Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In glass manufacturing, the mass of molten glass gathered on the end of the pontil before it is blown.
- noun In a recently invented glass-blowing machine for bottle-making, the receptacle which first receives the molten glass in quantity just sufficient to form a single bottle, and feeds the metal to the mold. The sizes of the parisons are varied to correspond with different sizes of bottles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Glassworking) An intermediate stage or shape of a glass object which is produced in more than one stage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun glassblowing A spherical mass of
glass , rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Line 7, 'Desiring this man's art and that man's scope', deftly displays the figure of rhetoric known as parison, or the symmetrical repetition of words in grammatically parallel phrases.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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(Many cellphones, by com-parison, operate at 2 GHz.)
Wireless Power Could Replace Cables and Outlets | Impact Lab 2007
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Of course, the use of white lead in ancient Rome paled in parison to the workout it got during the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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It is possible for the same sentence to have all these features together-antithesis, parison, and homoeoteleuton.
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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In a passage that brilliantly demonstrates the rhetorical devices we saw earlier in Shakespeare's poetry, such as stichomythia, antithesis, parison, and isocolon (see Chapter 1), Hamlet makes plain that he is on the offensive.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Gold had cultivated a moustache to discourage the com-parison, but it wasn't a very good one; it refused to connect beneath his nose.
The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001
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For Branding, it served to put into perspective human concerns and anxieties, which seemed, in com-parison, both fleeting and inconsequential.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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The wintry gloom of Seitforest stood replaced by a towering ring of cedars whose age and majesty held no com-parison to any woodland known to mortals.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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Greensville's very much like Plains, Georgia, if you'll pardon my corn parison.
Brother Ray Charles, Ray, 1930-2004. cn 1978
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There were color and variety to make Earth's richest jungles seem pallid and wan in com - parison..
Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975
reesetee commented on the word parison
In glassmaking, a gather on the end of a blowpipe that is already partly inflated. From the French paraison.
November 9, 2007