| 单词 | omission |
| 释义 | omission (once / 1071 pages) n If you make an omission, you leave something out. If you are a restaurant reviewer and you give a glowing review to a new restaurant but fail to mention that you own half of it, that's a significant omission. The noun omission comes from the verb, omit, which means to leave out. Omissions can be purposeful or a result of neglect. Was the omission of Aunt Suzy from your wedding invitation something you meant to do, or an accident? If you're cleaning the house but don't take out the garbage, you'll regret your omission when the garbage is stinking up the kitchen. WORD FAMILYomission: omissions+/omit: omissible, omission, omissive, omiting, omits, omitted, omitting USAGE EXAMPLESHe said the omission was part of a campaign by Mr Macri's government to "place a priority on bilateral trade" over the sovereignty claim. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Opportunities to lie by omission, Rogers says, actually "don't arise all that often." Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Scholars of fascism and the racist right told AlterNet such omission is dangerous in the era of Trump, with implications far beyond Ciccariello-Maher. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) 1n neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something Hypo|Hyper inadvertence, oversight an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something pretermissionletting pass without notice elision, exception, exclusiona deliberate act of omission disregard, neglect lack of attention and due care 2n something that has been omitted she searched the table for omissions Hyper disuse, neglect the state of something that has been unused and neglected 3n a mistake resulting from neglect Syn|Hypo|Hyper skip failure an unexpected omission dashing hopes, disappointmentan act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone breacha failure to perform some promised act or obligation copouta failure to face some difficulty squarely error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 4n any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases Syn|Hypo|Hyper deletion aphaeresis, apheresis (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' aphesisthe gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' elisionomission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) eclipsis, ellipsisomission or suppression of parts of words or sentences linguistic process a process involved in human language |
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