sandwichn.1
/ˈsan(d)wɪtʃ/, /ˈsan(d)wɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪtʃ/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > types of
sandwich1494
parchment lace1542
hempstring1573
sinnet1611
jackline1612
spun-yarn1627
sennit1769
Manila1826
four-inch1840
stropping1850
1494 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 560/3 Sion... 6 pieces sandwich line @/4.
1498 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. Sandwyche corde for the clothe afore ye Roode.
1526–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 339 Item, paid for a pece of Sandwych lyne for the chirch, iiij d.
1572 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 164 Sandwiche corde, packthreade, twyne.
2. Sandwich tern n. a black, grey, and white tern, Sterna sandvicensis, found in Europe and Africa.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna sandvicensis (Sandwich tern)
Sandwich tern1785
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 356 Sandwich Tern... This species is pretty common on the coasts of Kent.
1888 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 189/1 The Sandwich Tern, S. sandvicensis or S. cantiaca..is the largest of the British species.
1914 Chambers's Jrnl. May 308/1 These birds are the ring-ouzel..and the sandwich tern.
1934 Discovery Oct. 293/1 Many species like the..Sandwich tern, and puffin are growing scarcer.
1968 Times 11 Oct. 8/2 Thorpe has analysed the fish-calls of 40 sandwich terns by means of a sound spectrograph, a machine which analyses sounds, in terms of their pitch and loudness and produces a graphical representation of the sound.
1971 Country Life 18 Feb. 356/2 Two birds, at least, which breed nowhere else in Spain, have important colonies here: the black-headed gull and the Sandwich tern.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sandwichn.2
/ˈsan(d)wɪdʒ/, /ˈsamwɪdʒ/, /ˈsan(d)wɪtʃ/, /ˈsamwɪtʃ/, U.S. /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪtʃ/ 1. figurative and in extended use.1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life III. 154 I will, by way of a sandwich, halt for a few minutes refreshment, and present the reader [etc.].1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lviii. 525 A pale young man..came walking down the lane, en sandwich:— having a lady, that is, on each arm.1866 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 468 A naval potentate..whose talk was a perfect sandwich of oaths and orders.1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two I. iv. 80 The very oddest day, a sort of sandwich of good and bad.
a. An article of food for a light meal or snack, composed of two thin slices of bread, usually buttered, with a savoury (originally spec. meat, esp. beef or ham) or other filling. Frequently with specifying word prefixed indicating contents, as ham sandwich, egg sandwich, watercress sandwich, peanut butter sandwich (see peanut butter n.), or form, as club sandwich (see club n. Compounds 3), Dagwood sandwich, Denver sandwich, hero sandwich (see hero n. Compounds 4), poor boy sandwich (see poor boy n.), submarine sandwich (see submarine n.). Occasionally with only one slice of bread, as in open sandwich or open-faced sandwich (see open-face adj. 2), or with biscuits, sliced buns, or cake.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich
sandwich1762
butty1827
round1901
dodger1919
wad1919
sanger1943
sarnie1961
sarmie1970
sambo1972
sammie1978
1762 E. Gibbon Jrnl. 24 Nov. (1929) 185 I dined at the Cocoa Tree... That respectable body..affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty..of the first men in the kingdom,..supping at little tables..upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath i. 10 Sir Chr. Not a morsel, Tom, if you would give me the universe. Rack. Pooh, man, only a Sandwich or so.
1800 J. Austen Let. 25 Oct. (1995) 49 At Oakley Hall we did a great deal—eat some sandwiches all over mustard [etc.].
1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. xi. 21 Our Nimrods..have felt..the propriety of carrying a sandwich into the field.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 337 The supper consisted of small triangular sandwiches in trays.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 468 A..Glasgow confectioner..has the credit of making one hundred different kinds of sandwiches.
1872 Cassell's Househ. Guide (new ed.) III. 224 Egg Sandwiches.
1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw II. xii. 155 He ordered a hasty lunch of claret and sandwiches.
1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith xxiv. 280 You might bring me a Denver sandwich from the Sunset Trail Lunch.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 11 Get me a sandwich... I'm so empty I can hear my stomach.
1954 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) 443/1 Buns and cakes, provided they are not too sweet may be cut in thin slices and used for sweet sandwiches.
