单词 | the depression |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Depression a. A lowering in quality, vigour, or amount; the state of being lowered or reduced in force, activity, intensity, etc. In modern use esp. of trade; spec. the Depression, the financial and industrial ‘slump’ of 1929 and subsequent years. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 1793 N. Vansittart Refl. Propriety Peace 57 The depression of the public funds..began long before the war. 1826 Ann. Reg. 1 A continuance of that depression in manufactures and commerce. a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 64/1 There is not in actions, as there is in qualities, a simple scale of elevation and depression. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 392 The consequence has been a general depression in price for all but the best work. 1886 (title) Third Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Depression of Trade and Industry. 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 233 Since the depression, books on Mexico have been almost as numerous..as books on Russia. 1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country xiii. 212 ‘I thought you had a baby.’ ‘No, darling,’ said Carol. ‘None of us are having them now. It's the depression.’ 1935 Punch 19 June 719/1 All the wireless sets in Little Wobbly are pre-depression models. 1957 M. Sharp Eye of Love iii. 39 It was the Depression that had finished him off. 1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 37 An old Scots syndicalist I'd met on a road gang..in the early years of the depression. < as lemmas |
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