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单词 hydrophobic
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hydrophobicadj.n.

/hʌɪdrəˈfəʊbɪk//hʌɪdrəˈfɒbɪk/
Etymology: < Latin hydrophobicus, < Greek ὑδροϕοβικός : see hydrophobia n. and -ic suffix. Compare French hydrophobique (Old French ydroforbique).
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; suffering from or affected with hydrophobia.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies
hydrophobical1650
hydrophobial1662
hydrophobous1684
rabid1733
hydrophobic1807
rabific1838
rabic1841
hydrophobious1843
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 348 Out of these eleven, five died hydrophobic.
a1815 A. Fuller in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxxix. 14 The hydrophobic saliva.
1887 19th Cent. Aug. 200 The number of hydrophobic deaths.
2.
a. Tending to repel, or not to absorb, water; pertaining to such a lack of affinity.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > water-resistant
repellent1789
repellant1811
water-repellant1825
water-repellent1842
water-resistant1883
hydrophobe1915
hydrophobic1938
aquaphobic1944
1938 A. D. Whitehead tr. O. Jordan Technol. Solvents i. 13 This group have a pronounced solvent power for non-polar or weakly polar, that is hydrophobic, materials.
1947 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 38 106/1 It is common practice..to treat fabrics intended to be water repellent with various hydrophobic compounds.
1954 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. XIII. 919 With hydrophobic fibers, fabric structure to a large degree will control water repellency.
1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. i. 10 Synthetic fibres are made from organic hydrophobic (water-repellent) polymers—the natural fibres are hydrophile (water-attractive).
1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xiv. 205 The image is oleophilic (ink-accepting) and hydrophobic (water-rejecting), making an excellent imaging material for an offset lithographic plate.
b. spec. in Physical Chemistry: applied to a hydrosol that readily forms a precipitate and on evaporation or cooling gives a solid that cannot readily be converted back into a sol.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > colloid > [adjective] > sols > hydrosols
hydrophilic1915
hydrophobic1915
1915 M. H. Fischer tr. W. Ostwald Handbk. Colloid-chem. ii. 50 Different names are employed in the literature for these two sets of colloids... J. Perrin [calls them] ‘hydrophilic’ and ‘hydrophobic’ colloids.
1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. (ed. 2) xiv. 1235 Typical examples of hydrophobic sols are those of metals, sulfur, sulfides and sulfur halides.
B. n.
One affected with hydrophobia.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > rabies > person
hydrophobian1662
hydrophobic1864
hydrophobiac1883
hydrophobe-
1864 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. The cruel superstition that a human hydrophobic can legally be smothered.

Derivatives

hydroˈphobical adj. = A.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies
hydrophobical1650
hydrophobial1662
hydrophobous1684
rabid1733
hydrophobic1807
rabific1838
rabic1841
hydrophobious1843
1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) cxlviii. 77 The primitive and genuine Phansy of all the blood in the wounded body..compulsively assumes the Hydrophobicall phansy of the Exotick Tincture.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Hydrophobical.
hydrophoˈbicity n. hydrophobic quality.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > quality of being water-resistant
water-repellant1815
water-repellency1878
water-repellence1904
water-repellancy1910
water resistance1921
hydrophobicity1947
hydrophobia1956
1947 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 38 105/1 The difference between these two energies will depend upon the relative humidity, the hydrophobicity of the surface,..etc.
1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 63 These newer fibres have several different and useful properties which are associated with their increased hydrophobicity.
1969 Nature 15 Feb. 637/2 A quantitative treatment for comparing the average hydrophobicities of proteins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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