单词 | combinative |
释义 | combinativeadj. 1. Having the faculty of combination, combining. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [adjective] > combining > capable of combinative1855 1855 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 11 A mind..combinative or inventive enough to provide remedies. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 6 The combinative powers of his own imagination. 2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of combination; cumulative. ΚΠ 1867 Clark Russell in Broadway Mag. Dec. 286 Those combinative excellences which constitute not the smallest charm of ‘Kavanagh’. 3. Phonetics. Applied to sound-changes which are effected through a combination of influences: opposed to isolative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > effected through combination of influences combinative1888 1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) 17 Another important distinction is that of isolative and combinative... Combinative changes imply two sounds in juxtaposition, which modify each other in various ways. 4. Chess. Applied to a player of chess or a game using ‘combinations’ (see combination n. 5c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [adjective] > type of play close1750 open1856 combinative1934 positional1937 1934 F. D. Yates 101 Best Games of Chess 13 Yates never lost his power of combination and his game against Vidmar..has been described..as ‘The finest combinative game played since the war’. 1950 R. N. Coles Chess-player's Week-end Bk. 41 Alexander Alekhin..was the greatest combinative master of modern times. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1855 |
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