Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of airing or of exposing to the action of the air: as, the aëration of soil by plowing, harrowing, etc.
- n. The act or operation of mixing or saturating with a gas, as carbonic-acid gas or common air.
- n. In physiology, the arterialization of the venous blood by respiration in the higher animals, and by corresponding processes in the lower animals.
Wiktionary
- n. The process by which air is circulated through or mixed with a substance such as soil or a liquid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Exposure to the free action of the air; airing.
- n. (Physiol.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
- n. The act or preparation of charging a liquid with carbon dioxide gas to make it effervescent.
- n. the act of charging a liquid with air or oxygen for the purpose of purification.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)
- n. the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent
Examples
“Seems it aids in aeration as well. nordist on 25 Jan 2010 at 6: 06 am #”
“No significant aeration occurs when a wine is simply uncorked and left to sit in the open bottle.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“Mechanical treatment methods, such as aeration, are not typically used due to cost and complexity of operation [73].”
Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
“A third method of aeration which is the most efficient of all”
“As a general rule of thumb, however, I would suggest leaving the door open for aeration purposes.”
The Guardian: Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur – as it happened | Paul Doyle
“The secret to composting, I was coming to see, and the reason for my family's embarrassing failure at it, was aeration.”
“It doesn't work, minnows will die without aeration.”
“Hot days call for maximum foot aeration and these sustainably made slippers have got you covered (or not covered!)”
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“I decanted the most formidable and found after even just an hour's aeration they were much more approachable.”
“The gentleman in front of me had a nice bag of fish, while waiting with bags in the aeration tanks his bag shook violently.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aeration’.
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TECH - department store terms
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AGRI - wine sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the wine sector.
HU translations: abandoned wine-gr..., aeration, ageing, blending of wines, chaptalisation, charcoal, compulsory distil..., concentrated grap..., coupage, crisis distillation, crushed / not cru..., designation of or... and 50 more... -
A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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doomDoomDOOM's list
Things that come to mind.
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eat up all your green words
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