单词 | on a par |
释义 | > as lemmason a par a. More generally: equality of value or standing; an equal footing, a level. Now chiefly in on a par. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > equal footing or par footing1657 par1662 parity of esteem1943 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > equality [phrase] > equal of a rate1542 much at one1686 on a par1726 much of a muchness1728 much of a piece1741 up to ——1809 honours even1864 1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 26 A natural par between land and labour. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 63 The most important [is] to make a Par and Equation between Lands and Labour, so as to express the Value of any thing by either alone. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iii. 49 The rest of the great Officers are much upon a Par. 1770 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) V. App. iii. 515 Industry..encreased as fast as gold and silver, and kept commodities nearly at a par with money. 1832 I. Taylor Sat. Evening 481 All are to beseem themselves as if all were on a par. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxiii. 197 Something near to par with what Scotland had to render in return. 1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 379/1 Merry's Latinity was at least on a par with his Greek. 1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation I. 16 Man's idea of the divine, and his expression of it, is on a par with his discovery and formulation of intellectual truth. 2000 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 6/6 The listing puts cinemas on a par with cathedrals in the pantheon of English architecture. on a par ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > average [phrase] > on average one with anothera1687 at an average1737 on a par1767 up to par1899 1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxiv. 89 For the livre or two above par for your suppers and bed. 1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 5 Nov. (1778) From five bushels of malt, I find, are brewed, on a par, forty-four gallons of strong, and eighty of small. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 12 Taking the par of years, we may fairly place West Devonshire ten days or a fortnight behind the Midland District. 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 255 The nominal farms..contain on a par about..ninety acres within the head dike.., and about 250 acres of moor or hill lands. 1863 R. Fitzroy Weather Bk. 323 The barometer had risen..but not to its normal or par height. < as lemmas |
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