Entail

[ɪn'teɪl;en-] or [ɪn'tel]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple.

(noun.) land received by fee tail.

(verb.) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; 'What does this move entail?'.

(verb.) have as a logical consequence; 'The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers'.

錄入:基思--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) That which is entailed.

(n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

(n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

(n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

(n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

(n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.

(n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

手打:威特

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Transfer (by inalienable title).[2]. Transmit (by necessity), fix unalterably.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Bequeath, leave, devolve, demise, involve, necessitate, induce

ANT:Alienate, supersede, nullify, prevent, obviate

校對:马奇

解釋/意思:

v.t. (Spens.) to carve.

v.t. to settle an estate on a series of heirs so that the immediate possessor may not dispose of it: to bring on as an inevitable consequence:—pr.p. entail′ing; pa.p. entailed′.—n. an estate entailed: the rule of descent of an estate.—ns. Entail′er; Entail′ment act of entailing: state of being entailed.

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