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单词 vibrator
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vibratorn.

Brit. /vʌɪˈbreɪtə/, /ˈvʌɪbreɪtə/, U.S. /ˈvaɪˌbreɪdər/
Etymology: Agent-noun, on Latin models, < vibrate v. + -or suffix. Compare Italian vibratore.
1. That which vibrates, or causes vibration.
a. One of the vibrating reeds of an organ, harmonium, etc., by which the sound is produced.
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1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3391 Notes or vibrators, keys, pipes, stops, &c., for harmonium making or organ building.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 167/1 This vibrator is the origin of our reed instruments.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 293/1 There can be no escape of wind from the wind-chest, except through the vibrators and pallet-holes.
b. One or other of various appliances, instruments, or parts, which have or cause a vibratory motion or action. spec. (a) A device for compacting concrete by vibration before it has set. (b) A small electrically operated device for producing sexual stimulation. Also attributive.A number of others are specified in recent American dictionaries.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > equipment for concrete construction
vibrator1888
slip form1958
shutter1965
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > object used in sexual activity > [noun] > vibrator
vibrator1888
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > that which vibrates
vibrator1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 706/1 A composition roller, called a vibrator.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 152 Vibrator rollers, those rollers on a machine which have a vibrating motion, and convey the ink to the slab for distribution.
1906 Daily Chron. 6 Apr. 9/5 There are also beauty rollers and massage vibrators.
(a)1930 Concrete & Constructional Engin. XXV. 686/1 The vibrated concrete acts like a liquid and the vibrator rises automatically.1950 Archit. Rev. 107 331/3 When vibration was first introduced the lack of proper equipment prevented its use except on very large contracts, but many types of vibrator are now on the market.1981 Mindess & Young Concrete x. 289 External vibrators can be clamped to formwork, when the proper use of internal vibrators is not possible.(b)1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Female v. 163 Douches, streams of running water, vibrators,..and still other methods were occasionally employed [in masturbation].1970 in G. Greer Female Eunuch 217 As vibrators have been mentioned, may I add that it need not be the penis-shaped battery model.1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 883/2 In a study in which patients used a vibrator to achieve orgasm, all the major tranquillisers were said to interfere with ejaculation.1983 Cauthery & Stanway Compl. Bk. Love & Sex xxxii. 386 The biggest-selling sex aid by far is the vibrator.
2. Mathematics. (See quot. 1879.)
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1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §345 The reciprocal of this time we shall call..the rapidity of the system, for convenience of comparison with the frequency of a vibrator or of a rotator, which is the name commonly given to the reciprocal of its period.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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