Caveat
['kævɪæt;'keɪ-] or ['kævɪæt;'ke-]
解释:
(noun.) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; 'a caveat filed against the probate of a will'.
整理:莱昂内尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
(n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
(n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
录入:诺顿
解释:
n. a notice or warning: a formal warning entered in the books of a court or public office that no step shall be taken in a particular matter without notice to the person lodging the caveat so that he may appear and object.
校对:克劳斯
例句:
- But Gray’s was a caveat, or a declaration that the applicant believes he can invent a certain device, and Bell’s was the statement that he had already perfected his invention. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- From another caveat, filed in 1889, we extract the following, which shows that he realized the value of tungsten also for this purpose. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- As an example of Edison's fertility and the endless variety of subjects engaging his thoughts, the following list of matters covered by ONE caveat is given. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The application was made by Alexander Graham Bell, of Salem, Massachusetts, and the caveat by Elisha Gray, of Chicago, Illinois. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The device shown, made by Edison in 1875, was actually included in a caveat filed January 14, 1876, a month before Bell or Gray. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It was also asserted that the filing of the Gray caveat antedated by a few hours the filing of the Bell application. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- These caveats served their purpose thoroughly in many instances, but there have remained a great variety of projects upon which no definite action was ever taken. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- From first to last Edison has filed in the United States Patent Office--in addition to more than 1400 applications for patents--some 120 caveats embracing not less than 1500 inventions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Morse in 1837 commenced to put the results of his experiments and investigations in the form of caveats, applications and letters patent in the United States and in Europe. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is needless to say that all the caveats are not quite so full of plums, but this is certainly a wonder. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Still another instance is seen in one of Edison's caveats, where he describes a method of distilling liquids by means of internally applied heat through electric conductors. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
校对:苏西