单词 | pushed |
释义 | pushedadj. That is or has been pushed (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > pushing > pushed pusheda1547 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Civ With often pushed ram the gate did shake. 1658 E. Reynolds Medit. Last Supper xii Would not God, in the Law, accept of any but pushed, and dissected, and burned sacrifices? 1867 Sci. Amer. 9 Nov. 293/1 An Improved Skating Chair... For the conveyance of children, feeble persons, or ladies, it may be used either as a drawn sled or a pushed chair. a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) 44 How it dóes my heart good..When limber liquid youth, that to all I teach Yields tender as a pushed peach. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 286/1 The Rhône..will be open to pushed convoys of 3,000 tons. 1977 N.Y. Times 17 June a18 On the first hole his pushed drive bounced off the wheel of a television truck. 1993 Caves & Caving Winter 9/3 One recently pushed passage known as the Clapdale Crawl was forced to where it connected with the further reaches of Ingleborough Cave in August. Compounds With adverbs, as pushed-back, pushed-in, pushed-down, pushed-up, adjs. ΚΠ 1878 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 34 566 Pushed-up mounds or long ridges of gravels..are a conspicuous feature along the shores of the Polar basin. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 44 They wait, their pushedback chairs..around a board of abandoned platters. 1948 P. White Aunt's Story iv. 80 Theodora had gone. There was only the pushed-back furniture. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 617/2 Mr Thomas has the commanding quality of a real Heldentenor, not a pushed-up baritone as are many Wagnerian tenors. 1990 S. Miller Family Pictures ii. xiii. 268 All that pushed-under stuff gonna get your mama one day. 2001 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 395/1 Fragment from bowl of narrow conical wineglass. Side straight, flaring; remains of bulb at top of hollow stem and pushed-in base. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1547 |
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