rosetten.
/rə(ʊ)ˈzɛt/, U.S. /roʊˈzɛt/ 1. Metallurgy. A disc-shaped plate of very pure copper formed by sprinkling water over the surface of the metal when molten and having a characteristic reddish colour owing to a layer of oxide; (formerly also) †copper in this form, rosette copper (obsolete). Cf. earlier rosette copper n. at Compounds 3. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > copper > plate or bar of copper
rosette1609
rose cake1670
wire bar1858
tile1868
1609 P. Erondelle tr. M. Lescarbot Noua Francia i. iii. 13 The Copper is conioyned with the stone, very faire and very pure, such as is that which is called Rozette Copper [Fr. cuivre de rozette].
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. X. 335 When it [sc. copper] has passed the fire several times, and the grossest parts are separated from it, it is called Rosette [Fr. on l'appelle Rosette], or the purest and finest copper.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 467/1 By again sprinkling water on the mass of copper, it is all of it reduced into plates, which are called rosettes, and these plates are what is called rosette-copper.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 326 The matt..being sprinkled with water and taken off, leaves the black copper to be treated in a similar way, and converted into rosettes.
1902 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1901 360/2 The production of rosettes and bands of a substance rich in tin within a medium rich in copper.
2. Architecture.
a. A painted, carved, or moulded ornament resembling or representing a rose on a wall or other surface.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > fruit or flowers
lily-work1611
encarpa1662
rose1664
rosette1718
flower1730
corbeille1734
lotus1750
honeysuckle1770
pannier1781
lotus blossoma1794
lilying1874
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 48 Huge pieces of antique Marble, among which there's a Capital adorn'd with two Rosettes [Fr. orné de deux rosettes], and a Cross of St. John of Jerusalem.
1798 T. Pennant View of Hindoostan II. 180 Certain carved ribs go equidistant from top to bottom, and between them the surface is divided into small squares prettily filled with rosettes.
1806 J. Dallaway Observ. Eng. Archit. 179 About the reign of Edward III..more ornament was introduced, and delicately carved orbs and rosettes were added.
1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 446/2 The winding stair terminates, under a species of carved rosette.
1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church in Church Bells Devon 215 A girdle of twelve oval medallions containing, in relief, busts of the twelve Apostles, each divided by elegant rosettes.
1909 A. Marquand Greek Archit. iv. 159 The better artists of the classic period produced richer forms of rosettes, such as those which decorate the North Portal of the Erechtheion.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 165 The ceiling is inspired by C16 plasterwork, but the central rosette is of course a classical C17–C18 idea.
1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) vii. 264 The bold rosettes..reminded me of keystones above medieval doorways in Provence.
b. An ornamental perforation resembling a flower; a rose window. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows
roundel1574
oeil-de-boeuf1728
marigold window1736
rose window1738
wheel-window1821
rose1823
rosette1836
rosace1837
bull's-eye1842
Catherine-wheel window1848
ox-eye1875
1836 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 30 Aug. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. xvi. 238 The two round windows or rosettes are exquisitely beautiful.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xvii. 184 The arches in pairs, or in triple and quadruple groups,..with small rosettes pierced above them for light.
1871 J. A. Crowe & G. B. Cavalcaselle Hist. Painting in N. Italy I. xi. 307 The rosette is filled with a glass window representing St Christopher.
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 25 74 The pierced rosette expanded here, became complicated, at Chartres almost swamped the two lights beneath, finally it coalesced with them, changing from a group of plate tracery lights to a single tracery window.
3.
a. A rose-shaped arrangement of ribbons, etc., worn esp. as an ornament, a badge of membership or support (esp. of a sports team or political party), or a symbol of a prize won in a competition (esp. a horse or dog show).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > wreath of ribbons
rosette1776
garland1846
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > knot, bow, or rosette
bow1547
roset1675
bob1761
rosette1776
dogvane1778
tie1837
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > ornaments
shomea1310
wamplate1508
hounce1565
ear bow1795
rosette1822
phalera1886
greening1895
horse brass1911
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > ornaments > for prize-winning horse
rosette1904
1776 Lady A. Miller Lett. from Italy II. xxvii. 52 The bouquet and a note were tied with a rosette of rose-coloured ribbon to the pheasant's feet.
