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单词 pluralize
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Definition of pluralize in English:

pluralize

(British pluralise)
verb ˈplʊər(ə)lʌɪzˈplʊrəˌlaɪz
[with object]
  • 1Cause to become more numerous.

    this approach can have advantages in terms of pluralizing and relativizing the student's perspectives
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Moreover, the previous pluralizing has brought a greater sense of context and purpose to even the more personal songs.
    • Also, when the euro was launched, China promised to convert 40 percent of its foreign exchange reserves into the euro and emphasized the necessity of pluralizing global currencies.
    • They can pluralize the number of domestic actors that contribute to the definition of customary and cultural norms
    • His goal is ‘to pluralize our understanding of the philosophical era known as ‘the Enlightenment’’.
    1. 1.1 Cause to be made up of several different elements.
      society has been immigrated and integrated, pluralized and multiculturized
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In recent years, Australian society has differentiated and pluralised.
      • He argued that ‘you cannot pluralise civilisation.
      • It is insufficient already because it only pluralizes the perspective of observation and precisely fails to enter into the position of the participants.
      • In line with this trend, the newly pluralized social landscape also saw the appearance of a host of religious activists with backgrounds and interests different from those of classically-educated Muslim scholars (ulama).
      • Contemporary Western feminist theory in the 1980s moved beyond the dialogues that sought to differentiate feminisms from each other and instead began to articulate a more pluralized notion of feminism at its core.
      • So preparation is a behavior whose first motion instantly pluralizes itself.
      • Various theologies compete for attention in a highly pluralized field, and no theology has made much of a public impact.
  • 2Give a plural form to (a word)

    words sensed to be inherently plural were incorrectly pluralized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They certainly never learned how to pluralize nouns ending in ‘y.’
    • My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
    • Intriguingly, in all 102 instances that I recorded of the phrase ‘failed businessman’ appearing in print media, only once was it a direct quotation; this is also the one time when it was pluralised.
    • If the compound is pluralized, the plural morpheme attaches only to the second element, not to the first, or to both: girl-friends, * girls-friends, * girls-friend.
    • Now I know how to pluralise a remarkable number of nouns.

Derivatives

  • pluralization

  • noun plʊər(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    • In all these areas, the increasing pluralization of values, lifestyles, intellectual frameworks, and cultural traditions was intense.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The transition to democracy in Muslim societies depends, as it does everywhere, on a pluralization and differentiation in society and a separation of powers in the state.
      • Accordingly, we should not predict that globalization and pluralization will generate a wholly secular world.
      • In the context of cultural pluralization produced by migration and by social stratification, ethnicity remains a social marker relative to other ethnicities subordinated to national identities.
      • The present discussion on so-called individualization and pluralization that is popular in Germany has been built on this earlier literature and has not made reference to Geiger's work.
 
 

Definition of pluralize in US English:

pluralize

(British pluralise)
verbˈplʊrəˌlaɪzˈplo͝orəˌlīz
[with object]
  • 1Cause to become more numerous.

    this approach can have advantages in terms of pluralizing and relativizing the student's perspectives
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His goal is ‘to pluralize our understanding of the philosophical era known as ‘the Enlightenment’’.
    • Moreover, the previous pluralizing has brought a greater sense of context and purpose to even the more personal songs.
    • They can pluralize the number of domestic actors that contribute to the definition of customary and cultural norms
    • Also, when the euro was launched, China promised to convert 40 percent of its foreign exchange reserves into the euro and emphasized the necessity of pluralizing global currencies.
    1. 1.1 Cause to be made up of several different elements.
      society has been immigrated and integrated, pluralized and multiculturized
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Contemporary Western feminist theory in the 1980s moved beyond the dialogues that sought to differentiate feminisms from each other and instead began to articulate a more pluralized notion of feminism at its core.
      • In recent years, Australian society has differentiated and pluralised.
      • So preparation is a behavior whose first motion instantly pluralizes itself.
      • In line with this trend, the newly pluralized social landscape also saw the appearance of a host of religious activists with backgrounds and interests different from those of classically-educated Muslim scholars (ulama).
      • He argued that ‘you cannot pluralise civilisation.
      • Various theologies compete for attention in a highly pluralized field, and no theology has made much of a public impact.
      • It is insufficient already because it only pluralizes the perspective of observation and precisely fails to enter into the position of the participants.
  • 2Give a plural form to (a word)

    words sensed to be inherently plural were incorrectly pluralized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
    • If the compound is pluralized, the plural morpheme attaches only to the second element, not to the first, or to both: girl-friends, * girls-friends, * girls-friend.
    • Now I know how to pluralise a remarkable number of nouns.
    • Intriguingly, in all 102 instances that I recorded of the phrase ‘failed businessman’ appearing in print media, only once was it a direct quotation; this is also the one time when it was pluralised.
    • They certainly never learned how to pluralize nouns ending in ‘y.’
 
 
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