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multicopy, n. and a.
A. n. Any of several multiple copies, esp. one reprographically produced. Also (in pl. or attrib.): a (large) number of copies of a book, record, etc.
1947 Amer. Hist. Rev. 52 639 Among the recent accessions..eleven typescripts and multicopies of letters, documents, and clippings relating to the work of Dr. Earl E. Dudding. 1960 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 31 92 Here, then, is my list of the people who all too often make the librarian's lot an unhappy one... Multi-multi-multicopy buyers..[etc.]. 1985 Company Dec. 51/2 How unusually heartening it was to give away Bob Geldof's Do They Know It's Christmas? record in multi-copies last year. 1996 Orange County (Santa Ana, Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 24 Dec. A1, I have 240 sets of books in multicopies, six to 10 each.
B. adj.
1. gen. That produces or involves multiple copies.
1958 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 44 204 The multicopy model [of traffic flow] can be viewed as an instance of a dynamic network in which the αth copy corresponds to conditions in the αth period. 1975 Business Week 7 Apr. 58/2 Brady and his father designed a special multicopy head that features a tungsten wire in each of the tubes. 1983 Dict. Computing 101/1 Decollator, a machine that can process multicopy printed output into separate stacks of copy and used carbon paper. 1997 Good Housek. (N.Y.) July 32/3 (heading) Features to Look for... Multicopy Capability: Allows you to make several copies of the original in just one step.
2. Cell Biol. Designating or relating to a plasmid, gene, or other nucleic acid sequence present in multiple copies in a cell or genome.
1968 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 61 328 The persistence of hybrid cells in cultures grown on M medium suggested that these cells might contain multiple segregating copies of one or both alleles. The results..show clearly that hybrid cells pregrown on M medium..segregate out pure types at a high initial rate that is clearly incompatible with a multicopy hypothesis. 1972 Science 19 May 767 The multi-copy R factor pool must increase about 5-fold due to continued R factor replication in stationary phase. 1981 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78 7028 The recent introduction of multicopy plasmids into S. pneumoniae..has made cloning in this species practicable. 1985 Nucleic Acids Res. 13 3533 The 5.8S rRNA gene, present in the trypanosome genome as part of the multicopy rRNA gene cluster, has been cloned. 1994 Science 17 June 1775 The number of DNA molecules surviving in the tissue [of the Tyrolean Ice Man] was on the order of 10 genome equivalents per gram of tissue, which meant that only multi-copy sequences could be analyzed. 2001 Genetica 111 397 Other multicopy genes, such as minor ribosomal genes, or multicopy repeats, such as telomere specific sequences, have now been mapped on zebrafish chromosomes.
picture message, n.
1. An image or symbol used to convey an idea, meaning, etc.
1912 J. MCCABE Story of Evol. xx. 303 Lord Avebury reproduces an Eskimo drawing, or picture-message, in his Prehistoric Times. 1953 W. J. ENTWISTLE Aspects of Lang. iv. 139 The picture-message, in fact, corresponds to a number of different oral sentences which have the same broad effect. 1988 OptiMSt (Nexis) 30 June 8 These tools include: 12 colored picture message cards.
2. An image which is transmitted electronically, esp. (in later use) from one mobile phone to another.
1929 Times 29 Oct. (Printing suppl.) p. xix/6 The picture messages and the synchronizing signals travel simultaneously over the same line. 1970 Times 29 Sept. 3/2 The radio signals are converted into a series of pulses by the radio transmitter and reconstituted as a voice or picture message by the receiver. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 16 June (Business section) 1 Nokia is two months away from launching the first media phone which uses wireless technology to issue weather reports, send picture messages and calculate biorhythms. 2002 What Mobile Apr. 24/1 With the advent of enhanced messaging services (EMS) you will soon be able to send animated picture messages with sound effects from one mobile to the other.
fly-through, n. and a.
