单词 | reassorted |
释义 | reassortedadj. Having undergone further sorting; redistributed, rearranged; (Genetics and Virology) having undergone reassortment (reassortment n. 2). ΚΠ 1866 D. Page Geol. for Gen. Readers xii. 193 The second stage is characterised by re-assorted clays. 1877 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 2) xxiv. 326 Ice-rafts floated about, and dropped boulders over the sea-bottom: these are now found lying on the slopes of the re-assorted gravels. 1935 O. B. Jesness & R. I. Nowell Program Land Use N. Minnesota ii. 11 Agassiz was a temporary lake..but it left unmistakeable traces in the form of gravel beaches and reassorted sands, gravels, and clays. 1974 Evolution 28 314/1 Thirteen laboratory matings did not select reassorted genomes that are compatible with lucida matings. 1981 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78 423/2 Cultivable, genetically reassorted viruses for use in vaccine development. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience i. 9 Bones and artefacts represent the assorted and reassorted debris of many hunting and scavenging episodes by animals and humans. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Aug. (Central ed.) b1/1 Reassorted viruses caused both the 1957–1958 Asian flu pandemic..and the 1968–1969 Hong Kong flu. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1866 |
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