单词 | discharger |
释义 | dischargern. 1. A person who, or thing which, discharges (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun] > one who pays debts discharger?1537 the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > act, means, or source of consolation or relief > one who or that which consoles or relieves comfortera1382 discharger?1537 consolatora1540 assuager1547 cheerer?1567 easera1592 tame-grief1606 lightener?1611 solacer1611 lenitive1614 swager1617 allayer1631 unbender1637 comfortable1650 alleviator1725 consoler1740 soother1780 reassurer1882 a shoulder to cry on1935 ?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe iii. xii. f. 67v Death, is the discharger of all griefes, and myseries. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 200 A sure discharger of his debts to the vttermost. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 89 By Borax and Butter mixed in a due proportion; which, sayeth he, will so goe off as scarce to be heard by the discharger . View more context for this quotation 1740 J. Martyn tr. H. Boerhaave Treat. Powers Med. iii. 154 All Dischargers of Phlegm may be conveniently enough reduced to Ptarmics, or Errhines, and Sialogogues, or Movers of Spittle. 1789 Oracle 26 Dec. The honest dischargers of a constitutional trust. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 288 The discharger..admits the liquor, the air, and the water. 1892 Min. Evid. Royal Comm. Labour: Group C II. Gloss. 119/2 in Parl. Papers (C. 6795–IV) XXXVI. iii. 369 Dischargers, men in the chemical industry engaged in loading and unloading waggons. 1924 Times 21 Feb. 14/3 Definite notice was given by fish dischargers that if any of the Grimsby merchants came to Hull to buy fish..they would immediately strike. 1978 M. Amis Success iv. 89 A secretary, of course, or the discharger of untaxing clerical duties at his blacking-factory. 2003 S. A. Shapiro & R. L. Glicksman Risk Regulation at Risk 250 It authorizes the issuance of individualized effluent limitations for dischargers of thermal pollution based on the extent of impact on receiving water quality. 2. An apparatus for neutralizing or releasing an electric charge; a device for discharging a battery.lightning, point, spark discharger: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > [noun] > apparatus for discharging discharger?1765 fulminating pane1856 ?1765 G. Adams Catal. Opt., Philos. & Math. Instruments 6 A straight discharger with sliding rods. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xlvii. 340 The person who holds the discharger feels nothing from the discharge. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 179/1 An instrument, called a discharger..which consists of two brass knobs, fixed to a bent wire. 1916 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 631/2 Figure 2 shows one of the circuits in which the new discharger may be used. 1995 Camcorder User Apr. 30/1 Six-cell 6V batteries do not require to be discharged in a separate discharger. 3. Dyeing. = discharge n. 15b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > removing dye discharge1808 discharger1815 1815 Retrospect Philos., Mech., Chem., & Agric. Discov. 8 205 The oxymuriatic acid is well known to be a most powerful discharger of all vegetable colouring matter. 1860 E. A. Parnell Pract. Treat. Dyeing & Calico-printing (new ed.) vi. vi. 569 After the cloth has been aged for a short time, the thickened acid discharger is applied by the cylinder to all the parts intended to be blue or white. 1909 U.S. Patent 943,375 2/2 The shade obtained is a dark blue..perfectly adapted to the production of discharge effects by the above specified oxidizing discharger. 1999 G. W. A. Milne Gardner's Chem. Synonyms & Trade Names (ed. 11) 415/1 NaHSO2·CH2O, used as a dye discharger in calico printing. 4. A device for discharging projectiles; esp. a grenade, mortar, or torpedo launcher. ΚΠ 1884 Papers accompanying Rep. Secretary Navy in Message President U.S. to Congr. 566 These boats..carry..two torpedo-dischargers, and, as a rule, two revolving cannon. 1896 H. W. Wilson Ironclads in Action II. xxix. 161 When the torpedo has safely left the discharger and is running straight,..the ship at which it is aimed can elude it by a quick movement. 1921 P. S. Bond et al. Red, White & Blue Man. I. 34 One rifleman is equipped with a grenade discharger. 1962 Operator Maintenance Man.: Projector M1A1 and Pyrotechnic Pistol (U.S. Dept. Army) 31 The term ‘fixed’, used in connection with ammunition fired from pyrotechnic dischargers, signifies the propelling charge is fixed (not adjustable). 1988 G. Northam Shooting in Dark (1989) ii. 31 Police gunners reaching for the plastic bullet dischargers. 2009 Lake County Rec. Bee (Lakeport, Calif.) (Nexis) 29 Aug. The [mortar] discharger was considered to be one of the most feared weapons in the Japanese arsenal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1537 |
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