单词 | determiner |
释义 | determinern.1 1. He who or that which determines, in various senses. a. He who or that which decides. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > one who judges or decides departer1382 judgec1390 judgerc1449 terminer1496 arbiterc1503 legislatora1513 determiner1530 pronouncer1561–2 judicant1570 censurer1585 discusser1587 sentencer1589 justicer1609 judicator1613 auditor1640 dijudicant1661 adjudicator1705 adjudger1821 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 213/1 Determyner, determinevr. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Iii Anie other determinors of the issue. a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 167 The Sword, as it is the best determiner, so it is the most honourable Treater. 1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1738) I. 547 No Man or body of Men in these times can be the infallible Judges or Determiners in matters of Religion. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xvi. 123 Miss Grandison must be the sole determiner, on this occasion. 1884 Cent. Mag. 28 122 The determiner of the future policy of the Church. b. That which decides the course of action, or determines the result. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > determining factor or agent determinator1556 determinant1686 determiner1754 determinativea1859 co-determinant1865 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will i. ii. 5 If the Will be determined, there is a Determiner. This must be supposed to be intended even by them that say, the Will determines itself. 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. vii. 90 This..Opportunity that is left for the Will it self to be the Determiner of the Act. c. One who ascertains definitely. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [noun] > one who finds out > definitely determiner1846 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 18 The original determiner of this epoch. d. Biology. = determinant n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > factor determinant1893 factor1901 determiner1909 sex factor1909 rate factor1927 plasmon1932 plasmagene1939 resistance transfer factor1960 rho1969 1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 79 Hitherto we have spoken of the determiner for such a colour as grey in rabbits and mice as ‘dominant’ over the colours lower in the scale, such as black or chocolate... We shall then speak of the determiner for grey as epistatic to that for black. 1922 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 6) 113 A female determiner incapable of carrying sex-limited factors. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 236 The future symmetry of the embryo is not influenced by anything that one could call a ‘determiner’ in the cytoplasm. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 246 It then became an obvious task to discover more precisely where this structure-determiner was situated and how it acted. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > graduand son?c1550 determiner1574 proceeder1581 determining bachelor1649 commencer1655 determinant1864 graduand1882 doctorand1898 1574 M. Stokys in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. 6 [The bell shall] be tolled in every Colledge, Howse, Hall or Hostell where eny Determiners be. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlii. 224 The collectors..draw a scheme..in which the names of all determiners are placed in several columns, and over against them, in other columns, the days when, and the schools where, they are to respond. 3. Grammar. A class of limiting expressions modifying nouns (see quot. 1933). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > determiner > [noun] determiner1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xii. 203 Our limiting adjectives fall into two sub-classes of determiners and numeratives... The determiners are defined by the fact that certain types of noun expressions (such as house or big house) are always accompanied by a determiner (as, this house, a big house). 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ii. 39 The most characteristic modifiers of nouns in positions in front of the nouns are (1) determiners, such as the and possessives, and (2) adjectives. 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ii. 40 Determiner modifiers, pronounal in function, normally precede adjectival modifiers. 1964 Language 40 37 Traditionally, grammarians have recognized two kinds of determiners: the, usually called the definite determiner, and a, usually called the indefinite determiner. It is now common to regard other elements as determiners, or as parts of determiners... Further, it is convenient to regard all, any, and the like as part of the determiner (these items are frequently called predeterminers). And finally, prenominal genitives such as his and John's are shown to behave as determiners by transformational criteria. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † determinern.2 Law. The final determining of a judge or court of justice: in oyer and determiner, a variant of oyer and terminer. (Obsolete exc. historical.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > final judgement or decision determiner1450 decree absolute1726 1450 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 41 Þat ye hadde sued to hym for an especiall assise and an oier and determyner. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxixv A commission of oyer and determiner, for the punishment of this outragious offence & sedicious crime. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. O6 Iustices of Assises, Ewer, Determiner, and the lyke. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. i. 9 Of Oyer, Determiner, and Goale deliverie. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 481/1 Oyer and Terminer..sometimes written determiner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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