| 单词 | airquake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasairquake airquake n. [after earthquake n.] a tremor felt in the air, spec. a sonic boom; cf. earthquake n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > earthquake earthdinOE earthquakinga1325 earthgrinec1325 earthquakea1350 earthquavea1382 earth movingc1384 earth shakinga1387 terremote1390 tremor1635 airquake1746 earth shock1816 temblor1876 quake1881 seism1883 macroseism1903 tremblor1913 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > exploding > an explosion (of fire, gunpowder, etc.) displosion1656 explosion1681 bursta1719 exploding1770 blow-up1807 airquake1891 cook-off1947 1746 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life (1871) viii. 318 We are not to think the late shocks merely an air-quake (as they call it). 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 700 A certain ingenious gentleman would not allow the last shock of an Earthquake in London to be an Earthquake..but rather calls it an Airquake, because it was lateral. 1891 Daily News 13 Oct. 5/4 General Dyrenforth's experiments in rain-making by means of explosions, or what he calls ‘terrific airquakes’, have not convinced his scientific opponent. 1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 28 Till all night's spark-sprayed dome is stunned with quick air-quakes of gold. 1992 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Dec. b2 Scientists have referred to the phenomena as ‘airquakes’, and even described the speed and size of aircraft that might cause them. < as lemmas |
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