Profess

[prə'fes] or [prə'fɛs]

解释:

(verb.) state insincerely; 'He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt'; 'She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber'; 'She pretends to be an expert on wine'.

(verb.) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; 'The terrorists professed allegiance to their country'; 'he professes to be a Communist'.

(verb.) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; 'She professes organic chemistry'.

(verb.) take vows, as in religious order; 'she professed herself as a nun'.

(verb.) receive into a religious order or congregation.

(verb.) state freely; 'The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades'.

巴拉克编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

(v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

(v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

(v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

(v. i.) To declare friendship.

埃尔莎整理

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Avow, acknowledge, own, confess, declare, affirm, avouch, aver, allege.[2]. Pretend, lay claim to.

伊妮德编辑

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay_claim_to

ANT:Conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure

校对:梅勒妮

解释:

v.t. to own freely: to make open declaration of: to declare in strong terms: to announce publicly one's skill in: to affirm one's belief in: (Spens.) to present the appearance of: (R.C.) to receive into a religious order by profession.—v.i. to enter publicly into a religious state: (Shak.) to pretend friendship.—adj. Professed′ openly declared: avowed: acknowledged.—adv. Profess′edly.—n. Profes′sion the act of professing: open declaration: pretence: an employment not mechanical and requiring some degree of learning: calling or known employment: the collective body of persons engaged in any profession: entrance into a religious order.—adj. Profes′sional pertaining to a profession: engaged in a profession: undertaken as a means of subsistence as opposed to Amateur.—n. one who makes his living by an art as opposed to an amateur who practises it merely for pastime.—n. Profes′sionalism.—adv. Profes′sionally.—ns. Profess′or one who professes: one who openly declares belief in certain doctrines: one who publicly practises or teaches any branch of knowledge: a public and authorised teacher in a university:—fem. Profess′oress; Profess′orate Professō′riāte the office of a professor or public teacher: his period of office: body of professors.—adj. Professō′rial.—adv. Professō′rially.—n. Profess′orship.

录入:佩内洛普