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单词 recuperation
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recuperationn.

Brit. /rᵻˌk(j)uːpəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /rəˌkupəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/, /riˌkupəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English recuperacion, 1600s– recuperation; also Scottish pre-1700 recuparatioun, pre-1700 recuperatioun.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French recuperation ; Latin recuperātiōn- , recuperātiō ; recuperate v., -ion suffix1.
Etymology: Originally < Middle French recuperation recovery, action of recovering (1356; French récupération ) and its etymon classical Latin recuperātiōn-, recuperātiō (also reciperātiō) action or process of recovery or regaining, in post-classical Latin also recovery from illness (Vetus Latina) < recuperāt- , past participial stem of recuperāre recuperate v. + -iō -ion suffix1; in later use directly < recuperate v. + -ion suffix1 (see -ation suffix). Compare Catalan recuperació (1404), Spanish recuperación (1424).With sense 3 compare recuperator n. 3, recuperative adj. 5. In sense 4 after recuperator n. 4. See also the note on pronunciation at recuperate v.
1.
a. The recovery or regaining of something (material or immaterial).
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the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again
coveringc1230
restaurationa1398
recoverance1398
retrievingc1425
recoverc1430
readeption1471
recuperation1481
recovery1523
retiring1548
repossessing1576
regetting1585
recoverment1591
repossession1592
refetching1624
regainment1642
recooper1652
reattainment1661
reacquisition1719
revendication1760
retrievation1806
retrieve1853
regain1860
1481 W. Caxton in tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) Prol. 4 For the recuperacion of the holy londe & holy Cyte of Iherusalem.
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 250 After them no man euer bore Armes for Recuperation of that gouernment.
1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 111 Quirinius made Caius his Rectour till his Recuperation of Armenia.
1705 ‘F. Telltroth’ Lunatick iii. 31 The great Ship-Carpenter of Muscovy—the Lunatick Bavarian,—the huge two-handed Saxo-Polonian should immediately receive your wonderful, never-failing Arcanum—for the recuperation of their long lost Intellects.
1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature v. 33 Did some benevolent Deity give to the blind an instantaneous recuperation of his full powers of sight, [etc.].
1846 Amer. Whig Rev. Oct. 342/2 Before we enter upon the exciting part of our story, a little time is essential for the recuperation of our own as well as our reader's nerves.
1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 787 Feelings of remorse..fill those who have latterly championed his cause with fond desires for the recuperation of what is apparently almost a vanishing race. The American bison is..‘passed over’ into history.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 626 Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and recuperation.
1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 4. 4/2 They judged Egypt's recuperation of the Sinai as irrelevant.
b. Legal recovery. Obsolete. rare.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > taking possession by legal process
eviction1461
recuperation1880
1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 319 (note) Provisions for recuperation in the treaties between Rome and friendly states.
2. Recovery from illness or exertion; the process of recovering.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > restoration to health
recovery1517
restorative1528
restoration1638
recuperation1703
revification1712
resuscitation1721
re-establishment1753
recruital1754
recruitment1862
recuperance1887
pickupa1916
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun]
heartingOE
coolingc1350
refreshinga1382
recreationa1393
easement?a1400
rehetinga1400
freshing1422
refrigery?a1425
refectionc1450
refreshmenta1470
refrigeration1502
corroborating1530
recreating1538
comfortation1543
repast1546
rousing?a1563
refocillation1570
refresh1592
inanimationa1631
recruita1643
irrigationa1660
quicking1661
invigoration1662
reinvigoration1663
recuperation1703
rally1826
recruiting1840
energizing1841
recreance1842
inspiriting1846
animation1855
recruitment1862
inspiritment1886
pepping up1916
1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion i. xli. 130 Let me advise you to take heed how you use a rigorous Method of Cure..till you are sure it is a Gangreen. For just in the changing of Colour from red to black, it may have some degree of Sense yet in it: and then only Scarification and the Lixiv. may do of themselves, as to its Recuperation.
1865 Standard 4 Feb. The season which has heretofore brought to them rest and recuperation finds them in the trenches.
1889 Spectator 19 Oct. That waking rest which is the recuperation of the mind.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers iii. 48 During his recuperation, when it was really over between them, both made an effort to come back somewhat to the old relationship.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 20 Jan. 111/2 Writing helped his recuperation once he got bored playing video games and watching BET from his hospital bed.
3. Engineering. The recovery of heat; spec. the action of a regenerator or recuperator in imparting heat from hot waste gases to incoming air or gaseous fuel.
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1864 T. Schwartz U.S. Patent 45,526 1/2 Wishing to maintain a strictly constant temperature, I propose filling..the working space of each cylinder with metal surface, to be so shaped and conditioned that it receives and supplies heat or cold in a gradual and continuous manner, as required, during the motion of the piston... The operation of thus keeping up constant or unfluctuating temperature I term ‘recuperation’.
1906 A. L. J. Queneau tr. E. Damour Industr. Furnaces ii. 67 The recuperation we are studying does not take into account the manner in which the calories are spent and distributed in the hearth.
1944 Engineer 177 202 The effects of heat recuperation are dealt with.
1971 B. Wood in Mod. Steam Plant Pract. (Inst. Mech. Engineers) 81/2 With recuperation of 10.9 MW, combined efficiency rises to 32 per cent on 34 MW.
2007 Energy Conversion & Managem. 47 370 The recuperation returns a portion of the exhaust heat energy into the radiator heating cycle.
4. Military. The returning of a gun to its firing position by a recuperator (recuperator n. 4).
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1904 U.S. Patent 771,829 1/1 The running out or recuperation of the gun will be accomplished without shock or jar.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 1185/2 As the buffer flow-space is greatest at the termination of recuperation, some check is required to prevent a metal-to-metal blow.
1983 B. P. Hughes Open Fire viii. 88 The design of a workable breech mechanism and the control of recoil and recuperation enabled the rate of fire of individual equipments to be increased.
5. Originally U.S. The process by which a radical social or political movement, or a person or thing associated with such a movement, is appropriated by and assimilated into mainstream culture, divesting it of subversive potential.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm > process of rendering harmless
neutralization1886
recuperation1967
declawing2011
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > [noun]
suppinga1400
accretion1633
absorption1659
absorbitiona1682
intussusception1707
assimilating1781
assimilation1790
swallowing1816
submergence1826
introsusceptiona1834
merging1836
mergence1865
osmosis1930
recuperation1967
1967 Berkeley (Calif.) Barb 29 Dec. 9/1 A whole sector of production is devoted specifically to his [sc. the hooligan's] recuperation. Clothes, discs, guitars, scooters, transistors, purple hearts beckon him to the land of the consumer.
1998 G. McKay DiY Culture 287 Exactly a year after the Reclaim the Street party, Islington Council held an official street party in Upper Street as part of the Islington festival. Recuperation or inspiration?
2005 M. Waltz Alternative & Activist Media ix. 110 Illustrations of recuperation are easy to find... One might point to the way in which the Virginia Slims brand promoted its cigarettes with suffragette imagery and the slogan ‘You've come a long way, baby’ at the height of the Women's Liberation movement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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