单词 | outspin |
释义 | outspinv.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)] > suddenly or forcibly outspinc1330 gush?a1400 spinc1400 shoot1488 spurge1488 outgush1558 belch1581 sprouta1595 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > violently > in a jet outspinc1330 spinc1400 spout?a1513 spout1561 spurt1570 spirt1582 sprouta1595 jet1692 splirt1791 squizzle1856 squirt1858 c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 426 Wiþ a roke he brac his heued þan, Þat þe blod biforn out span In þat ich place. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 8942 Depe in-to his fflesch it ran, That the blod fast out span. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ix. sig. I3v That through the clifts the vermeil bloud out sponne . View more context for this quotation 2. transitive. To spin out (a thread, etc.), esp. to its full length. Frequently figurative. Now rare.Often with reference to the classical image of life as a thread. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (transitive)] > spin thread of life to full length outspin1603 1603 H. Holland Pancharis i. l. 505 From that disastrous and midnight of day Wherin his clewe of life was cleane out spunne. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 70 Nay rather into hazards runne, Vntill thy lifes twist be out-spunne. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xlii, in Wks. I. 779 Giles wisheth..that his long yearn'd life Were quite out-spun. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 127 Till hee had out-spun the yeares of old Methusala. 1799 M. McMorine Poems 261 Though love of life in most prevail, All would the slender thread outspin. 1844 J. G. Whittier Texas 13 Patience..with her weary thread outspun Murmurs that her work is done. 1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine vii. 19 When one's time comes to be certain..of the buoyant balance turning, and the slender span outspun, tender thinkings, and kind wishes, come to the good side of us. 1882 P. H. Hayne To Longfellow in Later Poems of Imagination, Sentiment & Descr. 308 Surely thy web of life is not outspun, Thy glory rounded, thy last guerdon won! 3. transitive. To surpass in spinning (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (transitive)] > spin > excel in spinning outspin1742 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 17 On this perhaps..we build Our mountain Hopes, spin out eternal schemes, As we the Fatal Sisters cou'd out-spin. 1840 F. M. Trollope Life & Adventures Michael Armstrong xix. 202 A system..by which the low-priced agony of labourine infants is made to..enable the giant engines of our factories to out-spin all the world! 1878 Harper's Mag. Sept. 578/1 She could outspin any other woman in the town, having once, in a contest of wheels, spun seven run of yarn between sunrise and sunset. 1921 J. K. Mumford (title) Outspinning the spider. 1995 Guardian 12 Dec. i. 2/1 The Labour people are terrified because they, the Tory spin doctors, are doing such a magnificent job at out-spinning them. 2001 India Today (Nexis) 26 Feb. 65 Australia likes the variety of a leg-spinner and an off-spinner and with Anil Kumble sidelined, be sure India will not outspin Australia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1330 |
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