单词 | snoring |
释义 | snoringn. a. The action of the verb. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > snoring routingc1405 snoringc1440 snorting1575 stertorousness1845 stertoriousnessa1849 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 462/1 Snorynge, stertura. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ci v The snowring, le roufler. a1616 F. Beaumont Charme v, in Poems (1640) H iv b Sable Midnight makes all dumbe, But thy jealous husbands snoring. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 208. ⁋6 We have a Member of our Club, that when Sir Jeffery falls asleep, wakens him with Snoring. 1781 R. Burke in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 404 The meditations of the judge, the snoring of jurors. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxiv The dormitory, where..a concert of snoring began to be executed. 1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. v It was the snoring of Wynne in a drunken sleep: it filled the entire cottage. 1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ix. 69 There was a silence, broken only by the snoring of air through the wind-bore cast of the pump. 1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ix. 70 The snoring of the pump had stopped. 1951 R. Hargreaves This Happy Breed ix. 102 The obscene snorings of the saxophone. b. spec. in Pathology (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > sounds heard in auscultation bombus1753 hydatism1753 pectoriloquism1820 murmur1821 resonance1821 snoring1822 thrill1822 râle1825 pectoriloquy1826 respiration1826 rhonchus1827 bronchophonism1834 bronchophony1834 hum1839 tick-tack1853 friction-sound1860 friction-fremitus1877 sibilus1887 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 467 Rhonchus Stertor. Snoring. 1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 49 We can distinguish five principal kinds of rhonchi:..3. the dry sonorous rhonchus, or snoring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). snoringadj. 1. That snores. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [adjective] > snoring snurting1567 snorting1573 snoring1688 stertorous1802 stertorious1803 rhonchal1857 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Hhh3v/2 Ronfleur,..a snoring Man. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week vi. 36 Cic'ly, brisk maid, steps forth.., And kiss'd with smacking lip the snoring lout. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 131 I was lying at one end of a dirty room, the other being occupied by the snoring landlord. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 111 He is of those Who steal the keys from snoring Destiny. 1894 Outing 24 119/2 Great rocks which resemble the snouts of snoring humans. 2. Of a breeze: Strong, stiff. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > strong strongeOE stiffc1290 sternc1374 wrothc1400 vehement1483 strainable1497 freshc1515 stout1533 bloysterous?1570 ruffing1577 boisterous?1594 lofty1600 chafing1762 blustery1774 smacking1820 snoring1822 spanking1849 gale force1902 1822 A. Cunningham Mariner's Song ii But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 78 A snoring breeze came away from the southward. 3. Having the characteristic sound of a snore; loud and harsh. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > snort, snore, or snarl snarling1602 snorting1825 snoring1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. iii. 224 Sleeping Paris is now..silent except for some snoring hum. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 610 On the left side the respiration was loud and ‘snoring’... Posteriorly the ‘snoring’ breathing was audible everywhere. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 1018 Most frequently it [a presystolic murmur] is snoring or rolling. Derivatives ˈsnoringly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adverb] > snorting, snoring, or snarling snoringly1824 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 593 A set of prosy lines slumber along snoringly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1440adj.1688 |
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