subsidencen.

Brit.

/səbˈsʌɪdns/,

/ˈsʌbsᵻdns/, U.S.

/səbˈsaɪdns/,

/ˈsəbsədns/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin subsīdentia, French subsidence.

Etymology: < classical Latin subsīdentia process of coming to rest, action of settling, sediment < subsīdent- , subsīdēns , present participle of subsīdere subside v. + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. In sense 1a perhaps also partly < French subsidence sediment (1557 in Middle French in a medical context, from 1570 in non-medical contexts); compare also Spanish subsidencia sediment (1573), Italian sussidenza sediment (a1698). Compare subsidency n. N.E.D. (1914) gives both pronunciations. The traditional pronunciation, which is given first, places the stress on the second syllable, but the form with the stress on the first syllable, under the influence of residence n.¹ and subsidy n., is recorded from the early 20th cent. and has gained in currency.

†a. Material that has settled to the bottom of a liquid; sediment; a precipitate or residue. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid

drega1300

groundsa1340

upon the lee1390

foundersc1450

residence1539

sediment1547

resident1558

precipitate1594

settling1594

precipitation1605

crassament1615

subsistence1622

subsidence1646

sedimen1655

crassamentum1657

deposit1781

sludge1839

ppt1864

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 92 A Chalky earth, which..steeped in water, affoordeth a cream..on the top, and a grosse subsidence at the bottome.

1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 15 The Earth was an impure, Sulphureous subsidence, or Caput mortuum of the Creation.

1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 109 The soil of the whole is the subsidence of a muddy water.

1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 421/2 Subsidence,..in pharmacy, the sediment falling from a liquid.

b. The action or process by which solid material settles to the bottom of a liquid; formation of sediment, precipitation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down > sinking or submerging in liquid > sinking of solid matter in liquid

residence1600

subsidence1656

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subsidence, a resting or setling in the bottom.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iii. 202 The same Law..was also observ'd in the subsidence of the Shells of Fishes.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 98 What I have written on the subsidence of chalk, and the simple method of recovering that almost-lost manure.

1799 Monthly Rev. 30 150 A force of subsidence, the natural consequence of gravity,..has produced similar effects.

1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) 119 Separate the liquid part by filtration or by subsidence.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. iv. §1. 361 The clear oil is afterwards agitated.., again clarified by subsidence [etc.].

1930 Standards & Specif. Nonmetallic Minerals (U.S. Dept. Commerce) 232/1 The presence of ammonium acetate in the test is helpful in that its presence tends to bring about rapidly the subsidence of the fine particles.

2006 D. Hendricks Water Treatm. Unit Processes vi. 144/2 At a certain point in the subsidence, the suspension concentration changes from Type III to Type IV, which is compression.

2. The action or an act of sinking or falling back into inactivity, quiescence, or a diminished state.

a. Of an action or a physical phenomenon.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > a stop or cessation of action or process > gradual

subsidence1651

subsidency1845

1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets vii. 70 The flaccidity..includeth also a subsidence and a certain emptiness, it evidently dependeth upon the defect and benummedness of the inherent Spirits.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments ii. 14 The alternate motion of those Air-Bladders, whose surfaces are by turns freed from mutual contact, and by a sudden Subsidence meet again by the ingress and egress of the Air.

1796 Coll. Papers Bilious Fevers vii. 167 The sweating stage follows of course, as in other cases of the subsidence of violent action.

1818 E. Henderson Iceland I. iv. 175 The pool..was lined with a dark blue bolus, left there on the subsidence of the waves.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. 81 The subsidence of this action [sc. throbbing] was always the signal for further advance.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 215 A second..fermentation takes place..; its subsidence diminishes the bulk of the wine.

1905 R. N. Bain Scand. 1 It was not till after the subsidence of the Viking raids..that Adaldag, archbishop of Hamburg, could open a new and successful mission.

1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. iii The deep lines in his sunken cheeks seemed to threaten a general subsidence of the whole flesh that would leave only his enormous dark eyes staring from the skull.

