单词 | facilitated |
释义 | facilitatedadj. That has been facilitated; made easy or easier; assisted. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > making easy > made easy facilitated1796 1796 G. Washington President's Address to People of U.S., Sept. 17 16 It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. 1851 C. M. Kirkland Evening Bk. (1852) 143 The influence of wealth and of facilitated intercourse will before very long produce a great equalization of manners. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Apr. 1/2 The lake district..is in no need of facilitated means of access. 1977 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 6 June 187 Past situations..led to a general resistance to acquiring Soviet aircraft, despite pledges that the new warehousing system and facilitated supplies have eliminated the problem. 1993 USA Weekend 1 Aug. 6/1 Hudson had a chance to try a new method called ‘facilitated communication’, in which a person communicates by pointing to letters. Compounds facilitated diffusion n. Chemistry and Physiology passive chemical diffusion within living tissue which is accelerated or enabled by particular factors; spec. the action of protein molecules in providing channels or acting as carriers for particular molecules across lipid membranes. ΚΠ 1940 New Phytologist 39 254 Sutter (1936)..considers that the increased oxygen uptake of minced tissue depends upon the facilitated diffusion of oxygen. 1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. vi. 155 Other examples of abnormal diffusion, termed facilitated diffusion, are provided by the movement of glucose and glycerol into human red cells. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 976/1 Transport is defined as ‘passive’ when Cl− moves in the direction of its electrochemical gradient. Under these conditions Cl− transport can be mediated by either ‘channel’ or ‘carrier’ mechanisms. This is also known as ‘facilitated diffusion’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1796 |
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