1790 Pennsylvania Packet 11 Dec. 3/2 Imported..Ladies..elegant..beaded rosettes, for shoes.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 502/1 His horse was almost covered with a scarlet shabrach edged with white lace, and adorned at the corners with silver thistles. The bridle was of white satin with crimson rosettes.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiv. 231 A pair of soiled white satin shoes with large blue rosettes.
1851 A. H. Layard Pop. Acct. Discov. Nineveh xiii. 325 The ornaments on his robes consisted of rosettes and fringes.
1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond III. i. 13 The ladies were working rosettes for me.
1904 Badminton Mag. 18 544 In America [sc. in horse shows] the blue rosette indicates first prize, the red second, the yellow third, and the white ‘highly commended’, while the championship is indicated by a red, white, and blue rosette.
1912 G. K. Chesterton Manalive ii. iv. 284 His having appeared upon election day wearing the rosette of both the two opposing parties.
1940 M. Dickens Mariana v. 157 Greta was..wearing a green kimono and velvet slippers with stupid rosettes on the toes.
1957 R. Ferguson Rosettes for Jill v. 52 I fastened my two red rosettes and the blue one on Black Boy's brow-band, and collected my prizes.
1965 T. Gunn in New Statesman 14 May 768/1 To enter Jerusalem on an ass..or wear a rosette for Arsenal.
1983 C. Ozick Cannibal Galaxy (1984) 22 He harmonizes the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur in his lapel with the frontlets of the Covenant on his brow.
1993 Dog World Feb. 58/2 Debonaire also has taken the top honors at two all-breed events in Illinois and has 50 group placements, including 16 blue rosettes.
b. Nautical. A type of knot involving two loops tied overhand; a bow. Now rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific
bowline-knot1627
clinch1627
sheepshank1627
wall-knot1627
running bowline1710
running bowline knot1726
bend1769
clove-hitch1769
half-hitch1769
hitch1769
walnut1769
cat's paw1794
midshipman's hitch1794
reef knot1794
clench1804
French shroud knot1808
carrick bend1819
bowline1823
slippery hitch1832
wall1834
Matthew Walker1841
shroud-knot1860
stopper-knotc1860
marling hitch1867
wind-knot1870
Portuguese knot1871
rosette1875
chain knota1877
stopper-hitch1876
swab-hitch1883
monkey fist1917
Spanish bowline1968
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1240/2 31, lashing-knot. 32, rosette. 33, chain-knot.
1912 Fall River Line Jrnl. 27 May 5/2 The simplest of these is the overhand knot with the figure eight or the sailor's knot, the reef granny or lubber's knot, the overhand rosette, not to mention the wedding and diamond knot.
1934 J. Irving Burgess's Knots, Ties & Splices viii. 61 Care must be taken, however, both with the single bow and the double bow or Rosette Knot (Fig. 115), to keep the simple knot as taut as possible until the tie is complete.
c. A rose- or star-shaped symbol used in hotel and restaurant guides to indicate the standard of service or cuisine provided.
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > [noun]
stamp1542
hallmark1852
star1870
Kitemark1952
woolmark1964
rosette1966
CE1988
1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide 318 The famous ‘stars’ of Michelin, which are indicated by rosettes in the guide book, refer solely to the standard of the food and drink.
1974 Country Life 24 Jan. 167/3 (advt.) Our AA Rosette reflects..the high standards of country house hotel-keeping of which we are justly proud.
1991 San Diego Tribune (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. c1 We stay at the Park Hotel in Kenmare, which has a Michelin rosette for its food and should have been awarded three of them for its friendliness.
