| 单词 | sea-chart |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea-chart b. spec. (short for sea-chart): A map for the use of navigators; a delineation of a portion of the sea, indicating the outline of the coasts, the position of rocks, sandbanks, channels, anchorages, etc. Also figurative; and in combinations, as chart-box, chart-wright; chart-house n., chart-room n. an apartment in a ship, in which the charts, navigating instruments, etc., are kept. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > chart shipman's card1530 carda1532 chard?a1560 sea-card?a1560 mariner's card1594 seaman card1636 chart1696 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart shipman's card1530 carda1532 card of the sea1555 chard?a1560 sea-card?a1560 mariner's card1594 seaman card1636 sea-chart1669 chart1696 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > chart room chart-house1891 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Chart, or Cart, a Sea-Cart. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvi. 443 I do not find it set down in any Sea-Chart. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Chart, is a Draught projected for the use of Seamen, discovering the Sea-coasts, Sands, Rocks. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 174. ⁋1 He..ought to make some improvements in the chart of life, by marking the rocks on which he has been dashed. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 35 The Doctor..was apt to be offended if any one called his work a Map: he would have it called a Chart; and yet in strictness I think it cannot be called so, since we have appropriated this word to Sea-affairs. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. ix. 218 A chart..points out..the peculiarities of his navigation. 1854 W. H. Smyth Mediterranean in R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. (1872) The more recent plans..reveal the awful neglect of our modern chartwrights. 1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 85 Our navigation is safer for the chart. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 11 The Chart-room..with ranges of shelves stocked with charts and hydrographic, magnetic, and meteorological instruments. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiogr. (ed. 2) We speak of the plan of an estate, the map of a country, the chart of an ocean. 1891 H. O. Arnold-Forster In Conning Tower 29 I was standing close to the chart house on the upper bridge. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 23 June 9/1 During the thick weather he had been having his meals in the chart-room forward. 1907 Daily Chron. 10 Aug. 4/4 The chart-house door. 1937 Discovery Jan. 23/2 The chart-room scale. sea-chart ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart shipman's card1530 carda1532 card of the sea1555 chard?a1560 sea-card?a1560 mariner's card1594 seaman card1636 sea-chart1669 chart1696 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. iii. 157 By the true Sea-chart you are arrived at G. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 266 This Sea-cart is also called a Plot. 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. 210 The modern sea carts make it [Cyprus] only one hundred and thirty-five [miles] in length. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 520/2 By 1601 Mercator's projection was in use for all sea charts. < as lemmas |
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