| 单词 | alkaline tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalkaline tide b. transferred. A recurrent flow, alternate rise and fall or increase and decrease, other than of the sea. acid tide, a temporary increase of acidity of the urine while fasting; alkaline tide, a corresponding decrease of acidity during digestion. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > recurrent flow or alternate rise or fall tide1604 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. xiii. 113 The return of the same windes, which otherwise they call the tide or winde of the sea. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 558 A wonderfull well..which ordinarily ebbeth and floweth foure times in the space of one houre or thereabout, keeping his iust tides. 1787 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. (ed. 2) 138 The aerial tides must be much more considerable than those of the ocean. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 172 When there are two tides or fluxes [of fever] within the twenty-four hours, the one occurs in the morning, the other in the evening. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 393 A fresh tide of water will not unfrequently accumulate, and the head become as much distended as before. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 272 Swayed by the sweeping of the tides of air. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 293 This increased excretion is most marked during the alkaline tide. < as lemmas |
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