rarity, the dock, crackle, up the pole, rare book, spout, hourglass sanatorium /sanitarium.electrification

Rolls-Royce has always traded on rarity rather than volume—making its cars ideally suited to electrification.

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Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

Largely Ignored by the West, Africa’s Medieval Treasures Shine at the Met

North Africa’s influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale.

That Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged makes him an outlier. Police rarely face criminal charges for actions that might land an ordinary person in the dock

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Why the prosecution of a Minneapolis police officer is such a rarity

Richard Strauss and Dresden, a Bond Unbroken

By REBECCA SCHMID

To mark the 150th birthday of the German composer, the Staatskapelle orchestra is playing a major program of his works, including some rarities.

The Hourglass Sanatorium 沙漏下的療養院
波蘭導演 Wojciech Jerzy Has 1973

H&M Recalls Children's Water Bottle Due to Choking Hazard, Sold Exclusively at H&M Stores

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Children's Water Bottle
Units: About 2,900
Importer: H&M Hennes & Mauritz, New York, N.Y.
Hazard: The water bottle's spout can break off, posing a choking hazard to children.
Incidents/Injuries: H&M has received one report of an incident in England of the water bottle spout breaking off in a child's mouth as the child was drinking from the bottle. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The 16 oz. water bottles are pink plastic with a crackle design or blue plastic. The bottles have flip-top lids in coordinated pink and blue colors. "H&M Sweden" and "www.hm.com" are embossed on the bottom of the bottle. The recalled products were manufactured in June 2012. The water bottle contains the manufacture date in an embossed date clock on the bottom of the bottle. The inner circle on the clock contains the number 12 with an arrow between the two numbers. The arrow points at the number 6 in an outer circle of numbers.
Sold exclusively at: H&M stores with children's departments nationwide from July 2012 through August 2012 for about $5.
Manufactured in: Italy
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the water bottle and return it to H&M for a full refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact H&M toll-free at (855) 466-7467 or visit the firm's recall page on its website at www.hm.com

 A Rarity, Even for the Rare Book Room

By DAN BARRY 11:08 PM ET

A print tucked into an old text at Brown University was signed “P. Revere Sculp,” and Marie Malchodi, the technician who found it, knew it might be big.


the bonfire crackled and flared up behind him, lightning flared

crackle with energy

dock noun (LAW)

 the dock [ S ] mainly UK

 

the place in a criminal law court where the accused person sits or stands during the trial:

The defendant seemed nervous as he left the dock and stepped up to the witness box.

The company will find itself in the dock (= in court) if it continues to ignore the pollution regulations.

crackle

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Pronunciation: /ˈkrak(ə)l /

Definition of crackle in English:

VERB

[NO OBJECT]

1Make a rapid succession of short sharp noises:the fire suddenly crackled and spat sparks

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1.1Give a sense of great tension or animation:attraction and antagonism were crackling between them

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1A sound made up of a rapid succession of short sharpnoises:there was a crackle and a whine from themicrophone

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2[MASS NOUN] A pattern of minute surface cracks onpaintwork, varnish, glazed ceramics, or glass.

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Origin

late middle english: from crack + -le⁴.

Derivatives

crackly

1

ADJECTIVE (cracklier, crackliest)

spout[spout]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[spáut]
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[動](他)

1 〈液体などを〉噴き出す, 噴出する((out))

The pipe spouted (out) steam.
パイプは蒸気を噴き出した.

2 ((略式))…をとうとうとしゃべる((off))

spout one's ideas on the economic crisis
経済危機についての自分の考えをまくしたてる.

━━(自)

1 〈液体などが〉（…から）噴き出る, 噴出する((out/from ...)).

2 〈噴出孔などが〉液体を噴き出す［噴出する］；〈鯨が〉潮を吹く

The geyser was spouting.
間欠泉が湯を吹き出していた.

3 ((略式))とうとうとまくしたてる.

━━[名]

1 噴出口；（やかんなどの）口；雨どい.

2 （水などの）噴出；噴水

a spout of gas
ガスの噴出.

3 水の落下；どしゃ降り；滝.

down the spout

((英略式))破産して, 落ちぶれて.

up the spout

((英略式))
(1) すっかりだめになって.
(2) まったく間違って.
(3) ((古風))妊娠して.

 rare

• 発音記号[réər]

[形]（rar・er, rar・est）

1 まれな, めったにない, 珍しい, まれにしか起こらない, たまの. ⇒SCARCE[形]2

a rare visit
たまの訪問

a rare bird
珍しい［変わった］人［物］, 珍品

(as) rare as desert blizzard
非常に珍しい

It is rare for her to get angry. ［＝It is rare that she gets angry. ］
彼女が怒ることはめったにない.

2 〈空気・ガスなどが〉希薄な（⇔dense）

The air is rare above 3,000 feet.
3千フィート上空では空気は薄くなる.

3 ((限定))たいへんな；すばらしい, 非常にすぐれた；((反語的))まったくひどい, とんでもない

a rare beauty
すばらしい美人

have a rare (old) time (of it)
とても楽しく過ごす；((反語的))まったくひどい目にあう

Her rare sense of humor delighted everyone.
彼女の希代のユーモアのセンスは皆を楽しませた.

