noun
The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation.
n. 名詞
詞組短語:
noun phrase 名詞短語
abstract noun 抽象名詞
proper noun [語]專有名詞
uncountable noun 不可數名詞
plural noun 復數名詞
collective noun n. 集合名詞
pronoun pro-, replace 代替
The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.
Any of the words within this part of speech, such as he or whom.
n. 代詞
詞組短語:
personal pronoun 人稱代名詞
demonstrative pronoun n. 指示代詞
relative pronoun [語]關系代詞
nominate nomin-nom-name
To propose by name as a candidate, especially for election.
To designate or appoint to an office, responsibility, or honor
vt. 推薦;提名;任命;指定
例句:
Trade Unions nominate representatives to public bodies.
工會指定駐公共機關的代表。
nominal
Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. Assigned to or bearing a person's name: nominal shares.
Existing in name only.
Philosophy. Of or relating to nominalism.
Insignificantly small; trifling: a nominal sum.
Business. Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value. Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
Grammar. Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
A word or group of words functioning as a noun.
adj. 名義上的;有名無實的;[會計] 票面上的,面值的,非市場價值的
n. [語] 名詞性詞
例句:
The old man is only the nominal head of the business.
那老人只是這個企業的掛名的總裁。
nominalism
The doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names.
n. 唯名論;名義主義
nominative
Appointed to office. Nominated as a candidate for office.
Having or bearing a person's name
Grammar. Of, relating to, or being the case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words identified with the subject of a copula, such as a predicate nominative (as children in These are his children).
The nominative case.
A word or form in the nominative case.
adj. 主格的;記名的;被提名的
n. 主格
nomination
The act or an instance of appointing a person to office.
The act or an instance of submitting a name for candidacy or appointment.
The state of being nominated.
n. 任命,提名;提名權
nominee
One who has been nominated to an office or for a candidacy.
A person or organization in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party.
n.被提名[任命、推薦]者
synonym
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.
A word or an expression that serves as a figurative or symbolic substitute for another.
n. 同義詞;同義字
denominate
To issue or express in terms of a given monetary unit: securities that are denominated in dollars or yen.
To give a name to; designate.
Of or relating to a quantity as a multiple of a unit
vt. 為…命名;把…稱作…
adj. 有特定名稱的
anonymous an-un+o+nym-name
Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.
Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call.
Having no distinctive character or recognition factor
adj. 匿名的,無名的;無個性特征的
例句:
The writer wishes to remain anonymous.
作者希望姓名不公開。
innominate
Having no name.
Anonymous.
adj.無名的; 匿名的