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- emulsion
[emulsion 词源字典] - emulsion: [17] An emulsion is an undissolved suspension of tiny drops of one liquid dispersed throughout another. The classic example of this is milk – whence its name. It comes from modern Latin ēmulsiō, a derivative of ēmulgēre ‘drain out, milk out’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and mulgēre ‘milk’, a distant relative of English milk. The word’s familiar modern application to paint dates from the 1930s.
=> milk[emulsion etymology, emulsion origin, 英语词源] - drain (v.)
- Old English dreahnian "to drain, strain out," from Proto-Germanic *dreug-, source of drought, dry, giving the English word originally a sense of "make dry." Figurative meaning of "exhaust" is attested from 1650s. The word is not found in surviving texts between late Old English and the 1500s. Related: Drained; draining.
- emulgent
- 1570s (adj.), 1610s (n.), from Latin emulgentem (nominative emulgens), present participle of emulgere "to milk out, drain out, exhaust" (see emulsion). Related: Emulgence.
- rain-out (n.)
- also rain out, rainout, 1947, from rain (v.) + out (adv.). Of baseball games, to be rained out is attested from 1928.