单词 | unreduced |
释义 | unreducedadj. 1. Scots Law. Not annulled or repealed. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > legally valid > not rescinded unrepealed1479 unabrogated1535 unreduced1573 unviciate1593 unrescinded1683 1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 185 The saidis first charter and confirmatioun following thairupoun standing unreducit. 1606 in D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. (1717) ii. 224 By a just Sentence of a lawful Judge, standing unquarrelled and unreduc'd. 1754 W. Goodall Exam. Lett. Mary Queen of Scots I. 313 The act of forfeiture against him and his friends stood still unreduced. 1828 Cases House of Lords on Appeal from Courts of Scotl.1824 II. 264 The decreet-arbitral remained unreduced, by which it was found that Mackelcan was entitled to this sum. 1905 Sc. Law Reporter 42 522/2 So long as that decree stands unreduced, there is nothing more to be said. 1921 Session Cases 902 Such a decree (while unreduced) confers by its own vigour an effectual title. 1987 I. D. Macphail Evidence (rev. ed.) iii. S11.34 Where the statute provides that the certificate shall be conclusive evidence..the court cannot go behind the certificate so long as it remains unreduced. 2. Of a region, nation, stronghold, etc.: not taken by force or brought under control; unconquered; unsubdued. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > unconquered unovercomeeOE unyoldena1325 unvanquisheda1382 unscomfitedc1400 invicta1513 undaunted1513 unconquered1549 invictissimec1550 unyielden1553 unvicta1560 unconquesta1600 invicted1602 invinced1609 unreduced1612 inexpugnate1632 unrouteda1640 unstormed1695 unyielded1700 untrampled1900 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 249 This Noble Earle..took a resolution to diuide all the rest of the Irish Countries vnreduced, into seuerall Shires. 1639 R. B. tr. Epitome Lives Kings of France 195 The French..leaving nothing of the Countrey of Guienne, on this side the River Garonne, unreduced to the obedience of the King. 1651 Weekly Intelligencer 21 June 216 Subduing the whole Province of Connaught, and by consequence the whole Rabble of the unreduced Irish. 1778 W. Hutchinson View Northumberland II. 20 One of the towers, defended by Thomas Car, made a gallant defence, and remained unreduced. 1898 Contemp. Rev. June 588 Small expeditions..which hoist flags..at points so far from their base, and severed from it by such tracts unreduced to subjection, as to make any sustained action there for the present impossible. 1985 P. R. Newman Atlas of Eng. Civil War 83 Exeter fell on 9 April, and only Pendennis Castle remained unreduced. 2002 J. L. Kessell Spain in Southwest (2003) ix. 237 Inland, across the flat coastal plain and back into rugged mountain canyons, unreduced ranchería Indians moved about at will. 3. Chemistry and Metallurgy. In early use: not dissolved, decomposed, or transformed into another state (now chiefly historical). In later use: (of ore) not converted into metal; (in wider sense) not having been subjected to chemical reduction, remaining in an oxidized state. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [adjective] > indissoluble > not dissolved unreduced1660 undissolved1674 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis x. v. 149 Thou must..reduce all things into a liquid substance, and then again Conjoyn it with a Monarchy, as 'twere with the living unreduced body of that thing, and..set it to distillation. 1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 63 Dr. Priestley having..dissolved mercury in the nitrous acid,..constantly found a considerable proportion of it unreduced. 1842 J. Johnston Man. Chem. 261 The iron obtained by this process is the cast-iron of commerce, and contains a considerable quantity of carbon, unreduced ore, and earthy substances. 1913 E. A. Smith Sampling & Assay Precious Metals xiii. 192 A..quantity of lead oxide is..allowed to remain unreduced to serve as a flux for the oxides of such metals as copper, antimony, iron, etc. 2000 I. Holme in A. R. Horrocks & S. C. Anand Handbk. Techn. Textiles (2004) ix. 198 In the unreduced form some vat dyes behave like disperse dyes. 4. Not broken down into smaller parts or particles. ΚΠ 1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iii. 33 I have my self many times eaten great quantities of the Cacao nuts unreduced to paste (as also of the simple and compound paste). 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 609 Those [soils] which contain a large proportion of unreduced vegetable matter. 1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 24 The rags must..be..drawn out into fibre without having the smallest particle of rag unreduced to half-stuff. 1931 Bureau of Standards Jrnl. Res. 6 417 The resultant pulp did not bleach satisfactorily on account of the presence of unreduced woody sections. 2008 C. Lin et al. in L. Yu Wheat Antioxidants vi. 75 The milling by-product includes germ, bran (coarse),..and red dog (finer bran and unreduced endosperm). 5. Surgery. Of fracture, dislocation, or hernia: not restored to the normal anatomical position. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > not cured or healed unhealed?c1225 unsounded1420 uncured1548 unreduced1705 unimproved1879 1705 J. Handley Colloquia Chirurgica xlix. 146 Either by the Surgeons Hand alone, (as in young children) or by Pullies, as in very strong Bodies, or where the Fracture has remained long unreduced. 1749 T. Gataker tr. H. F. Le Dran Operations in Surg. 101 When an intestine is gangrened and remains unreduced. 1837 J. Quain Elements Anat. (ed. 4) 57 Those cases of unreduced dislocations where the tendons slide over bones. 1865 Year-bk. Med. 1864 (New Sydenham Soc.) 334 In a case of fracture of the femur in a man who for months had had a large unreduced hernia, M. Sanson took advantage of the compulsory rest, and gradually returned the intestine into the abdomen. 