单词 | bromide |
释义 | bromiden. Chemistry. 1. a. A primary compound of bromine with an element or organic radical. Several bromides (esp. those of ammonium, iron, and potassium) are in common medicinal use. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > bromine > [noun] > compounds > bromides bromide1836 bromuret1878 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 461/1 Carbon and Bromine form a liquid bromide of carbon. 1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) §58 The same law holds good for the Bromides..of ethyle and methyle. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 204 Bromide of Iron acts as an energetic tonic. 1881 G. M. Beard Sea-sickness 36 The great value of the bromides in very large doses, as harmless and powerful sedatives. b. familiarly for bromide of potassium (KBr). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > sedative > specific drugs nepenthe1595 nepentha1626 bromide1883 bromo-seltzer1896 Dial1914 bromo1916 Amytal1926 Sedormid1928 Phenergan1948 promethazine1949 chlorpromazine1952 Thorazine1954 perphenazine1957 trimeprazine1959 Mandrax1963 mandy1970 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 241/1 A little bromide completed the relief that put her asleep. c. attributive. ΚΠ 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 806 Bromide Rash. 2. A dose of potassium bromide taken as a sedative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > hypnotic > specific drugs > dose of bromide1903 1903 Smart Set 9 14/1 I'll give you a bromide when you're ready for bed. 3. figurative. A person whose thoughts and conversation are conventional and commonplace. Also, a commonplace saying, trite remark, conventionalism; a soothing statement. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace commonplace1560 household word1574 scholium1830 commonplaceism1831 banality1861 bromide1906 stock response1925 tag-phrase1933 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > trite, banal, or conventional bromide1906 square1944 corn-ball1952 Pooter1957 pedestrian1969 1903 Daily Chron. 9 May 4/5 Literature is resentful at being mistaken for bromide.] 1906 G. Burgess (title) Are you a Bromide? 1909 W. A. Raleigh Lett. (1926) II. 340 Bromides are dull partly because everyone pretends to understand them. 1924 R. Hichens After Verdict ii. xvii For once Mrs. Baratrie gave way to a bromide. She said: ‘How good little Clive was!’ 1925 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 469 There is the rise of slums which ‘ought not to be in a new country’, but which, in spite of this oft-quoted bromide, certainly existed in still earlier days. 1926 Publishers' Weekly 20 Feb. 563 The old bromide that poetry never sells is once again proved to be wrong. 1929 Evening News 4 Jan. 9/2 This is one of those self-evident propositions which used to be called clichés and are now referred to as ‘bromides’. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 29 June 2/3 The Republicans would have to fall back on the old bromide about the incurable quarrelsomeness of ‘old, sick Europe’. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze i. 15 These two bromides..were quoted by the faithful..until they were worn as thin as a Queen Victoria bun penny. 4. Photography. a. bromide developer, a developer suitable for bromide paper; bromide emulsion, a gelatine emulsion impregnated with a bromide, esp. silver bromide; bromide paper, a paper coated with gelatino-bromide emulsion, used for contact printing and enlargements; also bromide print, bromide printer, bromide printing (of or with reference to bromide paper). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process tithonograph1842 platinotype1844 daguerreotype1849 crystallotype1852 catalysotype1853 black print1855 sun print1855 blueprint1857 ferrotype1857 tin-type1864 pyro-photograph1869 opalotype1873 gelatine picture1875 hellenotype1875 panotype1875 silver print1878 autophotograph1880 platinum print1881 bromide print1885 solar1889 solar print1889 shadowgraph1896 skiagraph1896 rotograph1899 autochrome1902 rayogram1932 reduction print1933 photogram1934 blow-up1945 Polaroid1953 opaque1959 bromide1967 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > emulsion or sensitizer emulsion1840 collodion1851 sensitizer1854 nitrate bath1858 collodio-bromide1864 organifier1873 silver bath1878 bromide emulsion1885 silver1891 sensibilizer1900 panchromatic1906 nuclear emulsion1949 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > processors bromide printer1885 enlarger1886 developer1899 gum-worker1908 printer1966 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of sun painting1839 sun-printing1853 surface process1865 contact printing1876 silver-printing1878 pigment printing1879 bromide printing1885 printing out1889 screen process1890 gaslight printing1899 projection printing1923 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > paper printing paper1593 photographic paper1840 gelatin paper1851 surface paper1851 print paper1858 Saxe paper1864 tissue1873 carbon paper1878 bromide paper1885 print-out paper1893 mezzotype1894 printing out paper1895 silver paper1898 gaslight paper1899 multigrade1940 contact sheet1959 1885 Amateur Photographer 27 Mar. 409 Britannia Bromide Paper, specially for enlargements. 1892 A. Brothers Photogr. 78 Opal glass and paper are coated with silver bromide emulsion. 1892 A. Brothers Photogr. 78 Bromide-Printing Process. 1902 Bromide Monthly Jan. 10 One well-known Bromide printer we know of makes his exposures in contact printing to the light of an ordinary candle from preference. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 71/1 Bromide Prints..are developed and fixed like dry plates. 1923 S. E. Sheppard in Photography 165 Characteristic Curves for Bromide Papers. 1971 Ann. Rep. Curators Bodl. Libr. 1969–70 46 Photography from Library material..consisted of..3,544 bromide prints. b. A reproduction or proof on bromide paper; a bromide print. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process tithonograph1842 platinotype1844 daguerreotype1849 crystallotype1852 catalysotype1853 black print1855 sun print1855 blueprint1857 ferrotype1857 tin-type1864 pyro-photograph1869 opalotype1873 gelatine picture1875 hellenotype1875 panotype1875 silver print1878 autophotograph1880 platinum print1881 bromide print1885 solar1889 solar print1889 shadowgraph1896 skiagraph1896 rotograph1899 autochrome1902 rayogram1932 reduction print1933 photogram1934 blow-up1945 Polaroid1953 opaque1959 bromide1967 1967 F. J. M. Wijnekus Elsevier's Dict. Printing & Allied Industries 45/2 Bromide, brief for bromide print. 1977 Economist 5 Mar. 116 Work combining original artwork, illustrations, line or screen bromides..and type matter. 1979 Times 20 Nov. 4/4 Bromides, or photographic proofs, of individual reports have to be cut and pasted up in the standard way. 1983 H. Evans Good Times, Bad Times ix. 182 The computer system..was designed to translate keystrokes..so that they emerged in the form of a photographic bromide ready for insertion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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