单词 | evaporation |
释义 | evaporationn. 1. a. The action or process of conversion into vapour; the action of passing off in vapour; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. vii. 832 Quiksiluer passeþ out by euaporacioun in seþing and in smokyng. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxxii. 622 The oile also [is] kept the better from euaporation. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 48 The great evaporation that took place soon after the creation, as soon as the solids began to crystallize. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. 401 By evaporation water is carried up into the air. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. ii. 33 Cold is produced during evaporation. 1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) §110 Evaporation, where a liquid is converted into a gas quietly, and without the formation of bubbles. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > vanishing or disappearing vanishingc1405 vading1570 disparition1597 disappearing1610 disparence1617 disappearance1625 discharge1626 evaporating1630 evanishing1633 vanish1650 disapparition1657 evanescency1664 evanescence1751 mizzle1789 evanitiona1797 evanishment1797 evaporation1824 occultation1825 vanishment1831 furling1836 disappearing trick1870 disappearing act1884 fade-away1911 fade-out1924 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI ix. 65 The evaporation of a joyous day Is like the last glass of champagne. 1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 380 It cannot be imposed upon the agent by a third party without the instant evaporation of all its savour. 2. The action or process of driving off the liquid part of a substance in the form of vapour, by means of heat; an instance of the same. ΚΠ 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 32/2 The Solution..would part with its Salts but very sparingly, without Evaporation. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 652 These alternate filtrations and evaporations. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 23 When obtained by evaporation from alcohol [Bilin] reddens litmus paper. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 277 The most simple method of evaporation..is to place the liquid in a pan or vessel immediately over a fire. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 945 [Sugar] The next process in sugar-refining is the evaporation of the clarified syrup to the granulating or crystallising point. 3. The action or process a. of exhaling moisture. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > moisture or humidity > [noun] > action or process of exhaling evaporation1551 evaporating1630 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > emission by exuding oozinga1398 sweating1545 evaporation1551 exudation1617 evaporating1630 exuding1849 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. O iijv If it [Daucus] be layde wythout it wyll greatly dryue furth by euaporation. 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. 184 The great Evaporation I have observed even in Winter, of Fruits. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 186 The use of a tin box..for the purpose of restraining the evaporation of plants. 1887 H. M. Ward tr. J. von Sachs Lect. Physiol. Plants iii. xxv. 227 Evaporation takes place through the leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission deliverancea1398 puttinga1398 voidinga1425 effusionc1477 vent?1507 evaporation1555 delivery1588 extramission1613 extromission1615 ejaculation1625 emissiona1626 discharge1653 disclusion1656 voidance1672 emitting1693 spout1771 evolution1783 emanation1822 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 357v Euen in the sea are seene euaporations of fyre. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 124 The best way..is to let the good men chide a while hartily together..so necessarie are these evaporations to the minds of the multitude. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 161 The fuligenous exhalations wanting evaporation recoyle upon the flame and choake it. View more context for this quotation 1754 S. Johnson Adventurer No. 137. ⁋4 To reckon the hours laid out in these compositions as..suffered to fume away in useless evaporations. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > [noun] sweatingc1275 sweatc1400 resudation1578 perspiration1583 through-breathing1585 sudation1599 evaporation1626 diaphoresis1681 transpiration1707 sudorification1708 desudation1728 sudoresis1834 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §968 So in Pestilent Feauers, the Intention is to expell the Infection by Sweat, and Euapouration. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Evaporation..In Physick, a discharging of Humours through the Pores of the Body. 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 4. concrete. The product of the evaporating process; exhalation, fumes; the amount evaporated. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour > evaporation > that which is evaporated evaporation1541 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 35 b Pollio prolonged his lyfe certayne dayes with the evaporation of honye. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 151 Such heates..doe proceed out of the spirits only, either niterous or sulphurus, lifted up into euaporations. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 57 The best Glasses..would not represent to me, the evaporations of Camphire. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 125 Evaporations are at some times greater, according to the greater heat of the Sun. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 245 The nocturnal emanations of leaves, and continual evaporations of flowers and of fruits, do not diminish in quality in winter..only in quantity. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) vii. 290 The lake, with the..mist of its own evaporations floating over its surface. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by gas, air, or fumes > [noun] > exposure to fumes or vapour fumigationc1400 suffumigation1422 subjugation?a1425 evaporation1583 suffume1656 vapour-bathing1766 bath1771 1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. F v Euaporatio is when the diseased membre is holden in ye hote vapour of some decoctyon.] 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. lxii. 157 If the euill be waxed old, you must vse suffumigations, and euaporations made of aromatique things. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 424 Good it is to apply spunges to those accidents and infirmities of the body which require euaperation. 6. attributive, as evaporation-gage. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Evaporation-gage, a graduated glass measure..to determine the ratio of evaporation in a given exposure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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