单词 | overcool |
释义 | overcoolv. transitive. To cool too much; to make too cold; to chill. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > cool excessively overcool1590 1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 121 Medicines many times haue an action of heate, yet of their potentiall power they doe ouercoole and infrese the body. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 88 Thin drinke doth so ouer-coole theyr blood. View more context for this quotation a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) ii. i. 185 For, it resembleth Wine, wherein too rife Water is brew'd, whereby the pleasant life Is over-cool'd. 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. v. vi. 256 The humours corrupt the whole mass of blood and over cool it, running back into the great veins. 1898 Science 23 Dec. 920/2 Dr. Theo. Kodis presented the results of some experiments on overcooling animal and vegetable tissues. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xli. 772 When, therefore, a carbon-steel has been overcooled below 690° to a point at which it has ceased to glow, the formation of pearlite is sometimes accompanied by a rise of temperature. 1963 Science 6 Dec. 1251 (advt.) Set to cool the rotor during the running portion of the operating cycle, it would overcool a rotor slowing down. 2001 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 9 Mar. 4 It appeared last year's rate rises had overcooled the economy although it was not entirely the fault of the Reserve Bank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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