单词 | workup |
释义 | workupn. 1. Chemistry. The procedures followed to separate and purify products of a chemical reaction or substances which are to be analysed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > acetimetry > other analytical techniques alkalimetry1817 refraction1831 Hofmann method1876 cryoscopy1885 Reichert–Meissl1887 oxidimetry1896 Hofmann exhaustive methylation1938 workup1942 radioactivation analysisa1947 neutron activation analysis1947 activation analysis1948 1942 U.S. Patent 2,274,057 2/1 Oxides of manganese..are precipitated during the work-up of the oxidation products. 1965 J. R. Dyer Applic. Absorption Spectroscopy Org. Compounds iii. 56 On reaction with ozone followed by oxidative work-up.., compound 8b gave acetone. 1967 Chem. Abstr. 67 10187/2 (heading) Workup of chlorohydrin process waste products. 1971 Canad. Jrnl. Chem. 49 2467/1 The resulting mixture was then heated to reflux for 1 h to complete the acetylation and gave after usual work-up a quantitative yield of [compound] 12. 1978 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 100 3548 Water added during work-up serving as the proton source at C-1. 2006 J. M. Hornback Org. Chem. (Internat. Student ed.) iv. 128 Carbonate and bicarbonate are often employed to remove acids in the workup of organic reactions. 2. Medicine. Diagnostic procedures and tests performed on a patient, esp. after initial admission to hospital; a set of such procedures and tests. Cf. slightly earlier to work up 7 at work v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] medical examination1842 exam1891 medical1917 physical1934 workup1945 check-up1958 the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis > series of diagnostic procedures workup1945 algorithm1970 1945 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 67 55/1 Urologic work-up revealed renal tuberculosis on the left side. 1977 New Yorker 12 Sept. 103/1 We gave him the usual workup, including neurological and ear-nose-and-throat evaluations. 1995 Clin. Infectious Dis. 20 979/1 A work-up for sepsis was performed. 2011 V. S. Ramachandran Tell-Tale Brain (2012) vi. 154 We then conducted a routine neurological workup. 3. Printing. A piece of spacing material that works loose in the forme and gives rise to a smudge on the paper; a smudge produced in this way. Also as a mass noun: the occurrence of smudging caused by this. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blur or smudge monk1683 mackle1706 slur1770 macule1841 shake1888 workup1948 hickey1961 society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material > that works loose in forme workup1948 1948 R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures x. 270 The pressfeeder watches the sheets carefully so that if work~ups appear he will not spoil the run. A work-up is spacing material that has risen in the form so that it prints on the sheet. 1950 D. G. Hymes Production in Advertising vii. 279 Alert pressmen can..stop the press, and hammer down the workups after only a few sheets have been spoiled. 1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 24 The letterpress printer may be plagued by ‘work-up’. 2012 F. P. Sherwood Happiness San Francisco ii. 20 The big problem of printing in those days was the ‘work up’. 4. Navy. A period of preparation or training, typically for a specific operation; an exercise undertaken as part of this; spec. a process of preparing a ship for deployment. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > making ship seaworthy workup1948 society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training sham fight1598 field exercise1616 martinet1677 field evolutions1789 foot drill1795 goose-step1806 war-game1828 rope drill1833 field training1836 repetition training1859 skeleton drill1876 drill-down1889 Beast Barracks1896 basic training1898 monkey motion1909 assault course1915 TEWT1942 workup1971 Taceval1977 1948 Times of India 16 Sept. 3/4 She..did an intensive ‘work-up’ to fit her for her future role as flagship of the Royal Indian Navy. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 May 35/4 Canadian forces ships work on a 20-month cycle basis containing four parts: refit, trials, workups, and operational. 1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1987) xxx. 438 He'd been working around the clock for three months to get his ship ready for action, racing through the acceptance trials and conducting continuous workups. 2002 Leatherneck July 26/1 Our predeployment workup was extremely challenging for us, training-wise. 2007 K. Bonner & C. Bonner USS Iowa at War viii. 96 Much of the preliminary work had already been done during the workup for the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1942 |
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