单词 | unmix |
释义 | unmixv. 1. transitive. To undo or reverse the action of mixing (something), to separate. Also reflexive: to become separate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate mixture unmix1558 unmingle1569 unscramble1926 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 7 After you haue wel vnmixed [Fr. bien demeslé], and purged it from the saied Honnie wyth hote water. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra ii. i. 184 The eye of the minde lost it self in the care of unmixing them. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. lii. 421 How would you unmix them? 1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Soap The scum of the ley, and the stronger part of the ley itself, mix with the oil in the boiling, and the weaker part, unmixing itself, sinks to the bottom. 1853 T. Griffiths Chem. Four Seasons (rev. ed.) i. 88 The heated metals are excited to unmix the portion of atmospheric air by which they are surrounded. 1949 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 28 713 The enemy merely ‘unmixes’ the cryptogram..and then solves. 2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 June (Books section) 29 You might as well try to separate cricket and politics as unmix an omelet. 2. intransitive. To become unmixed or separate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] > become unmixed unmix1935 1935 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 230 314 The more slowly a magnetite cools the more likely it is to unmix. 1956 H. N. V. Temperley Changes of State 133 It is clear that there is no tendency to unmix. 1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth i. 18/1 A high temperature feldspar..frequently ‘unmixes’ if cooled slowly to form a crystal composed. 2008 New Scientist 12 Apr. 29/2 You would have to have very different laws of physics for matter and antimatter to unmix like this. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1558 |
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