shoad
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.
— The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded.
动词 v.
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To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
— In shoading it is necessary to distinguish between heavy and light ores, and between friable and hard materials.
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To be distributed as shoads.
— Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.
词源 2
From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.
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