- dabchick
[dabchick 词源字典] - dabchick: see deep
[dabchick etymology, dabchick origin, 英语词源] - ABC (n.)
- "the alphabet," late 13c., abece. Sense "rudiments or fundamentals (of a subject)" is from late 14c. From 1944 (in a "Billboard" headline) as a shortening of American Broadcasting Company. Related: ABCs.
- BBC
- see B.B.C.
- BCE
- see B.C.E.
- bobcat (n.)
- North American lynx, 1873, in a Maine context; so called for its short tail; see bob (n.2) + cat (n.).
- hubcap (n.)
- also hub cap, 1896, from hub + cap (n.).
- subclass (n.)
- also sub-class, 1802, from sub- + class (n.).
- subcommittee (n.)
- also sub-committee, c. 1600, from sub- + committee.
- subconscious (adj.)
- 1823, "not wholly conscious, feebly conscious" (implied in subconsciously), from sub- + conscious. First attested in De Quincey. The noun, in the psychological sense ("mental processes taking place without consciousness"), is attested from 1886, from adjectival sense "occurring in the mind, but not in consciousness;" earlier noun was subconsciousness (1845).
- subcontinent (n.)
- also sub-continent, 1845, from sub- + continent (n.). Related: Subcontinental.
- subcontract (n.)
- also sub-contract, "contract for carrying out all or part of a previous contract," 1817, from sub- + contract (n.). As a verb from 1828 (in Shakespeare it means "be betrothed again"). Related: Subcontracted; subcontracting.
- subcontractor (n.)
- 1810, from sub- + contractor, or else an agent noun from subcontract.
- subculture (n.)
- 1886, in reference to bacterial cultures, from sub- + culture (n.). From 1922 in reference to human cultures.
- subcutaneous (adj.)
- also sub-cutaneous, "under the skin," 1650s, from sub- + cutaneous. Related: Subcutaneously.
- subcentral
- " Zoology and Botany . Nearly or not quite central; near or close to the centre", Early 19th cent. From sub- + central.
- subcelestial
- "Existing below or beneath a heavenly or ethereal realm; material (as opposed to ethereal). Now rare or historical", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Eden (c1520–1576), translator. From sub- + celestial.