A. n.
1. Astronaut. A flight by a spacecraft through a particular area, esp. the tail of a comet, for the purpose of observation. Cf. FLY-BY n. b, FLY-PAST n.
1976 Aviation Week 8 Mar. 38 The reconnaissance of comets should begin with a first fly-through in the early 1980s, followed by a rendezvous mission in the late 1990s. 1982 Jrnl. Astronaut. Sci. 30 307 Dust and gas samples are collected during the high-velocity..flythrough of Halley, and then returned to a high-apogee Earth orbit. 1996 Science 31 May 1313/3 (note) The total molecular production rates and the heliocentric distances were comparable for Halley during the Giotto flythrough.
2. A computer-animated simulation of what would be seen if one were to fly through a particular (real or imaginary) environment or object; (also) one which allows a user to explore all aspects of a virtual three-dimensional model of such an environment or object.
1988 Re: Siggraph88 and a Deal in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Aug., All they did was a fly-through of a 3-d Julia Set. 1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 11/5 The graphics aren't as good as alternatives like PGA Tour Golf (there's no fly-through yet), but it does have good points. 1995 Leisure Managem. July 46/1 This year's Judge Dredd film has a chase sequence that is fun to ride even without a motion base, and the new Lawnmower Man sequel has a number of fly throughs which might work well in a ride film. 1996 Humanities Computing in Oxf. Jan. 2/3 The CD-ROM includes..three-dimensional fly-throughs of the Qumran site. 1999 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. G14/4 There is a company..whose sole business is building architectural fly-throughs for business clients.
B. adj. (attrib.). Of or designating a fly-through.
1983 Science 28 Jan. 349/2 The in situ mass spectrometer measurements that will be made by the Halley fly-through missions. 1992 MacWorld June 129/2 Spider Vision, a refined method of controlling fly-through animations. 2001 Computer Aided Surg. 6 77 The rendering system used allows the generation of fly-through sequences for the entire ventricular system in real time.
doubler
1. One who, or that which, makes double.
1552 HULOET, Dowbler, duplicator. 1557 in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 257 The doubler of thy gaine. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie III. xix. (Arb.) 211 One sorte of repetition, which we call the doubler..a speedie iteration of one word, but with some little intermission. 1869 REED Ship-build. i. 7 Plates, which..served as doublers to the main flat keel.
2. A double-dealer: cf. DOUBLE v. 11. Obs.
1553 N. GRIMALDE Cicero's Offices (1556) 130 Gylefull, craftie, foxlike, and a verie dubbler.
3. Technical senses. a. A person employed in doubling (see DOUBLE v. 7); also, a machine for doubling cotton or silk.
1662 Act 14 Chas. II, c. 15 §6 Silk-winder and Doubler. 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6187/4 Elizabeth Faulkner..Silk-Doubler. Ibid. No. 6189/4 Katharine Jackson..Worsted-Doubler. 1879 J. ROBERTSON in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 209/1 Carding engines, lap-machines or doublers.
b. Electr. An apparatus: see quot. 1788.
1788 Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 8 It is Mr. Bennet's doubler that was intended..to multiply, by repeated doubling, a small, and otherwise unperceivable, quantity of electricity, till it became sufficient to affect an electrometer, to give sparks, etc. 1794 READ Ibid. LXXXIV. 266 When I employ the doubler to investigate atmospheric electricity. 1881 MAXWELL Electr. & Magn. I. 294 By means of the revolving doubler..Volta succeeded in developing..an electrification capable of affecting his electrometer.
c. Calico-printing. A blanket or felt placed between the cloth to be printed and the printing-table or cylinder (Knight Dict. Mech.).
d. Distilling. A part or appendage of a still, for intercepting and returning the less volatile vapours to be re-distilled.
4. slang. A blow that doubles up a person.
1811 Morn. Herald 10 Oct. 1812 Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 187 Penton was..grounded by a doubler on the left side.