2010 C. M. Lambi Ecol. & Nat. Resource Devel. in W. Highlands Cameroon vi. 112 The lee locations have lower cloudiness values. This is logical due to the subsidence of air movement at this lee zone.

b. Of a feeling, disturbance, illness, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > becoming quiet or tranquil

settling1608

subsidence1675

1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xv. 175 A Liminary Scorvey is that, which upon the quietation and subsidence of a Praeliminary Ebullition buds forth.

1754 W. Warburton Serm. 27 Oct. in Wks. (1788) V. 519 The mind..being, by the subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions, now become attentive to, and sensible of, the soft and gentle impressions of tranquillity.

1792 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds I. 16 This melody..lasts only two or three months during the season of love, and changes into harsh low notes on the subsidence of that passion.

1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man ii. 70 A decided subsidence of her animosity.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 256 So these people burst out..into a noise and fury... And the subsidence is as sudden.

1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 421/2 Subsidence,..in pathology, the gradual cessation and disappearance of an attack of disease.

1927 E. C. Smith Borderland in Civil War viii. 241 Later reports caused a subsidence of popular passion.

1974 L. Horwitz Clin. Predict. in Psychotherapy vi. 118 There was evidence of very substantial progress and change in the subsidence of her symptoms..and the pursuit of her..goals.

2002 P. B. Brown in E. Lohr & M. Poe Mil. & Society in Russia i. 134 Aleksei displayed..anger, abuse, threat of dire punishment, and then subsidence of his ire and revocation of sentence.

c. Of power, authority, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition

rureOE

ebbingc1200

fallc1225

declinea1327

downfallingc1330

downfalla1400

fall of mana1400

wanea1400

ruinc1405

wrack1426

inclinationc1450

declination1533

labefactation1535

ebb1555

falling off1577

declining1581

inclining1590

declension1604

downset1608

neck-breaka1658

overseta1658

lapsing1665

reducement1667

lapse1680

labefaction1792

downshift1839

subsidence1839

downgrade1857

downturn1858

downslide1889

downswing1922

turn-down1957

tail-off1975

1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 347/2 The only matter in doubt is..if we are, beyond our deserts, preserved to witness the subsidence of their power into a state in which it shall cease from troubling.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiii. 17 It was about the period of the Gracchi that this subsidence of the old aristocracy of birth began first to be remarked.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 174 432/2 The subsidence of Mr Gladstone's authority over his party, led to that desperate attempt to regain it by a Home Rule policy.

2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sport section) 42 A telling factor in what many see as the gradual subsidence of a football super power comes in the membership figures.

a. The sinking or falling back of a liquid to a normal or lower level.In quot. 1863 figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down > of liquids

decidency1649

subsidence1660

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 189 The subsidence of the Oyl below the first mark.

1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. xix. 62 The Quick-silver that before stood at 29 inches..would fall so low as to rest at 9 or 10 inches, (for once I measur'd the Subsidence beneath its former Elevation).

1701 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Usefulness Math. Learning 15 The decrease of the Air's density according to the increase of the distance of the Earth has been demonstrated by..the subsidence of the Mercury in the Torricellian Experiment.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xx. 399 The colours emerge from the top of the bubble, and as it grows thinner, by the subsidence of the water, they dilate into rings.

1837 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 641 One of those Shem-Ham-and-Japhet buggies—made on Mount Ararat soon after the subsidence of the waters.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 143 The country..is a succession of the gentlest swells and subsidences.

1899 Pacific Reporter 58 104/2 The plaintiff sought to..show a gradual subsidence of the water of the lake..from natural causes.

1927 Times 4 Nov. 16/5 Efforts were directed to clearing the houses which the subsidence of floods made accessible.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Oct. iv. 20 Deeper circulation involves subsidence of water in the polar seas and its slow flow back to warmer latitudes.

2001 C. Bertini Meeting Challenges to Food Security in Horn of Afr. 4 Floods periodically affect localised parts of even the most arid regions..often with after-effects that last long after the subsidence of the flooding.

b. The falling away of rhythm or accent, esp. after a swell.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > fall in rhythm

subsidence1846

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 26/2 Concentrated are his arguments,..easy the swell and subsidence of his periods, his dialect purely attic.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x. 159 He delighted in the swell and subsidence of the rhythm, and the happily-recurring rhyme.

