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pressor
(encz) | pressor, adj: |
Pressor
(gcide) | Pressor \Press"or\, a. (Physiol.)
Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of
pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which
excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger
contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of
the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.
--Landois & Stirling.
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pressor
(wn) | pressor
adj 1: increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure;
"pressor reflexes"
n 1: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood
vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or
norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain
drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure [syn:
vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive, pressor] |
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air compressor
(encz) | air compressor,vzduchový kompresor n: Clock |
compressor
(encz) | compressor,kompresor n: Zdeněk Brož |
depressor
(encz) | depressor,depresor n: Zdeněk Broždepressor,stlačovač n: Zdeněk Brož |
depressor muscle
(encz) | depressor muscle, n: |
depressor nerve
(encz) | depressor nerve, n: |
oppressor
(encz) | oppressor,utlačovatel n: Zdeněk Brož |
oppressors
(encz) | oppressors,utlačovatelé n: Zdeněk Brož |
pressor
(encz) | pressor, adj: |
repressor
(encz) | repressor, n: |
repressor gene
(encz) | repressor gene, n: |
spike suppressor
(encz) | spike suppressor, n: |
suppressor
(encz) | suppressor,odrušovač n: Zdeněk Brožsuppressor,potlačovatel n: Zdeněk Brožsuppressor,tlumivka n: Zdeněk Brož |
suppressor gene
(encz) | suppressor gene, n: |
surge suppressor
(encz) | surge suppressor, n: |
tongue depressor
(encz) | tongue depressor, n: |
vasopressor
(encz) | vasopressor, n: |
compressor research facility
(czen) | Compressor Research Facility,CRF[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
high pressure compressor
(czen) | High Pressure Compressor,HPC[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
Air compressor
(gcide) | Air \Air\ ([^a]r), n. [OE. air, eir, F. air, L. a["e]r, fr. Gr.
'ah`r, air, mist, for 'a[digamma]hr, fr. root 'a[digamma] to
blow, breathe, probably akin to E. wind. In sense 10 the
French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr.
the same Latin word; and in senses 11, 12, 13 the French
meaning is either fr. L. aria, or due to confusion with F.
aire, in an older sense of origin, descent. Cf. A["e]ry,
Debonair, Malaria, Wind.]
1. The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth;
the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid,
transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
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Note: By the ancient philosophers, air was regarded as an
element; but modern science has shown that it is
essentially a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, with a
small amount of carbon dioxide, the average proportions
being, by volume: oxygen, 20.96 per cent.; nitrogen,
79.00 per cent.; carbon dioxide, 0.04 per cent. These
proportions are subject to a very slight variability.
Air also always contains some vapor of water.
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2. Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
"Charm ache with air." --Shak.
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He was still all air and fire. [Air and fire being
the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and
water.] --Macaulay
.
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3. A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat,
cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as,
a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
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4. Any a["e]riform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly
called vital air. [Obs.]
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5. Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
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Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play.
--Pope.
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6. Odoriferous or contaminated air.
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7. That which surrounds and influences.
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The keen, the wholesome air of poverty.
--Wordsworth.
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8. Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
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You gave it air before me. --Dryden.
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9. Intelligence; information. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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10. (Mus.)
(a) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in
consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical
and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single
voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to
plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody;
a tune; an aria.
(b) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc.,
the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern
harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called
the air.
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11. The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person;
mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a
lofty air. "His very air." --Shak.
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12. Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance;
manner; style.
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It was communicated with the air of a secret.
--Pope.
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12. pl. An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or
vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts
on airs. --Thackeray.
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14. (Paint.)
(a) The representation or reproduction of the effect of
the atmospheric medium through which every object in
nature is viewed. --New Am. Cyc.
(b) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of
that portrait has a good air. --Fairholt.
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15. (Man.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
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Note: Air is much used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound term. In most cases it might be written
indifferently, as a separate limiting word, or as the
first element of the compound term, with or without the
hyphen; as, air bladder, air-bladder, or airbladder;
air cell, air-cell, or aircell; air-pump, or airpump.
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Air balloon. See Balloon.
Air bath.
(a) An apparatus for the application of air to the body.
(b) An arrangement for drying substances in air of any
desired temperature.
Air castle. See Castle in the air, under Castle.
Air compressor, a machine for compressing air to be used as
a motive power.
Air crossing, a passage for air in a mine.
Air cushion, an air-tight cushion which can be inflated;
also, a device for arresting motion without shock by
confined air.
Air fountain, a contrivance for producing a jet of water by
the force of compressed air.
Air furnace, a furnace which depends on a natural draft and
not on blast.
Air line, a straight line; a bee line. Hence
Air-line, adj.; as, air-line road.
Air lock (Hydr. Engin.), an intermediate chamber between
the outer air and the compressed-air chamber of a
pneumatic caisson. --Knight.
Air port (Nav.), a scuttle or porthole in a ship to admit
air.
Air spring, a spring in which the elasticity of air is
utilized.
Air thermometer, a form of thermometer in which the
contraction and expansion of air is made to measure
changes of temperature.
