| 单词 |
reclaimed |
| 释义 |
reclaimed, ppl. a.|rɪˈkleɪmd|
[f. reclaim v. + -ed1.]
1. Tamed, reformed, brought under cultivation, † protested against.
c1440Promp. Parv. 425/2 Recleymyd, or chalangyd, reclamatus. Ibid., Recleymyd, as hawkys, redomitus. 1481Caxton Myrr. ii. xvi. 102 The goshawke and sperhawk..that ben tame and reclaymed brynge that they take to theyr lord. 1592Greene Disput. 35 The gentleman..found her afterward a reclaimed woman. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vii. viii. 813 The chiefe and principall furtherance..that can be giuen to trees, either reclaimed or wilde. 1686R. Blome Gentl. Recreat. II. 36/2 He that hath once experienced a well Reclaimed Sparrow-Hawk will hardly be without one. 1769G. White Selborne xxii, What you mention with respect to reclaimed toads raises my curiosity. 1840J. Buel Farm. Comp. 47 The crops best calculated for reclaimed swamps. 1881Macm. Mag. XLV. 40 Here is a ‘reclaimed’ hawk: he can be..recovered as soon as his owner pleases. 1961D. M. Disney Mrs. Meeker's Money vii. 77 A reclaimed island of land-scaped brick and glass on the fringe of the business district. 1974W. J. Burley Death in Stanley St. ix. 164 The new waste-disposal unit, pride of the city, had been built on a promontory of reclaimed land.
2. Rendered reusable; reclaimed rubber, rubber obtained from used vulcanized rubber by treating it to remove free sulphur and foreign substances and to render it plastic, chiefly used mixed with crude rubber in low-grade rubber goods.
1897Sci. Amer. 25 Sept. 196/2 The reclaimed rubber of commerce is obtained by steaming or devulcanizing old rubber waste, generally shoes, freed more or less perfectly from fiber. 1913B. D. Porritt Chem. Rubber v. 66 The consumption of reclaimed rubber..is probably equal to the world's production of raw rubber. 1942Time 2 Feb. 63/3 Reclaimed rubber, ordinarily bypassed by manufacturers because it wears out faster than natural rubber. 1958Jrnl. Amer. Water Works Assoc. L. 1021 (heading) Emergency use of reclaimed water for potable supply at Chanute, Kan. 1971R. Singleton in C. M. Blow Rubber Technol. & Manufacture vi. 203 Reclaimed rubber has become widely accepted as a raw material which possesses processing and economic characteristics that are of great value in the compounding of natural and synthetic rubber stocks. 1976Lancs. Evening Post 7 Dec. 13/5 (Advt.), Demolition materials. Reclaimed timber (cut to your requirements)... Reclaimed stone. |
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