Definition of expectorate in English:

expectorate

verb ɛkˈspɛktəreɪtɪkˈspɛktəreɪtɪkˈspɛktəˌreɪt

[with object]

Cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs.
she was expectorating dirty coloured sputum
no object a sign asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks
Example sentencesExamples
- Even the thought of pitchers expectorating on the ball was repulsive to some people.
- As anyone whose had a general anaesthetic will know, you have to cough and expectorate hard pretty much as soon as you come round to clear the anaesthetic out of your lungs.
- The actor is the only one of that illustrious quartet who openly uses a spittoon, clears his throat and expectorates into the receptacle below his desk.
- According to an independent survey on spitting this year showed that 300 million Chinese expectorate in public.
- There used to be notices against expectorating in public places, though how many accomplished spitters understood them in order to obey can only be guessed.
- Phlegm is said to be either substantial or insubstantial, meaning that it can either be the mucous we expectorate and drool or a kind of ‘fog’ that blocks the sensory, organs.
- However, sampling may be difficult in the younger patients and in patients with mild disease who do not expectorate.
- The other thing I read this morning in the paper is they are doubling fines for expectorating.
- For each sample, they collected saliva in their mouths for a minute, and then expectorated slowly through a straw into a cryotube.
- My wife and I attended a Prom the other night and were treated to an invigorating and enthusiastic display of sneezing, coughing and expectorating.
- A major advantage of sputum induction, however, is that patients who are normally unable to expectorate can almost always produce sputum after inhaling hypertonic saline.
- ‘Oh, you've seen the magazine then,’ I enquired as he expectorated into the bathroom sink.
- He looked at me as if I'd expectorated into the ‘stuffing.’
- While he doesn't prove that nobody ever expectorated on a serviceman - you can't prove a negative, after all - he reduces the claim to an urban myth.
- When I came to spit it out, he offered me the cup, so I was was forced to expectorate into a three-inch deep slurry of chewing tobacco.
- In our study, almost half of the subjects completing both visits did not expectorate regularly, and thus we had almost twice the number of subjects for analysis.
- Besides, who could like an instrument where all you do is expectorate into metal tubes!
- Protein in the diaphragm and intercostal muscles has been depleted, impairing the patient's ability to deep breathe, expectorate, and clear microbes from the lungs.
- He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
- People expectorating on the pavement is not a big issue in this city.
Synonyms
hawk

Derivatives

expectoration

noun ɛkspɛktəˈreɪʃ(ə)nɪkspɛktəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌɛkˌspɛktəˈreɪʃ(ə)n

The juice relieves an irritable cough with its soothing action, liquefying the phlegm and mucus in the clogged channels and facilitating expectoration.
Example sentencesExamples
- Inhalation of hypertonic saline can be used to obtain sputum from most nonexpectorating patients, and provides a larger volume than achieved by spontaneous expectoration.
- It was precision expectoration that accurately landed a deposit of froth about two feet from my Oxford brogues.
- Pretending not to hear me, he gave a chest-heaving hawk in preparation for his next expectoration.
- Patients with mild disease may only cough during exacerbations, but eventually cough becomes a daily occurrence, usually associated with expectoration of sputum.

expectorator

noun

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'enable sputum to be coughed up', referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- 'expelled from the chest', from the verb expectorare, from ex- 'out' + pectus, pector- 'breast'.

Definition of expectorate in US English:

expectorate

verbɪkˈspɛktəˌreɪtikˈspektəˌrāt

[with object]

Cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs.
no object a sign asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks
Example sentencesExamples
- In our study, almost half of the subjects completing both visits did not expectorate regularly, and thus we had almost twice the number of subjects for analysis.
- He looked at me as if I'd expectorated into the ‘stuffing.’
- Even the thought of pitchers expectorating on the ball was repulsive to some people.
- People expectorating on the pavement is not a big issue in this city.
- Phlegm is said to be either substantial or insubstantial, meaning that it can either be the mucous we expectorate and drool or a kind of ‘fog’ that blocks the sensory, organs.
- The actor is the only one of that illustrious quartet who openly uses a spittoon, clears his throat and expectorates into the receptacle below his desk.
- He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
- ‘Oh, you've seen the magazine then,’ I enquired as he expectorated into the bathroom sink.
- Protein in the diaphragm and intercostal muscles has been depleted, impairing the patient's ability to deep breathe, expectorate, and clear microbes from the lungs.
- A major advantage of sputum induction, however, is that patients who are normally unable to expectorate can almost always produce sputum after inhaling hypertonic saline.
- The other thing I read this morning in the paper is they are doubling fines for expectorating.
- There used to be notices against expectorating in public places, though how many accomplished spitters understood them in order to obey can only be guessed.
- My wife and I attended a Prom the other night and were treated to an invigorating and enthusiastic display of sneezing, coughing and expectorating.
- Besides, who could like an instrument where all you do is expectorate into metal tubes!
- For each sample, they collected saliva in their mouths for a minute, and then expectorated slowly through a straw into a cryotube.
- While he doesn't prove that nobody ever expectorated on a serviceman - you can't prove a negative, after all - he reduces the claim to an urban myth.
- As anyone whose had a general anaesthetic will know, you have to cough and expectorate hard pretty much as soon as you come round to clear the anaesthetic out of your lungs.
- According to an independent survey on spitting this year showed that 300 million Chinese expectorate in public.
- However, sampling may be difficult in the younger patients and in patients with mild disease who do not expectorate.
- When I came to spit it out, he offered me the cup, so I was was forced to expectorate into a three-inch deep slurry of chewing tobacco.
Synonyms
hawk

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘enable sputum to be coughed up’, referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- ‘expelled from the chest’, from the verb expectorare, from ex- ‘out’ + pectus, pector- ‘breast’.

