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单词 tournament
释义

tournamentn.

/ˈtʊənəmənt/
Forms: α. Middle English tornei-, Middle English torne-, Middle English–1600s tornea-, Middle English–1600s tornament. β. Middle English turne-, Middle English–1700s turna-, Middle English–1500s turnei-, turney-, 1600s turneament. γ. (Middle English tournoy-), Middle English–1600s tourne-, 1600s tournea-, 1500s– tournament. (Also Middle English–1500s -mente, plural Middle English -mens.)
Etymology: < Old French torneiement ( Enéas, c1150), torney-, tornee-, torniement; central and later Old French tornoie- , tornoiment , tournoie- , tournoyement ; also turnoie- , turneie- , turneement , < tourneier , -oier , etc., tourney v.: see -ment suffix. Compare Provençal torneiament, Italian tornia-, †torneamento; the later English spellings tornea-, tourna- were apparently due to the influence of medieval LatinCompare medieval Latin torneamentum ( < French), 1157 in Reims Synod, Canon iv, and 1179 in Lateran Council, Can. xx ‘detestabiles illas nundinas vel ferias, quas vulgo torneamenta vocant’.
1.
a. Originally, A martial sport or exercise of the middle ages, in which a number of combatants, mounted and in armour, and divided into two parties, fought with blunted weapons and under certain restrictions, for the prize of valour; later, A meeting at an appointed time and place for knightly sports and exercises.According to Roger of Hoveden III. 268, first introduced into England by Richard I.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament
tournament?c1225
joust1297
tourney13..
justeningc1400
tournament of warc1400
inturnementc1440
tilt1511
jostle1607
tilting?1617
hippomachia1623
carousel1650
fortuny1676
α.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2896 In ioustes & in tornemens.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11041 Sir edward..hauntede torneimens [v.r. (C.) turnemens] with wel noble route.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 3766 Þai ben come for a tornement Þat is cride for a maide faire.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 497/1 Torneament, torneamentum.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. Illustr. 70 Torneaments and jousts were their exercises.
β. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 286 He..dude him inturnement & hefde for his leoues luue his scheld infecht.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 829 Who so winneþ þe turnament al Bi aiþer half, þe priis have schal.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 821 He schal bring to þe turment [c1475 Caius turnement] þat day (Wele is him þat it winne may) A ger-fauk þat is milke white.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ix. 133 After they be-gonne a turnemente, and departed hem in two partyes.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D7v That doughtie turnament.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. 12 Against the Turneiment . View more context for this quotation1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. 13 Unto the place of Turneyment . View more context for this quotation1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 258 He..At Tilts and Turnaments obtain'd the Prize, But found no favour in his Ladies Eyes.γ. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. v. 41 Vpon newe yeersday the barons lete maake a Iustes and a tournement.1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 23 For suche ladies Ben the tournemens.1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 9 Ioustes and tournoyment doon in his cyte of vyenne.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tournamente or iuste.1656 in T. Blount Glossographia 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 120 A cuirass used by the elector Augustus in tournaments.1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. i. 103 Every kind of military combat made in conformity to certain rules..was anciently called a tournament.1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 556 Tournaments..may be considered to have arisen about the middle of the eleventh century; for..the name of tournaments, and the laws that regulated them, cannot be traced any higher.1841 G. P. R. James Brigand i Henry the Second [of France]..closed his career in the last tournament [1559] which Europe was destined to witness.1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 489/1 Tournaments and jousts differed from one another principally in the circumstance that in the first several combatants on each side were engaged.., and in the second the contention was between two combatants only.
b. A modern imitation of the medieval pastime.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > tournament as entertainment
carousel1650
tournament1701
1701 London Gaz. No. 3734/2 The Imperial Court continues at the Palace at Favorita, where they were entertained yesterday with a Turnament.
1839 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 15 Oct. (1874) I. vii. 239 In August last the display called the Tournament took place at Eglinton Castle.
c. Applied to the Olympic and other ancient games or contests.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > series of, as public spectacle > in ancient world
jousta1387
tournamenta1387
tourney1485
