单词 | over-fire |
释义 | over-firev. transitive. To fire (ceramics) or heat (metal) at too high a temperature, or for too long a period. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)] > excessively overheata1398 swelta1400 parboil1565 over-fire1626 exaestuate1657 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §327 Gold might be made but the Alchymists over-fired the Work. 1850 Sci. Amer. 16 Mar. 206/1 A means of preventing such articles from being overfired or slackburned. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 628 The risks in the oven of being ‘over-fired’, by which it [sc. porcelain] would be melted into a mass. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 207/1 Great attention is required in this operation to prevent the enamel from being over-fired. 1913 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 89 25 If the clay be over-fired in a slightly reducing atmosphere, these minerals fuse with the surrounding matrix. 1999 Santa Fe New Mexican 8 Oct. 20 Gilbert..mixed the earth with water and overfired it to create the glimmering quality of glass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1626 |
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