单词 | trooping |
释义 | troopingn. a. The action of troop v. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > transporting trooping1809 M.T.C.1942 airdrop1943 airlift1943 fly-in1943 airlifting1949 society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > trooping the colours trooping1809 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals semblinga1300 assembly1413 mustering1440 assemblancec1485 routing1513 assembling1611 congregating1649 assemblationa1734 trooping1809 society > travel > [noun] yongc950 gangOE goinga1250 walka1300 journeyingc1330 travela1400 progressionc1450 wayfarec1450 travelling1489 wayfaring1536 gate-going?1555 thorough-faring?1575 faring1594 fidging1604 voyaging1611 voyage1626 winning1651 locomotion1759 itinerating1770 passing1821 trekking1850 trooping1888 1809 Howell's St. Trials I. 142/2 Not for any assemblings or troopings by them formerly made within the kingdom of England, but [etc.]. 1816 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 8/1 After the trooping of the colours had taken place the detachment..received the Eagles. 1885 Manch. Examiner 8 June 4/7 The chief event..was the trooping of the colours on the Horse Guards Parade. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv. 167 The great trooping of black clouds, and the cold squalls that followed one another. 1893 L. Killeen Soldiers at Sea 32 When the trooping is over for the year, the troopships lie idle in Portsmouth Harbour. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 12/1 The completion of a dream of ‘trooping’, by means of which the South-Western moves our sailors and soldiers to and from the coast in any part of England without detraining for other lines. b. attributive. ΚΠ 1647 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 110 Quhat they depursed..for trouping horses furnishit be them, quartering of troupers, and monethlie mantinance. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3147/4 A Trooping Saddle trimmed with blue. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 June 8/1 The preparation of the Serapis and Crocodile for the Indian trooping season can be suspended if found necessary, and they can be employed as supplementary transports. 1894 Sc. Leader 17 May 5 The Admiralty has chartered two P. & O. steamers..to begin the trooping service in September. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019). troopingadj. That troops. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling (of people or animals) trooping1582 assembling1619 congregating1775 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 56 Heere..fields of Salent with trouping clustered armye Lyctius Idomeneus dooth keepe. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 8 Little trooping Birds. 1823 T. Chalmers Serm. I. i. 24 His people..come in trooping multitudes around him. 1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. xviii. 286 Whose trooping images the dawning light does not disperse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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