单词 | readvance |
释义 | readvancen. An advance after a retreat or withdrawal; a renewed advance; Geology the renewed advance of an ice sheet or glacier. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > renewed movement readvance1800 1800 J. Brand (title) A determination of the average depression of the price of wheat in war, below that of the preceding peace; and of its re-advance in the following. 1825 W. Graydon Refl. State of Ireland (ed. 2) 275 Will England be content with the form of retreat and re-advance? 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 619 The evidence of a readvance of the glacial matter..is by no means so clear here as it is to the northward. 1910 S. Weller in R. D. Salisbury Outl. Geol. Hist. v. 115 The time boundary between the two periods should be marked by the time of maximum withdrawal of the sea or the subsequent readvance. 1951 Folk-lore 62 310 Such legends might conceivably have been retained after the loss of Norse and the readvance of Gaelic. 2006 C. S. Reynolds Ecol. Phytoplankton vii. 337/1 The wane of the Pleistocene ice sheets was never smooth but occurred in phases of rapid retreat, alternating with phases of stagnation or even readvance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). readvancev. 1. transitive. To advance (a person or thing) again, or to a further extent. ΚΠ 1592 R. Johnson Nine Worthies sig. C 4v Henry the fift my King did warre with France, Then I with him his right to readuance. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 387 So the care-charming honie..re-aduanceth sorrow-daunted harts. 1608 T. Middleton Famelie of Love v. sig. I3 My counsell is that you readuance your Standard. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 17) 1499 How able he is to re-advance the dejected. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 162 To re-advance all the Noble Families in Rome, that began to lessen and decay in their splendour. 1828 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 38 574 It recedes from none of its claims, though it may wait the convenient season for re-advancing them. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) iii. i. 278 We are swinging upon a hinge in advancing and readvancing such maxims. 1906 Times 19 Dec. 3/3 I have no doubt the council would be prepared to readvance the money thus lent. 1968 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 26 Oct. 6/2 If the engine does heat, readvance the timing. 1998 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 4 July b1 No changes were made in the bill before it was readvanced and passed. 2. intransitive. To advance again, or to a further extent. ΚΠ 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes lxxxv, in Wks. I. 792 Which if they misse, they yet should re-aduance To former height. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. vi. 97 in Church-hist. Brit. The Vicechancellor retreated to Trinity Colledge... This done, he re-advanceth to St. Iohns. 1813 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) II. 254 The Russians readvanced to Peterswalde,..but were checked at Grossubel. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. xiii. §3 The tide which has receded, instantly begins to re-advance. 1911 M. Johnston Long Roll xxxii. 459 Here they recoiled, fled..; there, regathering form and might, they readvanced to the echoing hill. 1996 T. S. Driver & G. P. Chapman Time-Scales & Environmental Change i. 2 As the ice retreats, the belts readvance. Derivatives readˈvancing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rehaulsement, a readuancing. 1671 R. McWard Case of Accomm. 122 The accommodating of faithful men..shall quicklie..prove the readvancing of its pride, domination and wickedness. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 44 The Readvancing upon it, and taking it. 1844 J. Taylor Incidents Apostolic Age in Brit. xiii. 252 Thus he caught the eyes of the re-advancing Britons. 1947 M. S. Douglas Everglades ii. 62 Perhaps they were overwhelmed by the readvancing seas of interglacial meltings. 2006 Motor Transport (Nexis) 20 Apr. 2 On SCR-equipped vehicles, the readvancing of injection timing has metaphorically sent ‘engine out’ NOx emissions through the roof. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1800v.1592 |
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