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单词 eruption
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eruptionn.

/ɪˈrʌpʃən/
Etymology: < Latin ēruptiōn-em, noun of action < ērumpĕre : see erumpent adj. Compare French éruption.
1.
a.
(a) The bursting forth (of water, fire, air, etc.) from natural or artificial limits.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent
eruption1555
ebullition1600
eluctation1633
explosion1652
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 133v Eruptions of the springes owte of the montaines.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 100 The great harmes that these partes haue heertofore by eruption of the sea sustayned.
1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. 128 The compressed air suddenly finding out a way of eruption.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 67 I sat..staring out at Window at the Eruption of Fire upon the Hills.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 19 Pelling Moss, which made an eruption similar to Solway.
1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. ii. 106 During the whole sixteen centuries, which intervened between the sentence of Cain and the eruption of the deluge.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 287 One of the most memorable eruptions occurred in 1421, where the tide..burst through a dam..and overflowed twenty-two villages.
(b) Used for: The bursting (of a gun). rare.
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1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade 192 All guns..perpetrated with cold and frosty weather are most subject to an eruption at the first shot.
b. concrete. That which bursts forth; a sudden rush of flame, smoke, water, etc.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > instance of
eruption1699
volcano1699
outrush1872
1699 S. Garth Dispensary i. 6 From the Vulcano's gross eruptions rise.
1717 G. Berkeley in Life & Lett. (1871) 581 The streets of Naples..paved with the matter of eruptions.
1728 D. Mallet Excursion i. 42 With black Eruption, in foul Storm, A Night of Smoke..Rolls forth.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 67 The eruption burst from the place of its discharge, like a cataract.
2. An outbreak of volcanic activity; the ejection of solid or liquid matter by a volcano, of hot water from a geyser, etc.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > volcanic activity > eruption
irruption1613
fire1632
incendium1637
eructation1652
volcano1699
eruption1740
explosion1771
eruction1842
extravasation1842
volcanoism1907
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1190 The breakings forth and eruptions of fire out of a mountaine.]
1740 T. Gray Let. 14 June in Corr. (1971) I. 164 A Roman town, that..was overwhelmed by a furious eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 133 Iceland chronicles give a list of 63 eruptions at Heckla.
1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (1867) 87 Our principal object in coming..was to see an eruption of the Great Geysir.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) iii. 50 Consolidated products of volcanic eruption.
3. Of persons: The action of breaking forth, of issuing suddenly and violently from within boundaries; e.g. the sallying forth of armed men from a stronghold, or of a horde of barbarians from their own country, the forcible escape of a prisoner, etc. rare in recent use.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > specifically of persons
eruption1615
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 43 Two hundred and fourteene years after their eruption out of Scythia.
1624 T. Aylesbury Paganisme & Papisme Concl. 17 In that eruption of the Prodigall sonne from his Father.
1638 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 205 The enemie is pounded fast In their owne folds..There's no eruption to be feared.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 262 Danegeld for the pay of those that should be imploied to hinder the eruption of Pirates.
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 269 The eruptions of Barbarians, the streights of Emperours..&c. did all turn to accompt for him.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 18 Of this kind were the eruptions of those nations.
1822 Q. Rev. 27 377 Securing to them the benefits of prison-discipline, by providing against furtive or forcible eruptions.
4. figurative. In many obvious applications of the sense ‘outbreak’: An outbreak of disease, war, calamity, or evil of any kind; an outburst of passion, eloquence, or merriment; a ‘sally’ of wit. Now rare, except with distinct allusion to sense 2.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of
outbreakinga1387
breaking-out1552
outbreak1562
eruption1598
storm1602
out-breach1609
fulmination1623
outflying1641
outburst1657
float1763
overboiling1767
irruption1811
gush1821
outflash1831
outflush1834
shooting forth1837
outbursting1838
blow-off1842
outblaze1843
upburst1843
upthrow1855
upbreak1856
spurt1859
outlash1868
spitfire1886
Brock's benefit1948
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 108 The Curate and your sweete selfe, are good at such eruptions, and sodaine breaking out of myrth. View more context for this quotation
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 68 This bodes some strange eruption to the state.
a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 17 The Arch-Bishop of York..resolves to oppose this over-daring and insolent Eruption.
1656 J. Owen Of Mortification of Sinne 56 A man may be sensible of a lust, set himself against the eruptions of it.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 107 Before the eruption of the civil war.
1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 32 There is nothing which retards the progress of the Gospel so much as the remaining eruptions of sin among the rulers of the Church.
1883 G. A. MacDonnell Chess Life-pict. 8 The twirling of that ornament in his hand..portended an anecdotal or jocose eruption.
5.
a. In plants: The bursting forth from the bark of buds, leaves, offshoots, roots, etc.; also concrete an excrescence. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > sprouting or germination
shutea1300
springinga1387
bearinga1398
germination?1440
springing1531
sprouting1547
blading1548
shoot1572
sprout1586
spring1597
putting1623
eruption1626
spindling1626
germinating1644
spearing1707
spiring1733
flushing1810
plantulation1819
germing1832
germinance1841
stooling1854
coming up1908
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §588 When they [the branches] make an Eruption, they breake forth casually, where they finde best way, in the Barke or Rinde.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 142 Both buds and leaves, and all eruptions..on every vegetable.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iii. App. 99 The place of their [sc. Trunk-roots'] Eruption is sometimes all along the Trunk; as in Mint.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. x. i. 447 The Art in Folding up the Leaves before their eruption out of their Gems, &c. is incomparable.
b. Of the teeth: The action of breaking out from the gums, in the process of ‘cutting the teeth’.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun] > dentition
toothingc1440
breeding of teeth1544
dentition1615
teething1732
milk teething1822
eruption1859
1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 104 The relations of the eruption of the permanent teeth to the age of the individual.
1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature ii. 83 The order of eruption of the permanent teeth is different.
6. Pathology.
a. A breaking out of a rash, or of pimples on the skin. (In early use with notion of a ‘breaking out’ of latent disease or of ‘peccant humours’.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun]
eruption1598
irruption1732
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 26 Diseased nature oftentimes breakes forth, In strange eruptions . View more context for this quotation
1674 Govt. Tongue vi. 102 When there is an eruption of Humor in any part, tis not cured meerly by outward applications.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 80 Some Sorts of cutaneous Eruptions are occasion'd by feeding much on acid unripe Fruits.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 322 An eruption of pimples on that day, which disappeared on the next.
b. The skin affection itself; an efflorescence, rash.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > an eruption
hivesc1500
breaking-out1552
exanthem1656
exanthema1657
efflorescence1684
rash1696
rushc1736
eruption1770
enanthema1842
enanthema1883
1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxix. 107 No man regards an eruption upon the surface, when..he feels a mortification approaching to his heart.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 147 The matter..scarcely ever afforded any eruptions like the small-pox.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 156 A scaly eruption appears, attended by extreme itching.
1882 Squire in Quain Med. Dict. 927 The declining rash of measles leaves a mottling of the skin, not unlike the mulberry eruption of typhus.

Derivatives

eˈruptional adj. [+ -al suffix1] of or pertaining to volcanic eruption.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [adjective] > volcanic activity > eruption
erupted1771
erupting1797
eruptive1799
eruptional1858
1858 G. P. Scrope Geol. Central France (ed. 2) 212 It may have sustained considerable absolute elevation..during its eruptional era.
1883 Proctor in Knowledge 30 June 384/2 When there are few spots or none on the sun's surface, the eruptional or jet prominences are not seen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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