单词 | eruption |
释义 | eruptionn. 1. a. (a) The bursting forth (of water, fire, air, etc.) from natural or artificial limits. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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’.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1555 |
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