2005 Runner's World Oct. 55/2 The hotel now boasts the David Garrick Restaurant, which was recently awarded two AA Rosettes.
4.
a. An object or arrangement of things resembling a rose in shape; a circular rose-like pattern; (also) one of the pattern discs of a rose engine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > specific attachment > part of
rosette1789
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > pattern
figure1609
repeat pattern1851
repeat1855
rosette1875
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers
flowerc1230
flourishingc1384
fleuronc1385
rose1415
pansyc1450
columbine1459
lily1459
fleur-de-lis1475
heartseasea1542
honeysuckle1548
flower-work1601
floretry1615
branching1652
fleuret1811
anthemion1816
rosace1823
fleur1841
flowering1862
flowerage1864
millefleurs1908
rosette1931
1789 C. O'Brien Calico Printer's Assistant I. sig. C5 As circles, rosettes, and other common objects, are always in use, it would not be amiss to have punches of different sorts and sizes, to use occasionally on paper or blocks.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 424/2 Upon the mandril are mounted the pattern guides, or rosettes, circular plates of gun-metal or brass, each..having two patterns or waves upon its rim.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat v. §195 We have our drop of water moulded to a most beautiful rosette.
1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 594/2 A number of rosettes are generally strung at once on the mandrel.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 963/2 The means by which the stars, rosettes, and ornamental tablets..are produced around the denominating figures, etc., of bank-notes.
1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets Pl. 33 (caption) India Rug of Persian star, palinette, rosette, and leaf design with border of realistic flowering plants.
1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. ix. 5/1 Arthur had an easier time drawing Excalibur from the stone than some people have prying the compact disk from the plastic rosette that holds it inside the box.
b. = rose burner n. at rose n.1 and adj.1 Compounds 2a. Also rosette burner. Now rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > fuelled by gas > gas-burner > types of
cockspur burner1808
rose burner1820
batwing burner1828
gas ring1837
rosette1856
Bude-burner1875
1840 Mechanics' Mag. 25 Apr. 547/2 A tool which will produce a most intense flame of jets, like the rosette of a watering-pot.]
1856 Orr's Circle Sci.: Pract. Chem. 507 The gas must be burnt under a platinum rosette.
1920 Encycl. Americana XXV. 704/1 Rosette burners are placed where the ‘holes’ are in a coal range..to secure hot blue flames.
c. = rose diamond n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut
table diamond1470
tablet1519
tablet diamond1530
facet diamond1623
rose diamond1638
rose stone1659
rose1678
table stone1678
spread brilliant1727
rosette1861
briolette1865
trap-brilliant1875
1861 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 184/1 The two most common are what are called the ‘brilliant’, and the ‘rose’ or ‘rosette’.
1912 E. Feilmann tr. E. Molinari Treat. Inorg. Chem. ii. 358 Diamonds acquire a high value on being cut, that is, after facets have been formed, converting them into brilliants or into rosettes.
1992 J. Cherry Goldsmiths iii. 23/2 By the early fifteenth century simple patterns of diamond cutting were being employed. These included the hog-back,..the rosette,..and the lozenge.
d. = rose n.1 9i.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > ceiling mounting for
rosette1890
1890 J. W. Urquhart Electr. Light Fitting v. 197 There is usually provision left in the ceiling rosette, or wall-plate, to allow of the insertion of a fusible plug.
1904 Electr. World & Engineer 7 May 887/2 The finish and smoothness of the rosette are in every way admirable.
1961 C. C. Carr Craft's Amer. Electricians' Handbk. (ed. 8) iv. 126 The drop cord passes through the hole in the center and is attached to connections inside the body of the rosette.
