单词 | overspanning |
释义 | overspanningadj. That extends above and across something; that reaches from one side to the other. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. i. ii. 38 The delights of earth, air, and the like o'er-spanning sky. 1862 ‘L. Solentia’ Rev. Anc. & Mod. Spiritualism iv. 323 Above the tower rests an overspanning canopy. 1901 F. Norris Octopus i. iv. 150 Anything rather than..the vast loneliness of the overspanning arc of the heavens. 1953 Amer. Econ. Rev. 43 351 Any empirical economic system must be fully involved in the larger overspanning social order into which it fits. 1995 Horticulture (Nexis) May 50 The 80-foot bays.., the giant live oaks, mahogany-barked madronas, and the two towering redwoods were to stay and become the overspanning architecture for the garden below. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1838 |
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