Condense
[kən'dens] or [kən'dɛns]
解释:
(verb.) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; 'water condenses'; 'The acid distills at a specific temperature'.
(verb.) compress or concentrate; 'Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan'.
(verb.) develop due to condensation; 'All our planets condensed out of the same material'.
(verb.) become more compact or concentrated; 'Her feelings condensed'.
(verb.) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; 'The cold air condensed the steam'.
(verb.) remove water from; 'condense the milk'.
埃莉整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
(v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
(v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
(v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
(v. i.) To undergo polymerization.
(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.
费利西亚编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Compress, consolidate, concentrate; make dense, compact, or close; press together.[2]. Abridge, abbreviate, shorten, epitomize, reduce, diminish, contract, curtail.[3]. Reduce to a liquid state.
v. n. [1]. Grow dense.[2]. Become liquid.
整理:雪莉
解释:
v.t. to compress or reduce by pressure into smaller compass: to reduce to a denser form as vapour to liquid.—n. Condensabil′ity the quality of being condensable.—adj. Condens′able capable of being compressed.—v.t. Condens′āte to condense: to compress into a closer form.—v.i. to become dense: to harden:—pr.p. condens′āting; pa.p. condens′āted.—ns. Condensā′tion act of condensing; Condens′er an apparatus for reducing vapours to a liquid form: an appliance for collecting or condensing electricity.
录入:皮埃尔
例句:
- A great amount of heat was lost whenever the cold water was let into the cylinder to condense the steam, and this loss vastly increased the expense of running the engine, and cut down its power. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Other substances also come off in gaseous form, but they condense in the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Let me condense now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- In Section 23 we saw that a fall of temperature caused water vapor to condense or liquefy. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The condensed steam escapes at _w_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In 1824 Bussy condensed sulphurous acid vapors to liquid form. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- But the upper air may be more condensed by cold than the lower air by pressure; the lower more expanded by heat than the upper for want of pressure. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Every time we squeeze the bulb of an atomizer, we force compressed or condensed air through the atomizer, and the condensed air pushes the liquid out of the nozzle (Fig. 51). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- They taught also how the gas should be distilled, condensed, cleaned, scrubbed, confined in retorts, and its flow measured and controlled. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet as in Newcomen’s engine. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The expression of Wildeve's face became curiously condensed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Each condensing surface is connected with earth by an electrical conducting wire. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The heat given out by the condensing steam passes into the surrounding air and warms the room. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The high-resistance secondary circuit of an induction coil is located in circuit between the condensing surface and the ground. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Stephenson did for the locomotive what Watt did for the condensing engine. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He therefore closed the cylinder and provided a separate condensing vessel into which the steam was led after it raised the piston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In that way the air pressure did the work of lifting the weight, and the necessary vacuum was obtained by forming steam and then condensing it in the cylinder. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- If one holds a cold lid in the steam of boiling water, drops of water gather on the lid; the steam is cooled by contact with the cold lid and _condenses_ into water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- This is because the water vapor in the air becomes chilled by contact with the glass and condenses. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Fog is formed when vapor condenses near the surface of the earth, and when the drops are so small that they do not fall but hover in the air, the fog is said not to lift or not to clear. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- After the steam has spent itself in turning the turbine, it condenses into water and makes its escape through openings in an inclosing case. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- E is a diverging tube which receives the water injected by the jet of steam that condenses at I, and imparts to the water a portion of its speed in proportion to the pressure of the boiler. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Often leaves and grass and sidewalks are so cold that the water vapor in the atmosphere condenses on them, and we say a heavy dew has formed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
整理:玛丽斯