单词 | potential |
释义 | potential (once / 190 pages) adjn If you can describe something as possible but not yet actual, choose the adjective potential. Companies try to reach potential customers through advertising. Potential, from the Latin potentia "power," sounds more complicated than it is. It describes something or someone that has the power to become something. A potential success is not yet a success but could be if circumstances are right. When a situation has the potential for disaster, it could turn bad easily. You have potential if you have a natural but undeveloped ability to do something and a building with potential will be really nice once it's fixed up. WORD FAMILYpotential: potentiality, potentially, potentials+/impotence: impotences/impotency: impotencies/impotent: impotence, impotency, impotenter, impotently/potency: potencies, potential, prepotency/potent: impotent, potency, potenter, potentest, potently/potentiality: potentialities USAGE EXAMPLESThey say all potential revenue increases should be on the table, including raising the gas tax and imposing tolls. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Decoding a genome now runs between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, spawning a flurry of potential new applications. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Occasionally, the drugs provoke a severe auto-immune response, resulting in potential toxicities including inflammatory lung, liver and thyroid disorders. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) 1adj existing in possibility a potential problem Syn|Ant possible latent potentially existing but not presently evident or realized actual, existent presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible effectiveexisting in fact; not theoretical; real 2adj expected to become or be; in prospect potential clients Syn likely prospective of or concerned with or related to the future 3n the inherent capacity for coming into being Syn|Hypo|Hyper potency, potentiality latency the state of being not yet evident or active chance, prospectthe possibility of future success possibility, possibleness capability of existing or happening or being true 4n the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts Syn|Hypo|Hyper electric potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage evoked potential the electrical response of the central nervous system produced by an external stimulus resting potentialthe potential difference between the two sides of the membrane of a nerve cell when the cell is not conducting an impulse electrical phenomenon a physical phenomenon involving electricity |
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