Degree
[dɪ'griː] or [dɪ'ɡri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; 'a moderate grade of intelligence'; 'a high level of care is required'; 'it is all a matter of degree'.
(noun.) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); 'murder in the second degree'; 'a second degree burn'.
(noun.) the highest power of a term or variable.
(noun.) a measure for arcs and angles; 'there are 360 degrees in a circle'.
(noun.) a unit of temperature on a specified scale; 'the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature'.
(noun.) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; 'a remarkable degree of frankness'; 'at what stage are the social sciences?'.
錄入:莱尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A step, stair, or staircase.
(n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
(n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
(n.) Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
(n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.
(n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.
(n.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
(n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.
(n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
(n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
(n.) A line or space of the staff.
編輯:凯利
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Step, stage.[2]. Class, rank, order, grade, quality, station, standing.[3]. Measure, extent.[4]. Remove (in the line of descent).[5]. Division (as on a scale), interval, space.
編輯:厄休拉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Grade, rank, stage, step, extent, measure, mark, rate, position, quality,class, station, range, quantity, amount, limit, order
ANT:Space, mass, magnitude, size, numbers
整理:马提
解釋/意思:
n. a grade or step: one of a series of advances: relative position: rank: extent: a mark of distinction conferred by universities whether earned by examination or granted as a mark of honour: the 360th part of a circle: 60 geographical miles: nearness of relationship: comparative amount of guilt: one of the three stages (positive comparative superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.—By degrees by little and little gradually; Forbidden degrees the degrees of consanguinity and affinity within which it is not permitted to marry; Songs of degrees or Songs of ascents Psalms cxx.-cxxxiv. either because sung by the Jews returning from captivity or by the Jews coming up annually to attend the feasts at Jerusalem; To a degree to a great degree to an extreme.
校對:迈克尔
例句/造句/用法:
- If you doubt that in the least degree, I will never write it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And it was so delightful that this higher degree of sympathy should be reached through their interest in Lily Bart! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Fred, you know, has taken his degree. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I beg to say, that when I use the word, gentleman, I use it in the sense in which the degree may be attained by any man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He pointed behind him at the boat, and gasped to that degree that he dropped upon the stones to get his breath. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I didn't go to do it, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, in some degree abashed by the very unexpected occurrence of the incident. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Discovery, research, inquiry in new lines, inventions, finally came to be either the social fashion, or in some degree tolerable. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- We fought behind breastworks, which accounts in some degree for the disparity. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect, he continued, disregarding my remonstrance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The distillation should be carried to, say, 600 degrees or 700 degrees Fahr. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Nobody got enough to eat; the bedclothes were too short and too thin; it was 28 degrees below zero, and the wash-water was frozen solid. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I wish to lead up to it by degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- By the same degrees his attention became concentrated on the knife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- By degrees it became an enormous injury to me that he stood before the fire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If the contents of the silo heat up to different degrees in different places we cannot expect them to be uniform in quality, though all will be eaten by the stock. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The space between these two points, which represent the temperatures of boiling water and of melting ice, is divided into 180 equal parts called degrees. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We are not much satisfyed with the thing itself; and are still less apt to feel any new degrees of self-satisfaction upon its account. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I must confess,' says the mild little gentleman, coming to his answer by degrees, 'that I felt some compunctions when Mr Fledgeby mentioned it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We had to bank the tracks up to an angle of thirty degrees before we could turn the curve and stay on. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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