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单词 odorant
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odorantadj.n.

Brit. /ˈəʊd(ə)rənt/, /ˈəʊd(ə)rn̩t/, U.S. /ˈoʊdər(ə)nt/
Forms: late Middle English odoraunt, 1500s odorande, 1600s– odorant, 1900s– odourant.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French odorant.
Etymology: < Middle French odorant having a pleasant smell (c1225 in Old French; French odorant ), producing an odour (1765) < classical Latin odōrant- , odōrāns , present participle of odōrāre to perfume ( < odor odour n.); compare -ant suffix1.
A. adj.
Originally: that emits a scent; fragrant, odorous. In later use: containing or acting as an odorant; having or emitting a (pleasant or unpleasant) smell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective]
strongOE
savouringc1384
breatheda1398
flairinga1400
smellinga1400
odorifere?a1425
odorous?a1425
smellablec1449
odoranta1465
odoriferousc1487
odiferousa1500
odoureda1500
odiferant1509
redolent?a1513
reflairing1523
odoriferantc1550
scenting1577
odorable1589
breathful1593
fat1598
olent1607
smelled1617
odorific1685
tainted1704
odourful1889
osmic1912
a1465 De Arte Lacrimandi (Bodl.) f. 204 Disposed plentuously..With odoraunt [v.r. fragrant] odoure ful copiously.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. f. cxxxix The welle of bountie that Flowre most odorande, By whose humylytie man firste comforte fande.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. xii. 34 The tast..of Persely, Dill, and Fennell, sharpe, and yet odorant [printed adorant] withall.
a1648 W. Percy Faery Pastorall (1824) iv. i. 150 When loe th'odorant force Thickend lyke to leaues in Sagittary Rusht into feild with might and mayne.
1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 977 These odorant particles, which run with the Air into the Nose, in smelling.
1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 42 The aroma..may be again restored by re-distilling it with the odorant plant which originally afforded it.
1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. x. 169 At night, the odorant forests echo with the dread roar of fierce monsters.
1873–6 Amer. Cycl. 260/1 The lupuline and the odorant oil exert an influence during the cooling process in checking premature fermentation.
1971 Nature 24 Sept. 231/1 Theories of olfaction are thus legion; all attempt to answer the central question as to what properties of the odourant molecules are responsible for the wide variety of odour quality.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 19 Dec. a2/3 To find weapons and ammunition hidden inside buildings, high-tech police could use a chemical analyzer to sniff out an ‘odorant vapor’.
B. n.
A substance that has or emits a (pleasant or unpleasant) smell, spec. one used to impart a particular scent or odour to a product.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > odorous substance
odoriferent1858
odorant1860
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > that which imparts odour(s)
scenter1849
odorant1952
1860 A. N. Bell Knowl. Living Things 241 Sailors are familiar with the aroma from certain fertile places and countries in vegetable odorants which can be experienced at great distances.
1940 Sci. Monthly Jan. 48/1 (caption) Operator timing flow apparatus for introduction of odorant into natural gas lines.
1952 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. VIII. 142 Biacetyl has been used as an odorant for butter, cream, milk, margarine.., cheese, coffee, confectionery.., ice cream mixes, and tobacco.
1972 Materials & Technol. V. xiv. 526 In microcellular soling mixes,..odorants which confer the odour of leather to the soles are frequently incorporated.
1995 Economist 13 July 104/1 Smelly molecules, called odorants, bind to receptor proteins on the surface of nerve cells in the nose.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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