单词 | ventilating |
释义 | ventilatingn. a. The action of the verb in various senses; ventilation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > examination by discussion > [noun] discussing1448 discuss1541 discussion1546 discussment1559 entreatment1575 discussure1610 dissertation1611 ventilationa1631 ventilating1660 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion debate1393 revolutionc1425 treatingc1450 disputation1489 debatement1536 debating1548 discuss1571 discussion1598 reasoning1611 entertainment1625 ventilationa1631 ventilating1660 discussal1809 skull session1959 séance1962 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > ventilation and air-conditioning > [noun] ventilation1664 ventilating1743 air conditioning1909 central air conditioning1923 central air1955 AC1962 air-con1970 air1974 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation eventilation1597 ventilation1664 ventilating1743 aeration1800 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 86 This is a very strange thing indeed, and very well worth the Ventilating. 1743 S. Hales Descr. Ventilators 50 The thus ventilating of Ships. 1802 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 748/1 It is the centre of the cargo which most requires ventilating. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1053 The ventilating of rooms by openings at any height above the level of the floor. b. attributive, as ventilating-engineer, ventilating-fan, ventilating tube, etc.A few technical combinations are recorded in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. and Suppl., as ventilating-brick, ventilating heater, ventilating saw, ventilating-stack, ventilating waterwheel. Also ventilating grate, ventilating jack, ventilating mill-stone in recent American dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > passage, shaft, duct, or pipe funnel1555 ventiduct1615 ventoso1698 air pipe1748 ventilating tube1754 ventilation-pipe1823 airshaft1846 through-draught1852 duct1884 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 44 This ward..had been supplied by a ventilating tube. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1054/2 The ventilating fan of Dr. Desaguliers. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1055/2 A ventilating pump 3 feet square and 5 feet high. 1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 68/1 Dr. Arnott's ventilating-valve. 1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 68/1 Special ventilating-flues in the walls. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. 132 Fresh air..led into the bunkers from the ventilating shafts. c1890 W. H. Casmey Notes Ventilation 1 My experience as a ventilating engineer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). ventilatingadj. That ventilates something (in various senses of the verb); provided with ventilation. ΘΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [adjective] > of or relating to ventilation > ventilating perflating1864 the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [adjective] > causing air to be set in motion windyc1450 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 149 The Schools therefore do not intend to perswade into a gentle calmnesse, their onely impetum faciens, the heat in feavers, by the ventilating Rhetorick of Phlebotomy. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 327 The volatile oil of pepper-mint does arise on the wings of the ventilating air during the distillation. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 196 Approach your hand to a ventilating bee, and you will find that she causes a very perceptible motion in the air. 1991 Insight 4 Feb. 44/1 Security Unlimited has sold some 2,000 Ultra-Cool Ribbed Ventilating Undergarments to police to wear under bulletproof vests. 2020 D. Barber Mod. Archit. & Climate iii. 116/2 It is not clear how this ventilating breeze would circulate within the room. Compounds ventilating lamp n. now historical a type of gas lamp that incorporates a room-ventilating feature, typically holes to admit air from below, and a tube, duct, or flue above the burner to allow the passage of hot air and combustion products to the outside.Ventilating lamps were typically very large ceiling lamps which provided some air movement whether or not they were lit. ΘΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp gaslight1808 gas lamp1814 gas1817 pronghorn1922 1818 La Belle Assemblée July 48 Bed-room ventilating lamps. 1894 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 341 In the ventilating lamps the heat developed by the combustion of gas is not only carried away without entering the room, but it is utilized to assist in educing heat or vitiated air from the apartments. 2002 M. Dillon Artific. Sunshine v. 147 A costly alternative came in the form of ventilating lamps that required the installation of ducts and flues to take the vitiated air outside the building. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.1660adj.1651 |
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