单词 | one-sided |
释义 | one-sidedadj. 1. a. Having the constituent parts or principal features on one side. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > one-sided, directed, or leaning to one side declinated1758 secund1777 one-sided1793 declinate1810 unilateral1870 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > having sides > one-sided one-sided1793 jug-handled1881 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. N2 One-sided, applied to a raceme which has all the flowers inserted on one side. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 49 One-sided Hawthorn. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. iv. 413 One-sided..; having all the parts by twists in their stalks turned one way; as the flowers of Antholyza. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 48 On the right is a one-sided street. 1903 Amer. Naturalist 37 375 The inflorescence is in one-sided scorpioid spikes, racemes, or cymes. 1945 A. B. Jackson Step's Wayside & Woodland Ferns (new. ed.) 25 Wilson's Filmy-fern... Known also as the One-sided Filmy-fern. 1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 301 Spent flowerets a third of an inch high organized into one-sided fanning racemes. b. Leaning or shifted to one side; larger or more developed on one side than on the other; lopsided. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > leaning over > to one side one-sided1826 heeling1863 the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > asymmetrical or misproportioned misproportioned1552 asymmetral1615 eccentric1647 incommensurate1650 asymmetrous1661 asymmetrical1690 lopsided1711 uncertain1742 unsymmetrical1755 one-sided1857 alop1865 asymmetric1878 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans xviii. 251 Hear have been them one-sided horses again. 1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 115 The plaguy one-sided party-wall fell in. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. v. 325 Tom's face begins to look very one-sided—there are little queer bumps on his forehead. 1902 N.E.D. (at cited word) The one-sided leaf of the elm, of the begonia. c. Existing or occurring on one side only. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. One-sided..2. (Bot.) Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 580 Cases in which local syncope is predominantly and perhaps exclusively, one-sided. 1979 D. Barlow Sexually Transmitted Dis. ix. 92 The infection spreads..to the lymph nodes of the groin where there is usually a one-sided swelling, called the inflammatory bubo. 1995 Guardian 12 Sept. ii. 15/3 In straightforward attacks, migraineurs will experience one-sided headaches, often pulsating, around the eye or temple. d. Mathematics. Of a surface: having only one side; such that any two points may be joined by a continuous line that does not cross an edge. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > having specific property hypotenusal?a1560 oblique?a1560 local1673 focal1676 octantal1777 symmetrical1794 radical1848 self-conjugate1855 quadric1856 stellated1859 periphractic1881 homoeoidal1883 tridiametral1891 one-sided1893 semi-infinite1903 simplicial1913 mirror-symmetric1952 1893 J. Harkness & F. Morley Treat. Theory Functions Gloss. 503/2 Unilateral surface, one-sided, Doppelfläche. 1941 R. Courant & H. E. Robbins What is Math.? v. 262 Another interesting one-sided surface is the ‘Klein bottle’. 1999 R. Bloch in I. B. Cohen & G. W. Welch Makin' Numbers iii. 198 Dick Bloch was trying to run a program that was written on a Mobius strip—a one-sided surface! 2. a. Relating to, considering, or dealing with only one side of an issue; partial, biased.A note in De Quincey's Select. Grave & Gay (1853) I. 290 reads:It marks the rapidity with which new phrases float themselves into currency..that this word now (..1853) familiarly used in every newspaper, then (..1833) required a sort of apology to warrant its introduction. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective] > partial or biased partial1425 affectionate1530 affectionated1535 affectioneda1578 biased1642 one-sided1834 partialistic1896 1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 483/1 What the Germans mean by a one-sided (ein-seitiger) judgment. 1838 S. Ellis Women of Eng. xii. 298 To use a popular Germanism, it is but a one-sided view of the subject that we take. 1842 E. Miall in Nonconf. 2 1 The marriage was a one-sided one. 1885 Law Times 78 388/2 A one-sided report of a trial was not a privileged publication. 1924 M. Baring C iv. 38 She was put in possession of the facts, or rather of a one-sided version of the facts. 1987 J. Klauber Illusion & Spontaneity in Psychonalysis iv. 38 If analysis explained symptoms only in terms of infantile sexuality, it would look antiquated and one-sided. 2002 New Yorker 22 Apr. 69/1 The staff regarded his white paper as a kick in the stomach, because it was so one-sided and confrontational. b. Of a contest (esp. a sporting contest): unequal; uneven. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > types of maiden1598 well-run1601 unequal1654 well contested1722 returned1758 friendly1780 close-run1813 foursome1814 lightweight1823 tight1828 side1829 one-sided1839 scratch1851 international1859 all-comers1860 scrub1867 pointless1876 scoreless1885 replayed1886 peg-down1887 all-star1889 stiff1890 varsity1891 postseason1893 knock-out1896 best-of-(a specified odd number)1897 seeded1901 junior varsity1902 Simon Pure1905 pegged-down1908 JV1923 zero-sum1944 tie-breaking1970 1839 J. F. Cooper Hist. Navy of U.S.A. v. 121 A one-sided battle now occurred, the Lexington not having in her power to keep up a fire of any moment. 1858 Harper's Mag. July 284/1 Finding, after a time, that he got no help, and that it was altogether a one-sided game, he turned on the bully, and commenced pommeling him severely. 1868 F. N. Broome Poems from New Zealand 83 So it was, you were wise, I was simple, And the one-sided game that we played I lost, as was fitting. 1910 N.Y. Tribune Mag. 3 July 4/1 Bonehead plays are never pulled when a game is one-sided. 1965 R. Angell in New Yorker 30 Oct. 199/1 They accepted the Dodgers' three one-sided and fundamentally unexciting victories at home as a source of continuous and uncritical self-congratulation. 2002 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 12 May [Liverpool] have now scored 11 goals against Ipswich this season, but this game wasn't as one-sided as the 5-0 scoreline suggests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1793 |
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