transpirev.
/trɑːnˈspʌɪə/, /tranˈspʌɪə/, U.S. /træn(t)ˈspaɪ(ə)r/ 1.
a. transitive. To emit or cause to pass in the state of vapour through the walls or surface of a body; esp. to give off or discharge (waste matter, etc.) from the body through the skin; of plants: to give off (watery vapour); also, to exhale (an odour); to breathe forth (vapour or fire).
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > sweat [verb (transitive)]
sweat?c1225
transpire1598
transude1861
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > as a vapour
reekOE
transpire1598
evapour1615
evaporatea1626
exhalea1628
to cast off1674
perspire1680
pant1735
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 40 b/1 When as we desire to transpire, and cause to evaporate, any venomouse vapours.
1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 39 With wider Pores..More freely to transpire That impatient fire.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 29 It transpires the rest of the liquid at the Summites and tops of the branches into the atmosphere.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 79 At the [quicksilver] mines near the village of Idra..some in a manner transpiring quicksilver at every pore.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) I. vi. 201 Aphides that transpire a cottony excretion.
1840 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. (ed. 2) 122 Some species transpiring their weight of moisture every twenty-four hours.
1880 W. R. McNab Bot.: Outl. Morphol. & Physiol. iv. 101 For the same reason cut flowers wither. The leaves transpire more fluid than the stem can take up.
1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iii. ii The air was heavy with the natural human odour which young children transpire.
b. To cause (a gas or liquid) to pass through the pores or walls of a vessel.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > pass through the pores of > cause to
percolatea1676
leach1796
transpire1864
1864–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 820 The volume [of gas] transpired in equal times is inversely as the length of the tube.
1889 Anderson in Nature 19 Sept. Not only are gases occluded, but they are also transpired under favourable conditions of temperature and pressure.
c. figurative. To cause to pass like breath. rare.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > specifically of immaterial things > as breath
transpire1641
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 37 As if Severus had transpired his soule into Maximinus,..he now became the Wolfe, and Leopard.
2. intransitive. Of a body: †To emit vapour or perfume; to give out an exhalation (obsolete); of the animal body (or a person); to give off moisture through the skin; to perspire (obsolete except as rendering French transpirer); now only of plants: to give off watery vapour from the surface of leaves, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > emit fragrance [verb (intransitive)]
perfume1546
transpire1648
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > sweat [verb (intransitive)]
sweatc900
reekc1475
resudate1599
sudate1599
melt1614
transpire1648
perspire1684
perspirate1844
shvitz1957
the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [verb (intransitive)] > exude air or moisture
breathea1398
transpire1880
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig.Q8v This, that, and ev'ry Thicket doth transpire More sweet, then Storax from the hallowed fire.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. viii. 68 Exercises and recreations..such..as may cause the body to transpire plentifully.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 308 I saw that the Doctor was transpiring profusely.
1880 W. R. McNab Bot.: Outl. Morphol. & Physiol. iv. 102 When the plant is transpiring most rapidly and most water is moving through the stem, the wood cells and vessels are filled with air.
1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 826 If transpiration is suddenly stopped in branches which ordinarily transpire strongly, the leaves fall.
3. † c. transitive. To pass through the pores of. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. Of a volatile substance: To pass out as vapour through pores (in the human body or any porous substance), to exhale; of a liquid: to escape by evaporation.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > become gas [verb (intransitive)] > become vapour > evaporate
evaporate1567
exhalate1599
transpire1643
air1661
fly1732
1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 81 In bodies which have internall principles of Heate and motion, much continually transpiring out to make roome for the supply of new aliment.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 62 Through these Jars the water transpires and percolates into an earthen Vessel underneath.
1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 161 A fragrance..peculiarly rich and reviving transpires from its opening tufts.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xiii. 11 Moisture can transpire through our skin.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ii. 30 One of those species [of Aphides] from the skin of which transpires a white cottony secretion.
1889 Anderson in Nature 19 Sept. Common coal-gas under high pressure transpires through the steel of the containing vessel.
b. transferred and figurative of non-material things.
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1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 2 Anxiety and Solicitude, which soon transpire into the Face.
1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 51 An elegant Way of Thinking, which will be always sure to transpire into their Compositions.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 25 The mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > pass through the pores of
percolate1735
transpire1755
transude1781
1755 H. Miles in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 526 Occasioned..by warm steams transpiring the earth.
