单词 | vaporize |
释义 | vaporizev. 1. transitive. To convert into smoke. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (transitive)] > emit (smoke) > convert into smoke smoke1382 vaporize1634 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 119 (margin) Forty load of Tobacco vaporized. 2. a. To convert into vapour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > make into gas or produce gas from [verb (transitive)] > make into vapour evaporate1555 invapour?1566 vapour1591 vaporate1611 meteorize1676 vaporize1803 evaporize1832 α. β. 1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled To vapourize.1884 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey (new ed.) 110 The hot air vapourising the drops.1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 26 The reguline zinc, vaporized by the heat, rises from the crucible as a metallic gas. 1849 R. V. Dixon Treat. Heat I. 193 The vapour was projected..with a loud, whistling noise, which subsided when the liquid was all vaporised. 1878 J. J. Young Ceramic Art 81 The heat vaporizes the salt, and..the chlorine escapes. b. In figurative use. ΚΠ 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 309/1 In figurative language, we might say he becomes..spiritualised, vaporised. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 175 They have not only vaporized her husband into a myth, but have consolidated a myth into a lover. 1888 R. Dowling Miracle Gold III. xxvii. 15 The family estates and honours had been vapourized before that last of the Poniatowskis fell under Napoleon. 3. intransitive. To become vaporous. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > become gas [verb (intransitive)] > become vapour evaporate1567 vapour1567 meteorize1664 vaporize1828 evaporize1832 1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Vaporize,..to pass off in vapour. 1855 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci.: Elem. Chem. 458 Zinc does not vapourize until the heat is raised to whiteness. 1872 Athenæum 20 Jan. 84/2 Faraday..stated..that mercury ceased to vapourize below the freezing-point. 1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 196 The liquid within the narrow tube vaporizes. 4. transitive. To spray with fine particles of liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of spraying > spray [verb (transitive)] > with fine particles or mist vaporize1900 mist1967 1900 O. Onions Compl. Bachelor v. 51 My hostess..vapourised me in passing with a tiny scent fountain. Derivatives ˈvaporized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > vaporized vaporate1660 fumigated1663 aerified1785 vaporized1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 823 Chambers into which the vaporized substances are deposited. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. iii. 124 We must reduce the vaporised water capable of producing rain. 1888 Daily News 15 May 6/2 Small launches..propelled by means of vapourised spirit. ˈvaporizing n. (also attributive). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour vaporation1398 effumation1666 vaporization1799 vaporescence1843 vaporizing1845 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 189/1 The valve before described, attached to the vaporizing apparatus. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2690/2 Vaporizing stove, one for furnishing steam to dampen the air of apartments, conservatories, etc. 1886 Jrnl. Education 1 Aug. 325 Without this all theorising is empty vapourising. 1896 Daily News 15 July 8/4 The vaporising and condensing of ammonia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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