单词 | dehydrate |
释义 | dehydratev. Chemistry. 1. a. transitive. To deprive of water, or of the elements which compose water in a chemical combination. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > remove water or moisture from dehydrate1877 dewater1929 dehumidify1932 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. v. 292 The sugar becoming..dehydrated into starch. 1880 E. Cleminshaw tr. C. A. Wurtz Atomic Theory 279 When phosphoric acid is dehydrated. 1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 350 These are then dehydrated in 90–96 per cent. alcohol. b. spec. To remove the water from (foods), so as to preserve them and reduce their bulk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > dry pine1560 spit1617 deese1682 jerk1709 charqui1820 sun-cure1885 dehydrate1921 1921 C. V. Ekroth in A. Rogers Industr. Chem. (ed. 3) li. 1158 One of the most important features of the food conservation movement since the outbreak of the war has been the practice of dehydrating fruits and vegetables. 1943 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 4 As early as 1938 British food scientists began to study methods of dehydrating vegetables, meat and eggs and of storing them in that form. c. figurative. To render ‘dry’, lifeless, uninteresting, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make wearisome or tedious leadc1430 stale1601 wooden1641 cool1665 flatten1693 mustify1828 woodenize1877 leaden1899 dehydrate1957 1957 London Mag. Nov. 73 They dehydrate Joyce, destroying both the devil and the child in him. 2. intransitive. To lose water as a constituent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > lose water as constituent dehydrate1886 1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 350 The celloidin layers are slow in dehydrating. Derivatives deˈhydrated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) dryc950 drieda1340 desiccatec1420 undriedc1440 exsiccate1540 mummianized1593 exsiccated1646 exust1657 desiccateda1676 dehydrated1884 dehumidified1940 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious dreicha1300 alangec1330 joylessa1400 tedious1412 wearifulc1454 weary1465 laboriousa1475 tiresome?a1513 irksome1513 wearisome1530 woodena1566 irkful1570 flat1573 leaden1593 barren1600 soaked1600 unlively1608 dulla1616 irking1629 drearisome1633 drear1645 plumbous1651 fatigable1656 dreary1667 uncurious1685 unenlivened1692 blank1726 disinteresting1737 stupid1748 stagnant1749 trist?1756 vegetable1757 borish1766 uninteresting1769 unenlivening1774 oorie1787 wearying1796 subjectless1803 yawny1805 wearing1811 stuffy1813 sloomy1820 tediousome1823 arid1827 lacklustrous1834 boring1839 featureless1839 slow1840 sodden1853 ennuying1858 dusty1860 cabbagy1861 old1864 mouldy1876 yawnful1878 drab1880 dehydrated1884 interestless1886 jay1889 boresome1895 stodgy1895 stuffy1895 yawnsome1900 sludgy1901 draggy1922 blah1937 nowhere1940 drack1945 stupefactive1970 schleppy1978 wack1986 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [adjective] > dried or powdered jerked1672 charquied1820 tiled1830 powdered1877 dehydrated1884 desiccated1884 1884 Muir & Wilson Thermal Chem. iv. §175. 149 Those dehydrated salts which dissolve in water with evolution of heat. 1921 C. V. Ekroth in A. Rogers Industr. Chem. (ed. 3) li. 1156 Dehydrated or dried food has had practically all of its moisture removed. 1943 Harper's July 166 Life shares with its elder brother, Time,..a language which..revels in coining nifty, dehydrated words. 1955 N.Y. Times 6 Mar. i. 49/4 The Army is putting greater emphasis on dehydrated foods to meet the needs of swiftly moving, widely dispersed fighting units. 1958 Times 6 Feb. 11/2 A series of rather dehydrated arguments between a number of intellectual types. Categories » deˈhydrater n. an agent that dehydrates. deˈhydrating adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > drying dryinga1398 exsiccativec1400 uritivea1425 desiccative?1541 siccative1547 exsiccating1620 desiccating1638 exsiccant1657 desiccant1775 desiccatoryc1800 dehydrating1884 dehumidifying1933 in-sack1951 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by drying dehydrating1884 dehydration1986 1884 Pharmacy Soc. Prospectus 6 Action of..dehydrating agents upon them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1877 |
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