5. N.Z. slang. (See quot.)
1871 C. L. MONEY Knocking about N.Z. x. 141 [We] were served out with a doubler, or two lots of grog in one.
big one, n.
colloq.
1. orig. and chiefly U.S. A large sum of money, esp. one thousand (occas. one million) dollars or (Brit.) pounds; a note of large denomination. Also (usu. pl.): one dollar or (Brit.) one pound.
c1863 T. TAYLOR Ticket-of-leave Man I. 10 Now to plant the big 'un. 1908 K. MCGAFFEY Sorrows of Show Girl 237 Wilbur's got the wise guys so leary..they naturally slip him a big one every time they get the chance. 1958 N.Y. Post 12 Jan., [He] lost, picking up 42 Big Ones ($42,000 that is) in consolation money. 1970 T. SOUTHERN Blue Movie 52 Three big ones baby!.. Three million! 1989 N.Y. Woman Oct. 44/2 We suggest answering only two calls: from the lottery saying you've just won 50 million big ones. Or from Mel Gibson. 1993 Empire Aug. 123/2 Paperback, Bloomsbury, £20.00. Hardly a snip at 20 big ones, this is nevertheless something of a must-buy. 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 19 Aug., Detailing how a top-spending client ripped through 80 big ones in a weekend is apt to appear indelicate.
2. orig. U.S. With the. Something regarded as important and decisive, or as the most significant, substantial, or influential of its kind; esp. a factor, event, opportunity, etc., of great potential or consequence.
1924 D. HAMMETT Nightmare Town in Argosy All-Story Weekly 27 Dec. 521/2 We made booze and shipped it out... Then we got the real idea—the big one! We kept on making the hooch; but we got the big idea going for our own profit. 1976 M. APPLE Oranging of Amer. 50 You'll roll up in an ancient scroll, grow earlocks, and say, This is the big one, the one I've been waiting for. 1985 M. SACHS Fat Girl i. 6 Oh, I went around with a girl in my sophomore year. She was the big one in my life. 1994 Face Sept. 77/3 US Vogue remains The Big One (commercially, at least). 2001 New Yorker 20 Jan. 95/1 Emboldened by his success..the young British director has gone for the big one: Babylonian budget, sweeping locations, dazzling deployment of multiple cameras.
3. orig. and chiefly U.S. Freq. with the. a. A war, originally spec. the Second World War (1939-45), now freq. a prospective nuclear war. Hence: a major military incursion or assault.
In quot. 1972: the atomic bomb.
1960 G. BLUESTONE Private World Cully Powers iii. 47 Back in the Big One. 1972 R. NEWMAN Polit. Sci. (song) in Sail Away (record), Let's drop the big one There'll be no-one left to blame us. 1983 R. EILERT For Self & Country 182, I had one of those people tell me that the wounds were much worse in the big one. Can you believe it? 1991 B. MACARTHUR Despatches from Gulf War 184 We were all geared up for the Big One, said a staff sergeant with the Queen's Own Highlanders. 1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 22/2 The dream of all-out nuclear war faded... Let's face it: the big one isn't coming. There will be no Armageddon.
b. A major disaster, spec. a (prospective) large-scale earthquake.
1980 J. HENDERSON New Zealanders in G. McLauchlan Acid Test (1981) 192 This is an earthquake... In Napier, the gravedigger..leaning out [of a newly dug grave] to avoid burial in The Big One. 1997 Escape Mar.-Apr. 81 Floods, landslides and monsoons are all listed alphabetically by country, and you can even e-mail your own sitrep (situation report) if, say, you're unlucky enough to be at the quake's epicentre when The Big One hits San Francisco. 2000 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. A4/1 No one seems to blink at minimum—and oddly precise—estimates of 6,717 people killed and more than 300,000 structures destroyed, mostly by fire, if the Big One hits.
Due to some current work around and about my house, the internet was brutally ripped from my hands on Wednesday. The words inbox that greeted me was...daunting, to say the least, so I'm going to try to catch up in manageable chunks.
