单词 | recuperation |
释义 | recuperationn. 1. a. The recovery or regaining of something (material or immaterial). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1481 |
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