game1531
gaming1564
agon1592
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 11 After þe strif, ioustes, and turnementis of Olympy.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 381 Theseus..slowȝ Minotaurus in þe tornemente [L. in agone interemit].
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 703 Severus..His body was..committed to the flames, honoured with Iusts and Turneaments of his soldiours and his owne sonnes.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 358 They..utterly disappeared from the face of Hellas, with their language, their manners, their jousts and tournaments.
2. figurative. An encounter or trial of strength.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition
match1531
goala1555
vie1568
skirmish1576
rencounter1594
drop-vie1598
duellism1602
duello1606
bout1609
duel1613
competition1618
matcha1637
tournament1638
contest1648
rencontre1667
pingle?1719
sprawla1813
go1823
bet1843
bucklea1849
comp1929
cook-off1936
title race1948
1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 31 Happy..the Church of God, when curious novelties, and as it were Tourneaments in sacred things are esteemed prophane.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 124 They keep, as it were, solemn Justs and Turnaments of Debauchery.
1901 Empire Rev. 1 370 When this dogmatic tournament has spent its force.
1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana xx. 245 In the rose-gardens below, the nightingales were holding a tournament of song.
3. transferred. A contest in any game of skill in which a number of competitors play a series of selective games, e.g. a chess or lawn tennis tournament. military or naval tournament, an athletic meeting at which there are a large proportion of contests especially adapted for soldiers or sailors.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun]
match1531
bonspiel1560
prize1565
main1589
traverse1599
seta1626
tournament1762
fixture1825
tourney1890
roundup1912
rodeo1927
go-around1933
start1949
1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 152 A naval tournament, or race upon the waters, resembling those practised at Venice in the carnival season.
1852 H. Staunton Chess Tournament (title) The Chess Tournament. A collection of the games played at this celebrated assemblage.
1869 in J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player (1874) 95 N.C.C. Open tournament at Highgate (6 inch hoops).
1872 R. C. A. Prior Notes on Croquet 55 The Gardener's Chronicle announced last year a ‘Potato Tournament’.
1885 Sat. Rev. 24 Jan. 113 If..the old Counties Chess Association..holds its tournaments in the provinces.
1888 Daily News 15 Sept. 3/5 Lawn Tennis. The Essex Open Tournament was resumed yesterday at the Connaught Grounds.
4. Mathematics. A set of points each of which is joined to every other point by a line having a direction. Also tournament graph.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > showing specific relationship
characteristic1881
characteristic curve1881
time curve1883
luminosity curve1886
hysteresis curve1890
hysteresis loop1892
time-distance1892
solidus1901
power curve1908
log log1910
Russell diagram1922
creep curve1931
power curve1932
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram1939
Petersen graph1947
utility curve1948
tournament graph1959
offset1987
1959 F. Harary in Management Sci. V. 398 Consider a tournament in which there are n players, every pair of players play each other once, and none of the games ends in a draw. For brevity let us call the resulting digraph D itself a tournament.
1972 R. J. Wilson Introd. Graph Theory vii. 108 Let T be a tournament on n + 1 vertices, and let T′ be the tournament on n vertices obtained by removing from T a vertex v and every arc incident to v.
1980 Sci. Amer. Mar. 18/3 Tournament graphs provide a convenient means of modeling a person's pairwise preferences for any set of choices, such as brands of coffee or candidates in an election.
5. attributive.
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lii. 464 It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground.
1902 Munsey's Mag. 26 476/2 When the skater has become proficient in all of them, he is ready to proceed to the simpler combinations of the tournament figures.

Derivatives

ˈtournament v. (intransitive) to ride as in a tournament, to tilt.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > as in a tournament
tournament1884
1884 J. Sharman Cursory Hist. Swearing i. 10 They bestrode chairs and benches,..and tournamented about the room.
tournaˈmental adj. of or pertaining to a tournament.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective]
tournamental1801
freestyle1974
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. i. 127 When the grand tournamental conflict was finished.
1896 Daily News 28 May 3/1 The rumour..that there was tournamental antagonism between the Navy and Army.
ˌtournamenˈteer n. Obsolete rare a combatant at tournaments.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > jouster or tilter
tourneyer1303
jousterc1330
assailant1586
jostler1599
tilter1611
tournamenteer1737
1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. 221 Great Tilters and Turnamenteers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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