| 释义 |
ejective, a. (and n.)|ɪˈdʒɛktɪv|
[as if ad. L. *ējectīvus: see eject v. and -ive.]
1. That has the function or the power of ejecting.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 45 The one a vomiting or ejective medicament. c1720W. Gibson Farriers Dispens. ii. i. (1734) 57 The Ancients thought there was some ejective Property in all purging Medicines. 1858Greener Gunnery 301 Each shot carries with it its own share of ejective force. 1886Cornh. Mag. Oct. 428 The giant planets must have possessed corresponding ejective energies.
2. Pertaining to an eject.
1883Romanes Ment. Evol. Anim. i. 16 This necessarily ejective method of enquiry. 1884― in Nature XXIX. No. 747. 380 Our ejective inferences can only be founded on the observable activities of organisms.
3. Philol. Of voiceless consonants: articulated by means of non-pulmonic air-pressure, created by closing and raising the glottis. Also as n.
1932D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) xvii. 141 Consonants..in which the necessary air pressure is produced by some other means than by the lungs. Sounds in which the air is forced outwards by these means are called ejective consonants. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. iii. 57 Ejectives (plosives with a simultaneous glottal stop). 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Ling. iii. 103 Three non-pulmonic types of consonant articulations are used in some languages: ejectives, implosives, and clicks. Ibid., Ejective consonants, which are sometimes also called glottalized consonants, are most commonly found with plosive or affricate release. 1968Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 323 Ejectives have a transition with a somewhat higher termination frequency than the corresponding nonejectives.
Hence eˈjectively adv. (a) By means of ejection. (b) With reference to ejects. ejecˈtivity, the fact of being an eject.
1883Romanes Ment. Evol. Anim. i. 17 Ejectively some such criterion is required. 1886― in Contemp. Rev. July 48 Both subjectivity and ejectivity are only known under the condition of being isolated from objectivity. |