英语词汇“cardinal direction”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

5. Designating the four principal points of the horizon (see cardinal point n. 1), which correspond to the intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical, and to the directions north, south, east, and west; of, relating to, or aligned with (one of) these points; esp. in cardinal direction.Earliest in cardinal wind n. at Compounds.

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. iii. 574 The secounde cardynale and chief wynde [L. ventus cardinalis] is Fauonius, þe westerne wynde... The þridde cardynal and chief wynd is Auster.

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 2679 (MED) Auster is cardinal meridian, Nothus ful grymly goth on his right side, And Chorus on the right [emended in ed. to lift] hond forth thei han.

1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. i. f. liiii. There are foure principall wyndes which come from the foure cardinall or principal poyntes of the Horizon [Sp. quatro puntos cardinales del orizonte].

1643 Parables on Times 15 All the winds in the compasse, both collaterall and cardinall.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Quarter A Quarter of a Point, Wind, or Rhumb, is the fourth part of a Cardinal Point, Wind, or Rhumb; or of the distance between two Cardinal Points, Winds, &c.

1838 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 6 310 The reduction of any wind to these cardinal directions is of course to be performed by considering it as the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

1914 Jrnl. Assoc. Engin. Soc. 53 196 All the roads radiate from Forth Worth, eight in number, now known as the Cardinal and Sub-Cardinal roads, so named for the reason that they follow..the cardinal compass directions, the sub-cardinal roads being within the intervening angles.

1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng. Ser.) (ed. 2) 524/2 In this form [of broach spire] the four cardinal faces are splayed out near their base, to cover the corners, while the oblique (or intermediate) faces taper away to a point.

2007 New Mexico Mag. Sept. 48/2 These ancient roads..are hundreds of miles long, 30 feet wide and tend to travel in the cardinal directions.

单词	cardinal direction
释义	> as lemmas cardinal direction 5. Designating the four principal points of the horizon (see cardinal point n. 1), which correspond to the intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical, and to the directions north, south, east, and west; of, relating to, or aligned with (one of) these points; esp. in cardinal direction.Earliest in cardinal wind n. at Compounds. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. iii. 574 The secounde cardynale and chief wynde [L. ventus cardinalis] is Fauonius, þe westerne wynde... The þridde cardynal and chief wynd is Auster. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 2679 (MED) Auster is cardinal meridian, Nothus ful grymly goth on his right side, And Chorus on the right [emended in ed. to lift] hond forth thei han. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. i. f. liiii. There are foure principall wyndes which come from the foure cardinall or principal poyntes of the Horizon [Sp. quatro puntos cardinales del orizonte]. 1643 Parables on Times 15 All the winds in the compasse, both collaterall and cardinall. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Quarter A Quarter of a Point, Wind, or Rhumb, is the fourth part of a Cardinal Point, Wind, or Rhumb; or of the distance between two Cardinal Points, Winds, &c. 1838 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 6 310 The reduction of any wind to these cardinal directions is of course to be performed by considering it as the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. 1914 Jrnl. Assoc. Engin. Soc. 53 196 All the roads radiate from Forth Worth, eight in number, now known as the Cardinal and Sub-Cardinal roads, so named for the reason that they follow..the cardinal compass directions, the sub-cardinal roads being within the intervening angles. 1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng. Ser.) (ed. 2) 524/2 In this form [of broach spire] the four cardinal faces are splayed out near their base, to cover the corners, while the oblique (or intermediate) faces taper away to a point. 2007 New Mexico Mag. Sept. 48/2 These ancient roads..are hundreds of miles long, 30 feet wide and tend to travel in the cardinal directions. extracted from cardinaladj. < as lemmas
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