单词 | non-smoking |
释义 | non-smokingadj. 1. Of a room, railway compartment, building, etc.: in which smoking is not permitted. Also (of a day, period, etc.): during which smoking is not permitted. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > types of railway carriage or wagon > types of carriage or compartment first class1821 stand-up1839 non-smoking1851 soft1928 no smoking1973 1851 Brit. Metropolis vii. 95/1 On the upper floor are the following rooms:—non-smoking card-room, non-smoking billiard-room, smoking-card-room, smoking billiard room, and smoking-room. 1865 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 18 Dec. 3/3 As many of the visitors, particularly the ladies, objected to the weed, the manager arranged a ‘non smoking night’. 1875 Week's News 18 Dec. 1607/1 A gentleman came forward and handed the lady into the ‘non-smoking’ carriage, which on the better-managed Continental lines is still provided. 1882 London Med. Rec. 15 Aug. 326/1 In persons of ordinary constitution, on non-smoking days, the average daily temperature was 36.76. 1891 H. Spencer Let. 27 Mar. in G. S. Layard Mrs. Lynn Linton (1901) xx. 278 One may persist in putting down smoking in a non-smoking compartment of a railway carriage. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment (1924) vi. 86 Trains are divided into ‘non-smoking’ and ‘smoking’. 1963 Mod. Railways May 359/1 The sliding door to the non-smoking compartment is often left open by passengers. 2000 Tuam Herald & Western Advertiser 8 July 3/3 In Galway the idea of a completely non-smoking pub..failed. 2. Of a person or group: that does not smoke. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [adjective] > non-smoking non-smoking1856 1856 Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 503/2 The non-smoking public is annoyed, and the property of the company is injured. Everybody who wants to smoke, does smoke. 1862 Brit. Workman 1 June 359/4 When it is necessary that the smoker's thinking and observant. powers should be used together, he is less effective than his ‘non-smoking’ neighbour. 1875 Week's News 3 July 835/2 It is true there are smoking compartments,..but these are not unfrequently invaded by the non-smoking sex. 1923 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 18 766 I gave the results of an investigation of the following points among the smoking and non-smoking freshmen at the University of Tennessee. 1975 V. Canning Kingsford Mark v. 74 Are you still non-smoking and non-drinking? 1990 N.Y. Mag. 14 May 196/2 Gay White Female..seeks a nonsmoking, feminine counterpart..who is not a couch potato. 2007 P. N. Lee & B. A. Forey Role Environm. Tobacco Smoke Asthma iv. 42 Analyses were presented based on 451 non-smoking adults with asthma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1851 |
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