释义 |
causative /ˈkɔːzətɪv /adjective1Acting as a cause: a causative factor...- The general consensus, therefore, was to promote preventive pulmonology which laid stress on motivating the victims to stop smoking which was a major causative factor in almost 90 per cent of the cases.
- The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that the virus is the primary causative agent, but experts say much laboratory work still needs to be done to pinpoint its exact characteristics.
- Cigarettes are the main causative factors for lung, oral, oesophageal, stomach, bladder, kidney, pancreas and cervical cancer.
1.1 Grammar Expressing causation: a causative verb...- However, there's a general pattern in English of pairs of inchoative and causative meanings for verbs.
- On the one hand, the fact that many causative action verbs imply a means - end structure to the actions they describe seems to favour analysis.
- Although Eric seems to assume the experiencer sense, I'm going to make the causative sense explicit.
noun GrammarA causative verb.What is more, even when this distinction has been drawn, the denotations of the gerundive phrases often remain ambiguous, especially when the verbs whose nominalizations appear in these phrases are causatives. Derivatives causatively adverb ...- With fault on both sides, it was the defendant's fault which was causatively more potent in relation to the injuries suffered.
- He said he did not find it particularly helpful, as had been argued in that case, to try and decide which statutory provision was most closely causatively related to a statutory omission.
- These results suggest that inhibition of p70 S6K is not causatively related to the apoptotic response.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French causatif, -ive, or late Latin causativus, from causare 'to cause'. |