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Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
multicopy, n. and a.
A. n. Any of several multiple copies, esp. one reprographically produced. Also (in pl. or attrib.): a (large) number of copies of a book, record, etc.
1947 Amer. Hist. Rev. 52 639 Among the recent accessions..eleven typescripts and multicopies of letters, documents, and clippings relating to the work of Dr. Earl E. Dudding. 1960 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 31 92 Here, then, is my list of the people who all too often make the librarian's lot an unhappy one... Multi-multi-multicopy buyers..[etc.]. 1985 Company Dec. 51/2 How unusually heartening it was to give away Bob Geldof's Do They Know It's Christmas? record in multi-copies last year. 1996 Orange County (Santa Ana, Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 24 Dec. A1, I have 240 sets of books in multicopies, six to 10 each.
B. adj.
1. gen. That produces or involves multiple copies.
1958 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 44 204 The multicopy model [of traffic flow] can be viewed as an instance of a dynamic network in which the αth copy corresponds to conditions in the αth period. 1975 Business Week 7 Apr. 58/2 Brady and his father designed a special multicopy head that features a tungsten wire in each of the tubes. 1983 Dict. Computing 101/1 Decollator, a machine that can process multicopy printed output into separate stacks of copy and used carbon paper. 1997 Good Housek. (N.Y.) July 32/3 (heading) Features to Look for... Multicopy Capability: Allows you to make several copies of the original in just one step.
2. Cell Biol. Designating or relating to a plasmid, gene, or other nucleic acid sequence present in multiple copies in a cell or genome.
1968 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 61 328 The persistence of hybrid cells in cultures grown on M medium suggested that these cells might contain multiple segregating copies of one or both alleles. The results..show clearly that hybrid cells pregrown on M medium..segregate out pure types at a high initial rate that is clearly incompatible with a multicopy hypothesis. 1972 Science 19 May 767 The multi-copy R factor pool must increase about 5-fold due to continued R factor replication in stationary phase. 1981 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78 7028 The recent introduction of multicopy plasmids into S. pneumoniae..has made cloning in this species practicable. 1985 Nucleic Acids Res. 13 3533 The 5.8S rRNA gene, present in the trypanosome genome as part of the multicopy rRNA gene cluster, has been cloned. 1994 Science 17 June 1775 The number of DNA molecules surviving in the tissue [of the Tyrolean Ice Man] was on the order of 10 genome equivalents per gram of tissue, which meant that only multi-copy sequences could be analyzed. 2001 Genetica 111 397 Other multicopy genes, such as minor ribosomal genes, or multicopy repeats, such as telomere specific sequences, have now been mapped on zebrafish chromosomes.
picture message, n.
1. An image or symbol used to convey an idea, meaning, etc.
1912 J. MCCABE Story of Evol. xx. 303 Lord Avebury reproduces an Eskimo drawing, or picture-message, in his Prehistoric Times. 1953 W. J. ENTWISTLE Aspects of Lang. iv. 139 The picture-message, in fact, corresponds to a number of different oral sentences which have the same broad effect. 1988 OptiMSt (Nexis) 30 June 8 These tools include: 12 colored picture message cards.
2. An image which is transmitted electronically, esp. (in later use) from one mobile phone to another.
1929 Times 29 Oct. (Printing suppl.) p. xix/6 The picture messages and the synchronizing signals travel simultaneously over the same line. 1970 Times 29 Sept. 3/2 The radio signals are converted into a series of pulses by the radio transmitter and reconstituted as a voice or picture message by the receiver. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 16 June (Business section) 1 Nokia is two months away from launching the first media phone which uses wireless technology to issue weather reports, send picture messages and calculate biorhythms. 2002 What Mobile Apr. 24/1 With the advent of enhanced messaging services (EMS) you will soon be able to send animated picture messages with sound effects from one mobile to the other.
fly-through, n. and a.
