define
/dɪˈfaɪn/ 动词 B1中文： 界定、定义
- To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. · the defining power of an optical instrument
- To express the essential nature of something. · I define myself as a techno-anarchist.· Your past mistakes do not define who you are.
- To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol. · The textbook defined speed as velocity divided by time.
- To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
- To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept. · to define the legal boundaries of a property
- To establish the referent of a term or notation.
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“Yes,” said the procureur, “and I think the will promises to be yet more extraordinary, for I cannot see how it is to be drawn up without the intervention of Valentine, and she may, perhaps, be considered as too much interested in its contents to allow of her being a suitable interpreter of the obscure and ill-defined wishes of her grandfather.”
Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who were; but grippe, she asserted, was like no other illness on earth and could only be interpreted as one of the special visitations of Providence.
Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined.
Such a change in a man of so much pride excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and, as such, its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not be exactly defined.
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