“half、circle”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

half-circle

释义

half-circle
1. The half of a circle; a semicircle.
1552Huloet, Halfe circle, semicirculus.1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 126 Describe in th' intersections in like maner, halfe circles.1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 104 A double course of half circles.1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. iii. 299 A little more than a half-circle.
2. attrib. (See quots.)
1853Stocqueler Milit. Encycl., Half-circle guard, in fencing, is one of the guards used with the broadsword to parry an inside cut below the wrist.Ibid., Half-circle parade, is a parade of the small sword, used against the thrust in low carte.
So half-ˈcircular a., semicircular.
a1847Mrs. Sherwood Life ii. 19 The half-circular window over the hall-door.

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