| 单词 | by osmosis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby osmosis 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. A process resembling osmosis, esp. the gradual and often unconscious assimilation or transfer of ideas, knowledge, influences, etc. Frequently by osmosis. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [noun] > assimilating ideas imbibition1603 digestiona1610 intussusception1860 osmosis1930 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > [noun] suppinga1400 accretion1633 absorption1659 absorbitiona1682 intussusception1707 assimilating1781 assimilation1790 swallowing1816 submergence1826 introsusceptiona1834 merging1836 mergence1865 osmosis1930 recuperation1967 1900 Nation (N.Y.) 18 Oct. 303/3 The subtile interchange—a sort of moral osmosis—which goes on between the higher conquering race and the lower conquered race. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxix. 137 Languor has cried unto languor about the marshmallow-roast (Let us speak of the osmosis of persons). 1970 Author 81 113 It is not a question how much you teach them but how much they learn, perhaps largely by osmosis. 1977 P. D. James Death of Expert Witness iii. 128 News percolated through a village community by a process of verbal osmosis. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) xv. 400 Irie put an X on everything she found, collecting bits and bobs (birth certificates, maps, army reports, news articles) and storing them under the sofa, so that as if by osmosis the richness of them would pass through the fabric while she was sleeping and seep right into her. < as lemmas |
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