| 单词 | salt fingering |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalt fingering a. Of water, brine-springs, etc. salt finger, one of a number of alternating columns of rising and descending water produced when a layer of water is overlain by a denser, more salty layer; so salt fingering, the occurrence of salt fingers; salt spray, used attributively to denote a test in which an article is subjected to a spray of salt water, and the associated apparatus. See also salt spring n., salt water n. and adj.In Middle English poetry salt sea, salt flood (now occasionally archaic), salt foam, salt stream are frequent phrases for the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > specific layers > column of water due to layers salt finger1967 OE Cynewulf Crist II 677 Sum mæg fromlice ofer sealtne sæ sundwudu drifan, hreran holmþræce. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3049 He..fram þan londe hælde. ofer þane saltne [c1300 Otho salte] strem. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1462 So longe he seylith in the salte se Til in the yle of lenoun aryuede he. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. i. 383 The North see is but lytyll salte and the see that hyght Ponticum is as it were fressh. a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 3272 He was maroner wel gode, A stertte in to þe salte flode. c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 1458 She roos of the foom most salt. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aviv The roy rial..socht to the ciete of criste our the salt flude. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Salsilago..a salt licour; bryne. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 394 His [sc. Neptune's] salt greene streames. View more context for this quotation 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. v. 76 We see water being wrung through ashes, to grow salt. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 356 It appears that, the Baltic is much less salt than the ocean, and that it is salter under a westerly than under an easterly wind. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 286 (note) It is sometimes supposed that the Dead Sea is the saltest water in the world. 1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 142 He loosed The veil..And to the salt flood cast it. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxiv. 236 What are known as the salt-tides are chiefly the bane of the angler. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water iii Day and night the salt spray of the ocean was blown upon it. 1967 Deep-sea Res. XIV. 599 The opposite situation of a stable temperature gradient made unstable with a little salt leads to the formation of ‘salt fingers’. 1977 Sci. Amer. Oct. 147/1 The warm salty water of the Mediterranean sets up the conditions for salt fingering as it flows through the Straits of Gibraltar and over the fresher, cooler waters of the Atlantic. 1978 J. A. Knauss Introd. Physical Oceanogr. ix. 187 It would appear that..at least some of the microstructure in the ocean is caused by salt fingers. < as lemmas |
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