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单词 scavenge
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scavengen.

/ˈskavɪndʒ/
Etymology: < scavenge v.
1. = scavenging n. 2a. Frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > removal or expulsion of products or deposits
scavenging1894
exhaust1896
decarbonization1912
scavenge1912
decoke1962
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > removing deposits
scavenging1894
scavenge1912
uniflow1949
1912 A. P. Chalkley Diesel Engines vi. 156 On the up stroke the scavenge ports..are closed before the exhaust ports.
1925 Glasgow Herald 1 Apr. 11/2 This new type of engine, with its straight through scavenge and absence of air and exhaust valves.
1930 Engineering 21 Nov. 645/3 The scavenge pumps for the Junkers engine are mounted on the locomotive frame.
1949 T. D. Walshaw Diesel Engine Design xviii. 338 Typical figures for an engine supercharged to give 50 per cent. increase in available B.H.P. are: 30 per cent. through scavenge (i.e. a volume of air equal to 30 per cent. of the cylinder volume is swept through the exhaust valve), and the amount of overlap would be about 135°.
1955 Know your Tractor (Shell) i. 11 The air for combustion assists removal of the exhaust gases; it is therefore known as ‘scavenge’ air, and its admission to the engine as ‘scavenging’.
1957 J. V. Casamassa & R. D. Bent Jet Aircraft Power Syst. (ed. 2) xiv. 195/1 On the rear face are mounted the main lube and scavenge pump [etc.].
1975 A. J. Wharton Diesel Engines: Questions & Answers 19 Even in slow running engines, this allows only a very short period of time for scavenge to be completed.
2. An act of scavenging, in senses scavenge v. 2b, and 3b.Webster (1934) gives ‘Scavenge, n., act or process of scavenging’ but it is not clear whether this reflects anything other than sense 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > [noun]
nimmingOE
takingc1230
betakingc1449
take1589
scavenge1978
1978 Guardian Weekly 17 Sept. 24/3 Wales's twice-annual scavenge for Arms Park international tickets.
1982 P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's iii. 24 The others ran, like little half-tame animals on the scavenge, through the alleys of the great market.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

scavengev.

