| 单词 |
adopter |
| 释义 |
adopter|əˈdɒptə(r)|
[f. adopt + -er1.]
1. One who adopts into any relation, esp. that of sonship; an adoptive father.
1572Huloet Abecedarium, Adopter, that makes the adoption, Adoptator. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. cxviii. 99 Antoninus..did not onely equall his Adopter and Predecessours, in wisdome and other princely qualities. 1741Middleton Cicero II. vi. (1742) 13 The Adopter was not full twenty years old, when he adopted a Senator, who was old enough to be his father. 1870Wynter in Athenæum 6 Aug. 174 The..speculative father of six children, who sought charitable adopters for his offspring.
2. One who takes up any opinion or plan; prop. from another; also gen. as a matter of choice.
1829Scott Antiq. xxxv. 244 The rash adopters of the more obvious etymological derivations. 1876M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 218 A practical rule, which, if adopted, would have the force of an intuition for its adopter also.
3. Chem. A tube connecting two pieces of apparatus; esp. one which connects the retort and receiver in apparatus for distillation. Also called adapter.
1767Woulfe in Phil. Trans. LVII. 411 The retort was set in a reverberatory furnace, and an adopter and quilled receiver luted to it. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 10 Conical tubes that fit into another, for lengthening the necks of retorts..are called adopters. |
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