1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 12/1 Our past albums were like Dagwood sandwiches because you had to listen to them 30 or 40 times on very sophisticated equipment to hear everything we'd dub in.
1978 G. Mitchell Mingled with Venom iv. 37 Take Diana the smaller of my two sponge sandwiches.
b. A form of training involving alternate periods of practical and theoretical instruction. Frequently attributive or as adj. (cf. sense Compounds 1b below).
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society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of
university extension1839
Philanthropinism1842
Arnoldismc1845
co-education1852
Pestalozzianism1859
kindergartenism1872
secularism1872
community education1873
Froebelism1879
co-ed1886
extramuralism1892
vocationalism1901
heurism1909
sandwich1913
Montessori1917
Montessorianism1917
Juku system1931
polytechnization1932
day release1936
essentialism1939
comprehensivization1958
multitracking1989
1913 A. P. M. Fleming & R. W. Bailey Engineering as Profession ii. 113 A sandwich arrangement comprising short alternating periods of technical and practical training until the full course in each is completed.
1955 Times 14 July 2/6 This professional training scheme is organized over four or five years on a ‘sandwich’ basis.
1961 Technology Aug. 197 For its support of the sandwich principle Technology has often been taken to task by teachers in the colleges of advanced technology.
1965 Listener 2 Dec. 887/2 An undergraduate comes up in October, spends two terms in the college. In April he begins his first six-month spell in industry... This is the Brunel sandwich evolved over the past eight years.
1972 Guardian 20 June 18/6 The polytechnics..have a special interest in sandwich degree courses.., either the thick sandwich, with one year out of a total of four spent in an industrial job, or the thin sandwich, during which the student spends alternating periods..in college and in industry.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 157/1 We have a lot to learn and the sandwich graduates may possibly help to bridge that gap.
c. A laminated board or panel consisting of a layer of lightweight material situated between and bonded to two thin sheets of a strong material, used in light constructions, esp. in aircraft.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > laminated panel between strong material
sandwich1944
sandwich panel1946
1944 Use of Wood for Aircraft in U.K. (U.S. Forest Products Lab. Publ. No. 1540) 21 The fuselage..is composed of a plywood and balsa wood sandwich about 1/2 inch thick.
1946 Rep. & Mem. Aeronaut. Res. Comm. No. 1987. 2 The various kinds of sandwich considered are those in which the faces are of steel or duralumin, and the fillings of onazote, balsa wood or plywood.
1954 D. M. Desoutter All about Aircraft viii. 134/2 Corrugated metal..makes a good filling for sandwiches. In this kind of sandwich two thin sheets are held apart by the corrugated metal between, and they are attached to it by welding or any other means.
1976 Sea Spray (N.Z.) Dec. 86/3 The Adelaide boat, built of foam/glass sandwich in a highly sophisticated layup technique was designed as a good all-rounder.
d. Used attributively in Chemistry to denote (complexes having) a structure in which a metal atom is bonded between two parallel cyclic ligands in different planes, as in ferrocene.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organometallurgy > [noun] > structure
sandwich1952
1952 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 74 4971/2 A projection on the (x, y) plane concomitant with the ‘sandwich’ structures proposed by Wilkinson [et al.]..immediately appeared.
1966 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. II. xxvii. 336 It does not appear that the benzene ring can act as a bridging sandwich-ligand, but two metal atoms can be ‘sandwiched’ between two benzenes.
1973 Nature 2 Nov. 3/1 Wilkinson used the name ‘sandwich compounds’ for the metallocenes.
1974 Nature 11 Jan. 85/1 In the so-called ‘sandwich’ molecules (C6H6)2Cr and (C5H5)2Fe, the metal atoms are symmetrically placed between the rings.
2. Applied to a man carrying two advertisement boards suspended from the shoulders, one in front and the other behind; = sandwich-man n. at Compounds 2.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertisement on sandwich boards > one who
sandwich boy1835
sandwich1864
sandwich-man1864
board-man1884
sandwich-board man1890
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 161 So he stopped the unstamped advertisement—an animated sandwich, composed of a boy between two boards.]
1864 Spectator 24 Dec. 1460 The poor ‘sandwiches’ might justifiably have been kept moving, but to prohibit them altogether is a bit of unreasonable tyranny.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Feb. 12/2 We have, and not so very long ago, seen girls employed as ‘sandwiches’.
