|
declension n. 词尾变化,格变化,倾斜,衰退 词尾变化,格变化,倾斜,衰退 declension n 1: the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo- European languages 2: process of changing to an inferior state [ synonym: { deterioration}, { decline in quality}, { declension}, { worsening}] 3: a downward slope or bend [ synonym: { descent}, { declivity}, { fall}, { decline}, { declination}, { declension}, { downslope}] [ ant: { acclivity}, { ascent}, { climb}, { raise}, { rise}, { upgrade}] 4: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo- European languages having the same ( or very similar) inflectional forms; " the first declension in Latin" Declension \ De* clen" sion\, n. [ Apparently corrupted fr. F. d[' e] clinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See { Decline}, and cf. { Declination}.] 1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. [ 1913 Webster] The declension of the land from that place to the sea. -- T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Gram.) ( a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. ( b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. ( c) Rehearsing a word as declined. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings ( hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun' s upright form, was called a declension. -- Harris. [ 1913 Webster] { Declension of the needle}, declination of the needle. [ 1913 Webster] 149 Moby Thesaurus words for " declension": IC analysis, abnegation, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, bound morpheme, cascade, catabasis, cataract, chute, collapse, comedown, conjugation, contradiction, crash, cutting, debacle, debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declination, declinature, decline, decline and fall, declining, decrescendo, defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, denial, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, deprivation, derivation, derogation, descending, descension, descent, deterioration, devolution, difference of form, dilapidation, diminuendo, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dissent, dive, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dropping, dwindling, dying, ebb, effeteness, enclitic, fading, failing, fall, falling, falling- off, formative, free form, gravitation, holding back, immediate constituent analysis, inclination, infix, infixation, inflection, involution, lapse, loss of tone, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, paradigm, plummeting, plunge, pounce, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, rapids, recantation, refusal, regression, rejection, remission, repudiation, retention, retreat, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, root, ruination, slippage, slowdown, slump, stem, stoop, subsidence, suffix, suffixation, swoop, theme, thumbs- down, turndown, unwillingness, wane, waterfall, withholding, word- formation
|
安装中文字典英文字典查询工具!
中文字典英文字典工具:
英文字典中文字典相关资料:
|