Define
[dɪ'faɪn]
解释:
(verb.) give a definition for the meaning of a word; 'Define `sadness''.
(verb.) determine the nature of; 'What defines a good wine?'.
(verb.) show the form or outline of; 'The tree was clearly defined by the light'; 'The camera could define the smallest object'.
哈维整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.
(v. t.) To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.
(v. t.) To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument.
(v. t.) To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term.
(v. i.) To determine; to decide.
芭比整理
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Limit, bound, circumscribe, set bounds to, fix the limits of.[2]. Describe, declare the properties of.[3]. Explain the meaning of, give the signification of.
艾伯纳录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Mark_out, limit, designate, specify, eliminate, elucidate, explain, fix,settle, determine, bound
ANT:Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misstate, misconceive, misconstrue,misdefine
丹尼斯编辑
解释:
v.t. to fix the bounds or limits of: to determine with precision: to describe accurately: to fix the meaning of.—adj. Defin′able that may be defined.—n. Define′ment (Shak.) description.—adj. Def′inite defined: having distinct limits: fixed: exact: clear.—adv. Def′initely.—ns. Def′initeness; Defini′tion a defining: a description of a thing by its properties: an explanation of the exact meaning of a word term or phrase.—adj. Defin′itive defining or limiting: positive: final.—n. (gram.) an adjective used to limit the signification of a noun.—adv. Defin′itively.—ns. Defin′itiveness; Defin′itude definitiveness.
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例句:
- I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- All this I was forced to define and describe by putting cases and making suppositions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- From that night there grew up in my breast a feeling for Peggotty which I cannot very well define. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The term variety is almost equally difficult to define; but here community of descent is almost universally implied, though it can rarely be proved. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- If I answer that question, I know you'll be at me with half a dozen others, each one harder than the last; and I'm not a going to define my position. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Now sexual morality is pretty clearly defined for the Commission. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Sound waves may be said to consist of a series of condensations and rarefactions, and the distance between two consecutive condensations and rarefactions may be defined as the wave length. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It is the fact that the aim is thought of as more activity in the same line, without defining continuity of action in reference to results produced. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- You looked white as the wall; but you only spoke of 'something,' not defining _what_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Psychologically, the defining characteristic of play is not amusement nor aimlessness. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- This subject matter meant so much that it vitalized the defining and systematizing brought to bear upon it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- But let me remark, that in defining justice you have yourself used the word 'interest' which you forbade me to use. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The dynamo is one of the great factors of modern civilization, and its potential name, like that of dynamite, rightly defines its character. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Hanging on the tail of a kite it photographs the face of mother earth, and, acting quicker than the lightning, it catches and defines the path of that erratic flash. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- For method defines the kind of organization in virtue of which science is science. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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