单词 | blacking out |
释义 | blacking outn. 1. The action of covering something with black; the action or an act of obliterating or obscuring something. Cf. blacking n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > deletion by marking dispunction1637 blacking out1773 blue-pencilling1891 x-ing1966 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > darkened condition > as an air-raid precaution blacking out1919 blackout1935 1773 A. Wood & J. Peshall Antient & Present State City of Oxf. 175 For blacking out of St. Thomas his Altar..and for making of the Chapels. 1866 Photographic News 8 June 267/1 The sky in a well-developed picture will not be black when finished, and will require blacking out by hand. 1882 N. H. J. Westlake Hist. Design Painted Glass II. v. vi. 110/2 The pieces are larger, the lead work is simplified, the foliation is later, and blacking out is used instead of cross-hatching. 1905 Academy 27 May 562/1 Maternal censorship is rigid, the Russian blacking-out system not more so. 1919 Illustr. London News 27 Sept. 482 After the war-years,..the great ‘blacking-out’ to deceive enemy aircraft, London is herself again. 1959 Rotarian Mar. 11/3 The blacking out of radio signals during periods of solar flares. 2009 T. Paglen Blank Spots on Map v. 67 A heavily redacted document, filled with the blacking-out of information too sensitive to include. 2. The experience of having a blackout (blackout n. 2), esp. of being rendered unconscious; the occurrence of a blackout; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon swimeOE swooningc1290 swowa1325 swooningc1330 swoon1390 soundc1400 trancec1405 sweamc1415 swoundc1440 sweltingc1460 swarf1488 dwalm?a1513 sounding ecstasy?1565 sounding1580 pasme1591 death1596 lipothymy1603 deliquium1620 delique1645 fainting fit1714 drow1727 faint-fit1795 faint1808 blacking out1930 blackout1934 greyout1942 pass-out1946 1930 Lancet 11 Oct. 833/2 The chief effect of steep banking at high speed, known as blacking-out, appears to be due to the withdrawal of blood from the eye itself. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 397 The effect most frequently noticed is the well-known phenomenon of ‘blacking-out’, wherein the subject without losing consciousness becomes momentarily blind. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 48 645/2 This blacking out is not a contraindication to getting him up again later. 1955 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Feb. 303/1 It has aided the development of equipment to prevent blacking-out in aerobatics. 1976 Partisan Rev. 43 59 A silliness of constantly introduced new dislocations, wavering spacelessness.., faintings, weaknesses, blackings-out, continual and spasmodic imbalances. 2007 M. Holmes & T. Hutchison Hang-ups, Hook-ups & Holding Out vi. 170 Blacking out is also one of the signs of alcohol poisoning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1773 |
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