单词 | smeared |
释义 | smearedadj. 1. In contemptuous use: Anointed. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > [adjective] > anointed y-eledc1275 anointc1350 ointedc1384 anointed?c1400 aneled1440 greasy?1542 oiled1546 smeared?1550 nointed1566 ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 17 The popes Smered presthod. 1554 H. Hilarie Resurreccion of Masse sig. Aviij My smered Chaplens..I make them to be called Syrs euery one. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K3 Being a greasie priest, & smered prelate. 2. a. Dirtied or soiled by smearing; bedaubed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > smeared smearya1529 smutchy1579 smeared1584 slubbered1588 besmeared1592 smudged1624 smudgy1859 beslubbered1863 1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 20 Pasiphae preferred a Bull before a King, and Venus a smeered Smith before Mars the God of Battayle. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis v. 122 Nor could he fall; but..Hung by the hand against the smeared post. 1692 A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) 72 The most part of their laid-wool, call'd in other parts smear'd wool, is..so called, because..they melt butter and tar together, and therewith they..smear their sheep. 1795 in J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth (1799) 533 The smeared kind at 7s. or 8s. per stone; and their white wool from 8s. to 10s. 1840 G. Barret Theory & Pract. Water Colour Painting 16 While the smeared part is being cleaned with India-rubber. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xv. 304 Holding out his smeared hand. b. smeared dagger n. a species of moth. ΚΠ 1883 W. Saunders Insects Injurious to Fruits 325 The Smeared Dagger, Apatella oblinita... This peculiarity being partly obliterated in this species, it has received the common name of the ‘smeared dagger’. 3. a. Laid on in a smearing manner. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > smearing with a substance > laid on by smearing smeared1820 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 74 The smeared loam With tears, as chilly as a dripping well, She drench'd away. b. smeared out: spread out, distributed; averaged over a volume of space or a period of time. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused diffusec1475 diffused?1570 spread1585 distended1595 squandered1647 disseminated1662 smeared out1931 1931 Nature 8 Aug. 211/1 It can be represented..by supposing each electron to move in the field of the nucleus and the other electrons, representing it by the ‘smeared out’ continuous distribution which the solution of the wave equation gives, and then taking the electron atmosphere to be the sum of these distributions. 1977 New Scientist 21 Apr. 120/2 By measuring their extinction properties at a single wavelength we could show that the smeared-out density of dust grains is a few per cent of the density of all matter in interstellar space. 1979 Nature 18 Jan. 188/1 This behaviour..will be completely smeared out at experimental temperatures. 1979 Sci. Amer. Nov. 128/1 A wave function..often describes the electron as if it were smeared out over a large region of space. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.?1550 |
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