4. † c. Of time: To elapse. Obsolete. rare.
a. figurative. ‘To escape from secrecy to notice’ (Johnson); to become known, esp. by obscure channels, or in spite of secrecy being intended; to ‘get wind’, ‘leak out’. Also impersonal.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed
to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE
sutelea1000
kitheOE
unfoldc1350
disclosea1513
burst1542
to break up1584
to take vent1611
vent1622
bleed1645
emerge1664
to get (also have) vent1668
to get or take wind1668
to stand (appear) confessed1708
eclat1736
perspire1748
transpire1748
to come out1751
develop1805
unroll1807
spunk1808
effloresce1834
to come to the front1871
to show up1879
out1894
evolve1920
to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964
society > communication > information > intimation or making known > intimate or make known [verb (intransitive)] > come to general notice
transpire1748
surface1955
1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1087 This letter goes to you, in that confidence, which I..place in you. And you will therefore not let one word of it transpire.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvii. 265 Can he have so many love-secrets, and yet will he not let them transpire to such a sister?
1762 H. Butler Mem. II. iv. 96 Yesterday's quarrel may transpire.
1799 Hull Advertiser 1 June 2/4 The Hamburgh mail..has just arrived, but no particulars have transpired.
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. & Writings (1892) I. 131 What passed between them did not transpire.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. vii. 143 The conditions of the contract were not allowed to transpire.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman 209 We had hardly recovered from the fruitless irritation of this discovery when it transpired that the officers' mess of our most select regiment included a flogging club presided over by the senior subaltern.
1905 R. Bagot Passport xxx Not allowing the fact of there being any difficulty..to transpire to Donna Bianca.
1922 W. Gerhardi Futility iii. vi. 173 It transpired that four regiments composing the division had gone over to the enemy.
1966 D. J. Enright Conspirators & Poets i. 16 But then, to our surprise, it transpires that he doesn't think much of our critics, either.
1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell (1983) x. 144 Yaddo, it transpired, had been under FBI surveillance for some time.
b. Misused for: To occur, happen, take place. Evidently arising from misunderstanding such a sentence as ‘What had transpired during his absence he did not know’.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)]
becomec888
i-tidec888
falleOE
ywortheOE
i-limp975
belimpOE
i-timeOE
worthOE
tidea1131
goa1200
arearc1275
syec1275
betide1297
fere1297
risea1350
to come aboutc1350
overcomea1382
passa1393
comea1400
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400
eschew?a1400
chevec1400
shapec1400
hold1462
to come (also go) to pass1481
proceed?1518
occura1522
bechance1527
overpass1530
sorta1535
succeed1537
adventurec1540
to fall toc1540
success1545
to fall forth1569
fadge1573
beword?1577
to fall in1578
happen1580
event1590
arrive1600
offer1601
grow1614
fudge1615
incur1626
evene1654
obvene1654
to take place1770
transpire1775
to go on1873
to show up1879
materialize1885
break1914
cook1932
to go down1946
1775 A. Adams Let. 31 July in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 91 There is nothing new transpired since I wrote you last.
1804 Age of Inquiry (Hartford, Connecticut) 46 When..the reformation transpired in England..almost the whole nation rejoiced.
1810 F. Dudley Amoroso I. 14 Could short-sighted mortality..foresee events that are about to transpire.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Transpire..3. To happen or come to pass.
1841 W. L. Garrison in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1889) III. 16 An event..which we believe transpired eighteen hundred years ago.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxii. 323 Few changes—hardly any—had transpired among his ship's company.
1871 U. Hawthorne in Passages from French & Ital. Note-bks. of Nathaniel Hawthorne I. 272 Accurate information on whatever subject transpired.
1883 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto I. 277 His account of what transpired was so utterly unlike what I expected.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
1824 C. Wordsworth Who wrote Εἰκὼν Βασιλική 197 The interval of years which had transpired between the conversations and the account of them.
1827 C. Wordsworth King Charles I 1 Whether in the interval which has transpired, the convictions at which I had arrived,..have been in any material degree confirmed, shaken, or modified.
Derivatives
tranˈspired adj.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > relating to or producing evaporation > evaporated
evaporate1608
transpired1827
evaporated1846
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 339 The transpired matter on the surface of the skin.
tranˈspiring n. and adj.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour > evaporation
evaporationa1398
exhalation1398
consumptiona1400
vapouring1548
transpiration1562
divaporation1617
exhalinga1618
expiration1626
exhalement1646
perspiration1652
transpiring1670
aerification1790
the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > relating to or producing evaporation > evaporating
evaporating1597
transpiring1670
1670 E. Maynwaring Pharmacopœian Physician's Repos. (new ed.) 21 A strengthening or transpiring Medicine.
1693 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 842 As to the Transpiring Parts of our Bodies.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Antimony This Diaphoretick alone may be taken..in malignant Fevers, to facilitate the transpiring of the Venom thro' the Pores.
1895 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 274 The sap in the transpiring cells becomes more concentrated.
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