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

You could say that your favorite hiking trails transect a wooded hillside, since transect means "cut across."

Use the verb transect when one thing divides or runs across another. Careful stitches might transect your grandmother's quilt, and a new highway might transect a historic city neighborhood. When you see the Latin prefix trans, you can be sure the word includes some sense of "across." In the case of transect, trans is combined with sect, from the Latin verb secare, "to cut."

WORD FAMILY

transect: transected, transecting, transects

USAGE EXAMPLES

A time transect of exomes from a Native American population before and after European contact.

The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016)

He found the same sequence of species along the transect, but the whole distribution had shifted upwards, probably owing to global warming.

Nature(Nov 22, 2016)

This experiment was performed on two rhesus monkeys that had one of their legs paralyzed by a surgery that partially transected their spinal cords.

Washington Post(Nov 09, 2016)

v cut across or divide transversely

the trails transect the property

Hyper

cut

separate with or as if with an instrument

单词	transect
释义	transect (once / 407563 pages) v You could say that your favorite hiking trails transect a wooded hillside, since transect means "cut across." Use the verb transect when one thing divides or runs across another. Careful stitches might transect your grandmother's quilt, and a new highway might transect a historic city neighborhood. When you see the Latin prefix trans, you can be sure the word includes some sense of "across." In the case of transect, trans is combined with sect, from the Latin verb secare, "to cut." WORD FAMILY transect: transected, transecting, transects USAGE EXAMPLES A time transect of exomes from a Native American population before and after European contact. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) He found the same sequence of species along the transect, but the whole distribution had shifted upwards, probably owing to global warming. Nature(Nov 22, 2016) This experiment was performed on two rhesus monkeys that had one of their legs paralyzed by a surgery that partially transected their spinal cords. Washington Post(Nov 09, 2016) v cut across or divide transversely the trails transect the property Hyper cut separate with or as if with an instrument
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