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单词 torrefy
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torrefyv.

/ˈtɒrɪfʌɪ/
Forms: Also irregular torrify.
Etymology: < French torréfi-er (1566 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin torrefacĕre to dry by heat, < torrēre to dry, parch, roast + facere to make: see -fy suffix. (The spelling torrify follows terrify, horrify.)
1.
a. transitive. To roast, scorch, or dry by fire.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > damage or injure by heat or fire > burn or scorch
swithec1220
forscalda1225
scalda1300
broilc1375
toast1398
bysweltc1420
squarken1530
sear1590
torrefy1601
plot1606
reese1618
ustulate1623
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. Proeme 147 To bring it into ashes, it must bee torrified in an oven.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. C5 It's hardly concocted..and torrifieth the bloud.
1819 H. Busk Banquet i. 234 The housewives..on the embers torrify their cake.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 159/2 Taking care not to torrefy them too much.
b. To deprive of all moisture by heating, as a chemical or drug.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > by exposure to heat
parcha1382
air1539
torrefy1601
fire1825
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvii. iv. 272 It [Aloe] ought to be torrefied in an earthen vessell.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxi. x. 422 Torrifie nitre untill it begin to looke blacke.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 230 They torrify a Spoonful of white Cummin-seed.
c. Metallurgy. To roast, as ores, in order to deprive of sulphur, arsenic, or other volatile substance.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > extract from ore > other processes
roast1582
excoct1601
torrefy1686
chloridize1870
chlorinate1875
flash-roast1951
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. v. 188 Pyrites aureus (which if torrefy'd..prove all Iron Ores).
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 100 To prepare iron-stone for the furnace, it must be roasted, or torrified, to expel all volatile matters.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 415/1 It contains carbonaceous matter enough to torrify the stone and make it fit for the furnace.
2. intransitive. To become reduced to a cinder or ash; to become calcined.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)] > burn away or to ashes
out-burna1382
consumec1425
torrefy1615
incinerate1800
roast1839
calcine1855
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 89 This Fat..is not melted by fire, but rather torrifieth.
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