A. n.
1. Astronaut. A flight by a spacecraft through a particular area, esp. the tail of a comet, for the purpose of observation. Cf. FLY-BY n. b, FLY-PAST n.
1976 Aviation Week 8 Mar. 38 The reconnaissance of comets should begin with a first fly-through in the early 1980s, followed by a rendezvous mission in the late 1990s. 1982 Jrnl. Astronaut. Sci. 30 307 Dust and gas samples are collected during the high-velocity..flythrough of Halley, and then returned to a high-apogee Earth orbit. 1996 Science 31 May 1313/3 (note) The total molecular production rates and the heliocentric distances were comparable for Halley during the Giotto flythrough.
2. A computer-animated simulation of what would be seen if one were to fly through a particular (real or imaginary) environment or object; (also) one which allows a user to explore all aspects of a virtual three-dimensional model of such an environment or object.
1988 Re: Siggraph88 and a Deal in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Aug., All they did was a fly-through of a 3-d Julia Set. 1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 11/5 The graphics aren't as good as alternatives like PGA Tour Golf (there's no fly-through yet), but it does have good points. 1995 Leisure Managem. July 46/1 This year's Judge Dredd film has a chase sequence that is fun to ride even without a motion base, and the new Lawnmower Man sequel has a number of fly throughs which might work well in a ride film. 1996 Humanities Computing in Oxf. Jan. 2/3 The CD-ROM includes..three-dimensional fly-throughs of the Qumran site. 1999 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. G14/4 There is a company..whose sole business is building architectural fly-throughs for business clients.
B. adj. (attrib.). Of or designating a fly-through.
1983 Science 28 Jan. 349/2 The in situ mass spectrometer measurements that will be made by the Halley fly-through missions. 1992 MacWorld June 129/2 Spider Vision, a refined method of controlling fly-through animations. 2001 Computer Aided Surg. 6 77 The rendering system used allows the generation of fly-through sequences for the entire ventricular system in real time.
doubler
1. One who, or that which, makes double.
1552 HULOET, Dowbler, duplicator. 1557 in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 257 The doubler of thy gaine. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie III. xix. (Arb.) 211 One sorte of repetition, which we call the doubler..a speedie iteration of one word, but with some little intermission. 1869 REED Ship-build. i. 7 Plates, which..served as doublers to the main flat keel.
2. A double-dealer: cf. DOUBLE v. 11. Obs.
1553 N. GRIMALDE Cicero's Offices (1556) 130 Gylefull, craftie, foxlike, and a verie dubbler.
3. Technical senses. a. A person employed in doubling (see DOUBLE v. 7); also, a machine for doubling cotton or silk.
1662 Act 14 Chas. II, c. 15 §6 Silk-winder and Doubler. 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6187/4 Elizabeth Faulkner..Silk-Doubler. Ibid. No. 6189/4 Katharine Jackson..Worsted-Doubler. 1879 J. ROBERTSON in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 209/1 Carding engines, lap-machines or doublers.
b. Electr. An apparatus: see quot. 1788.
1788 Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 8 It is Mr. Bennet's doubler that was intended..to multiply, by repeated doubling, a small, and otherwise unperceivable, quantity of electricity, till it became sufficient to affect an electrometer, to give sparks, etc. 1794 READ Ibid. LXXXIV. 266 When I employ the doubler to investigate atmospheric electricity. 1881 MAXWELL Electr. & Magn. I. 294 By means of the revolving doubler..Volta succeeded in developing..an electrification capable of affecting his electrometer.
c. Calico-printing. A blanket or felt placed between the cloth to be printed and the printing-table or cylinder (Knight Dict. Mech.).
d. Distilling. A part or appendage of a still, for intercepting and returning the less volatile vapours to be re-distilled.
4. slang. A blow that doubles up a person.
1811 Morn. Herald 10 Oct. 1812 Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 187 Penton was..grounded by a doubler on the left side.
