单词 | walled garden |
释义 | walled gardenn. 1. A garden enclosed by a wall, usually a high brick wall. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) 515 As the children of Christian Parents, [we] are borne if not within this walled Garden, yet with a key in our hand to open the doore, that is, with a right and title, to the Sacrament of Baptisme. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius ii. 17 (stage direct.) A walled Garden belonging to Metellus house. 1757 P. Luckombe Beauties Eng. 111 A little walled Garden. 1798 W. Beckford Azemia I. iii. 77 Azemia found herself perfectly at ease and extremely glad..to breath the fresh air in a large walled garden. 1843 Times 26 Aug. 3/1 The beautiful walled garden adjoining the house. 1899 A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson I. v. 161 A small walled garden..with a rockery of broken carvings from the stone-yards. 1939 D. Whipple Priory (2003) xxiv. 286 She went into the warm walled garden where the old medlar grew. 2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 45/4 The grounds have been restored to their Elizabethan splendour with a walled garden, herb garden and a traditional knot garden. 2. Computing and Telecommunications. A pre-defined range of networked resources (usually internet-based) to which subscribers to a particular service are given access. ΚΠ 1995 Observer 25 June (Schools Suppl.) 10/5 B.T..will provide ‘walled garden access’ to the Internet, bringing a vetted, but still extensive, information store within the reach of students online. 1998 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. c1 Chairman John Malone has promoted the idea of a ‘walled garden’ of basic online information and retailing services for cable customers. 2005 New Media Age (Nexis) 3 Nov. While devices are getting smarter, the business model for mobile content in the US remains stalled in the walled garden, where network operators limit subscriber access to content, services and wireless Web sites on their home portals. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1631 |
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