License

['laɪsns]

解释:

(noun.) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.

(noun.) a legal document giving official permission to do something.

(noun.) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).

(noun.) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; 'when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near'- Will Durant; 'the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum'- Edmund Burke.

(verb.) authorize officially; 'I am licensed to practice law in this state'.

卡梅拉整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.

(n.) The document granting such permission.

(n.) Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.

(n.) That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

(v. t.) To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

整理:内莉

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Permission, privilege, leave, right.[2]. Permit, warrant.[3]. Laxity, excessive liberty, exorbitant freedom.

v. a. Permit, allow, grant authority to, give a permit or warrant to.

整理:弗娜

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Permit, allow, indulge

ANT:Restraint, disallow, withhold, forbid, prohibit

整理:塔尼娅

解释:

n. a being allowed: leave: grant of permission as for manufacturing a patented article or for the sale of intoxicants: the document by which authority is conferred: excess or abuse of freedom: a departure from rules or standards in art or literature.—v.t. Lī′cense to grant license to: to authorise or permit.—adj. Lī′censable.—ns. Licensee′ one to whom license is granted; Lī′censer one who grants license or permission: one authorised to license; Lī′censure act of licensing; Licen′tiate among Presbyterians a person authorised by a Presbytery to preach: on the Continent an academical dignity forming the step from the baccalaureate to the doctorate.—adj. Licen′tious indulging in excessive freedom: given to the indulgence of the animal passions: dissolute.—adv. Licen′tiously.—n. Licen′tiousness.—High license a mode of regulating the traffic in alcoholic drinks by exacting a comparatively large sum for the privilege of selling such; Special license license given by the Archbishop of Canterbury permitting the marriage of two specified persons without banns and at a place and time other than those prescribed by law.

录入:洛根