单词 | hydrophobic |
释义 | hydrophobicadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; suffering from or affected with hydrophobia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies hydrophobical1650 hydrophobial1662 hydrophobous1684 rabid1733 hydrophobic1807 rabific1838 rabic1841 hydrophobious1843 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 348 Out of these eleven, five died hydrophobic. a1815 A. Fuller in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxxix. 14 The hydrophobic saliva. 1887 19th Cent. Aug. 200 The number of hydrophobic deaths. 2. a. Tending to repel, or not to absorb, water; pertaining to such a lack of affinity. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > water-resistant repellent1789 repellant1811 water-repellant1825 water-repellent1842 water-resistant1883 hydrophobe1915 hydrophobic1938 aquaphobic1944 1938 A. D. Whitehead tr. O. Jordan Technol. Solvents i. 13 This group have a pronounced solvent power for non-polar or weakly polar, that is hydrophobic, materials. 1947 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 38 106/1 It is common practice..to treat fabrics intended to be water repellent with various hydrophobic compounds. 1954 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. XIII. 919 With hydrophobic fibers, fabric structure to a large degree will control water repellency. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. i. 10 Synthetic fibres are made from organic hydrophobic (water-repellent) polymers—the natural fibres are hydrophile (water-attractive). 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xiv. 205 The image is oleophilic (ink-accepting) and hydrophobic (water-rejecting), making an excellent imaging material for an offset lithographic plate. b. spec. in Physical Chemistry: applied to a hydrosol that readily forms a precipitate and on evaporation or cooling gives a solid that cannot readily be converted back into a sol. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > colloid > [adjective] > sols > hydrosols hydrophilic1915 hydrophobic1915 1915 M. H. Fischer tr. W. Ostwald Handbk. Colloid-chem. ii. 50 Different names are employed in the literature for these two sets of colloids... J. Perrin [calls them] ‘hydrophilic’ and ‘hydrophobic’ colloids. 1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. (ed. 2) xiv. 1235 Typical examples of hydrophobic sols are those of metals, sulfur, sulfides and sulfur halides. B. n. One affected with hydrophobia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > rabies > person hydrophobian1662 hydrophobic1864 hydrophobiac1883 hydrophobe- 1864 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. The cruel superstition that a human hydrophobic can legally be smothered. Derivatives hydroˈphobical adj. = A. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > rabies hydrophobical1650 hydrophobial1662 hydrophobous1684 rabid1733 hydrophobic1807 rabific1838 rabic1841 hydrophobious1843 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) cxlviii. 77 The primitive and genuine Phansy of all the blood in the wounded body..compulsively assumes the Hydrophobicall phansy of the Exotick Tincture. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Hydrophobical. hydrophoˈbicity n. hydrophobic quality. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > quality of being water-resistant water-repellant1815 water-repellency1878 water-repellence1904 water-repellancy1910 water resistance1921 hydrophobicity1947 hydrophobia1956 1947 Jrnl. Res. Nat. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 38 105/1 The difference between these two energies will depend upon the relative humidity, the hydrophobicity of the surface,..etc. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 63 These newer fibres have several different and useful properties which are associated with their increased hydrophobicity. 1969 Nature 15 Feb. 637/2 A quantitative treatment for comparing the average hydrophobicities of proteins. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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