单词 | filterless |
释义 | filterlessadj.n. 1. Lacking a filter (in various senses of the noun); esp. not fitted or used with a filter.In quot. 1899: designating people whose water supply is unfiltered. ΚΠ 1899 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 28 Feb. 2/2 [They] do not see how the people of Cedar Rapids can drink the..water, after looking at the stream... The filterless populace is longing for the day when the spring freshet will have subsided. 1904 H. O. Klein tr. A. von Hübl Three-colour Photogr. ii. 104 Wet plates cannot be exposed behind these filters, but gelatine plates give a complete picture if the exposure is long enough, without showing much different colour rendering, if compared with filterless exposures. 1915 Bakersfield Californian 12 July 5/5 The nose is the original ‘domestic filter’... A choked nose, through which a person cannot breathe, means that microbes enter the lungs freely by way of the filterless mouth. 1953 Financial Times 25 Sept. 7/7 A simple, robust, filterless centrifugal device which will continuously remove solid particles..from air. 1994 Pop. Sci. Apr. 49/1 When William Conlon saw a magazine photo of an Inuit man melting frozen seawater to drink, it was a moment of divine inspiration—resulting in a clever new filterless water purification system. 2009 M. Findley & L. Formichelli Compl. Idiot's Guide Green Cleaning (ed. 2) ii. 34 Micro-filtration systems are an improvement over filterless systems but are not as effective as a HEPA filter [in a vacuum cleaner]. 2. Designating a cigarette without a filter (filter n. 4a); of or relating to such a cigarette. Also occasionally as n.: a filterless cigarette. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [adjective] > type of cigarette bird's eye1877 gold-tipped1890 mentholated1895 cork-tipped1907 king-size1909 roll-your-own1911 tailor-made1924 filter-tipped1927 king-sized1940 roll-up1948 filterless1956 tipped1964 untipped1968 unfiltered1976 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > other types of cigarette Russian cigarette1851 papirosa1856 Egyptian1892 Russian1892 tickler1904 joystick1911 gyppy1920 king-size1920 Sobranie1923 virgin1923 Turk1926 roll-your-own1932 ready roll1949 roll-up1950 filter1956 filterless1956 rollie1964 Virginia1964 untipped1968 primo1986 1956 Business Week 3 Mar. 298 Where 10 years ago the standard cigarette—70 mm. long, filterless—had over 90% of the market, today king sizes..and filters account for slightly over 50% between them. 1957 Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 15 July 1/1 (heading) Pardon me while I light my king-size filterless. 1958 Texas Rep. Biol. & Med. 16 333 Smoke was obtained from standard filterless cigarettes by the use of an automatic smoking machine. 1964 Barron's 5 Oct. 23/3 The concern's regular and king-size brands probably hold something like 55% of the total domestic filterless market. 1994 M. M. Yang Gifts, Favors, & Banquets iii. 128 Filterless local brands..were bought only for personal consumption and were not suitable as gifts. 2008 A. Smith Ghost Med. vi. 73 Carl looked at me, smiling and wincing in the bitterness of his filterless smoke. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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