| 单词 | body plan |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbody plan body plan n. (a) Shipbuilding an end elevation of a ship, showing the breadth, contour of the sides, etc., at various points along its length (in wooden ships at the principal timbers); (b) Zoology the general anatomical organization typical of animals of a particular phylum or other major group. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > lines, sections, or elevations middle line?c1400 sweep1627 lines1680 touch1711 waterline1750 station1754 sheer-draught1769 body plan1781 sheer-line1797 sheer-plan1797 touchline1797 water plane1798 centreline1806 buttock line1816 crown1830 scrieve1830 top-breadth line1846 wave-line1846 floor-plan1867 1781 M. Stalkartt Naval Archit. ii. vi. 37 In the body plan..the heads of the timbers are drawn and distinguished by FHd. meaning floor-head, and 1st FHd. meaning first futtock-head. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 137 The plan of projection, commonly called the body plan, which exhibits the outline of the principal timbers, and the greatest heights and breadths of the same. 1883 Proc. Royal Soc. 34 381 The conception of the body plan of Brachiopoda arising in this way involves an entirely new view of the homologies of the body surfaces. 1996 Trailer Boats Oct. 24/2 Vertical slices crosswise through the boat are taken at ordinates called stations and show in the body plan as sections. 2004 Washington Post 4 June (Home ed.) a10/5 The little fossils are the first evidence of what are called bilaterians—animals with a two-sided body plan. < as lemmas |
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