请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 pinwheel
释义

pinwheeln.adj.

Brit. /ˈpɪnwiːl/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˌ(h)wil/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pin n.1, wheel n.
Etymology: < pin n.1 + wheel n.With sense A. 1b compare pin mill n. at pin n.1 Compounds 2.
A. n.
1.
a. A cogwheel whose teeth are small pins set into the rim; (Clockmaking) a wheel in the striking train of a clock in which pins are set to lift the hammer; (also) the escape wheel of a pinwheel escapement (see Compounds).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > others
pinwheel1825
reducing gear1872
reduction gearing1891
slip-gear1897
hypoid1935
1696 W. Derham Artific. Clock-maker i. 5 In 16 or 30 hour Clocks, this [sc. the First Wheel] is commonly the Pin-Wheel; in 8 Day pieces, the Second-Wheel is commonly the Pin-Wheel.
?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 276 This wheel, thus with pins, is called the striking-wheel, or pin-wheel.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 496 This single wheel serves the purpose of count-wheel, pin-wheel, detent-wheel, and the fly-wheel.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1707/2 Pin-wheel, a contrate wheel in which the cogs are pins set into the disk.
1984 Antiquarian Horology Dec. 105 (advt.) Clock... 30 days, pinwheel, knife suspension.
b. In leather-making: a revolving circular box or drum with wooden pins projecting from the inner surface, in which hides are washed, softened, or (in later use also) measured. Cf. pin mill n. at pin n.1 Compounds 2. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > equipment for softening hides or leather > vat or receptacle
layer1797
softening machine1875
soak1876
stock1882
milla1884
pinwheel1885
wheel vat1885
1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 275/2 The hides next pass into a queer-looking contrivance known as a ‘pin-wheel’, a stout circular wooden box, in which they are churned about in warmish water, dropping upon stout wooden pins attached to the circumference.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 350 The skins are placed with this solution in the so-called ‘pin-wheel’, the last solution softening the skins and imparting the final tanning action to the same.
1999 Leather (Nexis) July 4 Satra carries out the measurements using a mechanical pinwheel machine housed in a standard atmosphere to ensure all leathers are conditioned and measured under the same conditions.
2.
a. A spirally wound, revolving firework resembling a Catherine wheel, esp. a small one. Chiefly North American.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > rotating or Catherine wheel
firewheel1607
wheel1629
sun1741
sun wheel1749
Catherine wheel1761
pinwheel1765
spur-fire1765
cartwheel1840
1765 R. Jones New Treat. Artific. Fireworks vi. 244 Of Pin Wheels... These wheels may be fired on a large pin, and held in the hand with safety.
1852 Sci. Amer. 6 Nov. 64/4 This book teaches the whole art of making Fireworks—sky rockets, wheels &c., in short all the kinds of fires, from that of old Greece down to the simplest ‘pin wheel’.
1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 629 The pretty little catherine-wheel, or pin-wheel.
1907 St. Nicholas July 856/2 The crackers snap a noisy tune. The pinwheels splutter round.
1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 165 The pin-wheels caught and hung fizzing instead of revolving with a coruscation of sparks.
1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 54/3 At nightfall, we set off lots of bottle rockets, Dixie screamers, pinwheels, black widows, [etc.].
b. U.S. A toy or garden ornament with revolving paper or cloth sails attached to one end of a stick; = windmill n. 3b.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > windmill
windmill1557
whirl-jack1653
whirligig1659
pinwheel1869
1869 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 281/2 Boys and girls..will sometimes contrive what they call pin-wheels—bits of stick crossed, tipped with little squares of paper, and then attached to another stick with a large pin, so that they will whirl around when carried swiftly against a breeze.
1880 Godey's Lady's Bk. Apr. 363 A tiny girl took great delight in making these toys out of various colored papers..and the group of little children rushing along with the gay pin-wheels in each hand, formed a pleasant incident of a bright, breezy afternoon.
1910 J. C. Lincoln Depot Master viii. 170 Simeon spun around, as he said afterwards, ‘like a young one's pinwheel’.
1930 M. O. Wright My N.Y. 146 A man hawking toy balloons, pinwheels and fans, pushed one of the latter square into Uncle Charles' face.
1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 12/1 A single piece of abstract sculpture that might have been inspired by a child's pinwheel except that it is ten feet across.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June i. 31/2 In the arts-and-crafts hut, others made pinwheels and finger puppets.
B. adj.
Shaped like a pinwheel; spiral.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > spiral
spirala1639
gyrous1688
planorbiform1856
planorboid1856
pinwheel1887
1887 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Aug. 6/2 (heading) Crochet Pin Wheel Lace.
1896 F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. v. 71 Fruit rolls (Pin Wheel Biscuit).
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 114/1 An arrangement of the hair in which it is coiled around a central point to make a pinwheel bang, pinwheel puff, etc.
1975 New Yorker 27 Oct. 39/2 My sons have nothing but love for the grandma who makes them pinwheel cookies.
2004 Beverage Industry (Nexis) 1 Jan. 28 Pallets are created by rotating the boxes into a pinwheel pattern, which is then rotated from layer to layer to create the necessary symmetry.

Compounds

pinwheel escapement n. Clockmaking an escapement in which semicircular pins set on the escape wheel at right angles to its plane of rotation give impulse to the pallets.
ΚΠ
1873 Chambers's Encycl. V. 422/2 Other inventions, as the detached escapement, the pin-wheel escapement in various forms, and the gravity escapement..have not come into general use.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 196 Woodpecker escapement, form of pin wheel escapement in some early nineteenth century Austrian clocks.
1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Nov. k1 Galileo invented a pinwheel escapement, and worked on a pendulum clock but died before perfecting it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pinwheelv.

Brit. /ˈpɪnwiːl/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˌ(h)wil/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pinwheel n.
Etymology: < pinwheel n.
1. transitive. In leather-making: to subject (a hide) to the action of a pinwheel (pinwheel n. 1b). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes
curry14..
shave1467
dress1511
slaughter1603
raise1607
scutch1688
chamois1728
braya1835
break1842
fellmonger1843
fire-cure1848
crimp1849
board1860
pebble1862
soft-board1878
sam1883
stock1883
nourish1884
buff1885
pinwheel1885
sammy1885
wheel1885
unlime1888
1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 276/2 Hides.., after having been..pin-wheeled,..are put under a ‘scourer’.
2. intransitive. Originally U.S. To rotate in the manner of a pinwheel; to turn somersaults or whirl in the air; to move rapidly, as though on wheels. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > of wheel: operate [verb (intransitive)] > other actions
ratchet1881
free-wheel1899
pinwheel1907
1907 Washington Post 15 Sept. 139 I pin-wheeled over to Sol's book, and Sol was in one of his roaring fits.
1922 Bee (Danville, Va.) 19 Sept. 6/2 He pinwheeled 'round just like a spoke Then hit the bottom.
1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 235/1 So he let fly at the nearer of them, and saw her tumble in the air, then pinwheel earthwards.
1976 W. Greatorex Crossover 188 Memories pin-wheeled through Pavel's mind.
1994 M. M. Smith Only Forward 353 Constable Perkins skidded right to the edge of the island and stood poised there for a moment, arms pinwheeling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.adj.1696v.1885
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/27 7:28:05