单词	expectorate
释义	Definition of expectorate in English: expectorate verb ɛkˈspɛktəreɪtɪkˈspɛktəreɪtɪkˈspɛktəˌreɪt [with object] Cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs. she was expectorating dirty coloured sputum no object a sign asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks Example sentencesExamples Even the thought of pitchers expectorating on the ball was repulsive to some people. As anyone whose had a general anaesthetic will know, you have to cough and expectorate hard pretty much as soon as you come round to clear the anaesthetic out of your lungs. The actor is the only one of that illustrious quartet who openly uses a spittoon, clears his throat and expectorates into the receptacle below his desk. According to an independent survey on spitting this year showed that 300 million Chinese expectorate in public. There used to be notices against expectorating in public places, though how many accomplished spitters understood them in order to obey can only be guessed. Phlegm is said to be either substantial or insubstantial, meaning that it can either be the mucous we expectorate and drool or a kind of ‘fog’ that blocks the sensory, organs. However, sampling may be difficult in the younger patients and in patients with mild disease who do not expectorate. The other thing I read this morning in the paper is they are doubling fines for expectorating. For each sample, they collected saliva in their mouths for a minute, and then expectorated slowly through a straw into a cryotube. My wife and I attended a Prom the other night and were treated to an invigorating and enthusiastic display of sneezing, coughing and expectorating. A major advantage of sputum induction, however, is that patients who are normally unable to expectorate can almost always produce sputum after inhaling hypertonic saline. ‘Oh, you've seen the magazine then,’ I enquired as he expectorated into the bathroom sink. He looked at me as if I'd expectorated into the ‘stuffing.’ While he doesn't prove that nobody ever expectorated on a serviceman - you can't prove a negative, after all - he reduces the claim to an urban myth. When I came to spit it out, he offered me the cup, so I was was forced to expectorate into a three-inch deep slurry of chewing tobacco. In our study, almost half of the subjects completing both visits did not expectorate regularly, and thus we had almost twice the number of subjects for analysis. Besides, who could like an instrument where all you do is expectorate into metal tubes! Protein in the diaphragm and intercostal muscles has been depleted, impairing the patient's ability to deep breathe, expectorate, and clear microbes from the lungs. He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’ People expectorating on the pavement is not a big issue in this city. Synonyms hawk Derivatives expectoration noun ɛkspɛktəˈreɪʃ(ə)nɪkspɛktəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌɛkˌspɛktəˈreɪʃ(ə)n The juice relieves an irritable cough with its soothing action, liquefying the phlegm and mucus in the clogged channels and facilitating expectoration. Example sentencesExamples Inhalation of hypertonic saline can be used to obtain sputum from most nonexpectorating patients, and provides a larger volume than achieved by spontaneous expectoration. It was precision expectoration that accurately landed a deposit of froth about two feet from my Oxford brogues. Pretending not to hear me, he gave a chest-heaving hawk in preparation for his next expectoration. Patients with mild disease may only cough during exacerbations, but eventually cough becomes a daily occurrence, usually associated with expectoration of sputum. expectorator noun Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'enable sputum to be coughed up', referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- 'expelled from the chest', from the verb expectorare, from ex- 'out' + pectus, pector- 'breast'. Definition of expectorate in US English: expectorate verbɪkˈspɛktəˌreɪtikˈspektəˌrāt [with object] Cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs. no object a sign asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks Example sentencesExamples In our study, almost half of the subjects completing both visits did not expectorate regularly, and thus we had almost twice the number of subjects for analysis. He looked at me as if I'd expectorated into the ‘stuffing.’ Even the thought of pitchers expectorating on the ball was repulsive to some people. People expectorating on the pavement is not a big issue in this city. Phlegm is said to be either substantial or insubstantial, meaning that it can either be the mucous we expectorate and drool or a kind of ‘fog’ that blocks the sensory, organs. The actor is the only one of that illustrious quartet who openly uses a spittoon, clears his throat and expectorates into the receptacle below his desk. He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’ ‘Oh, you've seen the magazine then,’ I enquired as he expectorated into the bathroom sink. Protein in the diaphragm and intercostal muscles has been depleted, impairing the patient's ability to deep breathe, expectorate, and clear microbes from the lungs. A major advantage of sputum induction, however, is that patients who are normally unable to expectorate can almost always produce sputum after inhaling hypertonic saline. The other thing I read this morning in the paper is they are doubling fines for expectorating. There used to be notices against expectorating in public places, though how many accomplished spitters understood them in order to obey can only be guessed. My wife and I attended a Prom the other night and were treated to an invigorating and enthusiastic display of sneezing, coughing and expectorating. Besides, who could like an instrument where all you do is expectorate into metal tubes! For each sample, they collected saliva in their mouths for a minute, and then expectorated slowly through a straw into a cryotube. While he doesn't prove that nobody ever expectorated on a serviceman - you can't prove a negative, after all - he reduces the claim to an urban myth. As anyone whose had a general anaesthetic will know, you have to cough and expectorate hard pretty much as soon as you come round to clear the anaesthetic out of your lungs. According to an independent survey on spitting this year showed that 300 million Chinese expectorate in public. However, sampling may be difficult in the younger patients and in patients with mild disease who do not expectorate. When I came to spit it out, he offered me the cup, so I was was forced to expectorate into a three-inch deep slurry of chewing tobacco. Synonyms hawk Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘enable sputum to be coughed up’, referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- ‘expelled from the chest’, from the verb expectorare, from ex- ‘out’ + pectus, pector- ‘breast’.
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