单词 | interfluent |
释义 | interfluentadj. 1. Flowing between. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > flowing between interflowing1610 interfluent1651 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > between interfluent1651 interfluous1656 1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 186* Girt about with the waters of the interfluent Hadrian Sea. 1664 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold iii, in Wks. (1772) II. 503 Whether the spring of the air depend..upon the agitation of some interfluent subtile matter. 1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 73 The cosmic water's subtle-streaming force, Interfluent, circumfluent. 2. Flowing into each other, intermingling; in which there is an interflow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > in or together influent1607 inflowing1611 inpouring1853 interfluent1872 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > that mixes or blends > interpenetrating interfluous1818 interpenetrant1848 interpenetrative1860 interfluent1872 interpenetrating1873 interflowing1898 1872 G. MacDonald Wilfrid Cumbermede I. x. 137 A world of shadows and sunny streaks, kept ever in interfluent motion. 1885 E. C. Stedman in Cent. Mag. 29 508 The interfluent, luxurious pentameter couplet, revived by Hunt and Keats. 1894 Forum (N.Y.) Nov. 284 To draw the mystic line dividing his science from his poetry would be a difficult matter. The two were interfluent streams. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1651 |
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