| 单词 | to settle out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto settle out a. intransitive. Of suspended particles or impurities in a liquid: To come to rest after agitation or disturbance; to collect as scum or sediment by gravitation; now chiefly (with mixture of sense 13), to sink to the bottom as sediment. Also to settle out. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > solid rather than fluid [verb (intransitive)] > sink to the bottom as sediment settlec1420 precipitatea1626 deposit1832 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > clarifying liquids > clarify (of liquid) [verb (intransitive)] > settle (of impurities) settlec1420 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 480 Whanne her dregges sattled doun beth go. c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 59 Poudry resolucions which..ar..putte out with þe vryne. And for þai ar heuy and erþi þai satle in þe grounde. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §14 The Wine setling in the top..and the Water descending & setling in the bottome. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 14 The melancholike [humours]..remaine, and as dregges settle at the base of all their actions. 1637 J. Milton Comus 20 But evill..shall..Mixe no more with goodnesse, when at last Gather'd like scum, and setl'd to it selfe It shall [etc.]. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 102 Especially if the Small Beer chance to be new, and its Yest not well settled from it. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 75 That which had the least Gravity sinking not down till last of all, settling at the Surface of the Sediment. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xiv. §587. 326 When they die their shells settle to the bottom. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 302/2 The liquor is kept..in a fluid condition, to allow mechanical impurities to settle out. < as lemmas |
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