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C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1a.)
sandwich-bag n.
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1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xvi. 170 A closet in which the day boarders hung their bonnets and sandwich-bags.
sandwich bar n.
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1955 H. Smith Making Money in Catering Business vi. 51 (heading) Analysis of operating costs of a small provincial snack and sandwich bar.
1971 E. Paul Reluctant Cloak & Dagger Man x. 122 I found a sandwich bar, settled on a stool and ordered sandwiches and beer.
1977 Lancashire Life Mar. 101/1 I once met a chap who worked behind the counter of a sandwich bar at a railway station.
sandwich bell n.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 277 Under the sandwichbell lay on a bier of bread one last, one lonely, last sardine.
sandwich bread n.
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1971 B. Malamud Tenants 103 A loaf of sandwich bread on the table.
sandwich counter n.
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1913 S. Story Spirit of Paris 1 Cafés..have been elbowed away by vulgar bars and automatic sandwich counters.
1961 T. Henrot Belgium 189 Department stores with low-price sandwich counters.
1978 ‘A. Stuart’ Vicious Circles 3 The sandwich counter of the Bar Roma..Russian salad, prosciutto, baby pizzas.
sandwich grill n.
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1955 M. McCarthy Charmed Life (1956) ii. 52 The combination waffle iron and sandwich grill, the roto-broiler, the mixmaster.
sandwich loaf n. (also elliptical).
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1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon iv. 83 How many loaves would you be wanting?.. A cottage and a sandwich. And a small brown?
1943 C. Milburn Diary 30 Jan. (1979) 166 I got two sandwich loaves.
1978 F. Weldon Praxis xxii. 194 On the estate bread was a sandwich loaf and the cheese cheddar or processed.
sandwich lunch n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch
noonmeatOE
noona1225
midday meala1425
noon meal?c1460
Sunday dinner1602
nooning1649
luncheona1652
noon dinner1656
nummit1777
tiffin1800
sandwich lunch1828
lunch1829
twelve hours1844
free lunch1848
midday dinner1852
Sunday lunch1854
nooning-meal1865
Mittagessen1876
business lunch1880
tray lunch1936
pub lunch1954
working lunch1954
liquid lunch1970
three-martini lunch1972
1828 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 746 We having at present a Servant ill in bed, you must perforce be content with a Sandwich Lunch & a Glass of Wine.
1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase i. 9 She carried..little..beyond a pocket edition of Tristram Shandy, a vest-pocket camera, a small first-aid outfit and a sandwich lunch.
1959 Economist 3 Jan. 26/2 About 15 per cent of men eat a sandwich lunch.
1973 K. Benton Craig & Jaguar vi. 67 There will be a sandwich lunch for us on the way.
sandwich paper n.
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1923 T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 14 The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers.
1924 Public Opinion 12 Sept. 258/3 Motorists' sandwich papers and cigarette cartons.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird vii. 108 The empty packets of cigarettes, the greasy sandwich paper.
sandwich shop n.
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1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 580 Eat shop, sandwich shop.
1967 A. Bailey in L. Deighton London Dossier 55 Sandwich shops abound to feed the mid-day lunch-hungries.
1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 11 a/2 Business at the sandwich shops and stores on the edge of the campus was brisk.
sandwich spread n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread
paste1817
spread1866
fish paste1920
cheese spread1921
sandwich spreadc1938
Marmite1966
c1938 Fortnum & Mason Price List 37/2 Sandwich Spread—per glass 10½d.
1950 A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 134 Dainty bridge rolls filled with sandwich spread.
1972 R. P. Jhabvala New Dominion i. 69 Your ketchup—and this is something new—sandwich spread—I thought you'd like to try it for your tea.
sandwich supper n.
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1802 J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sketch Mod. Paris xxxii. 297 With only a standing or sandwich supper.
1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 26 Settles down to sandwich supper and the television screen.
sandwich tray n.
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1799 Hull Advertiser 28 Dec. 3/1 Desert sets of dishes, plates, &c., and Sandwich Trays.
b. (In sense 1b.)
sandwich course n.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of
summer session1594
evening class1762
summer school1793
training course1822
shop class1844
elective1850
optional1855
night class1870
correspondence class1876
Chautauqua1884
correspondence course1902
gut1902
holiday course1906
shop1912
pud1917
training seminar1917
film school1929
day school1931
refresher1939
farm shop1941
survey course1941
weekend course1944
crash programme1947
sandwich course1955
thick sandwich1962
module1966
bird course1975
1955 Times 15 July 9/7 This can be arranged in the ‘sandwich’ course, which alternates periods of study in college with periods of training in industry.
