Cardinal

['kɑːd(ɪ)n(ə)l] or ['kɑrdɪnl]

解释:

(noun.) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male.

(noun.) a variable color averaging a vivid red.

(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes.

(adj.) serving as an essential component; 'a cardinal rule'; 'the central cause of the problem'; 'an example that was fundamental to the argument'; 'computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure' .

(adj.) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; 'cardinal numbers' .

艾德里安整理--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

(a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.

(a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.

(a.) Mulled red wine.

整理:纳特

同义词及近义词：

a. Principal, chief, main, leading, most important.

录入:维维恩

解释:

adj. denoting that on which a thing hinges or depends: principal; of a deep scarlet colour like a cardinal's cassock.—n. one of the seventy princes of the church constituting the sacred college at Rome to whom pertains the right of electing a new pope: a short cloak formerly worn by ladies.—ns. Car′dinalate Car′dinalship the office or dignity of a cardinal; Car′dinal-bird a species of grosbeak one of the finest song-birds of America probably so called from its red plumage.—adv. Car′dinally fundamentally: (Shak. Measure for Measure II. i. 81) carnally.—Cardinal flower (see Lobelia); Cardinal numbers numbers expressing how many; Cardinal points the four chief points of the compass—north south east and west; Cardinal virtues justice prudence temperance fortitude so called because the whole of human nature was supposed to hinge or turn upon them—the natural as distinguished from the theological virtues.

整理:莱斯利