单词 | impute |
释义 | impute (once / 786 pages) v The verb impute can be used to blame someone for doing something bad, give credit for good work, or just tell it like it is, like when you impute your lateness to my not telling you where to meet me. When you impute something, you name the cause of something that has happened. For example, you might impute your ability to sing well to the thousands of dollars your parents spent in voice lessons. In other words, you name the source. You can also impute a person, like imputing to a teacher your love of learning — he or she helped you become more interested in school and your classes. WORD FAMILYimpute: imputable, imputation, imputed, imputes, imputing+/imputable: imputably/imputation: imputations USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s possible to impute political motives to the computer scientists, some of whom have criticized Trump on social media. Slate(Oct 31, 2016) But imputing them loosely to large numbers of people, and dismissing those people with contempt, isn’t helpful. Slate(Oct 05, 2016) Essentially, the Europeans propose judging anticompetitiveness on the basis of something with imputed value, the uses of which aren’t fully understood yet. New York Times(Sep 30, 2016) 1v attribute or credit to People impute great cleverness to cats Syn|Hypo|Hyper ascribe, assign, attribute carnalize, sensualize ascribe to an origin in sensation creditgive someone credit for something reattributeattribute to another source anthropomorphise, anthropomorphizeascribe human features to something personate, personifyattribute human qualities to something accredit, creditascribe an achievement to blame, chargeattribute responsibility to externalise, externalize, projectregard as objective interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalizeincorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal evaluate, judge, pass judgment form a critical opinion of 2v attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness Syn|Hyper ascribe, assign, attribute attribute or credit to ascribe, assign, attribute attribute or credit to |
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