1957 Technology Apr. 44/4 Up to fifteen of these students will be Vickers undergraduate apprentices using the ‘thick’ sandwich course.
1966 New Scientist 13 Oct. 8/2 Most of the 2000 first-degree students are on sandwich courses which generally last 4½ years.
1972 Accountant 5 Oct. 436/1 The first paper was on sandwich courses.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 155/1 The apathy of senior management to design was felt in our BA (Hons) 4-year Sandwich course.
sandwich student n.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > part-time student
part-timer1886
vacationer1890
stop-out1906
sandwich boy1958
sandwich student1963
1963 Times 24 May (London Underground Suppl.) p. xv/4 The quaintly described dip. tech. sandwich student has his place.
1975 Times 1 Sept. 10/8 The difficulty of finding places for sandwich students.
sandwich system n.
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society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > systems of training
sloyd1884
sandwich system1919
sandwich training1957
1919 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers 12 450 This training should be taken along with their apprenticeship... The sandwich system has been in existence in Glasgow for over 70 years.
1940 Nature 21 Dec. 812/2 Some large firms testify highly to the value of the product of such a ‘sandwich’ system.
1956 Nature 3 Mar. 412/1 All its departments have increased their facilities to students,..and in particular the ‘sandwich system’ has been established.
1971 New Scientist 1 Apr. 36/2 Industry is not yet prepared to cooperate sufficiently with educational establishments to make the sandwich system work as it should.
sandwich training n.
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society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > systems of training
sloyd1884
sandwich system1919
sandwich training1957
1957 Technology Mar. 10/3 Student apprentices, on completing their first two years sandwich training, are also transferred to the main works.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 347/1 The Tech's part-time study, which was a form of sandwich training.
c. (In sense 2.)
sandwich advertisement n.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertisement on sandwich boards
sandwich advertisement1884
sandwich-board1897
1884 Times 27 Oct. 4/2 Yesterday..I met..a procession of..girls,..bearing sandwich advertisements.
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sandwich beam n. (see quot. 1887).
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1887 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Sandwich beam, a name sometimes given to the flitch girder.
sandwich-board n. a board carried by a sandwich-man.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertisement on sandwich boards
sandwich advertisement1884
sandwich-board1897
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 572 Some of my other men are only fit to carry sandwich-boards for Day and Martin's blacking.
sandwich-board man n. = sense 2; also figurative.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertisement on sandwich boards > one who
sandwich boy1835
sandwich1864
sandwich-man1864
board-man1884
sandwich-board man1890
1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. p. xv The expense of providing boards for ‘sandwich’ board-men.
1936 W. B. Yeats Lett. on Poetry (1940) 124 When I excluded Wilfred Owen..I did not know I was excluding a revered sandwich-board Man of the revolution.
1961 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing (ed. 9) ii. 199 Sandwich-board man carrying airline advertisement placard.
sandwich-boat n. the boat which rows in two divisions of the bumping races at Oxford and Cambridge, occupying the last position in a higher division and the first position in a lower division.
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1884 Oxf. & Cambr. Undergraduate Jrnl. 28 Feb. 273/1 Wadham was the sandwich-boat.
sandwich box n. a box or case in which to carry sandwiches.
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1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xv. 155 Sandwich-boxes.
sandwich boy n. (a) = sense 2; (b) a student on a sandwich course.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertisement on sandwich boards > one who
sandwich boy1835
sandwich1864
sandwich-man1864
board-man1884
sandwich-board man1890
society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > part-time student
part-timer1886
vacationer1890
stop-out1906
sandwich boy1958
sandwich student1963
1835 Bell's Life in London 11 Oct. 1/1 The Sandwich boy took the hats and bonnets at the street-door.
1958 Daily Mail 19 Sept. 11/3 The first of the ‘sandwich boys’..have won diplomas in technology.
sandwich cake n. = layer cake n. at layer n. Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > sponge-cake
Savoy cake?1750
sponge cake1808
muffin1835
Madeira cake1845
Victoria sandwich1861
angels' food1865
marble cake1871
sponge1877
angel cake1878
angel food cake1878
layer cake1882
sponge sandwich1884
Lady Baltimore cake1889
sand cake1892
sandwich cake1911
Victoria sponge1934
red velvet1951
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxv. 221 The thin layer of jam or chocolate in a sandwich cake.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. ii. 54 Mrs. Chillingford said this with immense gusto, then went slap into a piece of sandwich cake.
