| 释义 |
phantomn.adj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French fantosme. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French †fantosme (French fantôme ; also in Anglo-Norman as fantome and (apparently after fantasme phantasm n.) as fantaime , fantame , fantisme , and in Middle French as phantome , in Middle French, French as †phantosme , and in French as †phantôme ) illusion, delusion (1160 in Old French as fantosme ), supernatural apparition, spectre, ghost (1165), something merely imagined, a hallucination (15th cent.; now obsolete), ineffectual person or thing (1644), mental image of an object (1690; now obsolete), model of the body or an organ for surgical instruction (1788; now rare), in Anglo-Norman also vain show (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier) < an unrecorded post-classical Latin form *phantagma , probably < an unrecorded Greek (Ionic) form *ϕανταγμα (compare modern Greek (Lesbian) fándama ), variant (with suffix substitution) of ancient Greek ϕάντασμα (see phantasm n.). The French and English forms with medial -s- (as also those with -a- in the second syllable) show the influence of phantasm n. and of its French and Latin etymons. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan fantauma (14th cent., apparently earliest in sense ‘ghost’), Catalan †fantauma (13th cent.), and also ( < French) Middle Dutch fantome , fantoom (Dutch fantoom ). Compare earlier phantasm n. and also the cognates cited at that entry.In sense A. 5d after German Phantom (in Phantommaterial and Aluminiumphantome respectively, both 1918 in the passage translated in quot. 1922 at sense A. 5d). A. n.†1. the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > unreality the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion a1375 (c1350) (1867) 703 (MED) Al [of a dream] was fanteme & al was in wast. c1390 in C. Brown (1924) 143 (MED) Þis world..nis but fantum and feiri. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 2589 (MED) Josaphat..hield fantosme al that he herde. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 55 (MED) Hit [sc. the love of paramours] neys bot fantum [a1400 Gött. fanton; a1400 Trin. Cambr. fantom]..Today it is, to moru away. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) iv. 3 in C. Horstmann (1896) II. 133 Whi loue yhe fantom [v.r. fantum] [L. vanitatem]? c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer 493 Fro fantome and illusion Me save! a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) iv. 8 Thai ere draghen in many fald wricchidnes and fantome withouten end. 1692 R. L'Estrange ccccxliv. 420 The whole Entertainment of his Life was Vision and Phantome. the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] a1400 Psalter (Egerton) xxxvii. 13 in C. Horstmann (1896) II. 170 (MED) Fantoms spake þai. ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle (Sidney Sussex) i. 9 (MED) The enmy seyde..‘i schal take þo with snares of shere temptacouns & many folde errours & fantoms.’ c1475 (?c1425) (1984) l. 17 Þis is no fantum ne no fabull. Ȝe wote wele of þe Rowun Tabull. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) 122 A Fantum, fantasma. 1628 G. Wither 155 The tricks And Fantosmes wherewithall our Schismaticks Abuse themselves and others. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 50 in The Express which they assure us to have been dispatched..is a meer Fantome. 2. the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > mere appearance or image of something c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark vi. 49 Thei, as thei syȝen him wandrynge on the see, gessiden for to be a fantum. c1440 in C. Horstmann (1895) I. 311 Whene mene wenys he hase hym faste, als fantome he fra hyme glyddys. c1500 (1895) 311 It is som spyryt, som fantosme or Illusyon that thus hath abused me. 1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius iv. ii. 265 An Abbesse in Spaine, whose place a phantosme held in the Church..while shee lay with a wicked spirit that maried her. 1693 G. Smallridge in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch (rev. ed.) IV. 484 The Phantôm which appear'd to Brutus. 1715 A. Pope 8 A Train of Phantoms in wild Order rose, And, join'd, this Intellectual Scene compose. 1746 T. Smollett 31 The pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. 1843 R. W. Emerson Lect., Transcend. in (1881) II. 280 How easy it is to show him [sc. the Materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid phantoms. a1878 B. Taylor (1879) 127 There is the phantom of an implacable Fate behind all those dreadful deeds. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness iii, in 181 I shall see this eloquent phantom as long as I live. 1924 H. E. Fosdick 263 He could not have been real man, but only a fantom in appearance like a man. 1998 M. Warner (2000) i. 25 The unfamiliar in every aspect moulds the phantom, and so, like witches, bogeys are crooked or moley or warty, or they limp or suffer from other unusual physical traits. the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > a thing that is merely a vain show 1637 J. Shirley ii. i Lady, he is no man..A very puck-fist. Jacinta. What's that, I pray? Vain. A phantom, a mere phantom. 