单词 | heat-proof |
释义 | > as lemmasheat-proof c. Instrumental, as heat-clouded, heat-concreted, heat-cracked, heat-crazed, heat-hazed, heat-killed, heat-laden, heat-misted, heat-oppressed, heat-set adjs. (so heat-setting n. and adj.); heat-seal vb. (so heat-sealed, heat-sealing adjs.); also with meaning ‘against or from heat’, as heat-insulated, heat-isolated, heat-isolation, heat-proof adjs. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 343 Heate-concreted sand-heapes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 39 A false Creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine. View more context for this quotation 1859 Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 179 The glimmer Of day thro' the heat-clouded window. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. liv. 102 Heat-cracked clay. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping I. vi. 98 The deep heat-misted valley. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 288/1 If the system is heat-isolated. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 288/1 The difficulty of realizing experimentally the condition of heat-isolation. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Jan. 5/6 Get a 34-inch poker for your air-tight heater; they are nicely made and have the Alaska heat~proof handle. 1909 Daily Chron. 21 Jan. 4/7 Glasses treated in this manner become heat-proof, and may last for years. 1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir iii. 82 Over all lay a grey heat-hazed sky. 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 21 This novel covering of feathers, this new heat-proof contrivance that life had chanced upon. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 July 1/4 In Jersey City, three heat-crazed dogs attacked two young boys. 1946 Nature 27 July 121/1 In heat-killed grain there was no change in nucleolar size. 1952 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper (ed. 2) 125/2 Heat-sealing papers include several types of paper coated with wax, varnish..which will adhere when pressed together with heat. 1957 Textile Terms & Defs. (ed. 3) 88 at Setting In order to ensure that the crimp is not readily removed..the fibre may be set to impart permanency of crimp, and the operation is known as heat-setting. 1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 592/1 This is heat-sealed across its width. 1962 J. T. Marsh Self-smoothing Fabrics ii. 8 During the early investigations into the finishing of nylon fabrics, it was found that a heat-setting process had a stabilising effect. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. iii. 130 The yarn becomes bulky, with each filament having heat-set small loops closely but irregularly spaced. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 221 The pin or clip chains over the greater part of their travel run through a heat-insulated chamber. 1964 Discovery Oct. 17/1 So impervious to water-vapour is the laminate, even along heat-sealed seams, that less than 0.012 grams per square metre can be leaked through samples every 24 hours. < as lemmas |
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