1968 ‘P. Hobson’ Titty's Dead vi. 70 At her elbow stood a pot of strong Indian tea and half a sandwich cake.
sandwich case n. = sandwich box n.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > container for provisions
provision basket1770
sandwich case1815
tommy bag1843
lunchbox1862
bait-poke1863
teabag1898
brown bag1947
tiffin-carrier1960
tea-box1972
1815 J. Mayer Sportsman's Direct. 122 Do not forget the sandwich-case, and flask of brandy.
1908 Times (Weekly ed.) 14 Aug. p. iii/3 There are two deep patch pockets..for carrying fly-book and sandwich-case.
1948 F. Thompson Still glides Stream ii. 40 ‘That fool of a groom’..had carried off with him his mistress's sandwich case.
sandwich construction n. the structure or method of fabrication of sandwich panels.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > manner of construction > specific
post and pan1517
superedification1610
superstructing1654
trabeation1831
post and petrail1867
post and tan1890
skeleton construction1891
flat-slab construction1906
unit construction1909
prefabrication1932
site assembly1941
sandwich construction1944
post and panel1954
prefabbing1954
post and beam1958
jettying1963
system building1964
biotecture1966
timber-framing1967
post and plaster1997
Passivhaus1998
1944 Use of Wood for Aircraft in U.K. (U.S. Forest Products Lab. Publ. No. 1540) 3 The sandwich construction so effectively used in the Mosquito fuselage consists of birch plywood faces and a balsa core, affording a relatively thick section of high strength and rigidity, and good sound and thermal insulating qualities.
1946 Rep. & Mem. Aeronaut. Res. Comm. No. 1987. 2 Considerable interest has recently been shown in the possibilities of the so-called ‘sandwich’ construction in the design of stressed-skin wings and fuselages.
1963 H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 587/1 The largest single reason for the use of sandwich construction and its rapid growth to one of the standard structural approaches during the past 10 years is its high strength or stiffness-to-weight ratio.
sandwich flag n. a miniature flag that identifies the filling of a sandwich.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > other tableware or items for table
pewter1426
warnera1552
nef1567
pewtery1645
hollow-ware1682
equipage1683
flatware1686
napkin ring1686
pewterware1738
egg cup1773
dish-rim1774
butter cooler1784
dish-cross1785
argyll1789
toast-rack1801
centrepiece1836
table centrepiece1850
silverware1862
doily1864
table centre1865
potato ring1888
egg-cosy1894
sandwich flag1907
cheese board1916
Lazy Susan1917
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 352 b/3 (heading) Sandwich flags... Stamped in Gold and Colours, with different names such as—Anchovy..Tongue..Foie Gras.
1950 Vogue Aug. 100/3 Intellectuals..spend very little on..sandwich flags.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper viii. 87 Sandwich flags are designed to distinguish party dishes.
sandwich-man n. = sense 2.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertisement on sandwich boards > one who
sandwich boy1835
sandwich1864
sandwich-man1864
board-man1884
sandwich-board man1890
1864 Morning Star 26 May 4 He encounters a sandwich man bearing placards.
sandwich panel n. a panel constructed as a sandwich.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > laminated panel between strong material
sandwich1944
sandwich panel1946
1946 Rep. & Mem. Aeronaut. Res. Comm. No. 1987. 2 A sandwich panel is one in which a thick sheet of a relatively weak ‘filling’ is interposed between two thin sheets of a more orthodox structural material, such as steel, duralumin or plywood.
1953 Archit. Rev. 114 132/3 Walls are sandwich panels made up of two asbestos cement sheets with a cellular core.
1963 H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 586/2 When a sandwich panel is loaded as a beam, the honeycomb and the bond resist the shear loads while the facings resist the moments due to bending forces, and hence carry the beam bending as tensile and compressive loads.
