Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 46

Persisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persist.

Persist (v. i.) 堅持;固執 [+in/ with]; 持續;存留 To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.

If they persist in pointing their batteries against particular persons, no laws of war forbid the making reprisals. -- Addison.

Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so. -- Pope.

That face persists. It floats up; it turns over in my mind. -- Mrs. Browning.

Syn: See Persevere, and Insist. Persistence

Persist (v.) (v. t.) 堅持說,反覆說 [Y] [+that] Continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure].

Persist (v.) Be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" [syn: persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on].

Persist (v.) Stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay].

Persistence (n.) [U] 堅持;固執;持續;持久 Alt. of Persistency.

Persistency (n.) 固執;堅韌;持續;永恆;繼續存在 The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.

Persistency (n.) The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as:

Persistency (n.) (Physics) The persistence of motion.

Persistency (n.) (Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.

Persistence (n.) [U] 堅持;固執;持續;持久 The property of a continuous and connected period of time [syn: continuity, persistence].

Persistence (n.) Persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity].

Persistence (n.) The act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate" [syn: perseverance, persistence, perseveration].

Persistence (n.) A property of a programming language where created objects and variables continue to exist and retain their values between runs of the program.

Persistence (n.) The length of time a phosphor dot on the screen of a cathode ray tube will remain illuminated after it has been energised by the electron beam.  Long-persistence phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that linger on screen for a fraction of a second. (1994-11-09)

Persistent (a.) 堅持不懈的;固執的;持續的,持久的;反覆的,不斷的 Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Persistent (a.) (Biol.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

Persistent (a.) Never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn: {persistent}, {relentless}, {unrelenting}].

Persistent (a.) Continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: {haunting}, {persistent}].

Persistent (a.) Retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn: {persistent}, {lasting}] [ant: {caducous}, {shed}].

Persistent (a.) Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: {dogged}, {dour}, {persistent}, {pertinacious}, {tenacious}, {unyielding}].

Persistence; Persistent () A property of a programming language where created objects and variables continue to exist and retain their values between runs of the program.

Persistence; Persistent () The length of time a phosphor dot on the screen of a cathode ray tube will remain illuminated after it has been energised by the electron beam.  Long-persistence phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that linger on screen for a fraction of a second. (1994-11-09)

Persistently (adv.) 堅持不放棄地;持續不斷地;頻繁地 In a persistent manner.

Persistently (adv.) In a persistent manner; "he was asking questions, unavoidable questions, persistently...."

Persistently (adv.) With persistence.

Persisting (a.) Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.

Persistive (a.) See Persistent.

Persnickety (a.) (US informal) (Disapproving) (UK pernickety) 吹毛求疵的,愛挑剔的 Giving too much attention to small details that are not important in a way that annoys other people.

Persolve (v. t.) To pay wholly, or fully.

Person (n.) 人;【貶】傢伙 [C];【書】(人的)身體,人身;外表,容貌 [C] A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. [Archaic]

His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. -- Bacon.

No man can long put on a person and act a part. -- Jer. Taylor.

To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. -- Milton.

How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!  -- South.

Person (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.

A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. -- Chaucer.

If it assume my noble father's person. -- Shak.

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. -- Milton.

Person (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.

Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. -- Locke.

Person (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

Person (n.) A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Person (n.) (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.

Person (n.) (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.

Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person.

Person (n.) (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. -- Encyc. Brit.

{Artificial person}, or {Fictitious person} (Law), A corporation or body politic; -- this term is used in contrast with {natural person}, a real human being. See also {legal person}. -- Blackstone.

{Legal person} (Law), An individual or group that is allowed by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons (such as corporations).

{Natural person} (Law), A man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation.

{In person}, By one's self; with bodily presence, rather than by remote communication; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." -- Shak.

{In the person of}, In the place of; acting for. -- Shak.

Person (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Person (n.) A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: {person}, {individual}, {someone}, {somebody}, {mortal}, {soul}].

Person (n.) A human body (usually including the clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person".

Person (n.) A grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party; "stop talking about yourself in the third person."

Person (n.) This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons. In law, man and person are not exactly synonymous terms. Any human being is a man, whether he be a member of society or not, whatever may be the rank he holds, or whatever may be his age, sex, &c. A person is a man considered according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which the place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 137.

Person (n.) It is also used to denote a corporation which is an artificial person. 1 Bl. Com. 123; 4 Bing. 669; C. 33 Eng. C. L R. 488; Woodes. Lect. 116; Bac. Us. 57; 1 Mod. 164.

Person (n.) But when the word "Persons" is spoken of in legislative acts, natural persons will be intended, unless something appear in the context to show that it applies to artificial persons. 1 Scam. R. 178.

Person (n.) Natural persons are divided into males, or men; and females or women. Men are capable of all kinds of engagements and functions, unless by reasons applying to particular individuals. Women cannot be appointed to any public office, nor perform any civil functions, except those which the law specially declares them capable of exercising. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 25.