1918 Trans. Southern Surg. Assoc. 30 392 A truss that is applied to an unreduced hernia is therefore an added source of danger to the wearer. 1976 Injury 8 39/1 The management of old unreduced dislocation of the elbow is a challenging problem to orthopaedic surgeons. 2012 Internat. Jrnl. Paleopathol. 2 40/2 Presence of the exostosis on the ulna and incipient radioulnar synostosis are indicative of unreduced radial dislocation. 6. Mathematics. Of a mathematical expression: not expressed in simplified terms; not changed to a more convenient form. Cf. reduced adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > relating to expressions > relating to equations algebraic1657 lateral1670 explicable1706 unreduced1762 homogeneous1815 resolvent1860 Pellian1862 equational1864 canonizant1879 variational1879 unilateral1884 non-dimensional1904 open1937 inhomogeneous1943 stiff1952 1762 Gentleman & Lady's Palladium 67 The Trouble of finding the Log, Sign and Tangent to Degrees and 6 or 7 Places of Decimals, unreduced to Minutes and Seconds. 1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 251 The rule may be applied at once to an unreduced equation. 1885 J. Jackson Pract. Arithm. 113 The product of the unreduced numerators and upper quotients arising from the cancelling will give the required numerator. 1910 Ann. Math. 11 183 An examination of the above determinant and minors yields the following result, where R = the rank of the determinant of the original unreduced equation. 2012 T. E. Gilsdorf Introd. Cultural Math. i. vii. 132 We leave the last fraction unreduced in order to compare it with probabilities of other outcomes. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [adjective] > not done, performed, or carried out > not exerted or applied unreduct1608 unexerteda1674 unput1732 unreduced1775 1775 S. Fothergill Epistle 11 in Five Pamphlets iv. Vitiated Affections; which people have endeavoured to retain..; fully assenting to the truths handed forth from the experience of others, but unreduced to practice in themselves. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 108 The bigot theologian—in minute Distinctions skilled, and doctrines unreduced To practice. 1899 W. M. Rose Notes on U.S. Rep. IV. 241 Mere conception of an idea unreduced to practical use is not patentable. b. Not converted to, expressed, or described in a different, esp. a simpler, form. ΚΠ 1784 Ann. Agric. 2 474 Its [sc. agriculture] having been from the beginning of the world chiefly in the hands of low and uneducated people.., it necessarily remains unreduced to principles. 1859 40th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1858 33 Lectures..had been given them in signs unreduced to writing. 1913 E. L. Thorndike Educ. Psychol. II. v. 58 Almost all of the investigations of the psychology of learning concern functions unreduced to simple—not to say simplest—constituent connections. 2012 A. Hyde in C. L. Estlund & M. L. Wachter Res. Handbk. Econ. Labor & Employment Law xii. 360 General knowledge unreduced to written formula. 8. Undiminished in number, amount, strength, or size. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > decreased > not unminished1529 undiminished1587 unbated1600 unabateda1625 unweakened1648 unlessened1651 unreduced1781 undeadened1813 undilapidated1830 unslackened1844 unemasculated1888 1781 T. Pasley Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 208 I have ever made it a rule to put you to three Watches when..your unreduced numbers wou'd admit of it. 1885 in Longman's Mag. Mar. (1900) 434 To enable them to maintain their existence, with unreduced vitality, against the severities of the climate. 1927 J. Henry Scattergood in Building Internat. Goodwill ii. 20 If interest were to be charged on the unreduced outstanding amount, Germany will be digging her own grave deeper and deeper every year. 1996 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. 34 75 Abstracts submitted for consideration..should be up to one page long, single-spaced, unreduced, cameraready. 9. Linguistics. Of a vowel sound: not reduced (reduced adj. 2b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > types of openeOE sharp?1533 simple1582 small1599 soft1625 obscurea1637 round1710 slender1755 close1760 wide1824 lowered1836 narrow1844 labialized1856 orinasal1856 central1857 reduced1861 free1864 high1867 low1867 mid1867 mixed1867 rounded1867 unrounded1871 raised1876 unreduced1894 obscured1897 spread1902 lax1909 slack1909 tense1909 centralized1926 flat1934 r-coloured1935 checked1943 1894 Classical Rev. 8 95/2 The Sanscrit sárva- exhibits the unreduced form of the root = sél-vo-. 1930 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 65 37 Full unreduced vowels were generally recorded in such cases. 1964 E. Blancquaert in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 300 English weakened syllables are pronounced unreduced. 2007 Ethnomusicology 51 450 The unreduced vowels and better-pronounced consonants ‘enunciate’ the lyrical structures. 10. Genetics. Not having undergone meiosis or the reduction division of meiosis; not reduced to the haploid number. ΚΠ 1901 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 13 92 The nucleus now contains as many chromosomes as the unripe (unreduced) ovum. 1932 Amer. Naturalist 66 44 Thus it is possible for a sexually sterile interspecific hybrid having the necessary genetic conditions to be, parthenogenetically, fairly fertile, owing to the formation of unreduced germ cells. 1993 G. Kalloo & B. O. Bergh Genetic Improvem. Crops 608 Several meiotic mutants that yield gametes with the unreduced chromosome number have been identified, and are referred to as 2n gametes. 2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 14027/2 Our sample..also showed some unreduced pollen. 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