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单词 to chalk out
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to chalk out
4. figurative. to chalk out.
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a. To mark out, as with chalk (obsolete).
b. To delineate, esp. by the main features; to outline, sketch out, adumbrate.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > in outline
to chalk out1571
to shape forth1579
crayon1734
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xviii. 44) God did but (as it were under a dark shadowe) chalk out the..kingdome of his sonne.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 309/2 They are chalked out as enimies.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 26 The Princely Eagle, and the soaring Hawke, Whom in their unknowne wayes there's none can chawke.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Author's Apol. sig. A6 This Book it chaulketh out before thine eyes The man that seeks the everlasting Prize. View more context for this quotation
1765–93 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) 412 We have now chalked out all the principal outlines of this vast title of the law.
c. figurative. To trace out, mark out, as a course to be followed. Also occasionally chalk forth (obsolete).
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with chalk
chalk forth1579
chalk1592
red-line1942
society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb (transitive)] > with chalk
to chalk out1707
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 7v Chaulke out the way to do the like.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 206 It is you, that haue chalk'd forth the way Which brought vs hither. View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 60.
1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. ii. 14 That way to eternall glory, which our Saviour hath chalked out.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. ii. 77 His Majesty being pleas'd..to chalk him out what he would have him do.
1707 Vulpone 25 They have a much shorter way chalked out by this Article.
1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. li. 259 Lay down your own plan: Chalk out your future steps.
1807 Ld. Byron Childish Recoll. 68 When now the boy is ripen'd into man, His careful sire chalks forth some wary plan.
1872 J. Grant Newspaper Press III. xi. 253 [He] pursued the course which he had from the first chalked out for himself.
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