单词 | surging |
释义 | surgingn. The action of surge v. 1. Rising, swelling, or rolling of great waves; impetuous movement of the sea or any body of water; also transferred and figurative (see surge v. 3b, 3c). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > surging, rolling, or heaving walteringc1400 washing?1473 rolling1485 walterc1540 surging1585 boil1805 welteringa1807 seethe1816 ride1822 whelm1842 welter1849 washing in1877 wash1883 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. iv. 3 b Thinges cast vp by the sourging of the Sea. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. xxxi. f. 330v Driuen by force of contrary windes, by surging of the sea, or by ouerthwart tides. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxii. 172 The masses..by the surging of the sea have been rubbed as round as pebbles. 1853 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 3) v. 257 Surgings of the water, by which waves are thrown over the sides of the vessel. 1883 Law Times 20 Oct. 410/2 The surging up of those Teutonic instincts of freedom. 2. Nautical. The action of suddenly slackening a rope or chain wound round a capstan, etc. Also attributive, as surging-drum. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > operations on ropes or tackle reeving1627 worming1644 rounding1766 rendering1769 snaking1815 surging1839 snubbing1846 swig1849 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 158/1 An Improved Capstan and Winch for Purchasing..Ship's Anchors, without the application of a Messenger, in which there is no Fleeting or Surging. 1886 J. M. Caulfeild Seamanship Notes 4 Seeing enough cable up for surging to the cat. 1902 A. Alcock Naturalist in Indian Seas 52 The dredge was slowly hauled in, the rope being reeled over a surging-drum attached to the ship's steam-winch. 3. The occurrence of surges in an electric current; also, a surge. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > flow of electricity > [noun] > pulse, surge impulse1883 surging1904 surge1908 kick1910 pulse1932 glitch1962 1904 E. B. Raymond Alternating Current Engin. ii. 75 On underground cables, where the ratio of l to c is much lower than in overhead wires, the tendency to puncture, due to surging, is much less. 1913 W. E. Dommett Motor Car Mech. 83 The armature is made up of thin sheets which are insulated from one another to prevent cross-currents (or surgings) from existing. 1926 R. W. Hutchinson First Course Wireless vii. 105 The discharge consists, not of a steady flow, but of a number of rapid oscillations or surgings of electricity to and fro. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XIII. 323/2 Surging in electric circuits corresponds to overshooting. 4. Mechanics. An increased action in a valve spring of an internal-combustion engine owing to its natural frequency of oscillation coinciding with the frequency of operation of the valve. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > valves > devices which operate > increased action in surging1931 1931 H. R. Ricardo High-speed Internal-combustion Engine (ed. 2) viii. 227 Periodic vibrations in the spring itself (‘surging’). 1975 M. J. Nunney Automotive Engine ii. 80 To lessen any tendency towards surging within the operating speed range of the engine, the valve springs are designed to have a high natural frequency of vibration. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). surgingadj. 1. a. Rising, swelling, rolling, or tossing heavily, as waves. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling wallingOE waveringc1425 surging1566 trilling1567 wambling1581 grown1600 surgeful1612 sourcinga1660 washing1697 flashing1744 under-rolling1745 jawing1802 rolly1885 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon [1.] 624 The surging seas. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E4v From surging gulf two Monsters streight were brought. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 634 With surging billowes it came rolling and in-rushing amaine. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 19 [One] surging waue aboue the rest, hit our broad-side. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 18 Surging waves against a solid rock. View more context for this quotation 1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 714 I'll often greet the surging swell. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 381 [The boats] are borne down through the surging current. b. figurative or in figurative context, of feeling, action, etc. ΚΠ 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 78 Swallowed vppe in surgeinge seas of sorrowe. 1633 G. Herbert Glance in Temple ii Surging griefs. 1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 30/2 This moving, surging, billowing, world of ours. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. li. 16 (Poem) Surging visions of her destiny. c. transferred. Moving in or as in large waves, undulating heavily or forcibly, heaving (as sound, wind, a crowd, etc.); also, of broadly undulating form, ‘rolling’ (as hills). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > forcibly or violently surging1603 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > undulating > violently or heavily surgy1582 surgenta1592 surging1603 surged1635 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [adjective] > undulating or undulated wavy1774 undulating1794 rolling1795 undulated1821 undulatory1845 surging1847 1603 H. Petowe Elizabetha quasi Vivens sig. B1v My heauie lookes and all my surdging mones. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 928 The surging smoak. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 499 Rising foulds, that tour'd Fould above fould a surging Maze. View more context for this quotation 1728 J. Thomson Spring 37 The surging Air receives The plumy Burden. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 111 Hid from view in the surging volumes of darkness. 1847 R. W. Emerson Monadnoc in Poems Where the airy citadel O'erlooks the surging landscape's swell. 1868 Daily News 22 July The surging, shouting, yelling crowd. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. iii. 33 The gradual rise of surging woods. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. l. 163 Two days afterwards Rome was in a sea of surging flame. 2. Of or relating to the oscillation of an electric current. ΚΠ 1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. Surging circuit, an electric circuit which is undergoing oscillations due to rapid charging and discharging. 1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. Surging discharge, an oscillatory discharge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1585adj.1566 |
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