1661 J. Evelyn 23 Exorcising these Apparitions and Fantosme's of a Court and Country. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde 75 The Husband is only a Fantom. 1781 E. Gibbon III. xxxi. 260 The caprice of the Barbarians..once more seated this Imperial phantom [sc. Maximus] on the throne. 1818 H. Hallam I. vi. 523 They annihilated the phantom of authority which still lingered with the name of khalif at Bagdad. 1874 J. R. Green viii. §6. 530 ‘If I granted your demands,’ replied Charles, ‘I should be no more than the mere phantom of a king.’ 1901 C. B. Mount in 15 June 465 This little phantom of a village [sc. Temple, Cornwall]..dwindled to nothing..in the eighteenth century. 1932 W. Faulkner xiii. 280 The two dogs..two gaunt and cringing phantoms. 1976 P. de Vries xi. 154 I had been drained of identity and become a phantom of myself. 1817 P. B. Shelley vi. xxxiii. 144 As twin phantoms of one star that lies O'er a dim well, move, though the star reposes. 1820 P. B. Shelley iii. iii. 105 The forms Of which these are the phantoms. 1856 T. B. Butler iv. 63 (Funk) The thirsty wanderer is deluded by the phantom of a moving, undulating, watery, surface. 1882 P. G. Tait in XIV. 582/1 Another curious phenomenon..the phantoms which are seen when we look at two parallel sets of palisades or railings, one behind the other... The appearance..is that of a magnified set of bars..which appear to move rapidly as we slowly walk past. 1992 Apr. 93/1 People usually describe the visual phantoms as seeming real despite the obvious impossibility of their existence. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > [noun] > phantom 1872 S. W. Mitchell ix. 348 Nearly every man who loses a limb carries about with him a constant or inconstant phantom of the missing member. 1920 104 83 There has been an idea for a long time that the sensations along a nerve were ‘projected’ into the phantom, and there seems to be some truth in this. 1954 L. Gillis xvi. 363 The narcissistic inability to renounce the integrity of the body, and the impossibility of adaptation to a sudden defect, are not sufficient explanation of a phantom. 1987 A. Campbell ii. 25 Phantoms..are not necessarily undesirable; in fact..a phantom limb is necessary if an artificial limb is to be used, but phantoms may be excruciatingly painful. 3. the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > image which appears in the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. sig. F.iiiiv Neuer was there nightly fantome So farre in errour, as he is from his wit. 1590 E. Spenser ii. xii. sig. Aa5 Who wondrous things concerning our welfare, And straunge phantomes doth lett vs ofte forsee. 1706 J. Addison ii. i Farewel sorrow, farewel fear, They're fantoms all! 1758 S. Johnson 25 Nov. 265 We suffer phantoms to rise up before us, and amuse ourselves with the dance of airy images. 1807 W. Wordsworth I. 14 She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight. 1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Dec. 755/2 Sister unknown... A thousand times, amongst the phantoms of sleep, has he shown thee to me, standing before the golden dawn. 1885 at Bacon, Francis Bacon..points out the phantoms which obscure the vision of truth. 1902 W. James vi.–vii. 144 It [sc. happiness] is a phantom pursued only by weaker minds. 1918 A. G. Gardiner 103 Most fears are purely subjective, the phantoms of a too vivid mind. 1991 11 Dec. 876 A phantom of their imagination. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion > resembling something else 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont 325 When a Body is..reduc'd into Ashes, we find again in the Salts, extracted from its Ashes, the Idea, the Image, and the Phantom [Fr. fantôme] of the same Body. 1865 G. Grote II. xxv. 270 When you contemplate many similar objects, one and the same ideal phantom or Concept is suggested by all. society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation 1690 J. Locke ii. xiii. §151 So [the supreme executor of the law] is to be consider'd as the Image, Phantom, or Representative of the Commonwealth. 5. technical. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > obstetrical equipment > [noun] > model used in demonstrations 1847 30 Oct. 459/2 In the height of the mechanical era,..when the phantom was invented, an accoucheur might have been represented as a person holding a pair of callipers in one hand, and a forceps in the other. 1902 17 Candidates were required to demonstrate on the ‘phantom’ the application of the forceps. 1904 10 Sept. 605 A good description is given of the various forms of ‘phantom’. 1954 68 948 What seemed a simpler solution finally came to mind, that is, to omit the superfluous exterior of the phantom altogether and reproduce only the essential part..