/ˈskavəndʒ/
Etymology: Back-formation < scavenger n.
1. transitive. To clean out (dirt, etc.).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)]
yclense971
cleansea1000
farmOE
fayc1220
fowc1350
absterse?a1425
mundify?a1425
muck1429
to cast clean1522
absterge1526
sprinkle1526
reconcile1535
net1536
clengec1540
neat?1575
snuff?1575
rinse1595
deterge1623
scavengea1644
scavenger1645
decrott1653
reform1675
clean1681
deterse1684
fluxa1763
to clean away, offa1839
to clean down1839
scavage1851
untaint1855
to sand and canvas1912
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) ii. 22 Should I but name The Tithe of that base dunghill trash, brought in By your Dominicans, scaveng'd out agin By worse Franciscans.
2.
a. To scrape dirt from (the streets); also, to cleanse (the surface of a river).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > clean streets [verb (transitive)]
scavenge1851
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)] > clear stream or channel
rode1616
scavenge1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 197/2 In wet weather there is at least twenty times more ‘mac’ than dung scavenged.
1866 Act 28 & 30 Vict. c. 89 §52 The Conservators shall cause the Surface of the Thames to be effectually scavenged, in order to the Removal therefrom of Substances liable to Putrefaction.
in extended use.1858 C. Kingsley Chalk-stream Stud. in Misc. (1860) I. 182 They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water—till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it.
b. To extract and collect (anything that can be used or eaten) from discarded material.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > re-use > discarded material
scavenge1922
salvage1943
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Saw her in the viceregal party when Stubbs the park ranger got me in with Whelan of the Express. Scavening [sic] what the quality left. High tea. Mayonnaise I poured on the plums thinking it was custard.
1971 J. S. Weiner Man's Nat. Hist. v. 199 Big-game hunters, living by means of scavenging dead mammoths.
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Jan. 9/5 In Kingston [Jamaica]..‘scuffling’ (dealing in whatever can be scavenged).
3. absol. or intransitive.
a. In sense 2a.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > clean streets [verb (intransitive)]
scavenger1843
scavenge1883
1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 528/1 We saw fleeting glimpses of working-women scavenging, hanging out clothes, huckstering.
1894 Daily News 26 Apr. 2/4 Mr. Milvain..objected to the Conservancy being released..of their power to scavenge eastward.
b. transferred. To borrow; to thieve; to search through rubbish for (left-overs or unwanted objects).In quot. 1960 simply ‘to search thoroughly’.
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the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > borrow [verb (intransitive)]
borrowa1340
to take borrowingc1380
scavenge1938
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (intransitive)] > be a thief
one's fingers are all thumbs1546
to try it on1811
work1819
scavenge1938
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > poke about or grub > among rubbish for unwanted objects
scavenge1938
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 17 June 3/4 A woman relief investigator said aged men whom she recognized as relief clients were ‘scavenging’ at a market for discarded sprigs of celery.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 63 Scavenge, to, to borrow: to act the petty thief.
1960 P. S. Beagle Fine & Private Place xiv. 252 She..scavenged frantically in her purse, trying to hold back a sneeze until she found a handkerchief.
1978 S. Tennenbaum Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife (1979) x. 340 Rachel worked hard to refurbish her studio... She scavenged for pieces of furniture, and found an old armchair, a small table, and a low couch without a cushion.
4.
a. transitive. To remove (the combustion products) from the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine. Also absol., and with the engine or cylinder as object. Cf. scavenging n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > operate internal-combustion engine [verb (intransitive)] > of internal-combustion engine: run > remove deposits
scavenge1903
decarbonize1915
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > operate internal-combustion engine [verb (transitive)] > remove deposits
decarbonize1915
decoke1928
scavenge1954
1894 [implied in: Work 17 Feb. 73/3 Questions such as late ignitions, scavenging, varying explosive charges [etc.]. (at scavenging n. 2a)] ].
1903 Amer. Inventor 15 Aug. 78/3 The engine under description scavenges thoroughly and completely upon the return stroke of the pistons.
1954 E. J. Kates Diesel & High-compression Gas Engines ii. 23 Just as before, this helps to get the exhaust gases out, or scavenges them.
1961 K. áslavský tr. J. Mackerle Air-cooled Motor Engines xviii. 376 With a mixing ratio λ > 1 the cylinder charge is increased by the amount of air contained in the exhaust gas not scavenged from the cylinder.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VII. 208/2 Most medium and large two-cycle diesel engines are usually equipped with blowers to scavenge the cylinders after the working strokes and to supply the air required for the subsequent cycles.
1975 M. J. Nunney Automotive Engine x. 246 The development of the two-stroke cycle of operation is generally attributed to Dugald Clerk who, in 1878, adopted this principle for a successful design of engine that was scavenged by a separate pumping cylinder.
b. Chemistry. To combine with or remove (free radicals, electrons, or other species).
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > subject to action relating to chemical properties [verb (transitive)]
repel1638
wet1855
absorb1871
scavenge1955
1955 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 77 3245/2 This would mean that all of the radicals which are being scavenged are swept from the solution by the mercaptan.
1966 W. A. Pryor Free Radicals xxi. 324 An added free radical species will inhibit the process..if it scavenges S· but does not react with S to convert it to S·.
1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 71/1 Z is eventually restored to neutrality by scavenging four electrons from two water molecules.
1978 Nature 1 June 374/1 Newly formed amorphous iron hydroxides seem to scavenge phosphate and silicate from solution.

Derivatives

scavenge n. = scavenging n. 2a. Frequently attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun]
scavage1547
scavengery1656
scavengering1841
scavagery1851
scavenging1851
scavenage1878
scavenge1912
1912 A. P. Chalkley Diesel Engines vi. 156 On the up stroke the scavenge ports..are closed before the exhaust ports.
1925 Glasgow Herald 1 Apr. 11/2 This new type of engine, with its straight through scavenge and absence of air and exhaust valves.
1930 Engineering 21 Nov. 645/3 The scavenge pumps for the Junkers engine are mounted on the locomotive frame.
1949 T. D. Walshaw Diesel Engine Design xviii. 338 Typical figures for an engine supercharged to give 50 per cent. increase in available B.H.P. are: 30 per cent. through scavenge (i.e. a volume of air equal to 30 per cent. of the cylinder volume is swept through the exhaust valve), and the amount of overlap would be about 135°.
1955 Know your Tractor (Shell) i. 11 The air for combustion assists removal of the exhaust gases; it is therefore known as ‘scavenge’ air, and its admission to the engine as ‘scavenging’.
1957 J. V. Casamassa & R. D. Bent Jet Aircraft Power Syst. (ed. 2) xiv. 195/1 On the rear face are mounted the main lube and scavenge pump [etc.].
1975 A. J. Wharton Diesel Engines: Questions & Answers 19 Even in slow running engines, this allows only a very short period of time for scavenge to be completed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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