单词 | side wind |
释义 | side windn.adj. A. n. 1. a. A wind blowing predominantly from one side (of a vessel, aeroplane, motor vehicle, etc.); a wind blowing across the direction of travel. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind as means of propulsion > other topsail1390 side winda1398 quarter wind1523 quartern wind1592 elbow-winda1722 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. iii. 573 Wyndis beþ twelue. Foure þerof beþ clepid cardynales, chef wyndis, and eiȝte collaterales, side wyndes. a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) ii. 22 Þer kynde is for þe moste parte to flee euer in þe wynde, till he be nere ouercome; or at the leste syde wynde so þat it be euer in his nosethrille. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 598 (MED) They sailede with a syde-wynde oure þe salte strandez. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 696/2 Some shyppe wyll sayle as faste with a syde wynde as some wyll with a full wynde. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iii. 5/2 But it is a side wind, and we must alway lie side waies in the wind almost untill wee come to the cape de Bona Speranza. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xi. 155 The force of the winde continuing still, being a side wind, the Admiralles shippe discovered an opening. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccxxxvi. 60 One mighty Squadron, with a side wind sped, Through narrow lanes his cumber'd fire does haste. 1716 I. Newton Let. 27 Jan. in Corr. (1976) VI. 271 How far it will keep a true recconing of the motion of a ship sideways occasioned by a sidewind does not appear to me. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 434 Orators have celebrated the daring courage of the Romans, who ventured to set sail with a side-wind, and on a stormy day. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. i. 56 He ought also to know how to take the advantage of a side wind. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 133 A strong side wind was blowing at the time. 1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 140/2 Keeping a course in a side wind is always a problem on a long flight. 1979 Pop. Sci. Nov. 75/1 We think this car will behave better than others in sidewinds. 1996 J. Warburton-Lee Roof of Americas ii. 48/2 We crossed the bottom of the Stewart River valley down which a fierce side wind howled. b. In figurative contexts, typically with reference to an indirect or secondary influence, or a circumstance or factor that causes a departure from a direct route or course. ΚΠ ?1565 A. Hartwell tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle sig. Aiiiv Wauerying fantasyes, sydewinde of deuelyshe suggestion, colde northwinde of dyssention. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. i. 75 Sayling as it were with a side winde..they rather seeme to insinuate it, then to inforce it, that it is vnlawefull. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. B2v With a side winde Must I now saile, else I no hauen can finde. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. iii. 157 Some sail to the port of their own praise by a side-wind. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a3v All this while I have been Sailing with some side-wind or other toward the Point I propos'd in the beginning. 1787 G. Colman Prose Several Occasions III. 145 Horace not only made towards his point with some side-wind or other, but proceeded by an easy navigation and tolerably plain sailing. 1836 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Aug. 570 Some of the side winds of this moral tornado reached us, but not to do so much harm. 1875 Theodore Tilton vs. Henry Ward Beecher III. 749/1 He was determined to protect his wife and children that even a side wind should not visit them too roughly. 1908 H. James Let. 1 Jan. (1920) II. 90 I do get, as the very breath of the Spice-islands, the balmy sidewind of your general luxuriance. 2015 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 5 Feb. The circumstances we find ourselves in are difficult... There are head winds, and side winds. 2. figurative. An indirect means, method, or manner. Chiefly in by a side wind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [noun] circumquaque1546 circumduction1602 circumambulation1606 circuitya1626 indirectness1628 side wind1648 circumbendibus1681 ambagiosity1819 circumambulating1837 ambagiousness1867 circuitousness1869 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 119 What they could not carry with a fore-wind, they now brought in againe with a side-wind. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 9 Let us come to a question by a side-wind, rather than by no wind. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 84 Others..could not forbear some Expressions, which by a side-wind reflected on me. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 117 Acts of parliament have by a sidewind countenanced and established them. 1813 Ann. Reg. 1812 Gen. Hist. 18/1 The fact of which excess only came out by a side wind when the bill was brought forward. 1841 J. W. Croker Let. 12 Feb. in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) II. xxii. 197 Let the House..pass a distinct law against the practice, but not attempt to do it by a sidewind. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. x. 132 This is an attempt to evade and by a side wind defeat the provision of the Federal Constitution. 1963 Financial Times 10 Oct. 8/8 Mr. Wilson's scientific plan would introduce nationalisation by a side wind. 2009 Times 22 Oct. 79/5 It was not the purpose of the 1998 Act to overrule the will of Parliament by a side-wind. 1. Not expressed or done in a direct way; indirect, oblique. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adjective] collateralc1374 ambagious?1532 indirect1584 circular1617 squint1619 squinting1648 sidelong1654 circumferentiala1661 circuitous1664 side wind1672 side-winded1696 roundabout1701 side-handed1828 1672 T. Crane Isagoge ad Dei Providentiam iv. 442 Take notice what a prop here is for Faith, from the consideration of a side-wind-influence of Providence. 1680 J. Owen Some Considerations Union Protestants 4 This Jurisdiction as it is exercised with a side wind Power, distinct from..the publick Justice of the Nation,..is a great cause of the continuation of Divisions among Protestants. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus Pref. 2 Others, by the nipping strokes of a side-wind Satyr, have endeavoured to tickle men out of their Follies. 1732 Tricks of Town 19 One constant Topick of Conversation, is the..Cheapness of the Eatables; with a Side-wind Reflection on another house. 1812 Examiner May 293/1 The sort of side-wind defence which some of his Majesty's Ministers had set up. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiii. 339 One of those sly, side-wind girds at the French. 1877 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 24 347/2 If you do not think we are doing the proper thing, move a resolution to that effect, because we do not understand these sidewind motions. 2. Of a child: born out of wedlock; illegitimate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate cheves-bornOE misbegetc1325 bastc1330 misbegettenc1330 bastard1376 unlawfula1425 naturalc1425 illegitime1502 base1529 base-begot1534 illegitimate1536 misbegotten1554 bastarded1579 misborn1583 nameless1594 spurious1598 unfathered1600 misgotten1623 misbegot1626 baseborn1645 slip-sprung1665 born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675 side wind1738 love-begotten1761 born on the wrong side of the blanket1771 anonymous1869 sinistral1897 1738 C. Hornby Three Lett. iii. 171 Be pleased to know, that our K. Hen. i. (who was mere natural Flesh and Blood) had Seven Side-wind Sons, and as many Daughters of the same sort. 1897 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 455 Reginald.., side-wind son of Henry I. 1906 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 38 339 Reginald died 1 July, 1175..leaving two side-wind sons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1398 |
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