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单词 paradigm
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paradigmn.

Brit. /ˈparədʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈpɛrəˌdaɪm/
Forms: late Middle English paradygmes (plural), 1500s–1600s (1800s archaic) paradigme, 1600s– paradigm.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin paradigma.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin paradigma example (late 3rd cent. as a technical term in rhetoric; recorded in classical Latin authors as a Greek word), (in grammar) pattern or table of inflected forms (13th cent. in a British source) < ancient Greek παράδειγμα pattern, example, precedent < παρα- para- prefix1 + δεῖγμα sample, pattern ( < the stem of δείκνυναι to show (see deictic adj. and n.) + -μα : see -oma comb. form), after παραδεικνύναι to exhibit beside, show side by side. Compare Middle French, French paradigme example, model (1584), table of inflections (1752), Spanish paradigma (1611). Compare paradigma n.With sense 2b compare earlier paradigmatic adj. 2.
1. A pattern or model, an exemplar; (also) a typical instance of something, an example.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc.
asaumplea1250
evidencec1391
piecea1393
examplea1398
samplera1400
exemplarc1475
paradigm1483
instant1560
precedenta1575
exemplification1582
exemplary1583
instance1592
instancy1613
copy1641
specimen1659
patron saint1803
for instance1959
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example
byseningc1175
mirrora1300
samplera1300
formc1384
calendarc1385
patternc1425
exemplar?a1439
lighta1450
projectc1450
moul1565
platform1574
module1608
paradigma1623
specimen1642
butt1654
paradigm1669
type1847
fore-mark1863
model1926
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. clviiiv/1 We now haue none enterpretour of the parablys ne paradygmes [Fr. les parabolles ne les significacions des parolles].
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Epitome sig. B Giue me a paradigme or example, of a deliberatiue kinde of epistle.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems 154 By botch’d inculcate paradigms made By senses dictate.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iii. 45 The Universe..was made exactly conformable to its Paradigme, or universal Exemplar.
1731 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity v. 106 The archetype, paradigm, exemplar, and idea, according to which all things were made.
1857 Notes & Queries 31 Jan. 82/2 It [sc. The Golden Chain] causes the World to be one, and most similar to the intelligible paradigm.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 133 Socrates makes one more attempt to defend the Platonic ideas by representing them as paradigms.
1955 D. Davie Brides of Reason 38 But Wesley's sermons could be methodized According to a Ramist paradigm.
1970 Eng. Stud. 51 46 But, of course, for her Edwardian family life is a convenient paradigm of civilisation as a whole.
1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society ii. x. 132 The television set..is the paradigm of consumer culture, with its disarming passivity prone to desires divorced from action.
1996 C. Hiaasen in C. Hiaasen & D. Stevenson Paradise Screwed (2001) xx. 383 I don't really care if he liked to play find-the-periscope with prostitutes, but I do care that he passed himself off to voters as a paradigm of Christian rectitude.
2.
a. Grammar. In the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages: a pattern or table showing all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > paradigm
paradigma1599
paradigm1660
1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole iv. vi. 264 Let all these three Forms run over the Paradigms of the Greek Declensions.
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 358 It will be convenient..to Write him out a full Paradigm of some one Verb.
1859 F. M. Müller Sci. Lang. (1861) 81 Paradigms of regular and irregular nouns and verbs.
1874 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. 60 Skeleton paradigm of the regular verb.
1908 J. Wright Old Eng. Gram. xi. 161 OE. nouns have..five cases... The dat. is generally used for the instr. in OE., so that this case is omitted in the paradigms.
1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 25 I would be pædagogue—hear poplar, lime And oak recite the seasons' paradigm.
1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. i. 2 To learn Greek or Menomini..it is not enough to read through a compact presentation of paradigms or rules.
1992 Trans. Philol. Soc. 90 195 The syncretistic plural paradigm of the Serbo-Croatian noun shows inherited plural endings (nom., acc., gen.) alongside those of the dual (dat., loc., instr.).
b. Linguistics. A set of units which are linguistically substitutable in a given context, esp. a syntactic one.
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1966 A. F. Parker-Rhodes in Automatic Transl. Lang. 173 The concept of paradigm thus enables us to approach the problem of mathematizing the process of syntactic description with greatly enhanced resources.
1980 Cahiers de l'Inst. de Linguistique de Louvain 6 49 This provides at the same time the origin of morphophonemes, i.e. relations between phonemes in paradigms, not underlying invariant forms.
1992 D. Crystal Encycl. Dict. Lang. & Langs. In the context ‘–will leave’, the pronouns I, you, we, etc. can substitute for each other and thus comprise a paradigm.
3. Rhetoric. A figure of speech in which a comparison is made by resemblance; = paradigma n. 1. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > allegory
allegoryc1384
mythology1646
paradigm1943
1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 422/1 Paradigm(a), resemblance pressed by example.
1977 J. A. Cuddon Dict. Lit. Terms 469 Paradigm, a pattern, exemplar or model which, as a literary device, points up a resemblance.
4. A conceptual or methodological model underlying the theories and practices of a science or discipline at a particular time; (hence) a generally accepted world view.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > world-view
Weltanschauung1868
Weltansicht1892
Weltbild1934
paradigm1962
1962 T. S. Kuhn Struct. Sci. Revol. ii. 10 ‘Normal science’ means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements..that some particular scientific community acknowledges..as supplying the foundation for its further practice... I..refer to [these achievements] as ‘paradigms’.
1975 Language 51 1009 The publication of Chomsky's Syntactic structures provided a new paradigm for linguistics.
1976 Language 52 286 In a nutshell, paradigms are ‘universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners’.
1977 Dædalus Summer 61 Paradigms supported by the ‘good old boys’ are challenged by new facts, new hypotheses grounded in them.
1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. p. xix It certainly must be restricted in its application to the microenvironment of the normative science of a given time—that is, to a working hypothesis developed within the context of the accepted beliefs (paradigm) of the day.
2002 Bull. Symbolic Logic 8 324 The topic of this workshop is ‘Non-Monotonic and Uncertain Reasoning in the Focus of Competing Paradigms of Cognition’.

