| 单词 | content |
| 释义 | content content1 /kon"tent/, n. 1. Usually, contents. a. something that is contained: the contents of a box. b. the subjects or topics covered in a book or document. c. the chapters or other formal divisions of a book or document: a table of contents. 2. something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts: a poetic form adequate to a poetic content. 3. significance or profundity; meaning: a clever play that lacks content. 4. substantive information or creative material viewed in contrast to its actual or potential manner of presentation: publishers, record companies, and other content providers; a flashy Web site, but without much content. 5. that which may be perceived in something: the latent versus the manifest content of a dream. 6. Philos. , Logic. the sum of the attributes or notions comprised in a given conception; the substance or matter of cognition. 7. power of containing; holding capacity: The bowl's content is three quarts. 8. volume, area, or extent; size. 9. the amount contained. 10. Ling. the system of meanings or semantic values specific to a language (opposed to expression). 11. - a. Math. the greatest common divisor of all the coefficients of a given polynomial. Cf. primitive polynomial. b. any abstraction of the concept of length, area, or volume. [1375-1425; late ME ( < AF) < ML contentum, n. use of neut. of L contentus (ptp. of continere to contain), equiv. to con- CON- + ten- hold + -tus ptp. suffix] content2 —contentable, adj. —contently, adv. —contentness, n. /keuhn tent"/, adj. 1. satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else. 2. Brit. agreeing; assenting. 3. Archaic. willing. v.t. 4. to make content: These things content me. n. 5. the state or feeling of being contented; contentment: His content was threatened. 6. (in the British House of Lords) an affirmative vote or voter. [1400-50; late ME < MF < L contentus satisfied, special use of ptp. of continere; see CONTENT1] Syn. 4. appease, gratify. See satisfy. Ant. 4. dissatisfy. |
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