单词 | re-emit |
释义 | re-emitv. 1. transitive. Chiefly in North America before the War of Independence: to reissue (bills, shares, currency, etc.). Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > put into circulation [verb (transitive)] > reissue reissue1708 re-emit1725 1725–6 Charters Province Pensilvania & City of Philadelphia (1742) cclxxv. 322 (heading) The same yearly Quotas and principal Sums in Bills of Credit so to be paid in unto and received by the said Trustees..shall from time to time be re-emitted by the Trustees of the General Loan-Office of the Province of Pennsylvania. 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 10 The Province..have since a. 1702 emitted and re-emitted Bills of public Credit. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 87 The Trustees of the Loan-Office might re-emit the same Sums. 1829 T. F. Gordon Hist. Pennsylvania xiv. 273 That happy contrivance in the money laws, by which the yearly quotas were re-emitted to other borrowers, spread the benefits of the system more widely. 1884 American 8 311 The notes are not held, when redeemed, but re-emitted. 1900 C. J. Bullock Ess. Monetary Hist. U.S. ii. i. 135 For the reasons just stated there were in circulation, in the year 1729, fully £12,000 of bills issued prior to 1716 and reëmitted in 1722. 2. transitive. Physics. To emit (radiation or particles) following absorption. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > again remit1700 re-emit1856 1856 De Bow's Rev. June 733 The direct rays of the sun,..being first absorbed and then re-emitted from a piece of dry timber. 1897 Proc. Physical Soc. 16 370 The green light that emerges from gold-leaf is not properly transmitted; it is light re-emitted by the gold. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 92/1 Several neutrons are re-emitted when a uranium atom is exploded by one neutron. 2004 Guardian 8 Jan. (Life section) 8/1 Dots of different sizes absorb UV light but then re-emit it at a different wavelength. DerivativesΚΠ 1725–6 Charters Province Pensilvania & City of Philadelphia (1742) cclxxv. 321 (heading) An Act for the Re-emitting and Continuing the Currency of such Bills of Credit of this Province as by former Acts are directed to be sunk and destroyed. 1740 W. Douglas Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 17 The three Upper Counties..emitted 30,000 l. which have generally been continued out by re-emitting Acts from Time to Time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1725 |
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。