4 ((副詞的))((主に話))非常に, とても.

rare and ...

((略式))((形容詞を伴って))とても, 非常に

We are rare and tired.
とてもくたびれた.

rare・ness

[名]

rarity[rar・i・ty]

• 発音記号[réərəti][名]

1 珍しいもの, 珍品；めったにない事柄；[U]珍しさ, 珍しいこと, まれであること

rarity value
希少価値

a phenomenon of extreme rarity
きわめてまれにしか起こらない現象

Scientific books are a rarity in such countries.
科学書というものはそういう国では, めったにお目にかかれないものだ.

2 [U]絶妙さ.

3 [U]希薄さ.

rarity

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Pronunciation: /ˈrɛːrɪti/

NOUN (plural rarities)

[MASS NOUN]

• 1The state or quality of being rare:the rarity of the condition
  

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• 1.1[COUNT NOUN] A rare thing, especially one having particular value:to take the morning off was a rarity
  

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  • This latest release is a collection of B-sides, rarities, soundtrack songs and cover versions which is a must for die-hard fans.
  • Both men were travellers and collectors of curiosities - or rarities, as they were called.
  • You know that I have an agent who is always on the look-out for rarities and curiosities for my collection.
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Origin

late Middle English: from Latin raritas, from rarus 'far apart, infrequently found' (see rare¹).

up the pole[up the pole]

((英俗))
(1) 困り果てて；誤って.
(2) 少し気が変で；酔って. mod. alcohol intoxicated. You sound a little up the pole. Why don't you call back when you're sober?

sanatorium

Syllabification: (san·a·to·ri·um)

Pronunciation: /ˌsanəˈtôrēəm/

noun (plural sanatoriums or sanatoria /-rēə/)

another term for sanitarium.

sanitarium

Syllabification: (san·i·tar·i·um)

Pronunciation: /ˌsaniˈte(ə)rēəm/

noun (plural sanitariums or sanitaria /-ˈte(ə)rēə/)

North American

• an establishment for the medical treatment of people who are convalescing or have a chronic illness.

Origin:

mid 19th century: pseudo-Latin, from Latin sanitas 'health'

Up the pole

Meaning

Various meanings.

Origin

'Up the pole' is an odd phrase, or rather, it is an odd collection of phrases, in that it has numerous meanings. These meanings have little to do with each other and, for the most part, little to do with poles. What is difficult to explain is how and why several different meanings for the same expression were all coined in the UK just a few years apart. Of course, poles are commonplace objects and instances of the expression 'up the pole' have abounded in print for centuries - bears/beans/monkeys climbing 'up the pole', people lifting/digging/staring 'up the pole' etc. Perhaps now would be a good time to list the various figurative meanings, in date order of their coinage:

In favour or good repute; strait-laced - A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dictionary of Slang, 1890:

"Pole, up the, thought well of by your superiors. Also applied to strict, strait-laced people, who are or like to be considered goody-goody".

These two slang meanings, which are of military origin, appear to be the first coinage of 'up the pole' but what, if any, actual pole was being referred to isn't clear.

In confusion or error - The Daily News, April 1896:

"She remonstrated with the latter, and told him he was 'up a pole' - i.e. in the wrong".

In trouble or difficulty - A. R. Marshall's Pomes from Pink 'Un, 1897:

"He heard himself alluded to as being 'up the pole'".

[Note: This book was a popular collection of poems. The Pink 'Un was a newspaper printed on pink paper - either the Sporting Times or the Financial Times.]

Drunk - Daily Telegraph, December 1897:

Plaintiff: but your little girl was frequently saying that you were 'up the poll'.
Judge: Up the what? The High Bailiff explained that the term was a slang one for being intoxicated.

This meaning is antiquated and now rarely used.

Crazy; at one's wits' end - Westmoreland Gazette, March 1904:

"Plaintiff's definition of the phrase 'up the pole' differed from that of her cousin who said it meant being drunk. Mrs. Frasier said that it meant being crazy".

This version appears to have travelled from the UK to Australia and New Zealand, where it is still commonly used. In a classic example of folk etymology, 'up the pole' has been suggested to be named after De La Pole Psychiatric Hospital, Hull, UK - after the fashion of 'doolally' being taken from Deolali sanatorium, India. Inmates who were sent there were supposed to have been sent 'up De La Pole'. Inventive guess, but De La Pole Hospital was so named in 1936.

Pregnant - James Joyce Ulysses, 1918:

"That red Carlisle girl? Is she up the pole? Better ask Seymour that".

As befits such a celebrated book as Ulysses, this is the version of the phrase that most people know. It is also the only one that appears to refer directly to any sort of pole - the alternate version of this 'pregnant' meaning are 'up the stick' and 'up the spout' leaving little doubt about what 'pole' was being referred to. All the early usages of this meaning in print come from the pens of Dublin based authors, so an Irish origin seems highly likely.

The only thing tying the versions of the phrase together is that they (apart from the first) relate to some degree of difficulty. It may be that the people coining meanings for this expression were alluding to the apparent difficulty of being stuck at the top of a real pole - but we aren't ever likely to confirm that. There was a fad for 'pole-sitting' in the early 20th century, in which participants were certainly 'up the pole' and could be said to be in some difficulty, but that comes too late for it to have been the source of this phrase.