单词 | excited |
释义 | excitedadj. 1. a. Stirred by strong emotion, disturbed, agitated. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > [adjective] fevering?a1200 upreareda1382 warm1390 amoveda1400 entalented1402 stirred1483 intoxicatea1533 roused1575 vibrant1575 waked1581 irritated1595 uproused1597 gunpowdered1604 concitated1652 exagitated1659 animated1660 upstirreda1666 instinct1667 hot-headed1679 flushed1749 abubble1766 agig1767 fermentitious1807 suscitated1811 effervescent1833 effervescing1837 quick1837 galvanized1843 ginger beery1849 excited1855 ablaze1859 het1862 effervescible1866 thrilly1893 piqued1902 all of a doodah1915 hopped-up1923 adrenalized1935 volted1936 hyped1938 spooked up1939 twitterpated1942 up1942 jazzed1955 psyched1963 amped1967 plugged-in1967 torqued1967 buzzy1978 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 275 The population of Edinburgh was in an excited state. 1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 216 The excited people..rushed out to me. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. Own Times I. 199 Thiers carried with him much of the excited public feeling of France. b. Of trade: Abnormally brisk or active. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [adjective] > good or bad (of trade) well-traded1609 sulke1636 quicka1687 dull1705 brisk1719 roaring1731 rousing1767 slow1823 briskish1864 upwith1864 excited1878 turnaway1943 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 123 Business men must become..careful during excited trade. 2. Thesaurus » Categories » a. In which electrical or magnetic action has been induced; electrized, magnetized. Thesaurus » Categories » b. Of bodily organs or tissues: Affected by a stimulus. c. Of a seismographic instrument: Agitated. ΚΠ 1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 144 Excited Needles, when they stick fastest to each other, owe their Union to their having both been touched by the Loadstone. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 129 The different states may be known by presenting a metallic point to the excited body. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. x. 235 The visible direction of an object should be a line perpendicular to the curvature of the retina at the excited point. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) ii. §35. 37 The excited magnetic field. 1881 Standard 12 Aug. The instruments become less excited, and gradually fall back to more normal conditions. d. excited radioactivity n. Rutherford's name for artificial or induced radioactivity, as opposed to that which occurs naturally. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > making radioactive > [noun] > induced radioactivity excited radioactivity1900 induced (radio)activity1900 1900 Rutherford in London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 49 161 Thorium compounds under certain conditions possess the property of producing temporary radioactivity in all solid substances in their neighbourhood... Attention was first drawn to this phenomenon of what may be termed ‘excited radioactivity’ by the apparent failure of good insulators..to continue to insulate. 1913 E. Rutherford Radioactive Substances x. 391 The activity thus produced on inactive substances was..known as ‘induced’ or ‘excited’ radio-activity. e. Physics. Of an atom or an orbiting electron, or a nucleus, molecule, etc.: not in its ground state; able to lose energy by emitting electromagnetic radiation or a particle; excited state, a state of a quantized system having more energy than the ground state. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > raising energy level, excitation > [adjective] > emitting energy excited1921 the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > raising energy level, excitation > [noun] > state of lowest level > higher level than excited state1921 1921 Chem. Abstr. 15 3931 Recent researches..lead to the establishment of the existence of excited atoms in a metastable state. 1927 T. Verschoyle tr. A. E. Haas Atomic Theory 176 His observations..lead to an approximate value of 10—8 sec. for the mean duration of the excited state. 1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) ix. 99 Excited states have only a limited life, and..the energy surplus of the excited nuclei will gradually be emitted in the form of γ-rays. 1953 P. Morrison in E. Segrè Exper. Nucl. Physics II. vi. v. 63 The outgoing particles will in general take away only a small part of the excitation energy, leaving behind an excited residual nucleus. 1968 M. S. Livingston Particle Physics x. 170 We might expect the mesonic cloud surrounding a nucleon core to be capable of existing in excited states of higher energy..and to ‘radiate’ mesons. Draft additions 1993 exˈcitedness n. the state or quality of being excited, excitement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a state of excitement heydayc1590 furor1704 feveret1712 kippage1808 raptus1845 take-on1893 gale1894 excitedness1934 up1966 1934 in N. Webster Dict. 1963 Times 14 Jan. 3/2 During the next 20 minutes French excitedness gave K. J. F. Scotland three reasonable pots at penalty goals. 1988 M. M. R. Khan When Spring Comes iii. 79 Juan was a strange amalgam of tidy habits and almost eruptive, messy excitedness. Draft additions December 2006 Sexually aroused. Earliest and frequently in sexually excited. ΚΠ 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 356 Horn-mad,..sexually excited, lecherous. 1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method vi. 130 One day, her friend stroked her hand affectionately, she became excited and resumed the masturbation which she had practiced when five or six years old and then repressed under the influence of her sister until a half year ago. 1919 Biol. Bull. 37 229 A male [guinea-pig] after long isolation from females becomes sexually excited by the presence of any female. 1956 Marriage & Family Living 18 356/2 She just didn't feel sexually excited toward her husband. 1999 F. Wynne tr. M. Houellebecq Atomised (2001) 86 I was so excited that I came right there before I could even put it in her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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