单词 | recirculate |
释义 | recirculatev. 1. transitive. To cause to circulate again or continuously; to pass (something) into circulation again; spec. to make available for reuse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > re-use > make available for re-use recirculate1716 reclaim1890 salvage1943 1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium Introd. 40 In Gangrenes, where the Part is distended with Humours, and there is an Impossibility to recirculate the stagnating Blood, we must scarify, to evacuate the Plenitude. 1772 J. Shebbeare Candid Enq. Merits Dr. Cadogan's Diss. 83 Harvey hath been justly celebrated, for his discovery of the circulation of the blood, from the ventricles of the heart, through the arteries to their extremities, when passing into the veins it returns by them to be recirculated by the same organs. 1838 Lancet 30 June 482/1 I felt astonished that a man of his acknowledged ability should recirculate the ‘extravaganzas’ of Foersch. 1861 Times 25 Sept. 8/6 The following..has been circulated, reprinted and recirculated by tens of thousands in all parts of..Poland. 1916 L. A. Harding & A. C. Willard Mech. Equipm. Buildings I. xv. 349 The air is simply re-circulated, no fresh air being taken into the heating system from the outside. 1934 W. Trinks Industr. Furnaces (ed. 3) I. vi. 392 Burned gases are drawn from the heating chamber by a fan and recirculated. 2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) ii. 24/2 Inside the tank is located a small mains powered pump that re-circulates cleaning fluid. 2. intransitive. To circulate again or continuously; to re-enter circulation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > be in use or called into use [verb (intransitive)] > be reused recirculate1716 recycle1970 1716 Pharmacopœia Radcliffeana 126 The Addition of a small Quantity of the Vitriol, helps to give Motion to the nestling Humours in the Part, and to cause 'em to recirculate into the Veins. 1766 tr. I. de Pinto Ess. on Luxury 81 This would be to shut up the channels through which their riches might recirculate to the poor. 1851 W. Beach Amer. Pract. Condensed (ed. 17) ii. vii. 192 The congestion, irritation, &c., will be removed by..causing the blood to recirculate in the vessels of the surface. 1898 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 26 Mar. 3/7 The funds from everywhere in the territory ought to recirculate back everywhere in that territory for the benefit of all the citizens. 1956 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 3 Jan. bb5/1 A golden stream of dollars that circulate and recirculate in Long Beach's economy. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxix. 621 It released bleed air supposed to recirculate within the turboshaft engine. 2001 Mod. Railways Feb. 46/1 A taxi set down zone is located close to escalators..and taxis can then recirculate to a two-stream taxi rank on the southwest face of the deck. Derivatives reˈcirculated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > re-used > made available for re-use reclaimed1883 recirculating1892 recirculated1910 salvagedc1920 recycle1926 1910 J. D. Hoffman & B.F. Raber Hand-bk. for Heating & Ventilating Engineers v. 65 An opening may be made in the fresh air duct..for the purpose of admitting the duct which carries the recirculated air from the rooms to the furnace. 1914 A. G. King Progressive Furnace Heating ii. 32 The recirculated air should be connected to furnace by attaching the piping to shoes on either side of the casing. 1967 Punch 5 July 22/2 Once he has overcome in training the psychological objection to drinking recirculated fluids, the astronaut will not be bothered by such trivialities. 2000 Wired July 126 A system of O2 tanks and carbon dioxide scrubbers keeps the recirculated air inside the sub breathable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1716 |
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