单词 | ventilator |
释义 | ventilatorn. 1. a. A mechanical contrivance or apparatus (such as a revolving fan or wheel fixed in a special opening) by which the vitiated or heated air is drawn or removed from a building, ship, mine, etc., and a fresh supply introduced; also frequently a simple opening, or open shaft, so placed or contrived as to facilitate renewal of the air. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > ventilation equipment air machine1720 fire pan1730 ventilator1743 airshaft1753 air-box1777 screen1854 screen cloth1868 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator ventilator1743 1743 S. Hales (title) A Description of Ventilators; whereby Great Quantities of Fresh Air may with Ease be conveyed into Mines, Goals, Hospitals, Work-Houses and Ships. 1753 Scots Mag. Feb. 99/1 Ventilators, worked by a wind~mill, having been fixed. 1766 Compl. Farmer (at cited word) Two of the ventilators are constantly drawing in the air, and two of them..are blowing it out at their proper valves. 1802 M. Cutler Jrnl. 20 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 79 The House..adjourned..for the purpose of giving opportunity to workmen to fix some ventilators, which were greatly wanted in the Hall. 1836–41 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 143 The different ventilators may terminate in tubes connected with a chimney. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 216 The ventilators should always be above the heads of the congregation. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xii. 132 It is down these ventilators that air is drawn by the steam fans F to supply the boilers. b. The former Ladies' Gallery in the House of Commons. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > gallery or stand for spectators seld1598 stand1615 ventilator1822 spectatory1829 press gallery1869 bleacher1889 bleachery1909 waving-base1954 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > place of > occupied by lower house > parts of table?1572 treasury-bench1775 side gallery1778 ladies' gallery1815 ventilator1822 pairing desk1899 1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 9 Mar. (1971) 369 We went one night to the House of Commons—to the Ventilator. 1832 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. 269 A discussion by which Nancy, if she had been in the ventilator, might have been greatly edified. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 20 A modern honourable member, with..his strangers' gallery, his female ventilator. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xi. 113 Lady Roehampton and Lady Montfort were both in the ventilator, and he knew it. c. Nautical. A wind-sail (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > for light air > scoop on windsail1741 ventilator1846 air scoop1919 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 368 Wind-sail, or Ventilator, a sort of long canvass bag..let down a vessel's hatchway for circulating air below. 1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 59 The..ventilator is made of canvas No. 5. It is employed to convey a stream of fresh air downwards into the lower apartments of a ship. d. Applied to devices for admitting air into a head-dress, boot, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other netOE sheepskinc1175 tail1297 panec1300 slipc1440 cukera1500 peak1509 waist1590 bumbarrel1609 winglet1611 armhole1731 fullness1792 stride1807 bottom1820 patte1835 buckling1861 ventilator1870 tie-back1880 shield1884 organ pleat1886 outer1904 flarea1910 uplift1929 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > in a boot, hat, etc. ventilator1870 1870 C. C. Black tr. A. Demmin Weapons of War 255 Large tilting heaume of the fifteenth century... It has a hinged flap or ventilator. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2706 The ventilator for hats consists of a hole in the crown, and a head-band supported at a certain distance from the sweat-lining. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2706 The ventilator for boots consists of a double upper with holes. e. Medicine. A machine or device used to support or replace the action of breathing in an individual who is ill, injured, or anaesthetized. Cf. respirator n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > life-supporting equipment > [noun] > breathing equipment resuscitator1831 artificial lung1844 respirator1854 inhaler1864 Fleuss1882 bottle1888 tent1892 pulmotor1910 oxygen mask1920 oxygen tent1925 inhalator1929 iron lung1930 cuirass1939 cuirass respirator1939 breathing apparatus1940 Ambu1960 ventilator1961 1961 I. W. B. Grant in D. Dunlop et al. Textbk. Med. Treatm. (ed. 8) 945 The patient retains fairly powerful respiratory movements and may have difficulty in synchronizing with any ventilator which is not triggered by his own inspiratory efforts. 1976 Lancet 13 Nov. 1069/1 It has become commonplace for hospitals to have deeply comatose and unresponsive patients with severe brain damage who are maintained on artificial respiration by means of mechanical ventilators. 1982 Times 10 June 7/2 Mr Argov was taken off his ventilator for two hours yesterday, although he remained unconscious. 2. One charged with ventilating a building, etc. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with wheels ventilatora1800 wheel-boy1825 whirler1825 wheelman1865 fat boy1940 a1800 in C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 931/2 [This wheel was] able to suck out the foul air, or throw in fresh,..according as the Speaker [of the House of Commons] is pleased to command it, whose order the ventilator waits to receive every day of the session. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 195 A certain number of workers..vibrating their wings before the entrance of their hive... The station of these ventilators is upon the floor of the hive. 1860 tr. Hartwig's Sea & Wond. v. 55 The sun is not only the great fountain of warmth, he is also the universal ventilator. 3. One who ventilates a subject. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > person engaged in mooterOE arguer1377 discusser?1546 canvasser1599 argumentator1635 discursist1645 motionist1650 tongue-fencer1675 argufier1805 discussionist1833 discutant1847 discussant1855 ventilator1891 1891 in Cent. Dict. 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