单词 | blood heat |
释义 | blood heatn.adj.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > specific degree of heat red heatc1540 fury fire1644 adustness1652 white heat1664 blood heat1678 welding heat1710 black heat1800 welding1842 boiling-heat1846 red-hot1865 melting heat1868 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 11 Then taking a Blood-heat of your Iron, or if it be very large almost a Flame Heat. 2. The temperature of the blood in the periphery of the healthy human body, usually taken as 37°C (98.6°F); an instance of this. Also attributive or as adj. Also figurative.Cf. body heat n. at body n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June 175 When all is of a Blood-heat, put one Spoonful of Rennet to it. 1743 S. Hales Descr. Ventilators 141 I took the Degree of Heat, among the drying Hops, by a mercurial Thermometer, which was graduated according to Farenheits, in which the freezing Point is thirty two Degrees, Blood-Heat ninety six, and the Heating of boiling Water 212. ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 82 in School of Arts (ed. 2) Farenheit's scale is most generally in use, and the remarkable periods of heat are as follows: 212 water boils, 175 spirits of wine boils, 112 fever-heat, 98 blood-heat [etc.]. 1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 25 May 322/2 It has a knack..of being at blood-heat. 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 48 The opinions we held so feverishly..in the blood-heat season of youth. 1892 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 June 1348/2 The tubes were then corked and placed in the warm chamber at blood heat. 1912 F. C. Harrison in C. E. Marshall Microbiology 204 The number of organisms which develop on beef peptone agar incubated at blood heat, commonly termed the ‘agar’ or ‘blood-heat’ count, is perhaps more important than the gelatine count. 1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 565 Then the throbbing of music ran out again in the bloodheat of the air. 1934 M. T. King Mothercraft ix. 146 Baby's milk-mixture should be blood heat when given to him. 1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja ii. 269 It was filled with water at blood-heat temperature. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 351 And it's heavenly at blood heat, when the cakiness of the chocolate sits warmly around the sour-sweet juicy raspberries embedded within. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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