5. N.Z. slang. (See quot.)
1871 C. L. MONEY Knocking about N.Z. x. 141 [We] were served out with a doubler, or two lots of grog in one.
big one, n.
colloq.
1. orig. and chiefly U.S. A large sum of money, esp. one thousand (occas. one million) dollars or (Brit.) pounds; a note of large denomination. Also (usu. pl.): one dollar or (Brit.) one pound.
c1863 T. TAYLOR Ticket-of-leave Man I. 10 Now to plant the big 'un. 1908 K. MCGAFFEY Sorrows of Show Girl 237 Wilbur's got the wise guys so leary..they naturally slip him a big one every time they get the chance. 1958 N.Y. Post 12 Jan., [He] lost, picking up 42 Big Ones ($42,000 that is) in consolation money. 1970 T. SOUTHERN Blue Movie 52 Three big ones baby!.. Three million! 1989 N.Y. Woman Oct. 44/2 We suggest answering only two calls: from the lottery saying you've just won 50 million big ones. Or from Mel Gibson. 1993 Empire Aug. 123/2 Paperback, Bloomsbury, £20.00. Hardly a snip at 20 big ones, this is nevertheless something of a must-buy. 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 19 Aug., Detailing how a top-spending client ripped through 80 big ones in a weekend is apt to appear indelicate.
2. orig. U.S. With the. Something regarded as important and decisive, or as the most significant, substantial, or influential of its kind; esp. a factor, event, opportunity, etc., of great potential or consequence.
1924 D. HAMMETT Nightmare Town in Argosy All-Story Weekly 27 Dec. 521/2 We made booze and shipped it out... Then we got the real idea—the big one! We kept on making the hooch; but we got the big idea going for our own profit. 1976 M. APPLE Oranging of Amer. 50 You'll roll up in an ancient scroll, grow earlocks, and say, This is the big one, the one I've been waiting for. 1985 M. SACHS Fat Girl i. 6 Oh, I went around with a girl in my sophomore year. She was the big one in my life. 1994 Face Sept. 77/3 US Vogue remains The Big One (commercially, at least). 2001 New Yorker 20 Jan. 95/1 Emboldened by his success..the young British director has gone for the big one: Babylonian budget, sweeping locations, dazzling deployment of multiple cameras.
3. orig. and chiefly U.S. Freq. with the. a. A war, originally spec. the Second World War (1939-45), now freq. a prospective nuclear war. Hence: a major military incursion or assault.
In quot. 1972: the atomic bomb.
1960 G. BLUESTONE Private World Cully Powers iii. 47 Back in the Big One. 1972 R. NEWMAN Polit. Sci. (song) in Sail Away (record), Let's drop the big one There'll be no-one left to blame us. 1983 R. EILERT For Self & Country 182, I had one of those people tell me that the wounds were much worse in the big one. Can you believe it? 1991 B. MACARTHUR Despatches from Gulf War 184 We were all geared up for the Big One, said a staff sergeant with the Queen's Own Highlanders. 1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 22/2 The dream of all-out nuclear war faded... Let's face it: the big one isn't coming. There will be no Armageddon.
b. A major disaster, spec. a (prospective) large-scale earthquake.
1980 J. HENDERSON New Zealanders in G. McLauchlan Acid Test (1981) 192 This is an earthquake... In Napier, the gravedigger..leaning out [of a newly dug grave] to avoid burial in The Big One. 1997 Escape Mar.-Apr. 81 Floods, landslides and monsoons are all listed alphabetically by country, and you can even e-mail your own sitrep (situation report) if, say, you're unlucky enough to be at the quake's epicentre when The Big One hits San Francisco. 2000 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. A4/1 No one seems to blink at minimum—and oddly precise—estimates of 6,717 people killed and more than 300,000 structures destroyed, mostly by fire, if the Big One hits.
Due to some current work around and about my house, the internet was brutally ripped from my hands on Wednesday. The words inbox that greeted me was...daunting, to say the least, so I'm going to try to catch up in manageable chunks.
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