| 单词 | morphology | 
| 释义 | morphologyn. 1.  Biology. The branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms and their parts, and the relationships between their structures. Formerly: spec. the comparison of the forms of organisms and their parts in order to identify homologous structures (cf. quots. 1853, 1859, 1872). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > 			[noun]		 > morphology morphology1828 morphography1857 morphoscopy1892 1828    R. Knox tr.  H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 2  				Descriptive Anatomy..is itself capable of being divided into the Particular Anatomy of Organs, or Morphology, and the Anatomy of Regions, or Topographical Anatomy, if we may use the expression. 1853    T. H. Huxley in  Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 143 29  				The morphology of the Cephalous Mollusca is a subject which has been greatly neglected. No Savigny has determined the homologies of their different organs, and so furnished the only scientific basis for anatomical and zoological nomenclature. 1859    J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom I. Introd. 17  				By some the word ‘morphology’ is employed in a restricted sense, to signify the study of homologous organs. 1872    R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang.  				Morphology, doctrine of the fundamental identity of the parts constituting the flower..and fruit..with the leaf. 1904    W. L. H. Duckworth Morphol. & Anthropol. ii. 14  				This application of the principles of Morphology to the special case of Man constitutes the essence of Physical Anthropology. 1946    A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. iii. 20  				In both morphology and anatomy the relationships in space of the several parts..are important. 1992    P. J. Bowler Fontana Hist. Environmental Sci. 		(BNC)	 340  				Morphology was a laboratory-based subject that did not encourage detailed study of how animals adapted to their local environment.  2.  Originally and chiefly Science. Shape, form, external structure or arrangement, esp. as an object of study or classification. Also: a particular shape, form, or external structure, esp. of (a part of) an organism, landform, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > 			[noun]		 > as an object of study morphology1844 1844    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 134 303  				The morphology of the thyroid gland. 1894    Jrnl. Physiol. 17 81 		(heading)	  				The morphology and distribution of the wandering cells of Mammalia. 1895    N. Story-Maskelyne 		(title)	  				Crystallography: a treatise on the morphology of crystals. 1921    Geogr. Rev. 11 155 		(heading)	  				Morphology of the Altai Mountains. 1937    Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 373 		(heading)	  				A comparative study of the morphology of the North Downs and the Chiltern Hills. 1950    Jrnl. Gen. Physiol. 33 651  				Two separate lines of approach..were required: a study of the functional behavior of the [nerve] fibers, and a study of their morphology. 1954    M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. 23  				In the study of village morphology..an opportunity of seeing a medieval village plan without any of the accretions of later building. 1964    R. C. Evans Introd. Crystal Chem. 		(ed. 2)	 xi. 184  				Before the discovery of X-ray diffraction, crystals could be classified only on the basis of morphology, and in terms of their symmetry were assigned to one or other of the thirty-two classes. 1965    E. Gurr Rational Use of Dyes in Biol.  i. 107  				We can refer to the shape and/or size of a molecule as its morphology. 1971    W. A. Pryor in  R. E. Carver Procedures Sedimentary Petrol. vii. 142  				Quantitative analysis of grain morphology requires measurement of particle radii, diameters, and lengths. 1990    Protein Engin. 4 23/1  				Amphioxus, an invertebrate animal with the morphology of a fish.  3.  Linguistics. The structure, form, or variation in form (including formation, change, and inflection) of a word or words in a language; the branch of linguistics that deals with this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > 			[noun]		 etymologyc1475 wordlore1840 morphology1870 morphemics1947 1870    F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 160  				By the morphology of a language we mean the general laws of its grammatical structure. 1871    B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. 21  				Morphology or Wordlore..has three divisions:—I. Flexion. II. Derivation. III. Composition. 1884    J. A. H. Murray in  Trans. Philol. Soc. 1882–4 511  				The writing of the Morphology, and of the Sematology, must go hand in hand. 1907    Athenæum 2 Mar. 256/1  				Two volumes—one dealing with phonology, morphology, and inflexions, and the other with syntax. 1928    C. Bergener Contrib. Study Conversion of Adjs. into Nouns i. 7  				We are not only concerned with the semology but also with the morphology of converted adjectives. 1951    Archivum Linguisticum 3 205  				The work is a succinct presentation of Protoslavonic morphology. 1972    G. L. Trager Lang. & Languages iii. 49  				The diacritic part of morphology, which examines the items of which morphemes are composed, may be called morphophonics. 1990    Lang. in Society Dec. 552  				Obsolescent languages can also reveal some striking similarities with child and foreign language,..as is evident from their..reduced morphologies.  4.  gen. The history of variation in form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > 			[noun]		 > as an object of study > history of variation in form morphology1885 1885    Numismatic Chron. 5 165  				By the morphology of coins I mean the history of those changes in their form which have resulted..from influences which..are always affecting..the evolution of coins. 1970    I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. i. 25  				The rapid spread of a ‘natural history of revolution’ doctrine, of the idea that in the morphology of social change one revolutionary outcome approximates the outcomes of previous upheavals. Compounds C1.   General attributive.   morphology-based adj. ΚΠ 1965    H. A. Gleason Ling. & Eng. Gram. vi. 118  				‘Preposition’ is available and not needed in the morphology-based system. 1992    Theoret. & Appl. Genetics 84 579  				Results generally agreed with previous morphology-based phylogenetic analyses.  C2.   Appositive.   morphology-syntax adj. ΚΠ 1945–9    Acta Linguistica 5 125  				A problem in morphology-syntax division. 1964    P. L. Garvin On Linguistic Method 157  				Morphemic analysis [is]..primarily syntactic for those languages to which the morphology-syntax division applies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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