2004 P. Rosenberg Audel Guide 2005 National Electr. Code iv. 406 There shall be no live parts normally exposed on any fixture, lamp- holder, lamp, rosette, or receptacle.
e. Geology. An aggregate of tabular mineral crystals resembling the petals of a flower; = rose n.1 11d.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > crystal structure > specific form
needlestone1805
rose1851
spodiosite1887
rosette1905
sand-barite1906
allotriomorph1914
desert rose1929
rock rose1933
peloid1963
1902 H. A. Miers Mineral. i. 249 Irregular conjunctions are distinguished as—..Rosette-shaped, when they overlap round a centre like the petals of a rose.]
1905 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 239. 59 The rosettes are sometimes a foot in diameter, while there is every gradation from this to submicroscopic size.
1923 Proc. Oklahoma Acad. Sci. 3 102 Barite and especially the form known as ‘sand barite rosettes’, has long attracted attention as one of the most widely disseminated of Oklahoma minerals.
2008 Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance (Nexis) 4 Dec. e6 Staten Island..has one of the world's greatest crops of artinite, which appears as snow-white crystals growing in rosettes atop dark rocky surfaces.
f. Engineering. An arrangement about a point of three or more coplanar lines representing the axes of strain gauges used to determine the strain at that point in a structure or material; a group of strain gauges so arranged; = strain rosette n. at strain n.2 Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > instrument indicating > arrangement
rosette1931
strain rosette1938
rosette gauge1943
1931 W. Hovgaard in Trans. Soc. Naval Architects & Marine Engineers 39 26/1 We arrive thus at what may be called a ‘rosette’ of strain measurements consisting of one horizontal (longitudinal) strain, one vertical (transverse), and two at 45 degrees inclination.
1989 Jrnl. Biomechanics 22 1115 Bone in vivo stresses and moments were determined from rosette strain recordings.
2005 B. Yang Stress, Strain, & Struct. Dynamics v. 149 The state of strain at a point on a machine part is measured by a 45° strain rosette (θa = 0°, θb= 45°, θc = 90°).
5. Biology.
a. A radial arrangement of horizontally spreading leaves at the base of a low-growing plant. Also: a similar but abnormal cluster of leaves on a stem resulting from shortening of the internodes, usually as a symptom of disease.leaf rosette: see the first element.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > rosette arrangement
rosette1818
leaf rosette1875
1818 T. Nuttall Genera N. Amer. Plants I. 207 Sibbaldia...Leaves collected in a rosette.
1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 42 Scions short, terminating in a rosette of leaves.
1891 Jrnl. Mycol. 6 143 The lower leaves on these tufts or rosettes roll and curl, turn yellow,..and fall early.
1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. 489/2 Infected plants have yellow leaves which remain in a basal rosette.
1980 Amateur Gardening 18 Oct. 21 The lovely wide-faced flowers..are held over the hairy rosettes of leaves in May and June.
2004 T. Nottle Plants for Mediterranean Climate Gardens 29 After flowering the rosette slowly dies, usually taking two or three years to dry and fall.
b. A cluster of parts, organs, or markings in a circular or petal-like arrangement.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > arrangement in group or cluster
clustera1382
conjugation1578
rosette1831
pentamery1902
1831 H. McMurtrie tr. P. A. Latreille in G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom III. 186 In the third section of the sedentary rectigrade spiders, the Orbitelæ,..the external fusi are almost conical, slightly salient, convergent, and form a rosette [Fr. disposées en rosette].
1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 105 In another great group the ambulacral areas..simply form a kind of rosette upon the upper surface of the shell.
1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 179 A leopard skin in which most of the rosettes are replaced by black spots, numerous and of small size, has been brought from South Africa.
1964 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 13 424/2 Thus two types of [heart] cell collections tend to emerge: one forming a rosette and functioning as a pacemaker.
1991 Times 29 Oct. 18/2 Some elder trees are a mass of pale, even white, leaves with bedraggled rosettes of berries hanging on them.
