atomy
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈætəmi/
美 /ˈætəmi/|[-ɾə-]
英文释义
名词 n.
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A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.
— Thou tellſt me there is murder in mine eye, / 'Tis pretty ſure, and very probable, / That eyes, that are the frailſt and ſofteſt things, / VVho ſhut their covvard gates on atomyes, / Should be called tyrants, butchers, murtherers.
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A skeleton.
— Poor Brother Tom had an Accident this time Tvvelve-month, and ſo clever a made Fellovv he vvas, that I could not ſave him from thoſe fleaing Raſcals the Surgeons; and novv, poor Man, he is among the Otamys at Surgeon's Hall.
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A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.; A floating mote or speck of dust.
— [T]hicker then in ſunne are Atomies, / Flew bullets, fier, and ſlaughtered dead mens cries.
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A person who is very emaciated or thin; a skeleton.
— Hoſt[ess, i.e., Mistress Quickly]. I [aye] come, you ſtarude blood-hound. / VVhoore [Doll Tearsheet]. Goodman death, goodman bones. / Hoſt. Thou Atomy, thou. / VVhoore. Come you thinne thing, come you raſcall.
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A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.; The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something; an atom.
— Spayne then enamour'd with the Romane trull, / Calls all her forces, more then Atomies, / And tells Ill-fortunes ſtorie to the full; […]
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Chiefly in the works of the English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870): a thing which is very slender and weak.
— [T]he contents of his plate chest, consisting of two withered atomies of teaspoons, and an obsolete pair of knock-knee'd sugar tongs; […]
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A very small being; a mite.
— O then I ſee Queene Mab hath bin vvith you: She is the Fairies mid-vvife, and ſhe comes in ſhape no bigger thẽ [then; i.e., than] an Agot ſtone, on the forefinger of an Alderman, dravvne vvith a teeme of little ottamie, ouer mens noſes as they lie aſleep: […]
形容词 adj.
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Made up of tiny particles.
— Things that flit in the sky or creep / In the atomy dust, or swarm in the deep, […]
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Resembling a tiny particle; atomlike.
— Hour after hour we slopped along, by the roaring torrent, and under noble Lesser Alps which were clothed in rich velvety green all the way up and had little atomy Swiss homes perched upon grassy benches along their mist-dimmed heights.
词源
词源 1
A variant of atomi, the plural of atomus (“hypothetical particle posited as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter; mote of dust in a sunbeam”) treated as a singular form. Atomus is derived from Latin atomus, from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”, adjective), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having an opposite sense) + τομ- (tom-) (stem of τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of action or result). Doublet of atom.
词源 2
From atom + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’).
词源 3
Rebracketing of anatomy (“skeleton”) as an atomy; compare notomy.
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