单词 | recliner |
释义 | reclinern. 1. A sundial or plane that slopes backwards from the vertical; a reclining dial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of > dial or markings on dial tablea1400 dial1440 watch1588 punctilio1596 dial platea1652 recliner1652 dial piece1658 face1659 horary circle1664 night dial1670 horizontal dial1674 hour-stroke1674 hour-plate1690 clock face1764 niche1822 1652 S. Foster Posthuma Fosteri 49 Recliners are North plains, and the Meridian ascends above the horizontall line, from that end of it which looks to the same Coast of declination. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 28 If your Plane be an East Incliner, or a West Recliner. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Declining Recliner..is a Dial which neither stands perpendicularly, nor opposite to one of the Cardinal Points. 1788 R. Moody Treat. Dialling §vii. p. v/2 in W. H. Hall New Royal Encycl. II. at Dialling If the plane of the dial lean forward it is usually called an incliner; if backward, a recliner. 1934 Sci. Amer. May 251/3 The center of the dial, on the east recliner, is at the left; and at the right on the west recliner. 1994 R. N. Mayall & M. W. Mayall Sundials (ed. 3) vii. 121 An east recliner will have a west declination, in the new latitude, and vice versa. 2. A person who reclines. ΚΠ 1814 Monthly Rev. 74 528 An Anacreon in yellow slippers, and soft silken morning gown, a recliner on sofas, the friend, companion, and confidant of every Parisian belle. 1867 C. B. Cayley in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 590 While from thy lip is hung the breath drawn by the recliner. 1914 A. A. Berle Christianity & Social Rage 4 Jesus was not a wanderer in the fields and a recliner by quiet streams dreaming about a glorified world. 1992 M. Robertson Shorter Hist. Greek Art (BNC) 25 The recliner, whose sex is uncertain.., is described as dedicator. 3. Originally U.S. A chair or seat in which a person may recline, esp. one which may be adjusted backwards to an angled position. Also more fully recliner chair, recliner seat. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair for reclining in sleeping-chair1675 reclining chair1827 lounging-chair1841 reclining seat1857 lazy-back-chair1887 recliner1892 lounge-chair1902 power seat1952 incliner1978 1892 C. C. Harrison Daughter of South & Shorter Stories 256 Daughter, stretch yourself out for a half hour every day on the recliner, now, and it'll add ten years to your life. 1922 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 22 365 One day in early spring, she was permitted to sit out in the yard in a ‘recliner’. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 153 Recliners, Navy ‘issue’ armchairs. (Ward-room.) 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 31/2 (advt.) The comfort of hushed travel in recliner seats. 1988 B. A. Mason Spence & Lila (1989) i. 13 They sat in the living room in their recliner chairs, silent and scared, watching TV. 2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck viii. 228 Brookman was sitting as though in a recliner, with his head under a few inches of spindrift from the powder blast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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