| 单词 | cause |
| 释义 | Word Frequency cause(kɔːz) noun 1. a person, thing, event, state, or action that produces an effect 2. grounds for action; motive; justification she had good cause to shout like that 3. the ideals, etc, of a group or movement the Communist cause 4. the welfare or interests of a person or group in a dispute they fought for the miners' cause 5. a matter of widespread concern or importance the cause of public health 6. a. a ground for legal action; matter giving rise to a lawsuit b. the lawsuit itself 7. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any of four requirements for a thing's coming to be, namely material (material cause), its nature (formal cause), an agent (efficient cause), and a purpose (final cause) 8. make common cause with verb 9. (transitive) to be the cause of; bring about; precipitate; be the reason for Derived forms causable (ˈcausable) adjective causability (ˌcausaˈbility) noun causeless (ˈcauseless) adjective causer (ˈcauser) noun Word origin C13: from Latin causa cause, reason, motive |
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