| 单词 |
parenthesize |
| 释义 |
parenthesize, v.|pəˈrɛnθɪsaɪz|
[f. parenthes-is + ize: cf. emphas-ize.]
1. a. trans. To insert as a parenthesis; to express or state in parenthesis. (Usually with obj. clause.)
1837Southey Doctor cxix. IV. 181 Sir Kenelm Digby observes..that ‘it is a common speech (but’, he parenthesizes, ‘only amongst the unlearned sort) ubi tres medici duo athei’. 1854Lowell Jrnl. in Italy Pr. Wks. 1890 I. 167 Speaking of Italian quarrels, I am tempted to parenthesize here another which I saw at Civita Vecchia. 1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic i. 39 It may be bounded at its other end by the limit of that parenthesized expression. 1971Amer. Jrnl. Physics XXXIX. 501/1 The first parenthesized term in the final member of [equation] (29). 1973A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek i. 6 A schema with parentheses abbreviates a sequence of rules with and without the parenthesized elements, the longest first.
b. intr. To introduce a parenthesis, to say something in parenthesis.
1880Bright Sp. at B'ham 19 Mar., I was going to observe—but your friendly interruptions forced me to parenthesise.
2. trans. To insert a parenthesis in; to interlard or intersperse with parentheses.
1889Lancet 22 June 1277/1 The amount of constant practice that is required to take a verbatim report of a complicated and much parenthesised speech.
3. To put between marks of parenthesis; to bracket.
1866Contemp. Rev. III. 470 If our parenthesized question admit of a negative answer. 1866Sat. Rev. XXI. 26 Each word or member of a phrase, with its explanation appended in parenthesized clauses.
4. To curve into the shape ( ). humorous.
1879Scribner's Mag. XIX. 771/1 Legs somewhat parenthesized by usage to the saddle.
Hence parenthesized ppl. a.
1866, etc. [see senses 1 a, 2, 3 above]. |
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