| 单词 | pluteus | 
| 释义 | pluteusn. 1.   a.  Roman Military. A movable wooden frame used to protect soldiers during a siege. ΚΠ 1565    A. Golding in  tr.  Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia sig. Nniv  				Pluties (whych in this boke I haue translated penthowses and sheddes) were engines of wycker..vnder the defence of the whych, souldyers dyd beate the defendantes from the walles.]			 1614    W. Camden Remaines 		(rev. ed.)	 239  				And as the ancient Romans had their Crates, Vineae, Plutei, and such like to make their approches. 1699    J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II.  iii. x. 102  				Another Engine compos'd of Boards, and, like the Roman pluteus, was us'd by Alexander's Souldiers. 1798–9    Britannic Mag. 5 198/2  				Moveable towers of several stories..similar to the tortoise, vinea, and pluteus, of the ancients. 1856    C. Anthon in  tr.  Caesar Comm. Gallic War 407  				In either case, the plutei appear to have been formed of a framework covered with hides. 1963    T. A. Dodge Hist. Art of War Romans II. 398  				The manufacture of vineoe, plutei, musculi, etc. 2000    R. Jiménez Caesar against Rome  ii. vii. 112  				By pushing a portable pluteus ahead of them while under this roofed passageway, the Romans were able to extend it right up to the city's wall.  b.  Roman Architecture. A screen, light wall, or podium between columns, often decorated or used to display statues. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > 			[noun]		 > barrier or wall between columns plutea1450 pluteus1664 1664    J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in  tr.  R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 141  				A kind of Pluteus or smaller Tribunals..wherein Statues are placed to protect them from the down right injuries of the Weather. 1771    W. Newton in  tr.  Vitruvius Archit.  iii. iv. 79 		(note)	  				Plutei was the general name of all kinds of fences. To what heighth these plutei between the columns were raised we are not informed; but most probably they were only pedestal high. 1773    T. Martyn  & J. Lettice in  tr.  Antiq. Herculaneum I. 177 		(note)	  				Plutei..were either of marble or wood. 1832    W. Gell Pompeiana I. ii. 16  				The pillars of the upper portico..stood upon a sort of pluteus. 1854    G. Ripley  & B. Taylor Cycl. Lit. & Fine Arts 479/1  				The pluteus was also a kind of podium interposed between two orders of columns, where one was placed above the other. 1910    R. Lanciani Rom. Forum 52  				The marble plutei with the Suovetaurilia (Fig. II), were discovered embedded in its foundations. 1997    R. Ling Insula of Menanda at Pompeii I.  ii. 141  				The view was further improved, outside room 18, by the suppression of the pluteus which otherwise filled the intercolumniations.  c.  A desk or shelf for books. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > 			[noun]		 > shelf skelf1396 shelfc1405 tack1446 binkc1520 bank1574 bracket1635 hanging shelf1726 wall-plat1841 pluteus1895 1895    Nation 		(N.Y.)	 9 May 359/1  				The entrance and the wooden ceiling, as well as the reading-desks or plutei, were of Michelangelo's designing. 1926    W. D. Orcutt In Quest Perfect Bk. vii. 300  				When next I hold in my hands those precious manuscripts, still chained to their ancient plutei, it will be with even greater reverence. 1963    Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 107 400  				The first group [of MSS], those designated by plutei and by pars sinistra or pars dextra (corresponding to the old divisions of the convent library).  2.  Zoology. A planktonic larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid (echinoderms), which bears several pairs of rigid elongated arms. Cf. echinopluteus n. at echino- comb. form . ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > 			[noun]		 > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Ophiuroidea > member of > larva pluteus1865 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > 			[noun]		 > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin) > larva pluteus1865 1865    E. C. Agassiz  & A. Agassiz Seaside Stud. Nat. Hist. 131  				The young, or the so-called larvae of Echinoderms, have received the name of Pluteus on account of their ever-changing forms. 1888    G. Rolleston  & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life 		(ed. 2)	 569  				The free swimming larva [in Ophiuroidea] is a Pluteus, and differs from the Echinoid Pluteus in possessing a pair of lateral arms. 1974    Nature 18 Jan. 166/3  				It is very difficult to rear the embryos in the laboratory beyond the pluteus stage. 1990    EMBO Jrnl. 9 3003/2  				Nearly all the transcripts so far characterized are specific to the late stages such as the mesenchyme blastula, gastrula or pluteus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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