carburet

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A carbide. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To react with carbon. obsolete,transitive
  2. To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel. obsolete,transitive
    — Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon. William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent
  3. To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine. transitive
  4. To equip with a carburetor. transitive
    — Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.

词形变化

carburets plural carburate alternative carburets present,singular,third-person carbureting US,participle,present carburetting UK,participle,present carbureted US,participle,past carbureted US,past carburetted UK,participle,past carburetted UK,past carburate alternative

词源

词源 1
Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during the mid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
词源 2
Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during the mid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
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