1936 Music Educators Jrnl. 23 68/3 (advt.) Interesting variety in dialogue of parts, key changes and rhythms; dramatic climax and subsidence.

2002 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Sept. f11 The ebb and flow of the music..offered firm rhythm, appealing swells and subsidence.

4. The more or less gradual sinking or caving in of an area of ground due to geological forces, mining operations, etc.; (also) the sinking of a building or other structure into the ground; an instance of this.cauldron, solution subsidence: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down

settlingc1440

sinking1440

declining1601

subsiding1607

subsidency1650

sedation1661

sinking-in1678

subsidence1754

sinkage1783

settlement1793

1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 62 Here then was a great subsidence; the land betwixt Sampson and Trescaw sunk at least sixteen feet, at a moderate computation.

1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 449 Though a local subsidence, or settling of the ground, could hardly account for this change,..yet a subsidence that has extended to a great tract..will agree very well with the appearances.

1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria vi. 131 The rock is..subject to slides or subsidences.

1861 Morning Post 27 Nov. They reached the door, but found it fixed by the subsidence of the walls.

1883 R. L. Stevenson in Mag. of Art Jan. 274/1 A trifling subsidence might drown the business quarters [of San Francisco] in an hour.

1912 Standard 20 Sept. 6/4 Streets and buildings..are being damaged by subsidences due to disused underground workings.

1955 Times 18 July 8/3 The recommendations of the Turner committee on mining subsidence.

1972 G. D. Johnson & C. F. Vondra in A. G. Jhingran et al. Himalayan Geol. II. 133 The continued rapid subsidence of the Indogangetic Plain.

2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 24 Sept. 1/2 The failure of the sea wall and the subsidence of the carriageway are a result of surcharging in a Scottish Water sewer.

Compounds

General attributive.

a. In sense 1b, designating containers or pools in which liquids are allowed to stand so that sediment can settle to the bottom, as subsidence reservoir, subsidence vat, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective] > sinking down > in liquid > sinking of solid matter in liquid > of or relating to

subsidence1845

1845 2nd Rep. Commissioners State Large Towns & Populous Districts iii. 325 in Parl. Papers XVIII. 1 Analyses made... No. 1. Water taken up immediately on its leaving the sewer. No. 2. Taken as it flowed from the subsidence pond.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Subsidence-vat, a dyer's settling-vat.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/1 All the companies supplying river water..have subsidence reservoirs, into which the water is first turned for the purpose of allowing such of the suspended solid matter as will to settle.

1941 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 13 67 Extreme variation in the suspended solids load in an influent to a plain subsidence tank are reflected only mildly in the effluent.

1990 C. Hamlin Sci. Impurity iii. 81 Usually the companies purified their river water by storing it in subsidence reservoirs, but it often emerged still turbid or discoloured.

b. In sense 4, esp. designating features resulting from subsidence, as subsidence crater, subsidence hollow, etc.

ΚΠ

1846 C. Darwin Let. 25 Feb. in Corr. (1987) III. 294 Forbes has been writing to me, about his subsidence doctrines.

1894 W. M. Conway Climbing & Explor. Karakoram-Himalayas vi. 121 On our way we noticed several subsidence hollows of considerable size, and some grassy shelves likewise formed by the internal yielding of the mountain.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 910 It must be a subsidence-crater due to a sinking of the ground, after the fashion of the great cauldrons seen in the islands of La Palma and Grand Canary.

1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vii. 63 Collapse of large bedding-plane caves would cause shallow depressions at the surface, like the subsidence-hollows of coalfields.

1969 Science 22 Aug. 774 (caption) The AEC's Nevada Test Site... Note the subsidence crater (left of center) from a previous explosion.

1985 Mining Mag. (Nexis) June 490 The land was mostly disused, comprising..refuse tips, derelict buildings, marshland and subsidence ponds.

