| 单词 |
erecting |
| 释义 |
▪ I. erecting, vbl. n.|ɪˈrɛktɪŋ|
[f. erect v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. erect, in various senses.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1567) 23 b, No buildyng of pillers, no erecting of arches. 1649Selden Laws Eng. i. (1739) 22 It seemeth to be done..after the erecting of the Bishoprick of Ely. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 67 A judicious erecting of the Sounding-boards.
2. attrib., as in erecting-eye-piece, erecting-glass, erecting-prism: (see quots.)
1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 144 No achromatic erecting eye-piece..can be made with so few as three lenses. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Erecting eye-piece, a combination of four lenses used for terrestrial telescopes, and so arranged as to exhibit the objects viewed in an erect position. Ibid., Erecting-glass, a tube with two lenses, slipped into the inner end of the draw-tube of a microscope, serving to erect the inverted image. Ibid., Erecting-prism, a contrivance of Nachet's for erecting the inverted image produced by a compound microscope, by means of a single rectangular prism placed over the eye-piece.
¶ Used gerundially with omission of in, a.
1654Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 562 She was ignorant of that fatal Theater which was erecting within sight of her Window. 1809Kendall Trav. II. lii. 216 One or two small salt-works are erecting in New Bedford.
▪ II. erecting, ppl. a.|ɪˈrɛktɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That erects; in quot. stimulating.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. i. 68 He is to be interdicted Oats and all Flatulent and erecting dyet for a Moneth. |
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