oncome

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
    — I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.
  2. The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
  3. The setting about of an action; development; progress.
  4. An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
    — On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
  5. A mysterious disease or ailment. dialectal
    — This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.
  6. A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst. dialectal
  7. The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
动词 v.
  1. To arrive; come to; come on. intransitive,rare
    — This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]

词形变化

oncomes present,singular,third-person oncoming participle,present oncame past oncome participle,past oncomes plural

词汇关系

近义词
outburst outgush advent arrival

词源

词源 1
From Middle English oncomen, from Old English oncuman, ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”), from Proto-Germanic *anakwemaną (“to come to, come at, arrive”), equivalent to on- + come. Cognate with Dutch aankomen (“to arrive”), German ankommen (“to arrive”), Swedish ankomma (“to arrive”).
词源 2
From Middle English oncome (“an attack”), equivalent to on- + come. Compare Old English ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”). More at ancome, income.
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