单词 | snipped |
释义 | snippedadj. 1. Botany. Irregularly notched or serrated; incised. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > jagged, notched, or sharp-edged purfled?a1500 jagged?1523 snipped1578 cultellated1657 notched1682 crenated1688 emarginated1731 runcinated1773 runcinate1776 ancipital1785 ancipitous1859 ancipitate1879 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 15 The lesser Clote Burre hath grayish leaues,..iagged or snipte round about the edges. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. vi. 220 The leaves..snipped and cut about the edges ordinarily in five parts. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 67 A fair leaf,..snipped about the edges with sharp-pointed teeth, like a great saw. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 575 Stem-leaves snipt. 2. That has been subjected to snipping; jagged or irregularly cut. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] > cutting off or away (with an instrument) > cut off or cut with an instrument forcedc1440 pared1440 clipped1483 well-shaven1542 chipped1562 shared1598 slit1611 snipped1611 circumcised1664 neat-cut1770 whittled1792 sliced1874 skived1875 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Passe-poil, a snipped, or iagged welt of Taffata, &c. in a garment. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 1 Your sonne was misled with a snipt taffata fellow there. 1796 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 446 The snipt edges were hard. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) lviii. 491 There were no cheerless grates filled up with snipped silver paper. 1872 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 113 That snipped-out flannel of different colours. 3. Of style: Clipped, disjointed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected unjointed1588 disjointed1593 checkie-wise1603 rambling1632 loose1638 unconnexed1716 disconnected1777 snipped1806 dot and go one1818 spasmodic1832 spotty1843 snippety1864 rantipole1866 splathering1929 1806 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 506 Persons who write in a hurry are very liable to contract a sort of snipt, convulsive style. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1578 |
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