction n. 1c.Quot. 1917 illustrates an earlier use of nexus by Jespersen in a somewhat different sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > other specific syntactic constituents terminant1589 absolute1709 adjectival1866 word group1871 nexus1924 immediate constituent1933 case marker1941 syndeton1954 group1959 placeholder1964 1917 O. Jespersen Negation in Eng. & Other Langs. 42 The negative notion may belong logically either to one definite idea or to the combination of two ideas (what is here called the nexus).] 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. vii. 97 If now we compare the combination a furiously barking dog..with the dog barks furiously, it is evident that the same subordination obtains in the latter as in the former combination... We shall call the former kind junction, and the latter nexus. 1936 J. R. Aiken Commonsense Gram. xvii. 212 The clause is basically a nexus performing a single function within a communication. 1951 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. (ed. 2) 261 Jespersen has given to this subject-predicate relation..the name of ‘nexus’. 1996 Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 28 139 An exploration of the temporal element of nexus..draws on Chinese examples. c. Cell Biology. An area of fusion or close contact between two adjacent cell membranes, which is characterized by low electrochemical resistance. ΚΠ 1962 M. M. Dewey & L. Barr in Science 31 Aug. 671/3 There are both morphological and functional reasons for denoting the intercellular contacts described here by the unique term, the nexus... By the term nexus we mean a region where the plasma membranes of two excitable cells are fused. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. xxxiii. 851/2 The morphologic sites of the low-resistance connections are most probably the so-called close junctions or nexuses, regions in which the opposing cell membranes appear to fuse. 1980 Nature 8 May 101/1 We have investigated these alternatives by examining the permeability of nexuses of septa of the median giant axon of Lumbricus terrestris. 2. A connected group or series; a network. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession row?1510 processiona1564 sequencea1575 succession1579 pomp1595 suite1597 rosary1604 sequel1615 series1618 rope1621 success1632 concatenation1652 sorites1664 string1713 chain1791 course1828 serie1840 daisy chain1856 nexus1858 catena1862 litany1961 1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery II. 359 The letters are often united in nexus or ligatures. 1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 5 Dec. 734/2 The love-affair between Captain Molyneux..and Clara Ffolliot..is most deftly worked into the nexus of the story. 1882 New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. XXXVI. 178 The constabulary office belongs to a nexus of court institutions..of immemorial antiquity. 1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds ii. 19 That nexus of charitable bodies with which the Jews support their own kind cast its protective web around the whole transplanted community. 1982 V. Brome Ernest Jones xv. 145 Rank claimed that the original nexus of psychological complications began with the birth process. 1988 A. Storr School of Genius vi. 81 The less a person feels himself to be embedded in a family and social nexus, the more he feels that he has to make his mark in individual fashion. 3. A central point or point of convergence; a focus; a meeting-place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > position of being in the midst > point which forms centre for its surroundings > centre of activity, operations, etc. metropolis1599 metropolitana1620 focus1796 foyer1799 nerve-knot1832 hub1858 nerve centre1870 storm centre1894 nexus1971 1971 in T. D. F. Barnard New Direct. in Librarianship 44 There are new trends towards treating the library as a nexus for resource centre development. 1987 W. Greider Secrets of Temple ii. ii. 52 Homespun tracts described it [sc. the Federal Reserve] as the secret nexus for sinister forces in the world. 1992 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. ix. 5/1 The Royalton has become the beanery of choice, the nexus for the elegant editors of the high-profile magazines and Seventh Avenue designers. Compounds Grammar. General attributive in sense 1b. ΚΠ 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. ix. 122 A nexus-object is often found: ‘I found the cage empty’, which is easily distinguished from ‘I found the empty cage’ where empty is an adjunct. 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. x. 138 Nexus-substantives are also often convenient in cases where idiomatic usage does not allow a dependent clause, as after upon in ‘Close upon his resignation followed his last illness and death’. 1957 S. Potter Mod. Linguistics iii. 71 General or nexus-questions which may be answered by ‘yes’ or ‘no’. 1966 Eng. Stud. 47 55 Those with nexus-objects (e.g. I believe Williams the murderer = Williams to be the murderer). 1994 Babel 40 103 The widespread use of verbal nexus-words in English has been shown to cause difficulties for translation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1663
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