单词 | permeate |
释义 | permeatev. 1. intransitive. To penetrate; to spread or diffuse. Chiefly with among, into, through, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (intransitive)] > pervade pervade1655 permeate1656 commeate1660 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > through > permeate permeate1656 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 125 Sublunary invisible Deities, which permeate through the elements of matter. 1753 Acct. Life & Char. Late Rev. J. Murphy 7 His Word, like Electricity, permeated through the Breasts of Thousands who were his Hearers. 1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 64 The reasons or proportions of abundance and sterility, permeate through all the mathematical disciplines. 1863 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) 14 Producing its own proper effect upon the heathen among whom it permeates. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes I. xiii. 289 The eyes, though keen, permeated rather than penetrated. 1902 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 3 257 Positive and negative electrifications consist in excess above, and deficiency below, a natural quantum of a fluid, called the electric fluid, permeating among the atoms of ponderable matter. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 764/1 This circular form..permeates out into three streets. 1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures xiii. 212 And..at no time did the external meatus of your penis permeate beyond your wife's hymeneal membrane? 2. transitive. To pass, spread, or diffuse throughout; to penetrate, pervade, or saturate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > pervade through-seeka1200 filla1300 fulfila1382 to run through ——1638 penetrate1652 inequitate1653 pervade1659 permeate1660 compenetrate1686 perradiate1848 impenetrate1859 the world > space > direction > specific directions > direct in specific directions [verb (transitive)] > extend through perforate1578 permeate1660 transpierce1908 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > permeate ofgoc1325 penetrate1652 permeate1660 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xvii. 120 Numbers of them [sc. emanations] do always permeate our Air. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 121 This Heat..permeating the Interstices of the Sand, Earth, or other Matter. 1699 R. Burthogge Of Soul of World in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) II. 234 All held a vital Principle that doth permeate the whole World. 1757 B. Franklin Let. 14 Apr. in Writings (1987) 483 Allowing common Fire as well as the Electrical, to be a Fluid, capable of permeating other Bodies, and seeking an Equilibrium. 1830 R. Southey Thalaba (new ed.) v, in Poet. Wks. 109/1 He..felt the coolness permeate every limb. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxi. 208 The brisk, cheerful sense of things present and to come, with which..the dram permeated their systems. 1880 T. A. Spalding Elizabethan Demonol. 31 This intense credulousness..permeated all classes of society. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 559/2 An army permeated by organized disaffection. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 57/1 Nuclear technology has permeated every sphere of warfare. 1991 J. Wolf Daughter of Red Deer i. xii. 138 It was discernible even over the odors of offal and smoke and dead carcasses that permeated the air of the encampment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1656 |
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