2006 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 34 778/1 Individual identification of snow leopards is more difficult due to their..numerous low-contrast, smoky gray-black rosettes.
c. Pathology and Immunology. A ring or rounded cluster of cells, parasites, etc.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > blood corpuscle or plate > [noun] > red cells or corpuscles > group of
rosette1890
1890 Lancet 22 Feb. 389/2 In the acini the columnar epithelium is of such large size and arranged in rosettes that at first we felt it could not be epithelium.
1904 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 1 8 The rosettes or colonies of actively motile trypanosomes had markedly increased in number.
1931 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 13 58/2 Some areas..showed a peculiar but characteristic formation of rosettes with vascular centers.
1991 New Scientist 5 Jan. 22/2 Several malarial parasites..could make uninfected red cells form clumps round an infected cell in a ‘rosette’ of 10 or more cells.
2005 K. W. Sehu & W. R. Lee Ophthalmic Pathol. xi. 261/1 This type of rosette in retinoblastomas is far less common than Flexner–Wintersteiner rosettes.
d. Plant Pathology. = rosette disease n. at Compounds 3. Frequently with distinguishing word.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > abnormal or excessive production of > rosette occurring as symptom of disease
rosette1891
rosetting1895
1891 E. F. Smith in Jrnl. Mycol. 6 143 It seems best, therefore, to call it ‘the peach rosette’ until it can be determined whether it is identical with yellows.
1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. 489/2 Rosette is a disease of Lilium longiflorum and its varieties...Infected plants have yellow leaves which remain in a basal rosette.
1972 J. T. Slykhuis in C. I. Kado & H. O. Agrawal Princ. & Techniques Plant Virol. vii. 208 Evidence that pigeon pea sterility and rose rosette are caused by viruses rests on transmission of the disease by grafting.
1999 P. D. Thakur & A. Handa in L. R. Verma & R. C. Sharma Dis. of Hort. Crops xiii. 303 The quick death of infected peach trees makes peach rosette on this host partially self-eradicating.
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C1. General attributive.
rosette bud n.
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1905 Entomologist's Rec. 17 73 Mr Tutt's idea that eggs are laid in the autumn (on the wintering rosette buds), for the present holds the field.
1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xviii. 543 Digitalis purpurea regenerate from rosette buds if the inflorescence is damaged before the seed is required.
2002 C. Koncz & J. Schell in P. J. Gilmartin & C. Bowler Molecular Plant Biol. I. iii. 42 Cut off the primary inflorescence stem when it reaches 1–3cm, to induce the development of secondary inflorescence from the rosette buds.
rosette form n.
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1838 H. A. S. Dearborn tr. L. Berlèse Monography of Genus Camellia 60 This flower, which is of a rosette form, blooms with difficulty.
1902 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 15 44 The parasite is also met with in the rosette form.
1972 K. Weitzmann Catal. Byzantine & Early Mediaeval Antiq. Dumbarton Oaks Coll. III. 73 Our casket has a great variety of rosette forms, some with eight loop-shaped petals.
2005 B. Capon Bot. for Gardeners ii. 148 Such conditions have no effect on unvernalized plants, which remain in the rosette form and fail to flower.
rosette habit n.
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1899 C. Macmillan Minnesota Plant Life xliii. 478 Some of which may be vagrant xerophytes with the rosette habit of growth or with other characters by which they can be recognized.
2003 Plant Physiol. 133 1624 In many crop species such as cabbage..a tight rosette habit is desirable.
rosette symptom n. Plant Pathology
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1914 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 16 Nov. 174 Frost injury may simulate rosette in the killing back of the terminals, but the other rosette symptoms are lacking.
2006 Safety Assessm.Transgenic Organisms (Organisation for Econ. Co-operation & Devel.) 331 The other is groundnut rosette virus, of which all the isolates that cause rosette symptoms contain satellite RNAs.
C2. Objective.
rosette-forming adj.
