Negative
['negətɪv] or ['nɛɡətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.
(noun.) a reply of denial; 'he answered in the negative'.
(adj.) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial .
(adj.) having a negative charge; 'electrons are negative' .
(adj.) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; 'ran a negative campaign'; 'delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life' .
(adj.) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; 'a negative outlook on life'; 'a colorless negative personality'; 'a negative evaluation'; 'a negative reaction to an advertising campaign' .
(adj.) less than zero; 'a negative number' .
(adj.) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive; 'negative interest rates' .
(adj.) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; 'the HIV test was negative' .
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解釋/意思:
(a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
(a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
(a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
(a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
(n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
(n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
(n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
(n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
(n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
(n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
(v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
(v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
(v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Denying, privative, disclaiming, indirect
ANT:Assertive, attributive, positive, direct
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解釋/意思:
adj. that denies or refuses—opp. to Affirmative: implying absence: that stops hinders neutralises—opp. to Positive: in photography exhibiting the reverse as dark for light light for dark: (logic) denying the connection between a subject and a predicate: (algebra) noting a quantity to be subtracted.—n. a word or statement by which something is denied: the right or act of saying 'no ' or of refusing assent: the side of a question or the decision which denies what is affirmed: in photography an image on glass or other medium in which the lights and shades are the opposite of those in nature used for printing positive impressions from on paper &c.: (gram.) a word that denies.—v.t. to prove the contrary: to reject by vote.—adv. Neg′atively.—ns. Neg′ativeness Neg′ativism Negativ′ity.—adj. Neg′atory expressing denial.—Negative bath a silver solution in which photographic negatives are placed to be sensitised; Negative electricity electricity with a relatively low potential electricity such as is developed by rubbing resinous bodies with flannel opposite to that obtained by rubbing glass; Negative quantity (math.) a quantity with a minus sign ( - ) before it indicating that it is either to be subtracted or reckoned in an opposite direction from some other with a plus sign; Negative sign the sign ( - or minus) of subtraction.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I asked first if Sir Percival was at the Park, and receiving a reply in the negative, inquired next when he had left it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The result is a permanent image--a negative. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The reply was in the negative. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Moore, chary of words, replied by a negative movement and murmur. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The negative or iron plate (Fig. 5) has the familiar flat-pocket construction. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- To which inquiry Mr. Pickwick returned a most decided negative. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He needs to be made conscious of consequences as a justification of the positive or negative value of certain objects. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Double-print is used where the surface is covered with halftone screen, either the line or halftone negative is printed on the metal, the other is superimposed on it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The result is that the three negatives, instead of each being a true unit, ready for combination with the others, is really only a basis for further work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This plate of heavy glass containing the several negatives is placed with the sensitized metal in a printing frame. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Combination plates are made by combining the halftone and line negatives together and making one complete print on the metal. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Fox Talbot makes Photo Prints from Negatives. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In both cases, negatives are made of both the halftone and fine copies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The pictures produced by the collodion process are negatives, which serve admirably for transferring positive pictures on to sensitive paper. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- He qualified these two negatives, as if he were not absolutely in either service, but was almost in both. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- From these negatives, when developed, positive prints were made, which were later mounted on a modified form of Zoetrope and projected upon a screen. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The negatives so obtained are developed in the regular way, and the positive prints subsequently made from them are used for reproduction. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- One of the gentlemen, Mr. Eshton, observing me, seemed to propose that I should be asked to join them; but Lady Ingram instantly negatived the notion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A proposal for recommitting this resolution was negatived by 240 votes to 133. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mistress Affery negatived each with a shake of her head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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