Compounds

paradigm case n. a case or instance to be regarded as representative or typical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case
paradigm case1869
1869 Lancet 8 May 657/2 The medical clinique at the Infirmary is, as usual, rich in paradigm cases.
1913 C. B. Farrar in W. A. White & S. E. Jelliffe Mod. Treatment Nervous & Mental Diseases I. xii. 543 Depressive states. Stages of the Paradigm Case.
1962 Listener 4 Oct. 516/1 Plato's morality is supported and underlined by his theory of Forms, according to which mathematics is the paradigm case of knowledge.
2001 Kenyon Rev. & Stand Spring 243 The paradigm case of the scientific victim is Rosalind Franklin, researcher in crystallography at Cambridge and London, who played a crucial part in the discovery of DNA.
paradigm shift n. a conceptual or methodological change in the theory or practice of a particular science or discipline; (in extended sense) a major change in technology, outlook, etc.
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1962 T. S. Kuhn Struct. Sci. Revol. vii. 66 The sorts of discoveries considered in the last section were not..responsible for such paradigm shifts as the Copernican, Newtonian, chemical, and Einsteinian revolutions.
1972 R. D. Johnston in Sociol. Rev. Monogr. 18 125 While there does exist a significant pressure to work within paradigms, it has been recognised that once a paradigm is approaching full exploitation, a paradigm shift can lead to a remarkably new kind of technology.
1995 Libr. Manager Jan. 15/2 For librarians there has to be a paradigm shift. They have to begin to see themselves as information scientists, as opposed to traditional librarians.
2001 Wired Dec. 220/1 The optical clock signals a paradigm shift: It measures time using the femtosecond—one-quadrillionth of a second—making it potentially 1,000 times more precise than today's time leader.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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