Person (n.) They are also sometimes divided into free persons and slaves. Freemen are those who have preserved their natural liberty, that is to say, who have the right of doing what is not forbidden by the law. A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. Slaves are sometimes ranked not with persons but things. But sometimes they are considered as persons for example, a negro is in contemplation of law a person, so as to be capable of committing a riot in conjunction with white men. 1 Bay, 358. Vide Man.

Person (n.) Persons are also divided into citizens, (q.v.) and aliens, (q.v.) when viewed with regard to their political rights. When they are considered in relation to their civil rights, they are living or civilly dead; vide Civil Death; outlaws; and infamous persons.

Person (n.) Persons are divided into legitimates and bastards, when examined as to their rights by birth.

Person (n.) When viewed in their domestic relations, they are divided into parents and children; husbands and wives; guardians and wards; and masters and servants son, as it is understood in law, see 1 Toull. n. 168; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1890, note.

Personae (n. pl. ) of Persona.

Persona (n.) Same as Person, n., 8.

Personable (a.) 優雅的;貌美的;【律】有行為能力的 Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.

Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. -- Spenser.

The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. -- E. Hall.

Personable (a.) (Law) Enabled to maintain pleas in court.

Personable (a.) (Law) Having capacity to take anything granted.

Personable (a.) (Of persons) Pleasant in appearance and personality.

Personable (a.) Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete.

Personage (n.) [C] 大人物,要人;人;(小說等中的)人物,角色 Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." -- Hayward.

The damsel well did view his personage. -- Spenser.

Personage (n.) Character assumed or represented. "The actors and personages of this fable." --Broome. "Disguised in a false personage." -- Addison.

Personage (n.) A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. -- Spenser.

Personage (n.) Another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door."

Personage (n.) A person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events [syn: {important person}, {influential person}, {personage}].

Personal (a.) 個人的,私人的 [Z];本人的,親自的 [Z];涉及私事的;攻擊個人的 Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

Every man so termed by way of personal difference. -- Hooker.

Personal (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.

The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. -- Locke.

Personal (a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. -- Addison.

Personal (a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." -- Fabyan.

The immediate and personal speaking of God. -- White.

Personal (a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

Personal (a.) (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

{Personal action} (Law), A suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.

{Personal equation}. (Astron.) See under {Equation}.

{Personal estate} or {Personal property} (Law), Movables; chattels; -- opposed to {real estate} or {real property}. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.

{Personal identity} (Metaph.), The persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.

{Personal pronoun} (Gram.), One of the pronouns {I}, {thou}, {he}, {she}, {it}, and their plurals.

{Personal representatives} (Law), The executors or administrators of a person deceased.

{Personal rights}, Rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.

{Personal tithes}. See under {Tithe}.

{Personal verb} (Gram.), A verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.

Personal (n.) (Law) A movable; a chattel.

Personal assets (n.) 動產 Items of value and cash belonging to the insured, for example, cars, real estate, and jewelry.

Personal (a.) Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" [ant: {impersonal}].

Personal (a.) Particular to a given individual.

Personal (a.) Of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism".

Personal (a.) Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene".

Personal (a.) Indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings."

Personal (n.) [C] (報紙上的)人事消息欄 A short newspaper article about a particular person or group.

Personal Pronouns (n.) 人稱代名詞 A personal pronoun is a  pronoun  that is associated primarily with a particular person, in the grammatical sense.

Personal (a.) Belonging to the person.

Personal (a.) This adjective is frequently employed in connection with substantives, things, goods, chattels, actions, right, duties, and the like as personal estate, put in opposition to real estate; personal actions, in contradistinction to real actions; personal rights are those which belong to the person; personal duties are those which are to be performed in person.

Personalism (n.) 人格主義 The quality or state of being personal; personality. [R.]

Personalities (n. pl. ) of Personality.

Personality (n.) 人格,品格 [C] [U];(顯明的)個性,性格 [C] [U];名人,名士 [C] ;人身攻擊,誹謗 [P1] That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.

Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground. -- Coleridge.

Personality (n.) Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities.

Sharp personalities were exchanged. -- Macaulay.

Personality (n.) (Law) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. -- Burrill.

Personality (n.) A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

Personality (n.) The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others".

Personality (n.) A person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality".

Personality (n.) An abstract of personal; as, the action is in the personalty, that is, it is brought against a person for a personal duty which he owes. It also signifies what belongs to the person; as, personal property.

Personalized (imp. & p. p.) of Personalize.

Personalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personalize.

Personalize (v. t.) 使人格化;使個性化;使成為私人的 To make personal. "They personalize death." -- H. Spencer.

Personalize (v.) Make personal or more personal; "personalized service" [syn: personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise] [ant: depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify].

Personally (adv.) 親自;當面;就本人而言,就個人而言 In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally.

He, being cited, personally came not. -- Grafton.

Personally (adv.) With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; particularly.

She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king. -- Bacon.

Personally (adv.) With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.

Personally (adv.) As yourself; "speaking personally, I would not want to go".

Personally (adv.) As a person; "he is personally repulsive".

