单词 | gypsum |
释义 | gypsumn. Mineralogy. Hydrous calcium sulphate, the mineral from which plaster of Paris is made. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphates > [noun] > gypsum spar-stonec1000 plastera1387 plaster stone1388 gyps1398 gesso1596 gypsum1646 gip1658 Paris gypsum1833 plaster rock1836 brushite1880 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > gypsum spar-stonec1000 gypsum1646 parget1657 satin spar1802 satin stone1803 satin gypsum1807 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > plaster of Paris plastera1387 plaster of Parisa1425 yesoa1533 gesso1596 gypsum1646 Paris plaster1855 stucco1897 hemi-hydrate1909 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 271 Bysides Parys is greet plente of a manere stoon þat hatte gypsus.] 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 92 Gypsum layed up in the earth the space of 80 yeeres. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iii. 24 Figures in..Gypsum. 1759 W. Cullen Let. in J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen (1832) I. 127 Are the talcs and gypsums different in their Composition. 1776 Woulfe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 610 The Bolognian stone and other such spars, as well as the gypsa, are decomposed by fixed alkalies. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 343 Lands, dressed with gypsum, have been equally favourable to wheat. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxxi. 409 The prism presented the appearance of a crystal of gypsum. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xx. 177 Gypsum when moderately heated loses its water, and is then called plaster of Paris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). gypsumv. transitive. To dress (land or a crop) with gypsum. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > treat with chemical fertilizer plaster1791 gypsum1819 potash1860 1819 Commun. Board Agric. 521 The whole field..was again gypsumed at the rate of four bushels per acre. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 323 Cattle show..a remarkable predilection for clover which has been gypsumed. Derivatives ˈgypsumed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized dungedOE marledc1265 mucked1290 chavedc1420 dungyc1450 manured1551 fatted1552 folded1579 chalked1598 battled1600 seasoned1604 limed1707 sanded1707 fattened1725 sooted1776 wared1795 littery1805 plastered1819 nitred1822 gypsumed1841 nitrated1841 sewaged1861 sewage-irrigated1867 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 111 The comparative produce of the gypsumed over not gypsumed land is very great. 1849 J. F. W. Johnston Exper. Agric. 120 On wheat, after gypsumed clover. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1646v.1819 |
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