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sandwich biscuit n. = sandwich cookie n. at Additions.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun]
biscuit?a1400
biscuit bread1440
bake1523
biscake1650
cookie1701
bicky1834
sandwich biscuit1901
sandwich cookie1905
1901 Manitoba Morning Free Press 25 Oct. 5/5 (advt.) Delicious sandwich biscuits 25c per lb. In four different flavorings: lemon, almond, orange and strawberry.
2007 Grocer (Nexis) 3 Mar. (Focus section) 49 Gluten and wheat-free biscuits including options such as chocolate cream sandwich biscuits with a vanilla filling.
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sandwich class n. a class of people characterized as having moderate incomes; esp. (chiefly Hong Kong English) a class of people whose incomes exceed the limits for public housing but who cannot afford to purchase private homes; frequently attributive.
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1980 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 13 Sept. 14/1 (signature of letter) Sandwich Class.
1981 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 19 May 9/3 By helping some 2,000 ‘sandwich class’ families own their own home at Butterfly Beach in Tuen Mun the Government is also helping itself.
1990 Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. Mr Foster-Bunch believes this would benefit the ‘sandwich class’, who tend to avoid asking for legal advice because they are not poor enough for legal aid and not rich enough to bear possibly huge legal costs.
2012 Wong Hung in Lam Wai-Man et al. Contemp. Hong Kong Govt. & Politics (new ed.) xiii. 284 A total of 5,000 flats will be provided for lease to sandwich-class home buyers at prevailing market rent.
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sandwich cookie n. North American a sweet snack consisting of two biscuit layers held together by a layer of chocolate, cream, jam, or other filling.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun]
biscuit?a1400
biscuit bread1440
bake1523
biscake1650
cookie1701
bicky1834
sandwich biscuit1901
sandwich cookie1905
1905 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. iii. 3/7 (advt.) Fig sandwich cookies... Lemon cream cookies.
1962 N. W. Chamberlain Firm xvii. 360 Sandwich cookies of medium quality, packaged to offer genuine and unusual value to consumers.
2005 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 9 Nov. f2 Fudge-Filled Peanut Butter Cookies... Fans of peanut butter and chocolate combos will love these soft sandwich cookies.
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sandwich generation n. originally and chiefly North American a generation of people who in middle age find themselves responsible not only for bringing up their children but also for the care of their ageing parents.
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1975 Jrnl. Asian & Afr. Stud. 10 56 Middle aged Japanese today are members of a ‘sandwich generation’ in that, like people in middlehood anywhere, they are weighed down by the elders from above, pressed against by insurgent youth from below.
1994 Guardian 8 Aug. i. 2/5 These, mainly professional people, are what I would call the sandwich generation—they have responsibilities at both ends... In the past, their aged parents would have died earlier and their kids would not have been in full-time education for so long.
2002 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 12 May 45 For those in the sandwich generation, I recommend Karen Henderson's www.caregiver.on.ca; she addresses everything from dementia to falls to elder abuse.
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sandwich maker n. (a) a person who makes sandwiches, spec. one who is employed to do this; (b) an electric appliance for toasting sandwiches.
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1845 D. M. Evans City ix. 164 Sutton, the sandwich-maker, is quite an adept in this department; the ease with which he mows down the quartern loaves.
1930 Oil City (Pa.) Derrick 17 Oct. 11/7 Automatic electric sandwich maker. Was $12.50.
1995 Kay & Co. Catal. Autumn–Winter 906/1 Breville Professional grill/sandwich maker. 2 sets of non-stick cooking plates are supplied..one set for making delicious sealed toasted sandwiches.
2003 P. Genovese Jersey Shore Uncovered 207 All the sandwich makers may seem businesslike if not brusque, but they're funny, personable guys.
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Sandwichn.3
/ˈsan(d)wɪtʃ/, U.S. /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪtʃ/ Applied to a factory in Sandwich and to glass produced there from 1825 to 1888.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [adjective] > glass-works
Sandwich1881
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > other types of glass
blownc1425
Bohemian1682
grounded1698
soft1758
unsilvered1772
navelledc1817
drawn-out1822
muffled1847
ambitty1856
muffed1868
roughcast1868
Sandwich1881
fumé1883
hand-blown1885
peach-blow1886
opaque1907
mould-blown1925
offhand1941
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 227 American finger-bowls..are made at the sandwich factory in Massachusetts.
