| 单词 | stress difference |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstress difference (a) General use as a modifier, as in stress component, stress difference, stress distribution, stress pattern, etc. ΚΠ 1856 W. Thomson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 146 496 The concurrences of the stress-components used in interpreting the differential equation of energy with the types of the strain-coordinates. 1881 G. H. Darwin in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 173 199 I shall refer to the difference between the greatest and least principal stresses as ‘the stress-difference’. 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 225 470 Material that has been deformed under known stress conditions. 1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. vi. 193 Tektites reveal series of dark and light bands associated with the internal stress-pattern. 1969 Surv. Iron Castings (Council Ironfoundry Assoc.) 25/1 Photoelastic stress analysis is sometimes employed, which permits a quantitative determination of stress distribution. 1997 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 13 July h28/4 Much of this music has been kept alive by Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman, two American virtuosos who were diverted to it by stress injuries to their presumably overactive right hands. 2002 M. Vable Mech. of Materials viii. 514 Multiply the stress components by the area of the planes on which the stress components are acting, to obtain forces acting on that plane. stress difference (a) As a general modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characterized by phonological or metrical stress’, as in stress difference, stress placement, stress point, stress syllable, etc. ΚΠ 1847 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1848) 3 101 The stress-syllable may be made the more acute, or the more grave, at the discretion of the speaker. 1893 R. Bridges Milton's Prosody 69 Here was..a definite statement of the laws of a stress prosody. 1910 G. Henderson Norse Influence on Celtic Scotl. v. 110 The tone falls on the stress syllable with grave accent. 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xvii. 231 The old compound mankind (now stressed on the second syllable) comprises all human beings, but the younger mankind (stressed on the first syllable) is opposed to womankind. (The stress-difference, as made in N.E.D., is not, however, recognized by everybody.) 1956 Kenyon Rev. 18 466 Mr. Chatman has shown the metrical stress-points in each line, but in my judgment he has misplaced them in lines 2, 12 and 14. 1971 Language 47 261 The analysis given..correctly predicts the existence of a stress difference associated with the two readings of sentences like The parable shows what suffering men can create. 1999 Phonology 16 15 This section begins by establishing the constraint ranking to account for antepenultimate stress and the locations of stress syllables. 2020 E. C. Zsiga Phonol./Phonetics Interface vii. 141 Stress placement plays an important role in the discussion of English phonology. < as lemmas |
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