Consolidate

[kən'sɒlɪdeɪt] or [kən'sɑlɪdet]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) make firm or secure; strengthen; 'consolidate one's gains'; 'consolidate one's hold on first place'.

(verb.) make or form into a solid or hardened mass; 'consolidate fibers into boards'.

(verb.) form into a solid mass or whole; 'The mud had consolidated overnight'.

(verb.) unite into one; 'The companies consolidated'.

(verb.) bring together into a single whole or system; 'The town and county schools are being consolidated'.

整理:莫尼卡--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

(v. t.) To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.

(v. t.) To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.

(v. t.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.

(v. i.) To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

整理:泰勒

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Condense, compact, compress, harden, solidify, make solid, make firm.[2]. Conjoin, combine, unite into one.

杰里米整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Condense, incorporate, conglutinate, cement, solder, bond, weld, thicken,strengthen, fuse

ANT:Weaken, dissipate, disunite, dismember, disintegrate, colliquate, dissolve,melt, vaporize, sublimate, attenuate, triturate, pulverize

布伦特校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make solid: to form into a compact mass: to unite into one.—v.i. to grow solid or firm: to unite.—adj. made firm or solid: united.—p.adj. Consol′idated.—n. Consolidā′tion act of making or becoming solid: confirmation.—adj. Consol′idative tending to consolidate: having the quality of healing.—n. Consol′idator one who or that which consolidates.—Consolidation Acts acts of parliament which combine into one general statute several special enactments.

校對:玛拉