单词 | gaseous |
释义 | gaseousadj.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to reactivity > non-volatile fixed1767 gaseous1783 involatile1869 1783 T. Henry in tr. A. Lavoisier Ess. Atmospheric Air Pref. p. xvii M. Lavoisier objecting..to the appellation of fixed air, has..denominated it, the chalky aëriform fluid or acid; and the academy not satisfied with this name, as being too confined, have preferred that of gaseous air. 2. a. Of the nature or form of a gas; composed of gas. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature or form of gas aerial1551 gassy1744 aeriform1782 gaseous1785 aeriformed1790 gazous1794 gasiform1799 1785 T. Elliot tr. M. Fourcroy Chem. & Nat. Hist. I. Pref. xxiv It is essential to collect the gaseous vapours in a pneumato-chemical apparatus. 1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 237 The sudden appearance of fever..may be owing to the action of some gazeous principle. c1860 M. Faraday Var. Forces Nature iii. 85 Bodies in what we call the vaporous, or the gaseous state, are always perfectly transparent. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 190 Associated with the steam are various gaseous exhalations. 1906 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. Salisbury Geol. II. ii. 94 The planetesimals originated, by hypothesis, from gaseous matter shot forth from the ancestral sun. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 54/2 Sulphur, which exists in a gaseous state in the air. 1950 Life 27 Feb. 97/3 Gaseous wastes are released from tall chimneys when the wind is right. 1990 R. Staines Market Gardening iv. 40 Leguminous plants such as lupins or clovers..fix gaseous nitrogen in their root nodules. 2009 Daily Tel. 1 June 28/8 A large scattered star cluster amidst a red gaseous nebula known as the Eagle Nebula. b. figurative. Light, insubstantial; inflated, overblown (cf. gassy adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight > slight or insubstantial leanc1325 light1534 rushy1579 slight1585 smattering1589 exile1610 unmassy1665 insubstantial1767 flimsy1780 tenuousa1817 unsubstantial1825 gaseous1846 slimline1973 lite1986 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 238/2 A word of honour is but the gaseous and volatile part of honour, which would blow up a true Frenchman if he tried to retain it within him. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such iv. 94 His gaseous, illimitably expansive conceit. 1916 M. F. Egan Stud. Lit. ii. 31 The rigid pedagogue shrinks from things of taste; they are subtle and undefined; they are gaseous, more than gaseous, or less. 1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 124/1 Italy were the hosts [of the 1934 World Cup], more particularly, as the gaseous publicity proclaimed, the Duce himself. 2008 Atlantic Monthly May 102/3 Feaver's usually intelligent but occasionally gaseous book. 3. Relating to or involving a gas or gases. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [adjective] pneumatical1626 pneumatic1735 gaseous1805 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 511 The father of the gazeous philosophy [sc. J. Priestley]. 1838 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 128 36 In the gaseous experiments the gases occupy all the space..between the inner and the outer ball. 1873 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 45 100 I desire to offer some remarks upon Mr. Strutt's further criticism of my views as to gaseous pressure. 1909 Science 8 Oct. 494/1 The gaseous spectrum of the comet's tail. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxvi. 700 Acute dilatation of the stomach, characterised by extreme gaseous ballooning of the organ..may occur after abdominal operations. 1978 Vacuum 28 379 (title) A spectrometer for gaseous studies in the soft X-ray range. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 30 June 18 Above the background din there was a gaseous pop, like a beer can being opened, followed by a loud, spluttering hiss. Compounds gaseous exchange n. Physiology = gas exchange n. at gas n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1852 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 23 318 It would appear impossible to assign any definite rate as expressing the gaseous exchange between the interior of the cells and the blood. 1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. vi. 122 The essential feature of the function in which this gaseous exchange is involved is the release of energy. 2002 Ann. Bot. 89 23/1 As regulators of gaseous exchange in plants, stomata have developed a specific structure and unique physiology. gaseous gangrene n. [after French gangrène gazeuse (1878 or earlier)] Medicine = gas gangrene n. at gas n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of fever sore1731 white gangrene1753 hospital ulcer1799 hospital gangrene1813 mildew-mortification1817 caseation1868 phosphorus necrosis1869 gaseous gangrene1882 coagulation necrosis1883 phossy jaw1889 phos1892 gas gangrene1896 1882 Practitioner 29 52 Gaseous Gangrene in Wounds.—Dr. Daniel Molière gives a graphic account of this very deadly complication. 1917 Pop. Mech. Mar. 403/1 His wound..became for a time one of the worst gaseous gangrene sores ever known. 2003 Jrnl. Clin. Imaging 27 328/2 (caption) CT shows gaseous gangrene with subcutaneous involvement of the right perineal region and skin thickening. Derivatives ˈgaseousness n. the state or condition of being a gas (also figurative); (also) flatulence, gassiness. ΚΠ 1831 T. Hope Ess. Origin Man I. 153 Only by degrees would there in space, with the arising of heat, by the melting and dissolution of some portion of this solid mass, have arisen some portion of partial fluidity, gaseousness and radiance. 1912 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 225 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are in too primal a state of fluidity and gaseousness to support life. 1981 L. A. Govinda Inner Struct. I Ching viii. 49 The following five symbols correspond to..states of matter, such as solidity, fluidity, incandescence, gaseousness or evaporation. 1992 Internat. Jrnl. Food Sci. & Nutrition 43 158/1 The experience of watery stools, abdominal cramping, or gaseousness (defined to include borborygmi, flatulence or distension). 2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) v. 158 His poetry sublimates itself into gaseousness, spirals exultantly up into nothing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1783 |
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