Personally (adv.) In a personal way; "he took her comments personally" [ant: impersonally].

Personally (adv.) In the flesh; without involving anyone else; "I went there personally"; "he appeared in person" [syn: personally, in person].

Personally (adv.) Concerning the speaker; "personally, I find him stupid".

Personalty (n.) 【律】動產 The state of being a person; personality. [R.]

Personalty (n.) (Law) Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.

Personalty (n.) Movable property (as distinguished from real estate) [syn: personal property, personal estate, personalty, private property].

Personated (imp. & p. p.) of Personate.

Personating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personate.

Personate (v. t.) 扮演;偽裝;冒充 To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.]

In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. -- Milton.

Personate (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. -- Hammond.

Personate (v. t.) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] "A personated mate". -- Milton.

Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe. -- Shak.

Personate (v. i.) To play or assume a character.

Personate (a.) (Bot.) 偽裝的 Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

Personate (v.) Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose, impersonate, personate].

Personate (v.) Attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: personify, personate].

Personation (n.) 演某角色;冒充;冒名 The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.

Personator (n.) 扮裝者;演員;冒名者 One who personates.

Personeity (n.) Personality.

Personification (n.) 擬人,人格化,擬人法 The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop[oe]ia; as, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." -- Milton.

Personification (n.) A person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism".

Personification (n.) Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature [syn: {personification}, {prosopopoeia}].

Personification (n.) The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. [syn: {personification}, {incarnation}].

Personifier (n.) One who personifies.

Personified (imp. & p. p.) of Personify.

Personifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personify.

Personify (v. t.) 賦予……人性;使擬人化;使具體化;象徵 To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

Personify (v. t.) To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.

Personify (v.) Invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: {body}, {personify}].

Personify (v.) Represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: {embody}, {be}, {personify}].

Personify (v.) Attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: {personify}, {personate}].

Personize (v. t.) To personify.

Personnel (n.) The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.

Perspective (a.) 透視的,透視畫的 Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

Perspective (a.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.

{Perspective plane}, The plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the {ground plane}, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called {oblique perspective}; when parallel to that face, {parallel perspective}.

{Perspective shell} (Zool.), Any shell of the genus {Solarium} and allied genera. See {Solarium}.

Perspective (n.) 透視圖法,遠近畫法 [U];透視圖 [C] A glass through which objects are viewed.

Perspective (n.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.

Perspective (n.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.

A["e]rial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc. -- Ruskin.

Perspective (n.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also {linear perspective}.

Perspective (n.) A drawing in linear perspective.

{Isometrical perspective}, An inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube.

{Perspective glass}, A telescope which shows objects in the right position.

Perspective (n.) A way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: {position}, {view}, {perspective}].

Perspective (n.) The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer [syn: {perspective}, {linear perspective}].

Perspectively (adv.) 依透視畫法 Optically; as through a glass. [R.]

You see them perspectively. -- Shak.

Perspectively (adv.) According to the rules of perspective.

Perspectograph (n.) 透視繪畫器 An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

Perspectography (n.) The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.

Perspicable (a.) Discernible. [Obs.] -- Herbert.

Perspicacious (a.) 有穎悟力的;有洞察力的 Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

Perspicacious (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. -- {Per`spi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Per`spi*ca"cious*ness}, n.

Perspicacious (a.) Acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: {perspicacious}, {sagacious}, {sapient}].

Perspicacious (a.) Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument" [syn: {clear-eyed}, {clear-sighted}, {perspicacious}].

Perspicacity (n.) The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.

Perspicacy (n.) Perspicacity.

Perspicience (n.) The act of looking sharply.

Perspicil (n.) An optical glass; a telescope.

Perspicuity (n.) 明晰;簡明 The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Perspicuity (n.) The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.

Perspicuity (n.) Sagacity; perspicacity.

Syn: Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness; distinctness; lucidity; transparency. See {Clearness}.

Perspicuity (n.) Clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous [syn: {perspicuity}, {perspicuousness}, {plainness}].

Perspicuous (a.) 清楚的 Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

Perspicuous (a.) 明白易懂的;說話清楚的 Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.

Perspirability (n.) The quality or state of being perspirable.

Perspirable (a.) 可出汗的;可使汗排出的 Capable of being perspired.

Perspirable (a.) Emitting perspiration; perspiring.

Perspiration (n.) [U] 汗,汗水;出汗,流汗;辛苦,賣力 The act or process of perspiring.

Perspiration (n.) That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.

Note: A man of average weight throws off through the skin during 24 hours about 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic acid gas. Ordinarily, this constant exhalation is not apparent, and the excretion is then termed insensible perspiration.

Perspiration (n.) Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow" [syn: {perspiration}, {sweat}, {sudor}].

Perspiration (n.) The process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process" [syn: {perspiration}, {sweating}, {diaphoresis}, {sudation}, {hidrosis}].

Compare: Hidrosis

Hidrosis (n.) (Medicine) 出汗;多汗症 The action of sweating.

Perspirative (a.) Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.

Perspiratory (a.) 排汗的;引起排汗的 Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.

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