单词 | vicinal |
释义 | Vicinaln. The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux, the Belgian local railway company, established in 1885; also, a local railway system in Belgium. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > under one management > specific GW1839 Vicinal1895 L.M.S.1923 L.N.E.R.1923 S.R.1923 British Railways1947 B.R.1949 S.N.C.F.1949 British Rail1964 Amtrak1973 1895 Engineer 19 Apr. 325/1 It was not considered..that ‘vicinals’ would be a bad investment for the Communes, considering the economical conditions under which the lines are made, and the very low rate of interest at which the money is obtained. 1975 R. J. Buckley Hist. Tramways 108 During World War I the Vicinal routes behind the allied lines had great strategic importance, and 50 engines were built for the British Army. 1977 R. Whitaker Fodor's Railways of World 133 Along the forty miles of holiday coastline facing the southern North Sea, there is an electric Vicinal based on Ostend. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2018). vicinaladj. 1. ‘Belonging to neighbours or neighbourhood.’ ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i. 1656 in T. Blount Glossographia 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II 2. a. vicinal way or road, a local common way as distinguished from a highway; a by-road or crossroad. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > minor road or side road lateral1578 by-road1673 vicinal way or road1677 side road1691 cross-road1719 branch-road1831 feeder1855 secondary road1903 feeder road1959 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 314 Of these [public ways] amongst the Romans some were called publick κατ' ἐξοχὴν, and others Vicinal. 1727 Magna Britannia IV. 210/2 Among the Vicinal Ways, or Chemini minores, there is also one in this County. 1790 T. Pennant Of London (1813) 13 A vicinal way went under Aldgate..towards Oldford. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 259 From this permanent station, a vicinal or cross road is carried through Glenartney. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 135 From this place..there probably went off a vicinal way to the Roman stations in Tweedale. 1812 J. Bigland Beauties Eng. & Wales XVI. 15 This..appears to have been only a vicinal road of the Romans. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. i. 11 In many portions of its course it overlaid an old vicinal way, which branched from the great Western road of the Romans. b. Similarly with other nouns. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [adjective] > relating to a particular place > peculiar to a particular place local1615 vicinal1799 1799 R. Warner Walk Western Counties (1800) 8 The operations of husbandry have depressed, and indeed obliterated in many places, this grand vicinal Dorsum. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. ii. 400 A small vicinal camp on the banks of the Kirtle. 1901 Speaker 31 Aug. 618 He saw a good-looking curé smoking in a vicinal railway. 3. a. Neighbouring, adjacent, near. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > neighbouring neighbourc1485 vicinea1513 voisin1527 approaching1533 confine1579 neighbouring1595 fellow-borderinga1628 next door1739 vicinal1739 downstreet1828 1739 W. Maitland Hist. London i. ii. 10/1 The noisom Vapours incessantly emitted from that and the vicinal Marshes. 1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 232 In vicinal situations, the next best mode to angular measurement is no doubt that of marking, by means of well-regulated clocks,..the repeated..explosion of light. 1842 Proc. Lond. Electr. Soc. (1843) 355 Sparks will pass from such a wire, and, therefore, from a lightning-rod, to vicinal conducting bodies. b. Mathematics and Mineralogy. Nearly coincident with a given surface or plane. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [adjective] monoid1863 anallagmatic1869 scrolar1869 torsal1869 closed1882 vicinal1895 orientable1920 non-orientable1925 1895 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers VIII. 302 I investigate the values of a, b,..for the point P′ on the vicinal surface. 1895 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers VIII. 309 The lines which..correspond to the principal tangents of the vicinal surface must be the principal tangents of the given surface. c. Organic Chemistry. Of substituted groups or atoms: Lying in consecutive order; adjacent to each other. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > [adjective] > organic structure primary1864 quaternary1871 vicinal1898 secondary1903 tertiary1903 1898 J. Wade Introd. Study Org. Chem. 288 With regard to the higher substitution products..there should be three classes of tri-derivatives, and only three.., all conceivable arrangements being reducible to the positions 1:2:3, or vicinal, 1:2:4, or unsymmetrical, and 1:3:5, or symmetrical. 1900 E. F. Smith tr. V. von Richter Org. Chem. II. 39 We call them adjacent..or..vicinal. 4. Connected with the relations between a person and his neighbours. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > as neighbour > relations between neighbours vicinal1855 1855 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 16 ii. 570 No harm, agricultural or fiscal, vicinal or political, shall betide the giver of such..assistance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1895adj.1623 |
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