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1895 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants II. 410 In rosette-forming succulent plants..the leaves are tongue-shaped or spatulate.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 152/2 Alpine penny-cress, Thlaspi caerulescens, is a neat, rosette-forming biennial or perennial, topped with small bunches of white or purplish flowers.
C3.
rosette copper n. Metallurgy (now historical) pure copper in the form of rosettes (sense 1).
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1609Rozette Copper [see sense 1].
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 467/1 By again sprinkling water on the mass of copper, it is all of it reduced into plates, which are called rosettes, and these plates are what is called rosette-copper.
1846 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 9 26 Full 7-8ths of the produce of the copper and cobalt mines is exported: the latter in the shape of smalts and oxide of cobalt; the former in cake, sheet, and rosette copper.
1992 R. Barclay Art Trumpet-maker iii. 41 Successive disks were chilled with water, pried up and lifted off with tongs, and quenched in a nearby tub. These disks were known as rosette copper, on account of their shape and colour, and were of remarkable purity.
rosette disease n. Plant Pathology any of various plant diseases in which the leaves form a radial cluster on the stem; cf. sense 5d.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases
rosette disease1891
mosaic disease1894
mosaic1900
bunchy top1919
spotted wilt1919
streak disease1923
streak1930
streak virus1930
kromnek disease1932
wound-tumour disease1945
exocortis1948
1891 E. F. Smith in Jrnl. Mycol. 6 146 This rosette disease resembles yellows very closely.
1923 Phytopathology 13 41 The symptoms of the rosette disease of wheat bear certain resemblances to the symptoms of corn mosaic.
2009 Virus Res. 141 213/2 Promoting early canopy formation..is an agronomic control measure that has been used for many years with groundnut rosette disease in Africa.
rosette gauge n. Engineering an assembly of strain gauges whose axes correspond to the lines of a rosette (sense 4f).
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > instrument indicating > arrangement
rosette1931
strain rosette1938
rosette gauge1943
1943 Exper. Stress Anal. 1 i. 13/2 In connection with the use of wire resistance rosette gages..small corrections must sometimes be applied to the initial strain observations.
1969 H. N. Norton Handbk. Transducers for Electronic Measuring Syst. xiii. 561 When using rosette gages, it is necessary to operate upon the output readings using Poisson's ratio to convert strain rates to stress.
2004 Biomaterials 25 1705/1 (caption) Strain recordings from a triple rosette gauge attached to the sheep calcaneus, showing the principal strains and maximum shear strain.
rosette plant n. a plant having a basal rosette of leaves.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [noun] > plants having other distinctive habits
rosette plant1876
cushion plant1903
1876 E. S. Rand Window Gardener x. 150 All the Sempervivums, from the common House-leek (S. tectorum), are very interesting; the neat rosette plants are beautiful and the flowers curious.
1941 Sci. News Lett. 22 Feb. 126/2 A rosette plant has its leaves all there, spread out and ready to catch the sun.
2005 Plant Ecol. 176 144/2 The cowslip, Primula veris L., is a small perennial rosette plant typical of nutrient-poor grasslands.
rosette plate n. Zoology and Palaeontology any of various small rosette-like structures in invertebrates; esp. (a) (in bryozoans) a multiporous area in the wall between two zooids, allowing the passage of fluids or mesenchymatous fibres; (b) (in giant arthropods of the Cambrian order Arthropleurida) a multilobed tergite at the base of each leg.
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1876 A. Macalister Introd. Animal Morphol. & Systematic Zool.: Invertebrata xxii. 151 The pedicelli [of holothurians] have rudimental rosette plates.
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palæontol. (ed. 3) I. 607 Contiguous cells are commonly placed in direct connection with one another by what have been called ‘communication-plates’ or ‘rosette-plates’.
1957 Biol. Bull. 112 122 The side walls..have two widely spaced, multiporous, blister-like interzooecial communication areas. These areas are variously known in bryozoan literature as rosette plates, septula, pore chambers, corresponding openings.
