point d'appui

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. A given point or body upon which troops are formed, or by which they are marched in line or column.
    — 1795, Rules and Regulations for the Cavalry, Adjutant General's Office, page 364, Marched from the left, and to deployer to the left.—In which caſe the right squadron moves ſtreight forward to the point d'appui marked by the Quarter Maſter, &c. &c.
  2. An advantageous defensive support; a foothold.
    — 1989, Daniel Berthold-Bond, Hegel's Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History, State University of New York Press, page 40, Its intention and its method is to "stand back from natural objects, leaving them as they are and adjusting ourselves to them," and its point d'appui and point de depart is sense experience (PhN §246 Zusatz).
  3. A specific note, chord, or phrase that serves as a stable reference point within a piece of music, providing harmonic or melodic grounding.
    — Any note belonging to these forms a point d'appui, which may be used mentally to pass to any note standing in a simple relation to the point d'appui.
  4. A focal point; a centre of attention.
    — Get a point d'appui from which to make your approaches, bring out the key-note to which the strained heart-chords shall respond in harmonious echo, and the battle is half won.
  5. An anchor point against which one pushes.
    — Thus the wine merchant and coachman of whom we shall presently speak were obliged, the one to perforate continually the casks with a gimlet, the other to ply his whip unceasingly on the backs of his jaded horses: it is also seen in masons who lift stones with the extremities of the fingers, in ploughmen, &c.; hence we see that the disease occurs most frequently in those who are forced in working to make the palm of the hand a point d'appui.

词形变化

points d'appui plural

词源

From French point d'appui (“point of support”).
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