define

• vt. 定义；使明确；规定
• n. (Define)人名；(英)德法恩；(葡)德菲内

de-, 向下，强调。-fin, 边界，界限，词源同finish.

1. give a definition for the meaning of a word;

"Define `sadness'"

2. determine the essential quality of

3. determine the nature of;

"What defines a good wine?"

4. delineate the form or outline of;

"The tree was clearly defined by the light"

"The camera could define the smallest object"

define

define: see fine

define (v.)

late 14c., "to specify; to end," from Old French defenir, definir "to finish, conclude, come to an end; bring to an end; define, determine with precision," and directly from Latin definire "to limit, determine, explain," from de- "completely" (see de-) + finire "to bound, limit," from finis "boundary, end" (see finish (v.)). Related: Defined; defining.

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

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Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.

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It defines the future of the fashion industry.

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The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time.

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If that's how we're defining digital textbooks, there's no hope of that becoming a mainstream product.

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Excessive Internet use should be defined not by the number of hours spent online but "in terms of losses," said Maressa Orzack, a Harvard University professor.

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Norms define how people " ought" to behave under particular circumstances in a particular society.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.

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Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

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I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

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Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.

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Economic inequality is the defining challenge of our time.

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Humanistic thinking helps define our culture and values.

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But try to imagine our world as well without the remarkable works that have defined our culture and values.

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As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.

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I'm going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I'm going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

So how would you define Jazz?

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But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20th century, declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21st.

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Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992.

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Despite their many differences, all human beings share several defining characteristics.

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For the people of brussels, this was a defining moment of defining freedom.

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If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.

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On the other hand, Ericsson(1993) suggests that the most effective learning occurs through involvement in highly structured activities defined as deliberate practice.

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They would define the driver's role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.

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“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

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We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

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In some ways, this quest for commonalities defines science.

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One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

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Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.

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Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

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Beethoven’s importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions.

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They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health.

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The concept of sustainable development has been defined as profitable.

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France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women.

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The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

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Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Of even greater concern is the fact that obesity turns out to be very difficult to define.

2014年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism. Newman wrote that "I am tempted to define ‘journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are."

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It is difficult to define what makes him so popular.

很难解释清楚什么原因使他如此走红。

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The mountain was sharply defined against the sky.

那座山在天空的衬托下显得轮廓分明。

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The term ‘mental illness ’ is difficult to define.

“精神病”这个词很难下定义。

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Life imprisonment is defined as 60 years under state law.

按照州法律终身监禁定义为60年。

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We need to define the task ahead very clearly.

我们需要明确今后的任务。

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The difficulty of a problem was defined in terms of how long it took to complete.

问题的难易度是以解决这个问题所花时间的长短而定的。

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We were unable to define what exactly was wrong with him...

我们说不清楚他到底哪里不对劲。

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He was asked to define his concept of cool.

他被要求说明自己关于“酷”的定义。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

When people are asked 'What is intelligence?' they tend to reply: 'I don't know how to define it, but I can certainly recognize it when I see it.'...

当被问及“智力是什么”的时候，人们往往会回答说：“我不知道该如何定义它，但我见到了肯定就能认得出。”

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Collins English Dictionary defines a workaholic as 'a person obsessively addicted to work'.

《柯林斯英语词典》给“工作狂”一词下的定义是“一个过分沉溺于工作中的人”。

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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

法律如果没有法院来详细说明和解释其真正意义和作用,就是一纸空文.

辞典例句

In particular, if you do define a conversion to an arithmetic type, then.

具体而言, 如果定义了到算术类型的转换, 则.

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Offer two time options: Parents can define a specific time period or an accumulated time amount.

提供了两种时间选择: 家长可以界定一个特定时期内或累积时间的金额.

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The contractees and contractors should sign land use contracts to define each other's rights and obligations.

发包方和承包方应当订立承包合同,约定双方的权利和义务.

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A common way to make headers safe uses the preprocessor to define a header guard.

使得头文件安全的通用做法,是使用预处理器定义头文件保护符.

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And this Psalm is helping us define happiness.

这篇诗帮助我们了解什么是快乐.

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A delegate declaration is sufficient to define a delegate class.

一个委托声明足以定义一个委托类.

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Analysis, define & design software functions and system requirements.

分析 、 定义 并 设计软件系统功能和需求.

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Any dictionary will define the suburbs as those areas that lie outside cities and towns.

所有的字典都将“郊区”定义为在城市和城镇以外的地区.

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XForms Uses XML To Define Form Data.

XForms使用XML定义窗口数据.

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Define cycle counting plan and organize cycle counting.

制定周期盘点计划,组织实施周期盘点.

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Define Design Development Timing, Component Development Timing including Process Development, Organize the validation.

确定设计开发时间, 零部件开发时间,包括流程开发, 组织验证.

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Define and discuss the four principal network topologies.

定义并讨论四个主要的网络拓扑.

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For more information, see How to: Define a Model with Horizontal Partition in Storage Model.

有关更多信息, 请参见如何: 使用存储模型中的水平分区定义模型.

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Entity types can define a set of conditions for each table to which they are mapped.

实体类型可以为其映射到的每个表定义一组条件.

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A characteristic trait or peculiarity, especially one serving to define or describe its possessor.

特性,属性特性或不同之处, 尤指用来定义或描写其占有者的特性.

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