单词 | correlate |
释义 | correlaten. 1. Each of two things so related that the one necessarily implies or is complementary to the other. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > a complement or counterpart fellowc1330 marrow1516 correlative1545 mate1578 counterpane1612 counterpart1635 correlate1643 tally1647 correspondent1650 complement1827 co-relative1864 opposite number1874 oppo1932 1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 27 Soveraignty 'tis a relative, and cannot subsist without its correlat subjection. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature iii. 43 The existence.. of one correlate [infers directly] that of the other. 1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 42 The idea of height cannot exist without involving the idea of its correlate, depth. 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish iii. 127 The death of a body, as a whole, is the necessary correlate of its life. 2. More generally: Each of two related things; either of the terms of a relation, viewed in reference to the other. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > a correlate correlative1579 correlate1644 1644–7 J. Cleveland Char. London Diurnall 4 That so wounding and healing, like loving Correlates, might both worke. 1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum ii. iv. 196 If they were [Church officers] they could have no other Correlate, but the whole body of the Church of God. 1733 G. Berkeley Theory of Vision §39. 33 In certain Cases a Sign may suggest its Correlate as an Image, in others as an Effect, in others as a Cause. a1878 G. H. Lewes Study Psychol. (1879) 14 We can classify subjective facts while remaining ignorant of their objective correlates. 3. Something corresponding or analogous; an analogue. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > equal, counterpart, or equivalent ylikeeOE likea1200 make?c1225 fellow?a1425 proportion?a1425 countervailc1430 matcha1450 meetc1450 pareil?c1450 resemblant1484 equivalent1502 countermatch1587 second1599 parallel1600 equipollent1611 balancea1616 tantamount1637 analogy1646 analogate1652 form-fellow1659 equivalency1698 par1711 homologizer1716 peel1722 analogon1797 quits1806 correlate1821 analogue1837 representant1847 homologue1848 countertype1855 homologon1871 correlative1875 vis-à-vis1900 counterpart1903 1821 T. De Quincey J. P. F. Richter in London Mag. Dec. 607/1 The wildest vanity could not pretend to show the correlate of Paradise Lost [in French literature]. 4. Grammar. = correlative n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > correlative redditive1586 correlative1808 correlate1829 1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. ix. 226 The term tantus which is its correlate [i.e. that of quantus]. 5. Physics, etc. = correlative n. 4, 5. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > mutual relation of force and energy > a correlative force correlate1862 correlative1862 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. viii. §71 The forces called vital, which we have seen to be correlates of the forces called physical. 1867 C. Bray (title) On Force and its Mental Correlates. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. iii. 204 A like amount of sensation is the correlate of an increased amount of produced motion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). correlateadj. rare. Mutually related; correlated; involving correlation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] redditivec1525 correlative1530 reciprocate?1532 responsive1604 reciprocal1617 collateral1659 equivalenta1661 responding1670 co-relative1761 relative1849 correlate1850 correlated1859 complementary1860 obverse1875 double of1876 complemental1882–3 dual1947 intercorrelational1970 1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 52 The correlate character of the two forces, electricity and heat. 1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) iv. 33 Consider..some of our duties and some of our dangers—for the two are correlate—in the use of speech. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2018). correlatev. 1. a. intransitive. To have a mutual relation; to stand in correlation, be correlative (with or to another). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > correlate [verb (intransitive)] agree1487 correlate1742 intersphere1889 intercorrelate1970 interrelate1973 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. Pref. p. x What Caricatura is in Painting, Burlesque is in Writing; and in the same manner the Comic Writer and Painter correlate to each other. View more context for this quotation 1865 G. Grote Plato I. xii. 421 The real alone is knowable, correlating with knowledge. a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) iv. 91 Ethical obligation correlates and is indissolubly conjoined with ethical right. b. transitive. To be correlative to. rare. ΚΠ 1879 W. E. Hearn Aryan Househ. (new ed.) v. §3. 122 The right to the property correlated the duty to the Sacra. 2. To place in or bring into correlation; to establish or indicate the proper relation between. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > correlate [verb (transitive)] correlate1849 interconnect1865 interrelate1888 intercorrelate1909 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria vii. 134 Mr. Symonds was..enabled to correlate these beds with their equivalents near Ludlow. 1881 J. Geikie in Nature 337 He correlates the interglacial beds of Mont Perrier with those of Dürnten. 1924 A. D. Udden tr. N. Bohr Theory of Spectra (ed. 2) 135 It has been possible to correlate each term with the occurrence of electron orbits of a given type. 1930 Economist 18 Oct. 715/2 To prove by an historical statistical analysis that..it is impossible to correlate from available evidence either high rates and low stock prices or low rates and high stock prices with any certainty. 1952 G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) vi. 273 Bennett was not able to correlate changes in the Golgi material with secretion in the cat adrenal. 1971 Nature 15 Jan. 182/1 So the observed luminosity of the primary [star] can be correlated reliably with its original main-sequence mass. 1971 Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 8/2 Are you wondering how many people spend their time..in devising such idiot statistical measures, applying them, collating and correlating them? 3. passive. To have correlation, to be intimately or regularly connected or related (with, rarely to); spec. in Biology of structures or characteristics in animals and plants (cf. correlation n. 3). ΚΠ 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 95 Transmuting relations into entities, and interposing these entities between things correlated. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 20 Parasitism..is often found to be correlated with..disappearance of structures. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. Comm. 160 Other rights..have no determinate subject..to which they are correlated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643adj.1850v.1742 |
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