1999 Which? Aug. 25/1 Most buildings insurance policies include subsidence damage cover as standard.

2006 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 1 Apr. (National section) 1 For years coastal scientists familiar with subsidence rates in the region have suspected estimates of storm damage might have been optimistic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	subsidence
释义	subsidencen. Brit. /səbˈsʌɪdns/, /ˈsʌbsᵻdns/, U.S. /səbˈsaɪdns/, /ˈsəbsədns/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin subsīdentia, French subsidence. Etymology: < classical Latin subsīdentia process of coming to rest, action of settling, sediment < subsīdent- , subsīdēns , present participle of subsīdere subside v. + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. In sense 1a perhaps also partly < French subsidence sediment (1557 in Middle French in a medical context, from 1570 in non-medical contexts); compare also Spanish subsidencia sediment (1573), Italian sussidenza sediment (a1698). Compare subsidency n. N.E.D. (1914) gives both pronunciations. The traditional pronunciation, which is given first, places the stress on the second syllable, but the form with the stress on the first syllable, under the influence of residence n.¹ and subsidy n., is recorded from the early 20th cent. and has gained in currency. 1. †a. Material that has settled to the bottom of a liquid; sediment; a precipitate or residue. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid drega1300 groundsa1340 upon the lee1390 foundersc1450 residence1539 sediment1547 resident1558 precipitate1594 settling1594 precipitation1605 crassament1615 subsistence1622 subsidence1646 sedimen1655 crassamentum1657 deposit1781 sludge1839 ppt1864 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 92 A Chalky earth, which..steeped in water, affoordeth a cream..on the top, and a grosse subsidence at the bottome. View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 15 The Earth was an impure, Sulphureous subsidence, or Caput mortuum of the Creation. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 109 The soil of the whole is the subsidence of a muddy water. 1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 421/2 Subsidence,..in pharmacy, the sediment falling from a liquid. b. The action or process by which solid material settles to the bottom of a liquid; formation of sediment, precipitation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down > sinking or submerging in liquid > sinking of solid matter in liquid residence1600 subsidence1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subsidence, a resting or setling in the bottom. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iii. 202 The same Law..was also observ'd in the subsidence of the Shells of Fishes. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 98 What I have written on the subsidence of chalk, and the simple method of recovering that almost-lost manure. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 150 A force of subsidence, the natural consequence of gravity,..has produced similar effects. 1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) 119 Separate the liquid part by filtration or by subsidence. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. iv. §1. 361 The clear oil is afterwards agitated.., again clarified by subsidence [etc.]. 1930 Standards & Specif. Nonmetallic Minerals (U.S. Dept. Commerce) 232/1 The presence of ammonium acetate in the test is helpful in that its presence tends to bring about rapidly the subsidence of the fine particles. 2006 D. Hendricks Water Treatm. Unit Processes vi. 144/2 At a certain point in the subsidence, the suspension concentration changes from Type III to Type IV, which is compression. 2. The action or an act of sinking or falling back into inactivity, quiescence, or a diminished state. a. Of an action or a physical phenomenon. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > a stop or cessation of action or process > gradual subsidence1651 subsidency1845 1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets vii. 70 The flaccidity..includeth also a subsidence and a certain emptiness, it evidently dependeth upon the defect and benummedness of the inherent Spirits. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments ii. 14 The alternate motion of those Air-Bladders, whose surfaces are by turns freed from mutual contact, and by a sudden Subsidence meet again by the ingress and egress of the Air. 1796 Coll. Papers Bilious Fevers vii. 167 The sweating stage follows of course, as in other cases of the subsidence of violent action. 1818 E. Henderson Iceland I. iv. 175 The pool..was lined with a dark blue bolus, left there on the subsidence of the waves. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. 81 The subsidence of this action [sc. throbbing] was always the signal for further advance. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 215 A second..fermentation takes place..; its subsidence diminishes the bulk of the wine. 1905 R. N. Bain Scand. 1 It was not till after the subsidence of the Viking raids..that Adaldag, archbishop of Hamburg, could open a new and successful mission. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. iii The deep lines in his sunken cheeks seemed to threaten a general subsidence of the whole flesh that would leave only his enormous dark eyes staring from the skull. 2010 C. M. Lambi Ecol. & Nat. Resource Devel. in W. Highlands Cameroon vi. 112 The lee locations have lower cloudiness values. This is logical due to the subsidence of air movement at this lee zone. b. Of a feeling, disturbance, illness, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > becoming quiet or tranquil settling1608 subsidence1675 1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xv. 175 A Liminary Scorvey is that, which upon the quietation and subsidence of a Praeliminary Ebullition buds forth. 1754 W. Warburton Serm. 27 Oct. in Wks. (1788) V. 519 The mind..being, by the subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions, now become attentive to, and sensible of, the soft and gentle impressions of tranquillity. 1792 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds I. 16 This melody..lasts only two or three months during the season of love, and changes into harsh low notes on the subsidence of that passion. 1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man ii. 70 A decided subsidence of her animosity. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 256 So these people burst out..into a noise and fury... And the subsidence is as sudden. 1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 421/2 Subsidence,..in pathology, the gradual cessation and disappearance of an attack of disease. 1927 E. C. Smith Borderland in Civil War viii. 241 Later reports caused a subsidence of popular passion. 1974 L. Horwitz Clin. Predict. in Psychotherapy vi. 118 There was evidence of very substantial progress and change in the subsidence of her symptoms..and the pursuit of her..goals. 2002 P. B. Brown in E. Lohr & M. Poe Mil. & Society in Russia i. 134 Aleksei displayed..anger, abuse, threat of dire punishment, and then subsidence of his ire and revocation of sentence. c. Of power, authority, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition rureOE ebbingc1200 fallc1225 declinea1327 downfallingc1330 downfalla1400 fall of mana1400 wanea1400 ruinc1405 wrack1426 inclinationc1450 declination1533 labefactation1535 ebb1555 falling off1577 declining1581 inclining1590 declension1604 downset1608 neck-breaka1658 overseta1658 lapsing1665 reducement1667 lapse1680 labefaction1792 downshift1839 subsidence1839 downgrade1857 downturn1858 downslide1889 downswing1922 turn-down1957 tail-off1975 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 347/2 The only matter in doubt is..if we are, beyond our deserts, preserved to witness the subsidence of their power into a state in which it shall cease from troubling. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiii. 17 It was about the period of the Gracchi that this subsidence of the old aristocracy of birth began first to be remarked. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 174 432/2 The subsidence of Mr Gladstone's authority over his party, led to that desperate attempt to regain it by a Home Rule policy. 2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sport section) 42 A telling factor in what many see as the gradual subsidence of a football super power comes in the membership figures. 3. a. The sinking or falling back of a liquid to a normal or lower level.In quot. 1863 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down > of liquids decidency1649 subsidence1660 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 189 The subsidence of the Oyl below the first mark. 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. xix. 62 The Quick-silver that before stood at 29 inches..would fall so low as to rest at 9 or 10 inches, (for once I measur'd the Subsidence beneath its former Elevation). 1701 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Usefulness Math. Learning 15 The decrease of the Air's density according to the increase of the distance of the Earth has been demonstrated by..the subsidence of the Mercury in the Torricellian Experiment. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xx. 399 The colours emerge from the top of the bubble, and as it grows thinner, by the subsidence of the water, they dilate into rings. 1837 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 641 One of those Shem-Ham-and-Japhet buggies—made on Mount Ararat soon after the subsidence of the waters. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 143 The country..is a succession of the gentlest swells and subsidences. 1899 Pacific Reporter 58 104/2 The plaintiff sought to..show a gradual subsidence of the water of the lake..from natural causes. 1927 Times 4 Nov. 16/5 Efforts were directed to clearing the houses which the subsidence of floods made accessible. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Oct. iv. 20 Deeper circulation involves subsidence of water in the polar seas and its slow flow back to warmer latitudes. 2001 C. Bertini Meeting Challenges to Food Security in Horn of Afr. 4 Floods periodically affect localised parts of even the most arid regions..often with after-effects that last long after the subsidence of the flooding. b. The falling away of rhythm or accent, esp. after a swell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > fall in rhythm subsidence1846 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 26/2 Concentrated are his arguments,..easy the swell and subsidence of his periods, his dialect purely attic. