| 单词 | daguerreotype |
| 释义 | ▪ I. daguerreotype, n.|dəˈgɛrəʊtaɪp|
Also daguerrotype.
[a. F. daguerréotype, f. Daguerre name of the inventor + type.]
1. One of the earliest photographic processes, first published by Daguerre of Paris in 1839, in which the impression was taken upon a silver plate sensitized by iodine, and then developed by exposure to the vapour of mercury.
†b. The apparatus used for this process (obs.).
c. A portrait produced by this process.
1839Athenæum 26 Jan. 69 The newly invented machine, which is to be called the Daguerotype. 1839E. Fitzgerald Lett. I. 53 Perhaps you are not civilized enough to know what Daguerreotype is. 1849Thackeray Lett. 14 Sept., I am going..to give you a daguerreotype of myself. 1875Vogel's Chem. Light ii. 14 The little pictures that were called daguerreotypes from their inventor.
†2. fig. An exact representation or description. Obs. (since the daguerreotype itself has yielded to improved photographic processes).
1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. II. 351 The masquerade at Ranelagh, and the scene at Vauxhall..are daguerreotypes of manners. 1866Doolittle (title), Social Life of the Chinese: a Daguerreotype of Daily Life in China.
3. attrib.
1841Carlyle Misc. (1872) VI. 212 Contemporary Daguerreotype delineator. 1845Athenæum 22 Feb. 202 Daguerréotype plates. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 234 From which it must be copied, with daguerreotype exactitude, into every disciple's mind.
▪ II. daˈguerreotype, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To photograph by the daguerreotype process.
1849C. Brontë Shirley vii. 80 A head, that daguerreotyped in that attitude..would have been lovely. 1867–77G. F. Chambers Astron. vii. vii. 707 The sensitive silver compounds used in Daguerreotyping.
†2. fig. To represent or describe with minute exactitude. Obs.
1839E. Fitzgerald Lett. (1889) I. 53 All Daguerreotyped into the mind's eye. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome xiii. 706 That daguerreotyping power which he possesses beyond any other writer of the time.
So daˈguerreotyper, = daguerreotypist. daguerreoˈtypic |-ˈtɪpɪk|, -ˈtypical adjs., relating to the daguerreotype process. daˈguerreotypism (nonce-wd.), minute exactness as of a daguerreotype. daˈguerreotypy |-taɪpɪ|, the daguerreotype process, the art of taking daguerreotypes. daˈguerreotypist |-taɪpɪst|, a photographer who uses this.
1864Webster, Daguerreotyper. 1840Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 156 Mr. Maclise has a daguerréotypic eye. 1854J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc. Chem. 91 The language of Daguerreotypic art. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXI. 729 Painted with a daguerréotypical minuteness. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. i. vii. §30 He professes nothing but coloured Daguerreotypeism. 1841Emerson Lect., Times Wks. (Bohn) II. 251 Whilst the Daguerreotypist, with camera-obscura and silver plate, begins now to traverse the land. 1853Chamb. Jrnl. XX. 79 There is something new in daguerreotypy. |
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