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单词 metabolize
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metabolizev.

Brit. /mᵻˈtabəlʌɪz/, /mɛˈtabəlʌɪz/, U.S. /məˈtæbəˌlaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– metabolise, 1800s– metabolize.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Greek μεταβολή , -ize suffix, metabolism n.
Etymology: In sense 1 < ancient Greek μεταβολή change (see metabole n.) + -ize suffix. In senses 2 and 3 < metabol- (in metabolism n.) + -ize suffix.
I. In non-technical use.
1. transitive. To change, edit (a text). Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.Only in Gladstone: cf. extrapolate v. 1.
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1831 Gladstone Let. in C. Wordsworth Ann. Early Life (1891) I. ii. 91 They inserted the letter.., but extrapolated or metabolised a part where I had mentioned Canning.
II. Biology and Biochemistry.
2. transitive. To process (a substance or food item) metabolically; to cause (a substance or food item) to undergo metabolism. Also figurative.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [verb (transitive)]
metabolize1877
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. v. 319 During the six months it [sc. a pig] had consumed 14.3 kilos of proteid material, of which it had stored up 1.3 kilos and metabolized 13 kilos.
1887 Science 18 Mar. 264/1 We doubt the value to a man of a mass of indefinite ill-digested text-book information. Occasionally an omnivore can take in everything, and digest and so metabolize it as to organize it into healthy mental tissue.
1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 130 The more proteid material the body is called upon to metabolize the more likely we are to have an excess of [uric acid, etc.].
1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 444 His plain rational diet is digested—metabolized and assimilated.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ix. 623 Living plankton metabolizing its reserves or living saprobiotically.
1976 T. Hooper Guide to Bees & Honey iii. 62 The bees in the centre eat honey and metabolize it by activity, thus producing heat.
1999 New Scientist 6 Feb. 16/1 Alcohol abuse causes fatty liver disease by disrupting the ability of the organ to metabolise lipids.
3. intransitive. Of an organism, cell, etc.: to perform metabolism. Of a substance: to undergo metabolism.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [verb (intransitive)]
metabolize1895
1895 [see metabolizing adj. at Derivatives].
1898 Science 27 May 724/1 The matter, except for the action of the living organism, would not metabolize, but would simply be aggregated to the previous mass of the organism.
1943 Bacteriol. Rev. 7 139 The animal tissue cell is formed and metabolizes in an environment which is stabilized within narrow limits compared with the wide range of..conditions to which bacteria are subjected.
1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 36/3 The anoxybiotic species does not stop metabolizing as soon as it encounters anaerobic conditions; it continues to metabolize for as long as six days, even though the new metabolic end product is unusual and potentially harmful.
1990 P. Auster Music of Chance viii. 195 My mother was pretty fat... Too much booze... It has something to do with how the alcohol metabolizes in your blood.

Derivatives

meˈtabolized adj. that has undergone metabolism.
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1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. v. 319 Is the sugar directly consumed by the tissues in oxidative changes, by which means the fatty derivatives of the metabolized proteids are sheltered from oxidation and stored up as fat?
1900 Lancet 28 July 248/1 The removal of the incompletely metabolised end products.
1979 J. Heller Good as Gold 241 The bracing odour of liniment rising from Conover was metabolized liquor.
1992 Internat. Jrnl. Food Sci. & Nutrition 43 37/1 The mean of five estimates of heat increment was 75 kJ per MJ..giving an efficiency of energy utilization from metabolised xylose of 0.75.
meˈtabolizing adj. that metabolizes.
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1895 Proc. Royal Soc. 58 386 We might suppose that the light action takes effect directly on some easily destroyed reserve material in the spore, which does not exist as such in the actively metabolising growing cell.
1923 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 31 278 The linear type is the faster growing high metabolizing thin but not necessarily tall group.
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House (1947) ii. 22 A three-word slogan for a laxative account..iterated and reiterated to the metabolizing public.
1990 Mutagenesis 5 618/1 Within the liver, parenchymal cells..are the dominant cell type with respect to..activity of xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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