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x. 159 He delighted in the swell and subsidence of the rhythm, and the happily-recurring rhyme. 1936 Music Educators Jrnl. 23 68/3 (advt.) Interesting variety in dialogue of parts, key changes and rhythms; dramatic climax and subsidence. 2002 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Sept. f11 The ebb and flow of the music..offered firm rhythm, appealing swells and subsidence. 4. The more or less gradual sinking or caving in of an area of ground due to geological forces, mining operations, etc.; (also) the sinking of a building or other structure into the ground; an instance of this.cauldron, solution subsidence: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down settlingc1440 sinking1440 declining1601 subsiding1607 subsidency1650 sedation1661 sinking-in1678 subsidence1754 sinkage1783 settlement1793 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 62 Here then was a great subsidence; the land betwixt Sampson and Trescaw sunk at least sixteen feet, at a moderate computation. 1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 449 Though a local subsidence, or settling of the ground, could hardly account for this change,..yet a subsidence that has extended to a great tract..will agree very well with the appearances. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria vi. 131 The rock is..subject to slides or subsidences. 1861 Morning Post 27 Nov. They reached the door, but found it fixed by the subsidence of the walls. 1883 R. L. Stevenson in Mag. of Art Jan. 274/1 A trifling subsidence might drown the business quarters [of San Francisco] in an hour. 1912 Standard 20 Sept. 6/4 Streets and buildings..are being damaged by subsidences due to disused underground workings. 1955 Times 18 July 8/3 The recommendations of the Turner committee on mining subsidence. 1972 G. D. Johnson & C. F. Vondra in A. G. Jhingran et al. Himalayan Geol. II. 133 The continued rapid subsidence of the Indogangetic Plain. 2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 24 Sept. 1/2 The failure of the sea wall and the subsidence of the carriageway are a result of surcharging in a Scottish Water sewer. Compounds General attributive. a. In sense 1b, designating containers or pools in which liquids are allowed to stand so that sediment can settle to the bottom, as subsidence reservoir, subsidence vat, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [adjective] > sinking down > in liquid > sinking of solid matter in liquid > of or relating to subsidence1845 1845 2nd Rep. Commissioners State Large Towns & Populous Districts iii. 325 in Parl. Papers XVIII. 1 Analyses made... No. 1. Water taken up immediately on its leaving the sewer. No. 2. Taken as it flowed from the subsidence pond. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Subsidence-vat, a dyer's settling-vat. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/1 All the companies supplying river water..have subsidence reservoirs, into which the water is first turned for the purpose of allowing such of the suspended solid matter as will to settle. 1941 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 13 67 Extreme variation in the suspended solids load in an influent to a plain subsidence tank are reflected only mildly in the effluent. 1990 C. Hamlin Sci. Impurity iii. 81 Usually the companies purified their river water by storing it in subsidence reservoirs, but it often emerged still turbid or discoloured. b. In sense 4, esp. designating features resulting from subsidence, as subsidence crater, subsidence hollow, etc. ΚΠ 1846 C. Darwin Let. 25 Feb. in Corr. (1987) III. 294 Forbes has been writing to me, about his subsidence doctrines. 1894 W. M. Conway Climbing & Explor. Karakoram-Himalayas vi. 121 On our way we noticed several subsidence hollows of considerable size, and some grassy shelves likewise formed by the internal yielding of the mountain. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 910 It must be a subsidence-crater due to a sinking of the ground, after the fashion of the great cauldrons seen in the islands of La Palma and Grand Canary. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vii. 63 Collapse of large bedding-plane caves would cause shallow depressions at the surface, like the subsidence-hollows of coalfields. 1969 Science 22 Aug. 774 (caption) The AEC's Nevada Test Site... Note the subsidence crater (left of center) from a previous explosion. 1985 Mining Mag. (Nexis) June 490 The land was mostly disused, comprising..refuse tips, derelict buildings, marshland and subsidence ponds. 1999 Which? Aug. 25/1 Most buildings insurance policies include subsidence damage cover as standard. 2006 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 1 Apr. (National section) 1 For years coastal scientists familiar with subsidence rates in the region have suspected estimates of storm damage might have been optimistic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1646
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