1922 Antiques (Boston) Feb. 57/2 Until recently no one had taken the trouble to look into the sources of sandwich glass.
1935 J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 164 The buttery shelves of every house in our town were filled with Sandwich glass at that period.
1947 R. P. T. Coffin Yankee Coast 276 Long shelves across the north windows, every inch of them covered with sandwich glass drinking the pure north light.
1964 J. Cleary Flight of Chariots vi. 251 She bought four-poster beds, Windsor chairs, Sandwich glass, hooked rugs.
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sandwichv.
/ˈsan(d)wɪdʒ/, /ˈsamwɪdʒ/, /ˈsan(d)wɪtʃ/, /ˈsamwɪtʃ/, U.S. /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪtʃ/ 1. intransitive ? To make a light repast.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating meals > eat meal [verb (intransitive)] > eat light meal
to eat (or take) a sopc1330
mistea1425
banquet1564
bever1607
collation1611
snack1807
sandwich1815
nosh1892
1815 J. Wilson in Mem. (1879) vi. 133 I called..at Glencorse where I sandwiched for an hour.
2. transitive. To put in or as in a sandwich; chiefly figurative, to insert (something) between two other things of a widely different character; to place (different elements) alternately; rarely, to enclose like a sandwich. Frequently const. in.
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the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > place (a thing) between
interlace1532
interlard1545
interplace1548
object1548
intersert1582
lace1595
interpose1599
interblend1605
interlay1609
enlard1621
interpone1678
intercalate1824
interpolate1827
interlocate1851
interleave1856
sandwich1861
1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 204 If capital would only turn its attention to the supplies of animal food..every man might have a slice of good beef sandwiched between his free-trade bread.
1864 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 4/4 Mr. Disraeli sandwiches between sensible suggestions some of his very worst thoughts.
1881 Times 24 Feb. 8/3 The target was formed of two steel plates, ‘sandwiching’ an inch of deal.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. v. 42 The wash..being sandwiched in between a bed of white pipe-clay and a top layer of brownish earth.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 78 I'm sandwiched 'tween the coffee and the pork.
1900 Times 7 July 10/1 To offend the ear still further these calls of screeching boys are sandwiched by ‘Any seat, Sir, but the first four rows’.
1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match iv. 104 He liked to sandwich the weak and the strong, the swift and the slow.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ii. 29 The miner does that journey to and fro, and sandwiched in between..are seven and a half hours of savage work.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 30 Since the D.H. was sandwiched between them..he was almost pulverised.
1957 Technology Mar. 16/2 Mechanical engineering students at Hendon Technical College sandwich eight weeks of study with eight weeks of factory work.
1977 Time 30 May 40/3 He sits in a rocker sandwiched between speakers blaring the hard rock music of the Grateful Dead.
3. intransitive. To be employed as a sandwich-man.
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18861 [see sandwiching n. at Derivatives].
Derivatives
ˈsandwiching n.
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the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > action of placing between
interposition1412
object1526
objectionc1550
interplacing1567
interjecture1578
interlarding1581
interjecting1583
chopping1587
interjection1598
interpose1610
interlocation1611
interposal1625
intermission1628
interposure1628
intercalation1649
interposing1657
interpolation1849
sandwiching1877
intrapolation1956
society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun]
advertisement1600
advertising1717
puffery1731
sandwiching1877
promotion1914
eye1924
promo1955
hidden persuasion1957
metamessage1960
shout line1990
1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 334 In puff paste the butter and the paste are separate and there is no mixing or kneading—only what may be called fine sandwiching.
1886 Good Words 27 247 Election sandwiching is paid for at higher rates than ordinary advertisement sandwiching.
1886 Times 1 Apr. 9/1 The sandwiching of the Budget between the two declarations of policy.
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transitive. Sport (originally North American). To block the movement of (an opposing player) by trapping or crushing him or her between oneself and a team-mate. Frequently in passive.
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1971 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 52/8 He had been sandwiched by two Dolphin blockers on the play.
1985 Sports Illustr. 1 Apr. 21/1 Keith Lee and..William Bedford, who sandwiched Oklahoma star Wayman Tisdale at the back of the Tiger zone..had each picked up a fourth foul.
2002 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 7 Apr. (caption) Montreal forward Shaun Van Allen gets sandwiched between Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Marc Denis and winger Chris Nielsen.
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