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Air out   /ɛr aʊt/   Listen
Air out

verb
1.
Expose to fresh air.  Synonyms: aerate, air.
2.
Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen.  Synonyms: air, vent, ventilate.  "Air out the smoke-filled rooms"






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"Air out" Quotes from Famous Books



... micrococci are present if the wool is not put in the mouth of the test tube. The conclusion you would naturally draw from this simple but very important experiment is that the wool must have some effect upon the air, for we know well that if we keep the air out we can preserve meat from decomposing. That is the principle upon which preserved meats and fruits are prepared. We should at once conclude that the bacteria and micrococci must exist in the air, perhaps not in the state in which we find them in ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 • Various

... the direction the engine is to be towed with water supply valve and injector throttle open. Use engine oil through auxiliary oil cups to oil valves and pistons. The movement of the pistons in the cylinders will pump the air out of the boiler and atmospheric pressure on water in the tank will force water into boiler ...
— The Traveling Engineers' Association - To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads • Anonymous

... yolks and whites of three eggs. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, and stir in very gently, so as not to let the air out of the beaten whites, one cup of powdered sugar and a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon flavoring powder. Lastly, stir in carefully the beaten yolks of the eggs, ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... began Coxine, "we'll be within range of the Ganymede garrison and its radar. It takes exactly eight turns on this valve to bleed the air out of the air lock where your two buddies are. So, every fifteen minutes I'm going to ask you for the recognition signal, and every time you say no, I'll turn the valve once. By the time we get close enough to Ganymede to be picked up on their ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

... tests have been run in Gas and Dust Gallery No. 1 with special equipment consisting of a Koerting exhauster having a capacity of 240,000 cu. ft. per hour, which draws the air out of the gallery through the first doorway, or that next the concrete head in which the ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • Herbert M. Wilson


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