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单词 defining
释义
defining
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Something defining is essential to what something is. A defining moment in your life helps makes you what you are.
In the dictionary, definitions tell you what words mean, and the similar word defining has to do with what things are too. The defining characteristic of a chair is that you sit on it. The defining feature of food is you can eat it. People have defining features too: if you went to a summer camp and had an amazing time, it could be a defining time in your life. Defining things helps shape and mold us.
WORD FAMILY
defining: definings+/definable: definably, indefinable, undefinable/define: definable, defined, defines, defining, definition, redefine/defined: definedly, ill-defined, undefined/definition: definitions/indefinable: indefinably/redefine: redefined, redefines, redefining, redefinition/redefinition: redefinitions/undefinable: undefinably
USAGE EXAMPLES
Beyond defining its scope, there are competing ideas about what a convention should tackle.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Achilles’ defining attribute—it’s the first word of the Iliad—is mēnin, usually translated as “wrath” or “rage.”
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
After graduating from medical school in 1959, Opitz ended up at the University of Wisconsin and began his work defining and documenting genetic syndromes.
Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016)
n any process serving to define the shape of something
Syn|Hyper
shaping
physical process, process
a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
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