| 单词 | to come to fruition |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come to (reach, etc.) (full) fruition 2. Erroneously associated with fruit n., in the sense: the state or process of bearing fruit, esp. in to come to (reach, etc.) (full) fruition. Frequently transferred and figurative. (Now a standard usage.)The misuse was not countenanced by 19th-cent. British dictionaries, nor by Webster or Worcester, though it was somewhat common both in England and in the U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] enda1300 chevisancec1330 applyinga1382 perfectiona1382 pointc1385 finishmentc1400 accomplishingc1405 complement1419 consummationa1425 effecta1425 performinga1425 accomplishment1425 fining?1448 complishing1449 complishment1454 achevisauncec1475 achievement1477 perfectinga1513 cheving?1518 furniture1529 achievance1531 exploiture1531 exploiting1538 perimplishment1554 consummating1555 finishing?1563 chevance1570 coronation1582 crowning1586 adimpletion1624 fulfilment1624 complusmenta1628 completure1642 completement1652 transaction1655 patration1656 perfunction1656 completion1657 completing1727 ultimation1791 finality1833 perfectuation1859 fruition1885 the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] plenteoustea1382 fatnessc1420 feracityc1420 fruitfulheadc1450 fruitfulness1509 exuberancy1649 unbarrenness1656 efficience1669 teemingness1674 prolificity1718 generativeness1727 productiveness1727 prolificacy1756 productivity1818 fructuousness1855 teeming1856 plenteousness1864 populousness1881 fruition1885 1885 Harper's Mag. May 906 The greenish nuts, ripened as always from the flowers of the previous year and now in their full fruition. 1889 Cent. Dict. Fruition, a coming into fruit or fulfilment. 1895 Standard Dict. Fruition, the bearing of fruit; the yielding of natural or expected results; realization, fulfilment. 1936 G. B. Stern Monogram III. 202 The words you have written for publication..should be a fastidiously selected portion of your mind and experience which has slowly grown to fruition and importance. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Aug. 447/3 Sir Edmund Chambers's monumental labours on Shakespeare and the Shakespearian stage were based largely on the resources of the London Library, without which they could never have been brought to fruition, even if they had been attempted. 1959 Times 7 July 3/6 This process..has now reached full fruition with the standardization of body shells for a whole range of models [of motor cars]. 1968 Times 28 Nov. 14/1 A project for revealing the undiscovered burial chambers thought to exist within the pyramid of Khephren at Giza, Cairo, is shortly to come to fruition. < as lemmas |
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