单词 | persuader |
释义 | persuadern. 1. A person who or thing which is persuasive, or persuades someone (†of an action). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > one who persuades persuader1538 inducer1554 psychagogue1847 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Persuasor, a perswader or inducer to do a thynge. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 86 b Neyther is S. Paule..a persuader of vowes makynge. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 148 The euill persuaders of rebellion, preuailed with him. 1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. xxxviii. 458 His friend..was both his Companion, and his perswader to undertake this journey. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 94 The sweet Perswader speaks. 1838–9 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 39 The..canoes..are very inviting persuaders to this species of exercise. 1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiv. 255 That the topics insisted on by the persuader shall be adapted to the feelings..of the persuadend. 1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders (1962) i. 13 Sombre examples of the new persuaders in action are appearing not only in merchandising but in politics and industrial relations. 1992 Harper's Mag. July 52 My father, who was more a persuader than an intimidator, had made it a point of honor that I join him on the picket line. 2. In extended use. a. slang. Something used to compel submission or compliance, esp. a gun or other weapon. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > agency or means of compulsorya1513 screw1618 wrench1622 compulsive1638 coercitive1651 coercive1651 enforcive1686 persuader1788 steamroller1896 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) (at cited word) Persuaders, spurs. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxiv. 401 I did n't admire his carryin' them murderous little persuaders, and being so ready to use 'em. 1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman xiv ‘Don't you go in “persuaders”—spurs, you know?’ Mr. Pokyr explained. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 221 Persuader, a nickname for the club, or knob-kerry, carried by trench raiders. Also, bayonet. 1974 P. Cave Mama (new ed.) xiv. 113 ‘How the hell are you gonna persuade the guy to pull off the road?’ asked Ethel... ‘I've thought of that,’ answered Mama coldly... ‘I'm gonna have to take along a little persuader.’ 1992 D. Pinckney High Cotton i. 10 She called on the saints to strengthen her paddle, ‘the household persuader’, against sass and shiftlessness. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > tools shooting-stick1683 bodkin1846 planer1858 straight-edge1888 persuader1898 1898 J. Southward Mod. Printing I. xli. 257 Fit the quoins, using the ‘persuader’ to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all round. The ‘persuader’ is usually a tool made by the compositor himself... The tool is a lever whereby the space between the type matter and the chase can be expanded. c. Television. In an image orthicon camera tube: an electrode which deflects the returning beam of scanning electrons into the electron multiplier. Usually attributive. Now rare. ΚΠ 1946 RCA Rev. 7 361 The persuader electrode is tied electrically to the first stage. 1967 H. A. Cole Basic Television i. 56 The returning electrons are diverted on to the first dynode of the electron multiplier by an electrode aptly named the persuader grid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538 |
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