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单词 aeriform
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aeriformadj.n.

Brit. /ˈɛːrᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /ˈɛrəˌfɔrm/
Forms: 1700s–1800s aëriform, 1700s– aeriform.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin āēr , -iform comb. form.
Etymology: < classical Latin āēr air n.1 + -iform comb. form, after French aériforme (1778; 1775 as aëriforme ). Compare post-classical Latin aeriformis (1778), Italian aeriforme (1729). Compare slightly later aeriformed adj.
A. adj.
1. Of the form or nature of a gas; gaseous. Now chiefly historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature or form of gas
aerial1551
gassy1744
aeriform1782
gaseous1785
aeriformed1790
gazous1794
gasiform1799
1782 R. Kirwan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 209 This intirely depends on the state of this same substance, which, when fixed and concrete, is called phlogiston, and, when rarified and aëriform, inflammable air.
1790 W. Nicholson First Princ. Chem. 55 Modern discoveries, respecting bodies in the aeriform state, have produced several capital improvements in the vessels used for distillation.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 126 Pneumatics is the science which treats of the mechanical properties of elastic or aeriform fluids.
1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 125 Many gases which are only known to exist in an aëriform state in our climate, become first liquids, and then solid substances.
1883 Lancet 29 Dec. 1124/1 It may be a ‘terrestrial aeriform emanation’.
1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 246 Lavoisier found that Black's fixed air could be most readily prepared by treating chalk with acids, and he had determined that it gave an acid reaction; hence he preferred to call it aeriform calcic acid.
1958 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 14 138 (table) Motion of aeriform fluid.
2000 M. Crosland in F. L. Holmes & T. H. Levere Instruments & Exper. Hist. Chem. iv. 98 In the very first chapter of his textbook, on ‘the formation of elastic aeriform fluids,’ he wrote, ‘Henceforth I shall express these elastic aeriform fluids by the generic term gas.’
2. figurative. Insubstantial, intangible, unreal; (also) dainty, delicate. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]
flittingc1374
aerya1398
bottomlessa1413
hollowa1529
flittering1549
wanzing1571
aerial1581
slight1585
flit1590
windy1593
filmy1594
tenuous1597
unsubstantial1597
yeasty1598
thingless1599
airy1600
spare1602
spongy1603
insubstantial1607
baselessa1616
thina1616
insolid1618
insubstantiate1621
tenuious1634
bubble1635
thin-spun1638
subventaneous1646
unsubstanceda1658
whipped1673
aericala1678
huffy1678
blatherya1693
naughty1696
substanceless1784
vapoury1818
aeriform1827
airified1837
blow-away1858
non-substantial1858
unbased1860
evasive1881
stuffless1896
fabricless1905
lighter-than-air1909
1827 T. Carlyle Goethe in German Romance IV. 29 The figures light and aëriform, come unlooked for, and melt away abruptly.
1834 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 443/2 Of Man's Activity and Attainment the chief results are aeriform.
1878 T. D. English Gasology 47 Man in disposition is so currish, That his mortal body he'll not nourish, On promises aeriform or vapory flourish.
2004 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 19 Jan. 18 The Peter Pans of today are not aeriform boys who still have all their baby teeth but grotesque adults.
B. n.
A gas. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > [noun]
pneumatical1626
air1651
gas1669
aeriform1840
1840 E. A. Poe Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque I. 23 He talked..of aëriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms.
1854 Chemist 1 7 Aeriforms unite in volumes which are in simple ratio to each other, the product of their union when aeriform being also in simple ratio.
1866 Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. 5 220 The volumes of these molecules are either equals, halves, or doubles, &c., as in aëriforms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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