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单词 define
释义

define

English

Etymology

From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈfaɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: de‧fine
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

define (third-person singular simple present defines, present participle defining, simple past and past participle defined)

  1. To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
    • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], OCLC 1118497469:
      Rings […] very distinct and well defined.
    • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
    the defining power of an optical instrument
  2. (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.) [16th–17th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.
  3. To express the essential nature of something.
    • 2013 May-June, Brian Hayes, “Crinkly Curves”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 178:
      Cantor defined a one-to-one correspondence between the points of the square and the points of the line segment. Every point in the square was associated with a single point in the segment; every point in the segment was matched with a unique point in the square.
    I define myself as a techno-anarchist.
    Your past mistakes do not define who you are.
  4. To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
    The textbook defined speed as velocity divided by time.
  5. To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
    Person 1: Is she good at math?
    Person 2: Define "good." If you mean if she is faster than the average middle schooler at multiplication, then yes. If you mean if she is able to do multivariable calculus, then no.
  6. To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
    • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
      Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
    to define the legal boundaries of a property
  7. (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.

Derived terms

  • definable
  • defined benefit
  • defined benefits
  • defined contribution
  • defined contributions
  • definer
  • defining vocabulary
  • era-defining
  • pre-defined
  • software defined radio
  • user-defined function
  • user-defined graphic
  • definiendum
  • definiens
  • definition
  • definitory

Translations

Noun

define (plural defines)

  1. (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
    • 1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
      From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
    • 1999, Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
      Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.

Translations

macro that replaces one text string with another

Further reading

  • define in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • define in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

  • feed-in, feedin', infeed

Galician

Verb

define

  1. third-person singular present indicative of definir
  2. second-person singular imperative of definir

Portuguese

Verb

define

  1. inflection of definir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈfine/ [d̪eˈfi.ne]
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Syllabification: de‧fi‧ne

Verb

define

  1. inflection of definir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish دفینه‎ (define), from Arabic دَفِينَة‎ (dafīna), from دَفَنَ‎ (dafana, “to bury”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.fiːˈne/
  • Hyphenation: de‧fi‧ne

Noun

define (definite accusative defineyi, plural defineler)

  1. treasure trove
Declension
Inflection
Nominativedefine
Definite accusativedefineyi
SingularPlural
Nominativedefinedefineler
Definite accusativedefineyidefineleri
Dativedefineyedefinelere
Locativedefinededefinelerde
Ablativedefinedendefinelerden
Genitivedefinenindefinelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
SingularPlural
1st singulardefinemdefinelerim
2nd singulardefinendefinelerin
3rd singulardefinesidefineleri
1st pluraldefinemizdefinelerimiz
2nd pluraldefinenizdefineleriniz
3rd pluraldefineleridefineleri
Definite accusative
SingularPlural
1st singulardefinemidefinelerimi
2nd singulardefinenidefinelerini
3rd singulardefinesinidefinelerini
1st pluraldefinemizidefinelerimizi
2nd pluraldefinenizidefinelerinizi
3rd pluraldefinelerinidefinelerini
Dative
SingularPlural
1st singulardefinemedefinelerime
2nd singulardefinenedefinelerine
3rd singulardefinesinedefinelerine
1st pluraldefinemizedefinelerimize
2nd pluraldefinenizedefinelerinize
3rd pluraldefinelerinedefinelerine
Locative
SingularPlural
1st singulardefinemdedefinelerimde
2nd singulardefinendedefinelerinde
3rd singulardefinesindedefinelerinde
1st pluraldefinemizdedefinelerimizde
2nd pluraldefinenizdedefinelerinizde
3rd pluraldefinelerindedefinelerinde
Ablative
SingularPlural
1st singulardefinemdendefinelerimden
2nd singulardefinendendefinelerinden
3rd singulardefinesindendefinelerinden
1st pluraldefinemizdendefinelerimizden
2nd pluraldefinenizdendefinelerinizden
3rd pluraldefinelerindendefinelerinden
Genitive
SingularPlural
1st singulardefinemindefinelerimin
2nd singulardefinenindefinelerinin
3rd singulardefinesinindefinelerinin
1st pluraldefinemizindefinelerimizin
2nd pluraldefinenizindefinelerinizin
3rd pluraldefinelerinindefinelerinin

References

  • define in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دفینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 907

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French défini, past participle of définir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.fiˈne/
  • Hyphenation: de‧fi‧ne

Adjective

define

  1. (bodybuilding) defined
    define vücut ― a defined body
Derived terms
  • define etmek
  • define olmak
  • definisyon
  • definitif
  • dömifinal
  • final
  • finalist
  • finalite
  • finalize
  • finans
  • finansal
  • finansman
  • finansör
  • finiş
  • fino
  • prefinansman
  • rafine
  • rafineri
  • röfinansman
  • semifinal
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