英语词汇“confer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

confer

/kənˈfəː

verb (confers, conferring, conferred)

1 [with object] Grant (a title, degree, benefit, or right): the Minister may have exceeded the powers conferred on him by Parliament...

Finally, has any valuable benefit been conferred on either party?
Chief among these is the question of whether any benefits were conferred on the generous donors.
The ceremony in which SFU will confer the honorary degrees, will be held on the last day of the Dalai Lama's visit.

Synonyms

bestow on, present with/to, grant to, award to, decorate with, honour with, give to, give out to, gift with, endow with, vest in, hand out to, extend to, vouchsafe to, accord to

2 [no object] Have discussions; exchange opinions: the officials were conferring with allies...

There on the road, the woman is conferring with Henry.
‘After conferring with my colleagues, several of them asked me to run for chair,’ he said.
After conferring with flight controllers and three doctors who happened to be on board, the pilot decided to land in Newfoundland's capital.

Synonyms

consult, have discussions, discuss things, exchange views, talk, have a talk, speak, converse, communicate, have a chat, have a tête-à-tête;

negotiate, have negotiations, have talks, parley, palaver

informal have a confab, chew the fat/rag, jaw, rap, powwow

formal confabulate

Derivatives

conferment

/kənˈfəːmənt

/ nounsense 1. ...

But there are those who are hell-bent upon ensuring he is given perhaps even more credit than he deserves and I have a feeling the conferment of this honour won't be the last.
It was the conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough.
The conferment of names upon space is one way in which space becomes place.

conferrable

/kɒnˈfəːrəb(ə)l

/ adjective ...

Blood lines have a beguiling authority not conferrable by votes of the city council.
Although some authors allege otherwise, moral status is not conferrable by persons on nonpersons; it either is or isn't present in a subject, regardless of whether others recognize it.

conferral

nounsense 1. ...

Colleges try to lure the media to conferrals by having headline names.
The Law Council does not accept such arguments and is vigorously opposed to the conferral on the prosecutorial authorities of such sweeping and arbitrary powers in the characterisation of offences and laying of charges.
‘The convention requires the conferral of prisoner of war status unless a competent tribunal decides otherwise,’ the jurists' commission said.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the general sense 'bring together', also in sense 2): from Latin conferre, from con- 'together' + ferre 'bring'.

refer from Late Middle English:
Refer comes from Latin referre ‘carry back’, from re- ‘back’ and ferre ‘bring’. Referee dates from the early 17th century, but did not appear in sports contexts until the mid 19th century. Referre is also the source of mid 19th-century referendum from the Latin for ‘referring’. Ferre is the source of numerous words in English including confer ‘bring together’; defer ‘put to one side or away’, which shares an origin with differ; fertile ‘bearing’; and transfer ‘carry across’, all of which came into the language in the Late Middle English period.