—the abdominal cavity and the birth canal. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > artificial bait 1883 52 Patent Soleskin Phantoms, and Artificial Baits. 1892 G. R. Lowndes 181 The ‘phantom’ had still less effect. 1892 G. R. Lowndes 207 Of a phantom the boss had no opinion at all. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > phantom circuit 1920 J. G. Hill ix. 192 If one of the side circuits in a phantom circuit is out of order, the phantom necessarily fails with it. 1995 Re: BT per-second-charging affects my Modem? in uk.telecom (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. It is what is known as a ‘phantom’ circuit, and in the case of the metering signal it is called an ‘earth phantom’ as the return path for the signal is earth. the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > materials tested 1922 H. Schmitz tr. i. 33 Perthes had to employ a solid substance, namely aluminium, as phantom material [Ger. Phantommaterial]... These aluminium phantoms [Ger. Aluminiumphantome] have found general use in practice on account of their convenience. 1937 20 Mar. 733/1 The strength of the radiations from a specially designed radium unit..have been measured in a ‘phantom’, a celluloid vessel containing water and giving the same scattering and absorption effects as the human body. 1950 J. Walter & H. Miller iv. 99 Water is not always an ideal medium in which to insert small ionization chambers... A suitable phantom can be made of layers of pressed wood fibre which can be obtained of unit density. Suitable holes..enable the ionization chamber to be inserted. 1974 S. Rafla & M. Rotman iii. 35/1 A plastic material.., which simulates water (and soft tissues), has been described. If such a material is placed around a bony skeleton, then a phantom that simulates the body with its bones more accurately than water alone can be built. 1989 18 Nov. 59/2 (caption) Neutrons kill boronated cells in a ‘phantom’ equivalent to body tissue much more effectively than unboronated ones. 1998 43 3341 A simplified geometry of the mammographic apparatus has been considered along with a software phantom of compressed breast. B. adj.the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > unsubstantial or merely apparent the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] ?c1450 (1891) 1861 (MED) Þe fantom fyre, it vanyst sone. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Royal) vi. 2206 Syne þai herd, þat Makbeth aye In fantown Fretis had gret Fay. 1671 F. Philipps 478 To assert their phantosme or feigned soveraignty. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer V. xxii. 233 The adverse host the phantom warrior ey'd. 1762 Ld. Kames III. xix. 43 Such phantom similes are mere witticisms. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Dejection in 4 Oct. For lo! the New Moon winter-bright! And overspread with phantom light. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ ii. 23 Phantom ship to skim aërial waves Or desert mirage. 1897 W. B. Yeats 24 Dec. (1954) 293 He did not come because of the phantom sore throat. 1927 H. Crane 7 Jan. (1965) 283 The ‘ships’ [in a poem] should meet and pass in line and type—as well as in wind and memory, if you get my rather unique formal intentions in this phantom regatta seen from Brooklyn Bridge. 1934 5 Apr. 1/3 The steel industry was indulging in a monopolistic form of price boosting and price fixing which included the writing into its price structure of so-called ‘phantom’ freight rates which the consumer pays, but which find their way into the manufacturers' coffers and not those of the railroads. 1952 12 Dec. 12/3 Lot 90 was not a phantom beaver coat, or indeed a beaver coat at all, but a phantom racoon coat. 1991 M. Smith (BNC) 67 The tourism business has invented a whole host of ghouls and apparitions, from phantom organists to the ghost of the bull-running. 2004 (Nexis) 7 Feb. A fake..driver's licence was presented to the bank in an attempt to make further withdrawals from the phantom account. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. 1837 S. H. Whitman 359 The dreamy past..Bright as e'en hope's own phantom land. 1918 H. Lawson (1963) 86 A phantom land, a mystic realm! 1994 53 1084 This phantom land bedevils the process of impropriation. 1823 F. D. Hemans ii. iii. 28 A night of sweeping winds, of rustling leaves, And swift wild shadows floating o'er the earth, Clothed with a phantom-life. 1907 June 147 Cuchulain was recalled to phantom-life on one occasion by St. Patrick. 2001 (Nexis) 16 Dec. (Features section) He invented a phantom life. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer III. x. 627 The Phantome-nations of the dead. 1959 10 Dec. 6/2 In the mazy, musical mindless ocean Lie the drowned—a fragile and phantom nation. 2001 (Nexis) 22 Nov. 10 The Intifada..has crystallised the Palestinians' sense of being a nation, but it is a phantom nation. 