单词 | aeration |
释义 | aerationn. 1. a. Exposure to air; esp. exposure of soil or turf to air by spiking or digging. Also in figurative context. Cf. aerate v. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > charging with air aeration1800 aerifaction1824 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation eventilation1597 ventilation1664 ventilating1743 aeration1800 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > open air > exposure to open air aeration1800 1800 E. Darwin Phytologia ii. xi. 283 (heading) Aeration and pulverization of the soil. 1846 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 48 140 The author remarks, as regards the supply of air (aeration), that ‘it is proper to distinguish those edifices, such as the cells of prisons,..where the séjour is permanent,..from those where the séjour is very limited’. 1881 T. Hughes Rugby, Tennessee 137 The soil..thoroughly drained and sweetened by aeration. 1915 E. V. Wilcox Farm Animals 170 A number of the common roots used in feeding cows transmit a characteristic odor to the milk, which disappears under proper aeration. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xiii. 302 Fig. 142 shows the effect of aeration on accumulation of potassium by roots of barley plants. 1958 H. G. Sanders Outl. Brit. Crop Husbandry (ed. 3) vi. 280 As many as 100 of these little stacks are sometimes seen in one stackyard, and it is not very uncommon to build large triangular wooden frames, or faggots, into them to help aeration. 1978 J. Senior Death Christian Culture vii. 106 We need an interchange, a great inrush of ordinary reality, an aeration, a suffusion of sunlight and air. 1999 M. Pooley & J. Lomax Real Cidermaking xii. 85 The necessary procedures for actually making the cider such as racking, taking hydrometer readings or bottling..should be performed..with as little aeration as possible. 2004 R. Johns Turfgrass Installation i. 15 Some sort of aeration will improve the growing environment. b. Physiology. Oxygenation (of blood or haemolymph). Cf. aerate v. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [noun] > oxygenation eventilation1601 ventilation1615 aeration1804 haematosis1881 1804 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Gen. Syst. Chem. Knowl. X. 530 The equilibrium of combination, of aeration, of oxidation, and of temperature, which constitute it arterial blood. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 142/2 That modification of the function of aeration entitled respiration. 1850 Student 2 82/1 In the leech and the earth-worm aeration is carried on by a series of little air-cells. 1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) i. i. §15. 17 If we try to ‘hold our breath,’ for such a period that the aëration of the blood is seriously interfered with. 1938 A. Gesell et al. Psychol. of Early Growth iii. xiii. 225 A mystifying failure of development may be due to some local deficiency of blood supply or some deficient aeration of the blood, associated with prolonged labor. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xi. 351 Every proper gill receives blood for aeration directly from the heart by way of one of the aortic arches. 2. Originally: †chemical combination with carbonic acid (obsolete. rare). In later use: the introduction of carbon dioxide or air into a liquid or other substance, often in the form of bubbles; the generation of carbon dioxide by fermentation, chemical agents, etc., esp. in winemaking or baking. Cf. aerate v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] > aeration of liquid aeration1874 1799 R. Kirwan Ess. Anal. Mineral Waters 77 Barytic solutions are useful in discovering the sulphureous impregnation, applying them to the water before and after de-aeration and de-sulphuration.] 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Aeration, the act or operation of combining with carbonic acid. 1842 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 36 588 The Tewitt Spring there, a very good chalybeate, has been selected for the process of aeration. 1858 T. R. Jones Aquarian Naturalist 27/2 Artificial aeration of the water contained in an aquarium may sometimes be beneficially adopted. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 19/1 The aëration of sparkling champagne and Catawba is produced by adding a small amount of white sugar to the wine in bottling, the slight fermentation eliminating alcohol therefrom and liberating carbonic acid gas. 1905 Harmsworth Encycl. I. 81/3 Various additions are made, either to the bottle before filling, or to the liquid in bulk before aeration. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes iii. 38 Artificial aeration consists in driving atmospheric air into the water through a narrow tube, at the end of which a small porous stone (diffuser) breaks up the air into hundreds of small bubbles. 1991 J. E. Smith et al. Upgrading Existing or Designing New Drinking Water Treatm. Facilities ii. vi. 253/3 In a diffused aeration system, a diffuser bubble air through a contact chamber for aeration. 2007 Food Hydrocolloids 21 167/1 These attributes depend on the balanced formulas, aeration of cake batters..,and thermal-setting stage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1800 |
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