单词 | rematerialize |
释义 | rematerializev. 1. transitive. To cause to materialize again (in various senses of the verb). ΚΠ 1876 E. Sargent Proof Palpable of Immortality ii. 23 Spirits have manifested their power,..of re-materializing, for the purpose of temporary use or exhibition, parts and members not distinguishable from those of the human body. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 746/1 Perhaps they dematerialized material from the audience which they rematerialized in visible forms. 1959 Times 13 Oct. 16/4 Their lot is to be transfixed..sawn in half, dematerialized and rematerialized. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought ii. 23 Every transporter was busily rematerializing crewpeople from the surface. 2008 A. Nama Black Space Introd. 9 We all know that time travel and a transporter that can dematerialize and rematerialize human beings do not exist. 2. intransitive. To materialize again. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > come into perceptible existence or materialize [verb (intransitive)] > again rematerialize1895 1895 Evening Democrat (Warren, Pa.) 16 Aug. Not that the long dead and gone creator of ‘The White Slave’, etc., actually rematerialized in Mr. Sanford's study and wrote the manuscript of ‘Miracula’ with borrowed pen, ink and paper. 1898 W. D. Howells Open-eyed Conspiracy 100 Miss Gage rematerialised..after a moment's evanescence. 1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxvii. 280 It was as nothing to Moses to cease to exist when hunted for, and to re-materialize when convenient. 1921 Glasgow Herald 29 Jan. 13/1 The fate of the Manchester Repertory and the failure of the Glasgow one to rematerialise warn us [etc.]. 1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 54/1 The virtual photon rematerializes into any one of a very large number of possible combinations of new particles. 2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 26 June (Factor X section) 5 How does the TARDIS manage to rematerialise in open spaces rather than halfway through a wall or over a lake? Derivatives ˌremaˈterialized adj. ΚΠ 1928 Sunday Express 8 Apr. 5/1 He comes back to each of the characters in the way in which they remember him, and..because of their glimpses of his rematerialised self, [etc.]. 1993 Mod. Law Rev. 56 269 Some overlapping consensus which could form the moral bedrock of vitiating factors in a rematerialised environment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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