1809 W. Dimond iii. iv. 71 Ah! shield me—Florian, yon phantom-shape—death surely hovers near. 1897 B. Stoker iv. 46 More and more they gathered till they seemed to take dim phantom shapes. 1990 T. Clark 27 They accumulate phantom shapes making dusk kindle with a million thoughts of nothing. 1812 W. Tennant vi. lxxix. 158 Oberon, the silver-scepter'd fay That rules his phantom-tribes with gentle force. 1994 I. Crichton Smith 150 Here are the phantom tribes bearing the Ark. 1850 Ld. Tennyson xc. 135 Tho' the months..Should prove the phantom-warning true. View more context for this quotation b. Objective. 1890 24 Oct. 3/3 At the end of the month the phantom chaser comes in and asks me to carry him over a month. 1954 A. Koestler ii. 34 The phantom-chaser..who discovers Helen's image in each beloved face. 1997 (Nexis) 28 Dec. 37 Pauline Quirke was the pick of three ghostbusters as a Parisian phantom-chaser. c. Similative. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Daisy in 141 Phantom-fair, Was Monte Rosa. 1882 Mar. 567/2 The moon a light-hung world of gold, Low-drooping, pale, and phantom-fair. 1917 E. W. Wilcox iv. 356 So frailly fragile and so phantom fair, She seemed like some stray spirit of the air. 1902 8 Apr. 2/3 A church, with gravestones phantom-white, Straight lilies, phantom-white between. a1962 E. E. Cummings (1994) 8 Soft sighed the passionate darkness to the tune of tiny troubadours, and (phantom-white) dumb-blooming boughs let fall their glorious snows. C2. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > phantom circuit 1883 G. Black in 3 Feb. 71/1 The method of telephonic transmission was discovered by myself in 1878, while experimenting to get rid of telegraphic induction in telephones. I found that my apparatus gave me a new ‘phantom’ circuit over a telegraph wire. 1924 W. Aitken III. xlviii. 229 In using phantom or superimposed circuits on automatic systems great care must be exercised to prevent impulse and other currents in one physical circuit affecting the mate physical circuit by way of the phantom loop. 1957 W. Fraser v. 123 The additional circuits may be provided by utilising pairs of phantom circuits to produce other phantom circuits. 1986 E. L. Scace in T. C. Bartee iii. 108 A phantom circuit formed by these two wire pairs and their isolation transformers carries some dc power. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in 17 Fantome corn; lank or light corn... Phantosme corn is corn that has as little bulk or solidity in it as a Spirit or Spectre. 1890 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch vii. 175 They [sc. red-blood corpuscles in urine] may retain their proper form, or they may appear as pale yellowish rings (phantom corpuscles [Ger. Blutschatten] of Traube). the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Congridae (conger) > young 1879 G. B. Goode & T. H. Bean 26 Conger eels and their curious transparent young—‘phantom fish’—are occasionally seen. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in 17 Fantome flesh: when it hangs loose on the bones. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Chaoboridae > larva of genus Corethra 1900 L. C. Miall & A. R. Hammond ii. 78 The phantom-larva (Corethra), which poises itself in the middle depths of clear water. 1951 C. N. Colyer 66 The larva of Chaoborus crystallinus..is well-known to students of pond life as the ‘Ghost Larva’ or ‘Phantom Larva’. 1988 108 167/1 The chromatophore system on the tracheal bladders of the phantom larva of Chaoborus crystallinus has been investigated. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [noun] 1871 Dec. 567/1 Perhaps the oddest of all the phenomena which may follow amputation is the gradual shortening which the patient imagines to be undergone by the phantom limb. 1937 8 Aug. 314/1 After amputation it was usual for the patient to experience sensations as if his limb were still present. These phantom limbs might be painless or painful. 1995 28 May a42/1 Phantom limbs occur when the brain modifies its sensory maps after an amputation. 1938 37 353 (title) Fantom limb pain. 1955 13 Aug. 104/3 Phantom limb pains, a troublesome affliction in amputation cases, and pains in amputation stumps can be relieved in many cases by ultrasound treatment. 2003 15 Oct. ii. 8/4 People who have had their legs cut off can get phantom limb pain. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > artificial bait 1867 6 July 6/5 On Monday, Mr Kinmont, Dundee killed a pike measuring 81 inches in length... He was using phantom minnow dressed in gilt. 1900 13 Oct. 8/2 A bewildering ‘eenstrument’, as the Highland gillie called a phantom minnow. 2000 (Nexis) 15 Oct. 20 [He] was trolling a blue phantom minnow at the top of the Tay estuary. the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > other specific types of pain 1944 8 Apr. 1034/1 So far I have had no opportunity to attempt a high section of the spinothalamic tract for phantom pain in the arm. 1973 11 Apr. 34/7 It's pretty weird to have a pain in a foot that has been amputated... The person [is] suffering from ‘phantom pains’ as they are called. 