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单词 ventilator
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ventilatorn.

Brit. /ˈvɛntᵻleɪtə/, U.S. /ˈvɛn(t)əˌleɪdər/
Etymology: < ventilate v. + -or suffix, or < Latin ventilātor a winnower. Compare French ventilateur, Italian ventilatore, Spanish ventilador, Portuguese ventilador.
1.
a. A mechanical contrivance or apparatus (such as a revolving fan or wheel fixed in a special opening) by which the vitiated or heated air is drawn or removed from a building, ship, mine, etc., and a fresh supply introduced; also frequently a simple opening, or open shaft, so placed or contrived as to facilitate renewal of the air.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > ventilation equipment
air machine1720
fire pan1730
ventilator1743
airshaft1753
air-box1777
screen1854
screen cloth1868
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator
ventilator1743
1743 S. Hales (title) A Description of Ventilators; whereby Great Quantities of Fresh Air may with Ease be conveyed into Mines, Goals, Hospitals, Work-Houses and Ships.
1753 Scots Mag. Feb. 99/1 Ventilators, worked by a wind~mill, having been fixed.
1766 Compl. Farmer (at cited word) Two of the ventilators are constantly drawing in the air, and two of them..are blowing it out at their proper valves.
1802 M. Cutler Jrnl. 20 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 79 The House..adjourned..for the purpose of giving opportunity to workmen to fix some ventilators, which were greatly wanted in the Hall.
1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 143 The different ventilators may terminate in tubes connected with a chimney.
1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 216 The ventilators should always be above the heads of the congregation.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xii. 132 It is down these ventilators that air is drawn by the steam fans F to supply the boilers.
attributive.1824 Tredgold Princ. Ventilating Buildings (ed. 2) 94 At this centre the ventilator tube T should be placed.a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 924–5 Ventilator deflector, hood, shaft.
b. The former Ladies' Gallery in the House of Commons.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > gallery or stand for spectators
seld1598
stand1615
ventilator1822
spectatory1829
press gallery1869
bleacher1889
bleachery1909
waving-base1954
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > place of > occupied by lower house > parts of
table?1572
treasury-bench1775
side gallery1778
ladies' gallery1815
ventilator1822
pairing desk1899
1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 9 Mar. (1971) 369 We went one night to the House of Commons—to the Ventilator.
1832 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. 269 A discussion by which Nancy, if she had been in the ventilator, might have been greatly edified.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 20 A modern honourable member, with..his strangers' gallery, his female ventilator.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xi. 113 Lady Roehampton and Lady Montfort were both in the ventilator, and he knew it.
c. Nautical. A wind-sail (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > for light air > scoop on
windsail1741
ventilator1846
air scoop1919
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 368 Wind-sail, or Ventilator, a sort of long canvass bag..let down a vessel's hatchway for circulating air below.
1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 59 The..ventilator is made of canvas No. 5. It is employed to convey a stream of fresh air downwards into the lower apartments of a ship.
d. Applied to devices for admitting air into a head-dress, boot, etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other
netOE
sheepskinc1175
tail1297
panec1300
slipc1440
cukera1500
peak1509
waist1590
bumbarrel1609
winglet1611
armhole1731
fullness1792
stride1807
bottom1820
patte1835
buckling1861
ventilator1870
tie-back1880
shield1884
organ pleat1886
outer1904
flarea1910
uplift1929
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > in a boot, hat, etc.
ventilator1870
1870 C. C. Black tr. A. Demmin Weapons of War 255 Large tilting heaume of the fifteenth century... It has a hinged flap or ventilator.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2706 The ventilator for hats consists of a hole in the crown, and a head-band supported at a certain distance from the sweat-lining.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2706 The ventilator for boots consists of a double upper with holes.
e. Medicine. A machine or device used to support or replace the action of breathing in an individual who is ill, injured, or anaesthetized. Cf. respirator n. 5.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > life-supporting equipment > [noun] > breathing equipment
resuscitator1831
artificial lung1844
respirator1854
inhaler1864
Fleuss1882
bottle1888
tent1892
pulmotor1910
oxygen mask1920
oxygen tent1925
inhalator1929
iron lung1930
cuirass1939
cuirass respirator1939
breathing apparatus1940
Ambu1960
ventilator1961
1961 I. W. B. Grant in D. Dunlop et al. Textbk. Med. Treatm. (ed. 8) 945 The patient retains fairly powerful respiratory movements and may have difficulty in synchronizing with any ventilator which is not triggered by his own inspiratory efforts.
1976 Lancet 13 Nov. 1069/1 It has become commonplace for hospitals to have deeply comatose and unresponsive patients with severe brain damage who are maintained on artificial respiration by means of mechanical ventilators.
1982 Times 10 June 7/2 Mr Argov was taken off his ventilator for two hours yesterday, although he remained unconscious.
2. One charged with ventilating a building, etc. Also transferred.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with wheels
ventilatora1800
wheel-boy1825
whirler1825
wheelman1865
fat boy1940
a1800 in C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 931/2 [This wheel was] able to suck out the foul air, or throw in fresh,..according as the Speaker [of the House of Commons] is pleased to command it, whose order the ventilator waits to receive every day of the session.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 195 A certain number of workers..vibrating their wings before the entrance of their hive... The station of these ventilators is upon the floor of the hive.
1860 tr. Hartwig's Sea & Wond. v. 55 The sun is not only the great fountain of warmth, he is also the universal ventilator.
3. One who ventilates a subject.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > person engaged in
mooterOE
arguer1377
discusser?1546
canvasser1599
argumentator1635
discursist1645
motionist1650
tongue-fencer1675
argufier1805
discussionist1833
discutant1847
discussant1855
ventilator1891
1891 in Cent. Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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