| 单词 | stair-step |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstair-step stair-step n. and v. (a) n. one of the steps in a flight of stairs; also figurative and as adj., resembling a stair-step; also attributive in stair-step curve; stair-step, intransitive, to resemble stair-steps; (b) v. to furnish with a range of steps. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [verb (transitive)] > provide with steps stair-step1794 grade1896 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > step stepc825 treadlea1000 stopelc1200 degreec1290 passa1400 pace1423 grece1448 stair1530 footing1725 stair-step1794 gradin1839 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adjective] > gradual or in stages gradual1692 soft1794 gradationary1824 pedetentous1837 gradational1842 stair-step1959 the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > upwards > in steps to bench in1716 stair-step1961 1794 N. Parry Jrnl. 26 June in Kentucky Hist. Soc. Reg. (1936) XXXIV. 386 Ky. hill on the south shore is exceeding bad, being long, steep, & broken with Limestone, somewhat resembling stair-steps. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1089 Soles and lintels, stair-steps, crow-steps. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xi. 75 Then our huge pyramidal Fatherland's-Altar, Autel de la Patrie, in the centre, also to be raised and stair-stepped. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 568/1 The neutralization, instead of the stair-step curve, as used by Ehrlich in his spectrum, could be represented by a very regular curve. 1925 C. R. Cooper Lions 'n' Tigers iv. 76 This was the district of ‘stair-steps’, of thin, narrow-shouldered women, trailed by processions of children, five and six in a line. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands ix. 415 This position..occupied a broad stairstep on the slope of the hill between Mount Mario..and the Vasa-Barris. 1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 19/2 The ‘stairstep’ plan in use in Nashville calls for integration classes starting with the first grades and adding one grade each year. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stair-step v. intr. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 203 Some of the English terms are literal equivalents of terms used by German-speaking skiers and might be called loan translations:..stair step, Treppenschritt. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 11 July 1- c/3 Yellow clover which carpets the banks smells sweet, grassy rims stairstep against the distant horizon. stair-step stair-step n. and v. (a) n. one of the steps in a flight of stairs; also figurative and as adj., resembling a stair-step; also attributive in stair-step curve; stair-step, intransitive, to resemble stair-steps; (b) v. to furnish with a range of steps. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [verb (transitive)] > provide with steps stair-step1794 grade1896 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > step stepc825 treadlea1000 stopelc1200 degreec1290 passa1400 pace1423 grece1448 stair1530 footing1725 stair-step1794 gradin1839 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adjective] > gradual or in stages gradual1692 soft1794 gradationary1824 pedetentous1837 gradational1842 stair-step1959 the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > upwards > in steps to bench in1716 stair-step1961 1794 N. Parry Jrnl. 26 June in Kentucky Hist. Soc. Reg. (1936) XXXIV. 386 Ky. hill on the south shore is exceeding bad, being long, steep, & broken with Limestone, somewhat resembling stair-steps. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1089 Soles and lintels, stair-steps, crow-steps. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xi. 75 Then our huge pyramidal Fatherland's-Altar, Autel de la Patrie, in the centre, also to be raised and stair-stepped. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 568/1 The neutralization, instead of the stair-step curve, as used by Ehrlich in his spectrum, could be represented by a very regular curve. 1925 C. R. Cooper Lions 'n' Tigers iv. 76 This was the district of ‘stair-steps’, of thin, narrow-shouldered women, trailed by processions of children, five and six in a line. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands ix. 415 This position..occupied a broad stairstep on the slope of the hill between Mount Mario..and the Vasa-Barris. 1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 19/2 The ‘stairstep’ plan in use in Nashville calls for integration classes starting with the first grades and adding one grade each year. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stair-step v. intr. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 203 Some of the English terms are literal equivalents of terms used by German-speaking skiers and might be called loan translations:..stair step, Treppenschritt. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 11 July 1- c/3 Yellow clover which carpets the banks smells sweet, grassy rims stairstep against the distant horizon. < as lemmas |
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