Aggregate
['ægrɪgət] or ['æɡrɪɡət]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together.
(noun.) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster.
(verb.) gather in a mass, sum, or whole.
(verb.) amount in the aggregate to.
(adj.) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; 'aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year'; 'the aggregated amount of indebtedness' .
(adj.) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; 'raspberries are aggregate fruits' .
校對:沃尔多--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
(v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
(v. t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
(a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
(a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
(a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
(a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
(a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
(n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
(n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
凯西整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Amass, collect, accumulate, pile, bring together, gather up, pile up, heap up, scrape together, keep together.
a. Collected.
n. Whole, total, totality, gross, lump, sum, amount, body, mass, gross amount, sum total.
校對:奥斯瓦德
解釋/意思:
v.t. to collect into a mass: to accumulate.—v.i. (rare) to add as a member to a society: to combine with.—adj. formed of parts taken together.—n. the sum total.—adv. Ag′gregately.—n. Aggregā′tion act of aggregating: state of being collected together: an aggregate.—adj. Ag′gregative.
編輯:梅森
例句/造句/用法:
- The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Long in the aggregate, though short as they went by. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And consequently three cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The steamship lines were carrying Americans out of the various ports of the country at the rate of four or five thousand a week in the aggregate. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- These latter cells are nearly spherical and of nearly equal sizes, and are aggregated into an irregular mass. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
校對:奥利弗