单词 | out of step |
释义 | > as lemmasout of step (with) a. In phrases which refer to the action of walking evenly with another, putting the right and left foot alternately forward at the same moment with the corresponding foot of the other person; as in step and its opposite out of step (with); step for step (with); to keep step (with; also to music, etc.); †to tell steps with. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > keep pace with > walk evenly with to tell steps with1623 to keep step (with; also to music, etc.)1858 the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > keeping pace with > walking evenly with foot by footc1450 step for step (with)1785 the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > keeping pace with > walking evenly with > not out of step (with)1876–89 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 44 I..front but in that File Where others tell steps with me. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 18 The shapeless pair, As they design'd to mock me, at my side Take step for step. 1844 E. B. Browning Rhapsody Life's Progress viii I could walk, step for step, with an angel beside, On the heaven-heights of truth. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. v. 114 The officer who rode alongside him step for step. 1858 Lovejoy in Congressional Globe 18 Feb. 754/2 We hear about keeping step to the music of the Union. 1876–89 R. Bridges Growth of Love xxxvi Wherefore my feet go out of step with time. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lviii. 87 When I came last to Ludlow..Two friends kept step beside me. 1898 Weekly Register 15 Jan. We need not go in step with the Bishops over the whole ground exhaustively surveyed. out of step b. in step: (of two or more alternating currents) having the same frequency and always in the same phase. Similarly out of step. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > alternating current > [adjective] in phase (with)1891 in step1903 in-phase1914 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [adjective] > in or out of phase in phase (with)1903 out of phase (with)1903 out of step1961 in-phase1962 1903 W. Rogers in Electr. Engineer 25 Dec. 965/2 The secondary voltages are always in step, owing to the primaries being excited off the same mains. 1961 Listener 9 Nov. 768/2 There is also the problem, with direct current lines, of providing what is called the reactive power—power where the current is out of step with the voltage—for the operation of converter equipment. < as lemmas |
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