| 单词 | touch watch |
| 释义 | > as lemmastouch watch touch watch n. now rare (chiefly historical) a watch made in such a way that the time can be determined by touch (often by the use of projecting pins or studs). [Perhaps after French montre à tact (1855 or earlier). Although the source cited in quot. 1860 mentions French †montre de touche, this is rare and apparently first attested later (1868 or earlier) than the English compound.] ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch German watch1611 larum watch1619 clock-watch1625 minute watch1660 pendulum watch1664 watch1666 alarm watch1669 finger watch1679 string-watch1686 scout1688 balance-watch1690 hour-watch1697 warming-pan1699 minute pendulum watch1705 jewel watch1711 suit1718 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pendulum spring1728 second-watch1755 Geneva watch1756 cylinder-watch1765 watch-paper1777 ring watch1788 verge watch1792 watch lamp1823 hack1827 bull's-eye1833 vertical watch1838 quarter-repeater1840 turnip1840 hunting-watch1843 minute repeater1843 hunter1851 job watch1851 Geneva1852 watch-lining1856 touch watch1860 musical watch1864 lever1865 neep1866 verge1871 independent seconds watch1875 stem-winder1875 demi-hunter1884 fob-watch1884 three-quarter plate1884 wrist-watch1897 turnip-watch1898 sedan-chair watch1904 Rolex1922 Tank watch1923 strap watch1926 chatelaine watch1936 sedan clock1950 quartz watch1969 pulsar1970 1860 Eclectic Mag. Oct. 287/2 A touch-watch, by which the time of day may be felt. 1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Nov. 773/2 A touch-watch on which the hours, being indicated by projecting studs, could be told by the blind. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. d2 The earliest ‘touch watches’ to survive date from the early 16th century. These had open faces, allowing the wearer to judge the single hour hand's position against raised indices, or touch-pins. < as lemmas |
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