单词 | exhalation |
释义 | exhalationn. 1. a. The action or process of exhaling, breathing forth or throwing off in the form of vapour; evaporation. Const. of. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > action of being emitted or emitting exhalation1398 smoking1530 fuminga1535 fumity1572 elevation1605 fumidity1623 avolation1650 fumosity1650 fumidness1727 steaming1819 outgassing1919 off-gassing1979 the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour > evaporation evaporationa1398 exhalation1398 consumptiona1400 vapouring1548 transpiration1562 divaporation1617 exhalinga1618 expiration1626 exhalement1646 perspiration1652 transpiring1670 aerification1790 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) iii. xv To hot sunne..makeþ to greet exalacion and wastynge of þe kynde hete. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. ii. iii. 152 It is drede of sodeyn deeþ, for sodeyn exalacioun of þe spiritis. 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes i. xxxii. 39 The Feuer is dissolued with..exhalation and exsication. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 41 The aire..by exhalation is elevated, and doth rise from the earth. 1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. i. §6 in Anat. Plants 240 Exhalation; when not only fumes, but visible steams are produced. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 135/2 The skin and pulmonary surface are the great implements of exhalation among animals. b. The action of emitting the breath; expiration; an instance of this; a puff. Also figurative the blowing off or getting rid of (anger, excitement, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [noun] pufflOE fnastinga1382 pufta1425 blasting1535 outbreathing1574 efflation1578 expiration1603 perspiration1611 expiring1661 flatus1692 exhalation1742 utterance1844 poof1864 pew1932 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 196 After these Exhalations..his Mind became more composed. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 249 There are some who..shorten the brief span of our [a cigar's] being, making it only a few volcanic exhalations. 1854 R. W. Emerson Poetry & Imag. in Wks. (1906) III. 159 The length of lines in songs..is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs. 1878 H. James Europeans I. ii. 73 Gertrude gave a little long, soft exhalation. 2. concrete. That which is exhaled; a mist, vapour, etc.; an emanation or effluvium, a scent. Also collective. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > a vapour steamc1000 vapour1382 exhalation1393 fumosity1477 suffumigation1567 fluxion1603 aspiration1635 halitus1661 suffumige1666 emanation1832 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 95 Through divers exalations..Men sene diverse forme appere Of fire. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. iii. 696 Hilles gendren exalacioun, smokes, and vapours. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 287 She ouery stynking exalacyoun Of þe eyr bare alwey ful heuyly. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxi. f. 39 Syckenesses, whiche vndoutedly do grow of corrupt exhalations, ventyng out of mens bodyes. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 1v, in Bulwarke of Defence Abstain from soche meates, as..make exalacion, or smoke up into the braine. 1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all 32 So noysome an exhalation, that birds..are poysoned with the very breath and ayre thereof. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 78. ⁋2 The Indian wanders among his native spices without any sense of their exhalations. 1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lx. 34 Nero's golden house had risen like an exhalation, and like an exhalation it disappeared. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 117 Pulmonary and cutaneous exhalations of men. 3. A body or portion of vapour, usually enkindled vapour; a meteor. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > as atmospheric phenomenon exhalation1561 the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun] drakec1275 dragon1398 falling stara1475 starn-shot1513 dancing-goats1563 firedrake1563 meteor1594 shooting star1597 goat1614 shooter1633 shot star1633 phasm1656 snow-fire1771 meteorite1823 asteroid1830 cometoid1861 exhalation1871 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. xx. sig. G.iiiv Shining exhalations..appeare in tempestes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 44 The exhalations, whizzing in the ayre, Giue so much light, that I may reade by them. View more context for this quotation 1660 J. Glanvill Vanity Dogm. xviii. 174 The Galaxy is no exhalation from the Earth, but an heap of smaller Luminaries. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. iv. 201 This Year..fiery Exhalations were seen in the Air. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. ii. 58 The star of the shepherds was a meteoric exhalation. Draft additions 1993 c. Geology. [ < French exhalaison (A. Brun 1911, in Recherches sur l'Exhalaison Volcanique 11).] The emission of volcanic gases into the atmosphere or the escape of gases from a magmatic fluid; an occurrence of this. ΚΠ 1920 L. La Forge in A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry (U.S. Bureau of Mines Bull. No. 95.) 255/1 Exhalation,..in geology, any gas or vapor formed beneath the surface of the earth and escaping either through a conduit or fissure or from molten lava or a hot spring; an emanation. 1959 A. A. G. Schieferdecker Geol. Nomencl. 274/1 Exhalation, volcanic emanation; magmatic.., the streaming forth of volcanic gases. 1959 Bulletin Volcanologique 20 138 Activity within the Kurile–Kamchatka volcanic zone is manifest in three main forms: exhalations of hot volcanic gases, discharge of thermal waters..and emission of steam jets. 1986 Abstracts with Programs (Geol. Soc. Amer.) 18 665/2 (heading) Saline brines, Frio formation, South Texas: contribution from basement exhalation? 1988 Biol. Abstr. 86 ab-844/1 Submarine hydrothermal exhalations are the likely source of much of the material. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1393 |
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