Incompatible
[ɪnkəm'pætɪb(ə)l] or [,ɪnkəm'pætəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not compatible; 'incompatible personalities'; 'incompatible colors' .
(adj.) incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification .
(adj.) used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture .
手打:洛伊斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
(a.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
(n.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.
吉尔伯特校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Inconsistent, incongruous, unsuitable, unadapted.
校對:罗尼
同義詞及反義詞：
[See COMPATIBLE]
整理:佩吉
解釋/意思:
adj. not consistent: contradictory: incapable of existing together in harmony: (pl.) things which cannot coexist.—ns. Incompatibil′ity Incompat′ibleness.—adv. Incompat′ibly.
校對:帕蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father, and with what she felt for him. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And this is incompatible with closely restricted physical activity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Since then both number and unity are incompatible with the relation of identity, it must lie in something that is neither of them. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Few monarchs have left us intimate diaries; to be a monarch and to be frank are incompatible feats; monarchy is itself necessarily a pose. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- These lines of ambition lay across one another and were mutually incompatible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nor would it be entirely incompatible with most of the words overheard. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible stairs and fireplaces. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- These are incompatible wishes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The round and square figures are incompatible in the same substance at the same time. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- No one can once doubt but existence and non-existence destroy each other, and are perfectly incompatible and contrary. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I mean that all this business puts us on unnatural terms, with which natural relations are incompatible. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He said that the intimate and continued companionship of an acid and a metal was unnatural, and incompatible with the idea of durability and simplicity. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In the inevitable jangle of these incompatibles the church had become dogmatic. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:斯坦顿