1998 W. A. Shear in R. A. Fortey & R. H. Thomas Arthropod Relationships xvi. 216/1 At the base of each leg [of Arthropleura] were three complex plates, designated K, B, and rosette plates... The rosette plate was divided into five or six lobes.
rosette virus n. Plant Pathology a plant virus that causes a rosette disease.
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1933 K. M. Smith Rec. Adv. Study Plant Viruses 341 An infrequently occurring mosaic-like form of the disease is thought to be an exceptional reaction on the part of individual plants to the rosette virus.
1960 J. E. van der Plank Plant Pathol. III. vii. 262 Rosette virus ordinarily spreads slowly from peach to peach.
2000 K. M. Baker Indigenous Land Managem. W. Afr. ii. 54 Disease is also a problem and in Nigeria, the rosette virus has taken a major toll on groundnut production.
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roˈsette-like adj.
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1839 Misc. Communications in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1838 56 Crystallization of the latter metal, often in delicate, rosette-like patches, if the current is weak, ensues.
1895 E. Bonavia Stud. Evol. Animals i. 8 The spots, instead of being of the usual rosette-like form, were nearly all small and solid, like those on the head of an ordinary Leopard.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxi. 431 This rather rosette-like plant develops in a manner very reminiscent of red clover.
2005 Country Living Apr. (Big Ideas for Small Gardens Suppl.) 17 Plants such as sempervivums with their fascinating rosette-like formations..can best be appreciated in raised beds.
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rosettev.
/rə(ʊ)ˈzɛt/, U.S. /roʊˈzɛt/ 1. transitive. To cover or adorn with a rosette or rosettes (in various senses); to award or provide with a rosette. Frequently in passive.
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > put quality mark on [verb (transitive)]
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kite-mark1960
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1875 Overland Monthly June 495/2 One of the guides..knows well the hollows where woodwardias are tallest, and the rocks most rosetted with pellæa and cheilanthes.
1910 C. T. Jackson Day of Souls xxiv. 345 The buildings were rosetted with medallions of the republic.
1974 Guardian 20 Mar. 1/3 Three restaurants much rosetted by English guides—the Ritz, the Savoy, and the Mirabelle.
1992 E. Pearce Election Rides ix. 92 Another Tory rosetted for the conflict tells Rhodri that ‘The barrage will be the best thing which could happen to the city’.
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a. intransitive. Botany and Immunology. To form a rosette or rosettes. Cf. rosetted adj. 2.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > blood corpuscle or plate > [verb (intransitive)] > red cells: form group
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1906 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 131/2 Cheered by Rowena's petting The flowers are rosetting.
1961 Ecol. Monogr. 31 15/2 While the plants were on the 12-hr photoperiod, they all formed perennating buds at the soil surface but maintained functional leaves; in effect, they rosetted.
1977 Lancet 5 Nov. 988/1 2%..of the lymphocytes rosetted with sheep red blood-cells (T cells).
2006 B. K. Harbaugh in N. O. Anderson Flower Breeding & Genetics xxiv. 649 The higher the temperature to which seedlings are exposed, the greater the percentage of plants that will rosette.
b. transitive. Immunology and Pathology. To cause (cells, parasites, etc.) to form a rosette or rosettes (rosette n. 5c). Also intransitive.
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1974 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 187 67 Lymphocytes were rosetted for Fc receptors..and surface Ig.
1977 K. S. K. Tung in M. Edidin & M. H. Johnson Immunobiol. Gametes 168 Following depletion of T-lymphocytes by rosetting with rabbit erythrocytes.
2000 B. M. Kumpel in P. Shepherd & C. Dean Monoclonal Antibodies v. 121 Titres of B-LCL may be enhanced by rosetting (Protocol 4) over a period of weeks.
2003 Vaccine 21 3360/1 Parasite isolates from the placenta..are further distinguished by their inability to rosette uninfected red cells.
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