English Dictionary

sublimate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 古語

(transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state. / (transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.

日本語の意味

（物理現象において）固体が液体を経由せずに直接気体へ変化すること。 / （古風な用法で、他動詞として）そのような変化を通して物質を精製または洗練すること。

At low pressure, the ice will sublimate, turning directly into water vapor without melting first.

低圧では氷は昇華して、最初に溶けることなく直接水蒸気になります。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state.

意味（2）

(transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.

意味（3）

(transitive, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.

Foreigners extol the American energy […] Basically it is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness.

意味（4）

(archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt.

The precepts of Christianity are […] so apt […] to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.

sublimates （ present singular third-person ）

sublimating （ participle present ）

sublimated （ participle past ）

sublimated （ past ）