单词 | stadium |
释义 | stadiumn. 1. An ancient Greek and Roman measure of length, varying according to time and place, but most commonly equal to 600 Greek or Roman feet, or one-eighth of a Roman mile. (In the English Bible rendered by furlong.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > stadium (ancient Greek or Roman unit) furlongc900 stadiuma1398 stagec1480 stade?1537 stound1656 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxix. 1381 Þe stadium is þe eiȝteþ part of a myle. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxix. 151 Amicle, distant twentie stadias from Lacedemon. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Introd. 11 Meroe..in length three thousand stadios or furlongs. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xxiii. l. 14 A Stadium or Furlong maketh of our paces 125... Posidonius saith, That from the earth it is no lesse than fortie stadia to that height..wherein..clouds doe engender. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. i. i. 530 Two Palme trees..which were barren,..til they came to see one another by growing vp higher, though many Stadiums asunder. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 82 When he had born off to sea about ten stadium's. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 325 The Circus..was three Stadia's in length. 2. A race-course for foot-racing, originally a stadium in length; hence occasionally foot-racing as an exercise. In modern use often in extended sense, a place for athletic exercises; spec. an enclosed area for sporting events equipped with tiers of seats for spectators. (The plural stadiums is usual in this sense.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] ring?a1400 rink1489 game place1542 playing field1583 rink-room1594 stadium1603 cirque1644 xystus1664 amphitheatre1710 field1730 grandstand1754 chunk-yard1773 sports ground1862 park1867 sports field1877 pitch1895 close1898 sports centre1907 padang1909 sports stadium1911 bowl1913 field house1922 sportsdrome1951 sports complex1957 astrodome1964 dome1965 sportsplex1974 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > course furlongc1374 stadiec1374 stadium1603 stade1875 lane1909 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] runningeOE foot race1592 foot strife?1611 foot match1660 foot racing1698 stadium1749 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > specific ground stadium1928 paradise1946 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Stadium, a race or space of ground, conteining 625. foote. 1676 F. Vernon in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 579 There is the stadium yet to be seen. 1749 G. West tr. Pindar Odes (1753) II. Olympick i. 10 Homer..introduces his greatest Heroes contending in the very same kind of Exercises, with those practised in the Stadium of Olympia. 1749 G. West tr. Pindar Odes (1753) II. Olympick vii. 61 The simple Foot-Race, named the Stadium, from the Length of the Course. 1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. ii. 26 One of the greatest of the public works of Athens was the stadium of Herodes Atticus. 1834 Baron Berenger (title) Particulars and Recommendations of the Stadium, or British National Arena for Manly and Defensive Exercises, Equestrian, Chivalric and Aquatic Games..at the Residence of the late Lord Cremorne. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxviii. 96 Kylon..had gained the prize in the Olympic stadium. 1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man ii. 51 We always think of the oracles of the gods as dropping in grove and grotto, not in street and stadium. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 8/2 The stadium for sports, covering ten acres, is one of the chief features of the [Pan-American] Exposition [at Buffalo]. 1928 Times 20 Apr. 6/6 It would be difficult to imagine a more impressive enclosure than the Stadium [sc. Wembley Stadium] for the holding of the greatest football festival of the year. 1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 59 It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium. 1972 G. Green Great Moments in Sport: Soccer iii. 44 As for Lenin Stadium itself, it was very much like Wembley before the cover went on, an elliptical concrete monster, liberally dotted with exits and entrances, and steeply tiered. 3. A stage of a process, disease, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > a stage in a process or development degreec1230 greea1340 steadc1370 pointc1475 nick1649 stadium1669 notch1670 grade1796 step1811 milestone1820 way station1863 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease period?a1425 stade1710 stadium1726 stage1747 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 190 The several Stadiums of this Salt gives the various apparencies of growth, maturity, and old age of Plants. 1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 391 Hence those Deliriums, Coma's, &c. so frequently threatening at this Stadium of the Disease. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 69 Hence different stadia of life seem to exercise some control [over insanity]. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. 282 We are still far off our last stadium of developement. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 155 Its good effects are limited, however, to that stadium of these maladies in which the morbid action is confined to the nasal passages. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 36 A new stadium in the advance of the revolutionary idea commenced. 1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. II. ii. ii. 26 As the later stadia of her [Nature's] developments rise above the earlier. 1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. i. 158 The intervals between the ecdyses are called stadia, the first stadium being the period between hatching and the first ecdysis. 4. Surveying. (See quots.) Cf. stadia n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > for measuring distances stadium1861 stadia1865 1861 Brit. Patent 402 1 An improved stadium or telemetre. 1871 Heather Math. Instrum. III. 79 The Stadium for measuring distances in rifle practice. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 850/1 Stadium, the leveling rod of a surveyor. 5. Geology. = stade n.1 3. Now Obsolete or rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > ice-age or glaciation > stade stadium1910 stadial1954 stade1961 1910 Zeitschr. f. Gletscherkunde IV. 246 The later stages of glaciation in the scheme proposed by Geikie..may prove to correspond to the stadia of the Alpine region which are so clearly brought out by Penck and Brückner in their recent great work. 1914 W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age vii. 156 An investigation of the stages of retreat in the Etsch district has shown that three main stadia can also be distinguished here. 1937 W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age (ed. 2) xi. 185 This stadium must..be dated back before the Swiss pile-dwellings, or in round numbers 7000 years ago. Draft additions December 2005 stadium rock n. a type of rock music perceived as sounding grandiose, anthemic, or bombastic, and characteristically performed at lavish stage shows in sports stadiums before huge audiences. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of jazz-rock1915 rockabilly1956 rockaboogie1956 hard rock1959 folk-rock1963 soft rock1965 surf rock1965 acid rock1966 raga rock1966 progressive rock1968 Christian rock1969 cock rock1970 punk1970 punk rock1970 space rock1970 swamp rock1970 techno-rock1971 glitter rock1972 grunge1973 glam-rock1974 pub rock1974 alternative rock1975 dinosaur rock1975 prog rock1976 AOR1977 New Wave1977 pomp rock1978 prog1978 anarcho-punk1979 stadium rock1979 oi1981 alt-rock1982 noise1982 noise-rock1982 trash1983 mosh1985 emo-core1986 Goth1986 rawk1987 emo1988 grindcore1989 darkwave1990 queercore1991 lo-fi1993 dadrock1994 nu metal1995 1979 News (Frederick, Maryland) 10 Dec. c5/3 Like Foreigner, Boston and many other groups, Cheap Trick plays the sort of Stadium Rock that has proven so popular in the late '70s. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic i. 31 In triumphalist movies like Top Gun, the bombast of stadium rock reinforces the bombast of gung-ho militarism, where heavy metal pumps iron and bombs Libya. 2003 I. MacDonald People's Music 66 By now the prototype for stadium rock, Cream had accumulated massive amplification and were accordingly getting even more ponderous. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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