1995 Spring 22/1 Farabloc is a steel-fibred fabric that, when wrapped around or placed on the stumps of people who have had limb amputations, can relieved the often intense phantom pain. the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun] > phantom pregnancy 1887 23 July 188/1 One patient was admitted who presented many of the signs of advanced gestation, but on examining her closely it was found to be a case of phantom pregnancy. 1953 53 144 There is a rare, but well authenticated, condition called pseudocyesis or phantom pregnancy, which can occur in females even in the absence of sexual connexion. 2003 (Nexis) 9 May 4 Sadly, Foxy Spirit died last week shortly after giving birth but her field companion, who has had a phantom pregnancy, has orphaned the foal. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > pseudotumour 1857 T. Watson (ed. 4) II. lxvii. 415 The tumour which she had presented to the notice of the surgeon was what has been called a phantom tumour. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. II. 1137 A phantom tumour would disappear on administration of an anæsthetic. 1965 48 554/1 The most striking and characteristic feature of these ‘phantom tumor’ is that they disappear promptly with the proper treatment of digitalis and diuretics. 1999 50 683 Loculation of a pleural effusion within an interlobar fissure as a result of congestive heart failure is a well-known entity. It has been termed ‘vanishing’ or ‘phantom’ tumor because its roentgenographic appearance simulates a pulmonary tumor and resolves with treatment of the congestive heart failure. 1985 30 Aug. 3/2 A third group concerned ‘phantom’ withdrawals, which showed up on computer records at times when customers claimed they had taken no money out. 1992 11 May 15/8 The Banking Information Service claims phantom withdrawals are impossible and complaints are usually the result of fraud by card-holders' relatives. 2003 (Nexis) 21 Apr. 5 b An emerging area of ATM theft is hacking, which can cause ‘phantom withdrawals’ that leave customers wondering where their money went and bankers thinking the customers just got confused. Derivatives the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > collectively 1835 J. Anster tr. J. W. von Goethe (1887) iii. 159 Did the anguish of my spirit Shape the wild phantomry? [Ger. bildete Mir der angstumschlungene Geist Solches Verworrene?] the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > personality or title of 1713 Countess of Winchilsea 22 Of her Phantomship requested, To learn the Name of that close Dwelling. 1853 E. S. Sheppard (1875) xvi. 68 This ghost of an aphorism stalked forth from my brain,..and to lay its phantomship, I am compelled to submit it to paper. 1915 30 Oct. 5/3 His Fairy Phantomship is heavily laden with rich argosies of professed aid. 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ xii. 223 Still she haunts me, phantomwise. 1991 H. Reed i. 8 Momentously the night reigned; phantomwise The hours progressed upon their way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). phantomv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: phantom n. the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (transitive)] > haunt 1845 1 Nov. 242/1 Hideous forms were phantomed on the midnight pall. 1864 W. J. Courthope 10 Upon my dreamless eyes The stage is phantomed, and the curtains rise. 1899 Feb. 356 I had tried..the cure-all of hard work, but there was that ghost of the heart phantoming everything sadly. 1908 M. J. Cawein III. 167 Out of the west, where dusk, From her red window-sill, Leaned with a wand of tusk, Witch-like, and wood and hill Phantomed with mist and musk. 1909 M. J. Cawein 15 The world was phantomed with the mist. 1998 (Nexis) 23 Dec. 23 The City Council must give assurances..that the park will not be sold off or phantomed away to entrepreneurs. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [verb (transitive)] > implement by use of phantom circuit 1912 17 Jan. 4 These [missing words] include..‘continuous loading’, ‘phantom circuits’, ‘phantoming’,and some other choice derivatives, all of which will no doubt appear in the next edition.] 1920 J. G. Hill ix. 191 On the two pairs of each quad a third circuit may be super-imposed or phantomed. 1923 T. E. Herbert xxvi. 830 Telegraphs are phantomed on telephone repeatered trunks. 1949 Nov. 415/1 The d.c. potentials being ‘phantomed’ across the audio-frequency circuits. 1977 Power supply 312 is designed to receive power phantomed on data lines 121 and 122. 2000 Re: Water Well Nightmare - need Ideas! in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Nov. Power to the lamps can be phantomed on the coax, with the connections outside the housing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.adj.a1375 v.1845 |
