Natural

['nætʃ(ə)r(ə)l] or ['nætʃrəl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake.

(noun.) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.

(noun.) someone regarded as certain to succeed; 'he's a natural for the job'.

(adj.) being talented through inherited qualities; 'a natural leader'; 'a born musician'; 'an innate talent' .

(adj.) related by blood; not adopted .

(adj.) in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; 'a very natural development'; 'our natural environment'; 'natural science'; 'natural resources'; 'natural cliffs'; 'natural phenomena' .

(adj.) existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; 'a natural pearl'; 'natural gas'; 'natural silk'; 'natural blonde hair'; 'a natural sweetener'; 'natural fertilizers' .

(adj.) existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; 'a perfectly natural explanation' .

(adj.) (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; 'a natural scale'; 'B natural' .

(adj.) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; 'it's the natural thing to happen'; 'natural immunity'; 'a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild' .

(adj.) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; 'natural yogurt'; 'natural produce'; 'raw wool'; 'raw sugar'; 'bales of rude cotton' .

(adj.) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; 'a cat's natural aversion to water'; 'offering to help was as instinctive as breathing' .

弗雷迪手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.

(a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.

(a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.

(a.) Conformed to truth or reality

(a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.

(a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

(a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

(a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

(a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.

(a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.

(a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

(a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

(n.) A native; an aboriginal.

(n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.

(n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.

(n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.

校對:路易斯

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Of nature.[2]. Original, indigenous, essential, characteristic, native, not acquired, not assumed.[3]. Regular, normal, not exceptional, not violent, in the course of nature, adapted to nature, consistent with nature, conformable to nature.[4]. Illegitimate, born out of wedlock.

n. Fool, simpleton, DUNCE.

埃尔顿校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Intrinsic, eventual, regular, normal, cosmical, true, probable, consistent,spontaneous, unless, original

ANT:{[Acitition]?}, adventitious, abnormal, monstrous, unnatural, fictitious,improbable, unsupposable, forced, artful, affected

埃莉诺手打

解釋/意思:

adj. pertaining to produced by or according to nature: inborn: not far-fetched: not acquired: tender: unaffected: in a state of nature unregenerate: (math.) having 1 as the base of the system of a function or number: illegitimate: (mus.) according to the usual diatonic scale.—n. an idiot: (mus.) a character () which removes the effect of a preceding sharp or flat: a white key in keyboard musical instruments.—adj. Nat′ural-born native.—n.pl. Naturā′lia the sexual organs.—n. Naturalisā′tion.—v.t. Nat′uralise to make natural or easy: to adapt to a different climate or to different conditions of life: to grant the privileges of natural-born subjects to.—ns. Nat′uralism mere state of nature: a close following of nature without idealisation in painting sculpture fiction &c.: the belief that natural religion is of itself sufficient; Nat′uralist one who studies nature more particularly zoology and botany: a believer in naturalism.—adj. Naturalist′ic pertaining to or in accordance with nature: belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.—adv. Nat′urally.—n. Nat′uralness.—Natural history originally the description of all that is in nature now used of the sciences that deal with the earth and its productions—botany zoology and mineralogy esp. zoology; Natural law the sense of right and wrong which arises from the constitution of the mind of man as distinguished from the results of revelation or legislation; Natural numbers the numbers 1 2 3 and upwards; Natural order in botany an order or division belonging to the natural system of classification based on a consideration of all the organs of the plant; Natural philosophy the science of nature of the physical properties of bodies: physics; Natural scale a scale of music written without sharps or flats; Natural science the science of nature as distinguished from that of mind (mental and moral science) and from pure science (mathematics); Natural selection a supposed operation of the laws of nature the result of which is the 'survival of the fittest ' as if brought about by intelligent design; Natural system a classification of plants and animals according to real differences in structure; Natural theology or Natural religion the body of theological truths discoverable by reason without revelation.

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