| 单词 | landmark |
| 释义 | landmark (once / 1032 pages) 1n 2n 3n A landmark is anything that helps you know where you are — in space, in time, in history. If you’re sailing from Europe to New York, the Statue of Liberty will be the landmark that lets you know you’re in the right port. If you’re walking to your cousin’s house, the pizza shop on the corner is the landmark that lets you know you just have two blocks to go. Getting your driver’s license is a landmark event, as was the Revolutionary War — though which battle was harder is yours to determine. WORD FAMILYlandmark: landmarks USAGE EXAMPLESA landmark research study identifies distinct stages in the process of changing one’s life. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) It started operating in the 1930s and became a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Just days later, China and Canada agreed to discuss a landmark free trade deal and an extradition treaty. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape the church steeple provided a convenient landmark Hyper place, position the particular portion of space occupied by something 2n a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land 2Hypo|Hyper mearstone, meerestone, merestone an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab point of reference, reference, reference point an indicator that orients you generally n an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper turning point, watershed Fall of Man (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death road to Damascusa sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians) juncture, occasion an event that occurs at a critical time n an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken Hypo|Hyper craniometric point a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken acanthionthe craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture asterionthe craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture auricular point, auricularethe craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus bregmathe craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium condylionthe craniometric point at the tip of the mandibular condyle coronionthe craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible crotaphionthe tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone dacryonthe craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone entomionthe craniometric point at the tip of the angular part of the parietal bone that articulates with the temporal bone glabella, mesophyrona smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges gnathionthe most inferior point of the mandible in the midline gonionthe craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw inionthe craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance) jugal point, jugalethe craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone lambdathe craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull mastoidalethe craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process metopionthe craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull nasionthe craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet obelionthe craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture ophryonthe craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbits orbital point, orbitalethe craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit pogonionthe craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin alveolar point, prostheon, prosthioncraniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla pterionthe craniometric point in the region of the sphenoid fontanelle rhinionthe anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones sphenionthe anterior tip of the parietal bone stephanionthe craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus symphysionthe most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
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