单词 | blackboard |
释义 | blackboardn. A large board with a dark (usually black) surface for writing or drawing on with chalk, used esp. as a teaching aid in classrooms; a similar board used in shops, restaurants, etc., for display. Cf. whiteboard n.This is the usual term in Britain and Commonwealth countries (chalkboard n. is also used in North America).Originally a wooden board; now also of other materials, esp. porcelain-enamelled steel. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > board > [noun] blackboard1739 chalkboard1816 whiteboard1883 1739 T. Arnold Neues Deutsch-Englisches Wörter-Buch Anschreiben, to put down, comit [sic] to Paper, note a Thing, write it with Chalk on a black-Board. 1786 Crit. Rev. 61 141 The celebrated and venerable Euler, whose black board..was covered with calculations. 1813 M. Faraday Let. 4 June (1991) xxiv. 59 A sheet of cartridge paper and a pen or a black board and chalk are often times of great importance. 1852 J. Pillans Rationale of Discipline 93 A large black board served my purpose... On it I wrote in chalk the Greek letters. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxi. 174 The master..began to draw a map of America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon. 1928 D. Barnes Ryder xxx. 162 The blackboard was a smear of spit and errors. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) ii. 47 It had continued long into the afternoon,..the pointer thwacking the blackboard, the eyes veiled with increasing boredom and resentment. 2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 22 Dec. 79/4 He noticed on the blackboard of a small fish and chip shop in a country town the item: ‘Battered Mars bar $2.20.’ Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1839 Biblical Repertory Apr. 10/2 Hence the use of outline maps, and of black-board exercises in map-drawing. 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 33 These three strips can be sewed..together, and thus form a..black-board rubber. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 89 We should have been in the great hall, and heard the blackboard lesson. 1905 H. H. Stephens (title) Black-board and free-arm drawing. 1968 Punch 21 Aug. 271/3 There are blackboard diagrams, and micro-photographs of sperm and ova. 1998 A. Warner Sopranos 19 Sister Condron stood..before a chalk abstract of first-year blackboard graffiti. C2. blackboard jungle n. (originally) a school characterized by weak discipline and bad behaviour; (subsequently) the profession, or environment, of schoolteaching.Popularized as the title of a novel (see quot. 1954) and subsequent film (1955) of the same name. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 1954 E. Hunter (title) The blackboard jungle. 1958 Economist 29 Nov. 784/1 This is a variation, andante moderato, on the theme of the blackboard jungle..in the new system of secondary modern education. 1988 Weekly World News 2 Feb. 24/4 Daring Dorothy admits the switch from blackboard jungle to Gambian jungle hasn't always been easy. 2007 D. Brown (title) The great expectations school: a rookie year in the new blackboard jungle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1739 |
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