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单词 regenerator
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regeneratorn.

Brit. /rᵻˈdʒɛnəreɪtə/, /ˌriːˈdʒɛnəreɪtə/, U.S. /riˈdʒɛnəˌreɪdər/, /rəˈdʒɛnəˌreɪdər/
Forms: 1500s–1600s regeneratour, 1600s– regenerator.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin regenerator ; regenerate v., -or suffix.
Etymology: Partly < post-classical Latin regenerator person who regenerates (5th cent., of Christ; < classical Latin regenerāt- , past participial stem of regenerāre regenerate v. + -or -or suffix), and partly < regenerate v. + -or suffix. Compare Middle French, French régénérateur person who or thing which regenerates someone or something (1495).
1. In general use: a person who or thing which regenerates someone or something.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > restoration to flourishing condition > one who
regenerator1538
revivora1540
resuscitator1810
resurrectionist1831
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as saviour
alesendeOE
healendc1000
healerc1175
buyera1300
saviourc1330
forbuyera1382
ransomera1400
salvatora1400
savera1400
salver14..
redemptorc1438
redeemer?a1475
again-buyer1530
righteous maker1535
regenerator1538
horn of salvation (health)1611
redemptionist1647
1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. xxxvi The holy gost to be a regeneratour witnessith Paul, saying. But according to his mercy he hath saued us by ye bath of regeneracion.
1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Dv A regeneratour, that is to saye, as one that begeatteth vs of newe.
1648 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Descr. Three Princ. iv. 18 Doth not the Regenerator bid us come to him, and whosoever cometh to him, he will not reject?
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. ii. vi. 122 Christ..is the Everlasting Father and holy Regeneratour of his true Church into his own life and likeness.
1740 D. Waterland Regeneration ii. 17 He is not his own Regenerator, or Parent at all, in his new Birth.
1799 P. Allwood Literary Antiq. Greece iii. iii. 146 Nun..was an epithet conferred upon the regenerator of mankind, in order to denote the weak and diminished state to which the world was reduced in his time.
1819 Times 20 Sept. 4/2 (advt.) Atkinson's Curling Fluid for the growth of the hair..is a certain regenerator of the hair where it has fallen off from illness.
1844 tr. M. T. Asmar Mem. Babylonian Princess II. 205 She expected a regenerator of the world, or second Messias.
1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. viii. 10 He at once became the regenerator and leader of the Tory party.
1932 A. C. McGiffert Hist. Christian Thought I. xii. 238 As creator and governor God is called Father, as redeemer he is called Son, as regenerator and sanctifier he is called Holy Spirit.
1989 Independent 30 Nov. 6 The board, acknowledged to be..a pacesetter among Britain's economic regenerators, has created 10,000 jobs.
2.
a. Engineering. Either of two types of fuel-saving device attached to a furnace, in which incoming air or fuel gas is heated by an outgoing current of hot flue gases; spec. one in which the outgoing hot gases heat a structure in the flue, and the hot and the cold flows are periodically interchanged. Also more widely: a device for the efficient transfer of heat in other systems such as gas turbines and refrigeration systems. The terms regenerator and recuperator (see recuperator n. 3) are sometimes used interchangeably; when they are differentiated, it is on the basis of continuous or periodically inverted operation.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > fuel-saving devices
regenerator1833
recuperator1864
fuel-economizer1880
1833 J. Ericsson Brit. Patent 6409 (1854) 3 The horizontal cylinder D, which is what I call the regenerator, since it is within this cylinder that the hot air in its passage from the working cylinder meets the cold air in its passage to the stoves, and..transfers its heat to the cold air.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 335 Using the Siemens producer and regenerators if necessary.
1882 Cent. Mag. July 476/2 After the explosion, the waste gases pass through the regenerators into the exhaust-pipe and thus escape.
1943 E. H. Lewitt Thermodynamics applied to Heat Engines (ed. 3) iii. 57 The Stirling cycle is thermodynamically reversible owing to the action of the regenerator.
1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World v. 145 Sillimanite refractories..are used as construction materials..on the regenerators and superstructures of glass furnaces.
1999 New Scientist 11 Dec. 30/3 The regenerator insulates the two sides, storing heat from hot gas passing one way so that the cold gas can pick it up when it returns later in the cycle.
b. In other technical contexts: a device which performs regeneration.
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1844 E. A. Parnell Appl. Chem. i. 62 Mr. John Malam, of Hull, obtained a patent for the use of a second retort, or ‘regenerator’,..into which the gas and tar vapor are passed.
1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. i. xiii. 261 This conductor C, by which the carrier is enabled to be connected to earth without a spark, answers to the contrivance called a regenerator in heat-engines. We shall therefore call it a Regenerator.
1909 Times 15 Sept. 17/2 In all these appliances there is..a regenerator to absorb the carbonic acid gas exhaled in the breath.
1950 Petroleum Refiner Sept. 191/1 Air serves to transfer catalyst to the regenerator and to fluidize the catalyst bed there.
1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons iv. 56 I jerked my head away from the keening hum of the tissue regenerator.

Compounds

General attributive, as regenerator chamber, regenerator furnace, regenerator matrix, etc.
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1858 Abridgments Specif. Manuf. Iron & Steel 246 The heated products of combustion pass..through the many openings of the brick walls in the regenerator chamber, until they reach the chimney, after having parted with their heat.
1897 Daily News 22 Sept. 6/7 The Regenerator system of gas burning.
1921 C. Ellis & J. V. Meigs Gasoline & other Motor Fuels 341 The reaction chamber formed by an iron retort, built into the regenerator furnace.
1975 Wear 34 65 The solid lubricant must be overall compatible with the regenerator matrix material.
1995 Macworld Oct. 49/3 If you need to run SCSI cables beyond SCSI's 18-foot length limit.., installing a Regenerator box lets you double the limit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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