Air threads, gossamer.
Air trap, a contrivance for shutting off foul air or gas
from drains, sewers, etc.; a stench trap.
Air trunk, a pipe or shaft for conducting foul or heated
air from a room.
Air valve, a valve to regulate the admission or egress of
air; esp. a valve which opens inwardly in a steam boiler
and allows air to enter.
Air way, a passage for a current of air; as the air way of
an air pump; an air way in a mine.
In the air.
(a) Prevalent without traceable origin or authority, as
rumors.
(b) Not in a fixed or stable position; unsettled.
(c) (Mil.) Unsupported and liable to be turned or taken
in flank; as, the army had its wing in the air.
on the air, currently transmitting; live; -- used of radio
and television broadcasts, to indicate that the images and
sounds being picked up by cameras and microphones are
being broadcast at the present moment.
Note: In call-in programs where individuals outside a radio
or television studio have telephoned into the station,
when their voice is being directly broadcast, the host
of the program commonly states "You're on the air." as
a warning that the conversation is not private.
To take air, to be divulged; to be made public.
To take the air, to go abroad; to walk or ride out.
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Compressor
(gcide) | Compressor \Com*press"or\, n. [L.]
Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp.,
the femoral artery) or other part.
(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass
plates an object to be examined with the microscope; --
called also compressorium.
(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an
air compressor.
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compressorium
(gcide) | Compressor \Com*press"or\, n. [L.]
Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp.,
the femoral artery) or other part.
(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass
plates an object to be examined with the microscope; --
called also compressorium.
(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an
air compressor.
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Depressor
(gcide) | Depressor \De*press"or\, n.
1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
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2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
part.
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Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
heart.
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Depressor nerve
(gcide) | Depressor \De*press"or\, n.
1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
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2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
part.
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Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
heart.
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Impressor
(gcide) | Impressor \Im*press"or\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]s"[~e]r), n. [LL., a
printer.]
One who, or that which, impresses. --Boyle.
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Oppressor
(gcide) | Oppressor \Op*press"or\, n. [L.]
One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others;
one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable
severity.
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The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. --Shak.
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To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor.
--Swift.
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Suppressor
(gcide) | Suppressor \Sup*press"or\, n. [L., hider.]
One who suppresses.
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air compressor
(wn) | air compressor
n 1: a compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and
delivers it at a higher pressure |
compressor
(wn) | compressor
n 1: a mechanical device that compresses gasses |
depressor
(wn) | depressor
n 1: any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down [syn:
depressor, depressor muscle]
2: any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone
of the body part it serves [syn: depressor, {depressor
nerve}]
3: a device used by physician to press a part down or aside |
depressor muscle
(wn) | depressor muscle
n 1: any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down [syn:
depressor, depressor muscle] |
depressor nerve
(wn) | depressor nerve
n 1: any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or
tone of the body part it serves [syn: depressor,
depressor nerve] |
immunosuppressor
(wn) | immunosuppressor
n 1: a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response [syn:
immunosuppressant, immunosuppressor, {immunosuppressive
drug}, immunosuppressive, immune suppressant drug] |
lopressor
(wn) | Lopressor
n 1: beta blocker (trade name Lopressor) used in treating
hypertension and angina and arrhythmia and acute myocardial
infarction; has adverse side effects (depression and
exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) [syn:
metoprolol, Lopressor] |
oppressor
(wn) | oppressor
n 1: a person of authority who subjects others to undue
pressures |
pressor
(wn) | pressor
adj 1: increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure;
"pressor reflexes"
n 1: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood
vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or
norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain
drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure [syn:
vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive, pressor] |
repressor
(wn) | repressor
n 1: an agent that represses [syn: repressor, represser] |
repressor gene
(wn) | repressor gene
n 1: gene that prevents a nonallele from being transcribed |
spike suppressor
(wn) | spike suppressor
n 1: electrical device inserted in a power line to protect
equipment from sudden fluctuations in current [syn: {surge
suppressor}, surge protector, spike suppressor, {spike
arrester}, lightning arrester] |
suppressor
(wn) | suppressor
n 1: someone who suppresses; "dictators are suppressors of free
speech" [syn: suppressor, suppresser]
2: a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another
gene (especially of a mutant gene) [syn: suppressor,
suppresser, suppressor gene, suppresser gene]
3: an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents [syn:
suppressor, suppresser] |
suppressor gene
(wn) | suppressor gene
n 1: a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another
gene (especially of a mutant gene) [syn: suppressor,
suppresser, suppressor gene, suppresser gene] |
surge suppressor
(wn) | surge suppressor
n 1: electrical device inserted in a power line to protect
equipment from sudden fluctuations in current [syn: {surge
suppressor}, surge protector, spike suppressor, {spike
arrester}, lightning arrester] |
tongue depressor
(wn) | tongue depressor
n 1: a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an
examination of the mouth and throat |
tumor suppressor gene
(wn) | tumor suppressor gene
n 1: a suppressor gene that blocks unscheduled cell division |
vasopressor
(wn) | vasopressor
n 1: any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in
blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial
pressure) |
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