| 单词 | square yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquare yard b. square inch, square foot, square yard, etc., a rectangular space measuring an inch, foot, etc., either way. Also, designating a space of any shape containing the same amount of area as a regular square inch, mile, etc. (cf. superficial adj. 1c). square mile: a measure of area equal to a square with sides of one mile; also spec. a familiar term for the (heart of the) City of London. In quot. 1667 at sense 1a ‘square Inches’ are = ‘cubic inches’ (cf. 3b), and in quot. 1715 the sense is ‘of 36 square inches’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a space measuring so much each way footeOE square yard1625 superfoot1810 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a space measuring so much each way > a square mile mile-square1754 square mile1868 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of vintrya1456 steelyard1474 tower hillc1480 city1556 Bow-bell1600 row1607 gate1723 east end1742 Mayfair1754 garden1763 warren1769 west?1789 the Borough1797 west end1807 Holy Land1821 Belgravia1848 Tyburnia1848 Mesopotamia1850 South Kensington1862 Dockland1904 South Ken1933 Fitzrovia1958 square mile1966 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. viii. 200 The product will shew the number of square miles in the face of the Terrestriall Globe. ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 36 If you would let it by the square Foot,..it is worth twelve pence a Foot per ann. ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 165 A Foot solid measure hath seventeen hundred twenty eight square Inches. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 59 To do the Work per Yard square. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 161 There are but few Cavities in this Construction, and those but 36 Inches square. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying Example. 19 rods the diagonal. 5 rods the perpendicular. 95 square rods the content. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 302 A weight of fifteen pounds upon every square inch. 1837 J. T. Smith tr. L. J. Vicat Pract. & Sci. Treat. Mortars & Cements 92 An absolute resistance of 5k.43 per centimetre square. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. App. 437 The result, in square chains and links, is converted into acres by a simple division by ten. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 48 His territories in Asia cover 668,580 English square miles. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 405 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Five and a half square rods of ground, which had not been manured. 1966 L. Southworth Felon in Disguise i. 13 Being a non-residential area, murders seldom occur in the square mile. 1971 Guardian 3 Mar. 18/4 Prince Charles was made a Freeman of the City of London yesterday... It was the kind of traditional occasion that the square mile does so well. 1975 Times 1 Mar. 12/2 The City Corporation hopes to have redeveloped 90 per cent of the square mile by 1980. square yard a. A measure of length (traditionally the standard unit of English long measure) equal to three feet or thirty-six inches. (See quot. 1867.) Also the corresponding measure of area ( square yard = 9 square feet) or of solidity ( cubic yard = 27 cubic feet).The earlier standard was the ell = 45 inches (ulna in Stat. de Pistoribus, 13th cent.); this was succeeded by the verge (1353) Act 27 Edw. III, stat. 2, c. 10), of which yard is the English equivalent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > yard yard1377 stoke1538 yardel1804 stretch1811 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 214 Thanne drowe I me amonges draperes my donet to lerne,..Amonge þe riche rayes I rendred a lessoun, To broche hem with a pak-nedle..And put hem in a presse and pynned hem þerinne, Tyl ten ȝerdes or twelue hadde tolled out threttene. 1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 64 For v ȝerdis and a half of grene bokeram iij s. iij d. 1496–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 32 An Awlter cloth..conteynyng in lengthe iij yardes di. 1518 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 152 A gowne of vi brode yardes at vjs the yard xxxvjs. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. iii. 37 I am two yards In the wast. 1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Obseruations E 4 b I bought..a yard and halfe of pudding for fiue pence. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 78 One hundred of Lathes will cover six yards of seeling, and lathing is worth six pence the yard. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 21 Sir James could obtain but 40s. a yard square for the cupola of St. Paul's. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed vii, in Tales Crusaders I. 123 Sir Cook, let me have half a yard or so of broiled beef. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 145 When penny magazines shall have superseded penny yards of song. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxv. 353 Mrs. Perch..has made the tour of the establishment, and priced the silks and damasks by the yard. 1867 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. I. i. §407 The British standard of length is the Imperial Yard, defined as the distance between two marks on a certain metallic bar, preserved in the Tower of London, when the whole has a temperature of 60° Fahrenheit. 1896 Law Times Rep. 73 615/1 The railway line..was perfectly straight for a distance of over 700 yards. < as lemmas |
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