Individual

[ɪndɪ'vɪdjʊ(ə)l] or [,ɪndɪ'vɪdʒuəl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a single organism.

(adj.) being or characteristic of a single thing or person; 'individual drops of rain'; 'please mark the individual pages'; 'they went their individual ways' .

(adj.) separate and distinct from others of the same kind; 'mark the individual pages'; 'on a case-by-case basis' .

(adj.) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; 'an individual serving'; 'single occupancy'; 'a single bed' .

(adj.) concerning one person exclusively; 'we all have individual cars'; 'each room has a private bath' .

黛博拉編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.

(n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.

(n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.

(n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

巴里整理

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Particular, special, separate, single, one.

n. Person, personage, character, being, somebody, some one.

手打:普里西拉

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Personal, specific, peculiar, indivisible, identical, singular, idiosyncratic, special,single, separate, particular

ANT:General, common, collective, plural

杰勒德整理

解釋/意思:

adj. not divisible without loss of identity: subsisting as one: pertaining to one only of a group where each constituent is different from the others: (Milt.) inseparable.—n. a single person animal plant or thing.—n. Individualisā′tion.—v.t. Individ′ualīse to stamp with individual character: to particularise.—ns. Individ′ualism individual character: independent action as opposed to co-operation: that theory which opposes interference of the State in the affairs of individuals opposed to Socialism or Collectivism: (logic) the doctrine that individual things alone are real: the doctrine that nothing exists but the individual self; Individ′ualist.—adj. Individualist′ic.—n. Individual′ity separate and distinct existence: oneness: distinctive character.—adv. Individ′ually.—v.t. Individ′uāte to individualise: to make single.—n. Individuā′tion the question as to what it is that distinguishes one organised or living being or one thinking being from all others.

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