单词 | etherize |
释义 | etherizev.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > charge [verb (transitive)] electrify1745 electrize1747 etherize1748 charge1749 electricize1854 1748 London Mag. June 255 All animal bodies (besides being constantly electeriz'd, or rather etheriz'd by the earth) are naturally of themselves, by virtue of their structure and mechanism, constantly in a state of exciting and communicating electricity or the ether more or less. 2. a. transitive. Chemistry. To convert into an ether; = etherify v. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > ether > etherification [verb (transitive)] etherify1800 etherize1803 1803 Monthly Mag. Feb. 65/1 The mass becomes heated, the sugar is dissolved, ebullition ensues, and the alcohol is etherised, and passes from the retort to the receiver. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. iii. 161 Crystallized bisulphate of soda containing a slight excess of acid..was found to etherize twice its bulk of alcohol as effectually as free sulphuric acid. 1887 A. B. Prescott Org. Anal. 253 The use of weaker alcohol in saponification to avoid etherizing the acids. 1940 Amer. Photogr. June 455/1 They contain a large number of free hydroxy groups in a very heavy molecule, and these can be esterified or etherized with a number of coupler residues. 1966 U.S. Patent 3,272,630 3 A suitable process consists of etherizing o-nitrophenol with dialkyl ethers or arylalkyl alkyl ethers. 2010 European Jrnl. Medicinal Chem. 45 2561/1 The hydroxyl at 8-position..was etherized by PhCH2Br. b. transitive. To introduce ether into; to mix or treat with ether. Now rare. ΚΠ 1895 Internat. Dental Jrnl. 16 773 In Dr. Fillebrown's current the air is etherized, as he expresses it. I think, possibly, it would be better for him to have the current of air go through the ether rather than over it. 1899 Analyst 24 201 The decrease of volume observed on shaking the mixture with water saturated with ether did not represent the alcohol, as petroleum ether dissolves ether from etherized water. 1912 Lancet 10 Aug. 377/1 This blast of air was first cleaned by passing through water and then etherised by passing over the surface of a jar of ether. 1973 Water Res. 7 863 A few millilitres of the sludge samples..were etherized. 3. transitive. To anaesthetize (a person) with ether (now rare); to anaesthetize or euthanize (an animal) with ether.In quot. 1864 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > practise anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. [verb (transitive)] > anaesthetize stony1382 astonish1530 astone1543 stounda1617 etherize1847 letheonize1847 anaesthetize1848 apathize1848 chloroform1848 chloralize1878 chloroformize1880 to put under1889 1847 London Med. Gaz. 4 365/1 Dr. Malgaigne fancied reaction after the operation in which the patient has been etherised, rather weaker than in ordinary cases. 1848 Monthly Jrnl. Agric. (N.Y.) Feb. 416 Mr. Milton..has contrived an apparatus for etherizing bees. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 145 Gradually the mind was etherized to a like dreamy placidity. 1917 T. S. Eliot Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock in Prufrock & Other Observ. 9 The evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. 1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. ii. 219 Artificially fertilized eggs are obtained by etherizing a pair of frogs, opening them up at once when dead, and removing the gonads to a Petri dish of water. 2012 Bone 50 1055/2 Each rat was etherized, a blood sample was collected from the jugular vein, and the serum was isolated and stored frozen. 4. transitive. Botany. To expose (a plant) to ether in order to accelerate its growth or flowering. Now rare. ΚΠ 1903 Exper. Station Rec. 1902–3 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 14 359 It is stated that old plants which had been once etherized and forced, when heavily fertilized but not transplanted, responded readily to etherization again. 1922 J. R. Hepler Exper. Forcing Rhubarb (M.S. Thesis, Univ. of Wisconsin) 8 The roots..were thawed immediately prior to etherization with the exception of one lot which was etherized while frozen to note the effects on frozen roots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1748 |
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