单词 | patented |
释义 | patentedadj. 1. That has been patented; esp. protected by a patent or letters patent. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [adjective] > patented patented1676 patent1681 1676 Proc. Council of Maryland 10 Apr. in Arch. Maryland (1887) V. 126 What number of acres, patented, setled or unsetled, and how much is manurable land. 1704 Abridgem. Laws in Force & Use in Her Majesty's Plantations 49 Where new Tracts of Land are added to former Patented Dividends, the Secretary may take as his due Fee, so many 80 pounds of Tobacco as their are several Tracts in such new Patent. 1711 W. Byrd Secret Diary 4 Sept. (1941) 400 I ordered that every week two troops should range at the head of the river and if they found any Indians on patented land to take away their guns. 1774 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 Dec. (Suppl.) 2/3 To be sold..One tract of patented land. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 98 The patented invention of Arkwright. 1868 Daily News 2 Nov. His excessive anxiety to anticipate the free decision of the colonies by occupying them with a staff of patented bishops. 1911 E. C. Worden Nitrocellulose Industry I. xi. 364 Lewthwaite utilized the patented product of A. Parkes (called Parkesine). 1984 T. McGuane Something to be Desired i. 7 There were matches and a patented product that he squirted into the wood. 1995 Esquire Nov. 64 His patented attack vocabulary—‘weird’, ‘leftist’, ‘sick’, ‘pathetic’, ‘corrupt’,..—has a certain pulp-entertainment value. 2003 Hairflair Jan.–Feb. 52 The hair strands are pre-bonded using a patented formula that is ph-balanced and kind to hair. 2. Metallurgy. Designating wire treated by patenting (patenting n. 2). ΚΠ 1891 J. B. Smith Wire i. 60 ‘Patented or improved steel wire’ implies that which has been treated by a patented or special ‘improving process’ of annealing, hardening, and tempering. 1916 D. K. Bullens Steel & its Heat Treatm. xvii. 402 The high strength and toughness of patented wire are due to its carbon condition and its peculiar structure. 1956 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industry 307/2 Best patented steel wire is wire intended for the production of steel cables which has been drawn to a maximum stress of between 80 to 90 tons per sq. in. 2001 Materials Sci. & Engin. A. 303 128/1 Drawing of patented pearlitic steel wires can realize tensile strengths of >4 GPa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1676 |
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