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单词 mutate
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mutateadj.n.

Brit. /mjuːˈteɪt/, U.S. /ˈmjuˌteɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mūtātus, mūtāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin mūtātus, past participle of mūtāre to change (see mutate v.). With use as noun compare -ate suffix1. Compare earlier mutate v. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (miū·teit) /ˈmjuːteɪt/.
A. adj.
Botany. Changed. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1840 J. Paxton & J. Lindley Pocket Bot. Dict. 212/2 Mutate, changed.
B. n.
1. Linguistics. A form having a mutated vowel. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > umlaut > instance or result of
modification1845
mutate1875
1875–6 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 558 Several of the words given above may also be mutates, such as ded, sed, gredig.
2. Chess. A problem beginning from a block (a position in which Black, though not under threat, cannot move without being mated by White), in which the key move maintains a block, making no threat, but prepares a different set of mates against Black's various possible replies.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > move > type of move
neck1557
stroke1735
key1845
forced move1847
key-move1847
fianchetto1848
queening1860
pinning1900
mutate1922
valve1930
zwischenzug1941
1922 G. Hume & A. C. White Good Compan. Two-mover 297 We shall see that the term changed mate block (or ‘mutate’, as Brian Harley has suggested) is often indefinite in that it may include or exclude added mate features according to the individuality of separate problems.
1931 B. Harley Mate in Two Moves ii. 20 We now come to the last of the big groups into which the two-mover can be divided: the Complete Block both before and after the Key, which changes one or more mates: that is, the Complete Block-Change, or, as I have christened it for short, the Mutate.
1962 K. S. Howard One Hundred Years Amer. Two-move Chess Probl. 12 Wurzburg in No. 133 utilizes a mutate setting to show a charming illustration of a Bristol withdrawal key.
1996 J. M. Rice Chess Wizardry i. 20 No. 9 is a mutate... The key..still leaves Black in zugzwang, but changes the set replies to the pawn-moves and adds a variation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mutatev.

Brit. /mjuːˈteɪt/, U.S. /ˈmjuˌteɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mūtāt-, mūtāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin mūtāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix3) of mūtāre to change (see i-mene adj.). Compare earlier mutation n.
1.
a. transitive. To change, to transform. Also: to cause to change. (In quot. 1796 punningly.) Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)]
wendOE
forshapeOE
workOE
awendOE
makec1175
turna1200
forwenda1325
change1340
shape1362
transmewc1374
transposec1380
puta1382
convertc1384
exchangea1400
remue?a1400
makea1425
reduce?a1425
removec1425
resolvea1450
transvertc1450
overchangec1480
mew1512
transmutea1513
wring1524
reduct1548
transform1556
innovate1561
metamorphose1576
transume1579
metamorphize1587
transmove1590
transchangea1599
transfashion1601
deflect1613
fordo1624
entail1628
transmutate1632
distila1637
to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637
transqualify1652
unconvert1654
simulate1658
spend1668
transverse1687
hocus-pocus1774
mutate1796
fancy1801
to change around1871
metamorphosize1888
catalyse1944
morph1996
1796 T. Twining Let. 15 June (1991) II. 465 Thanks for your epistolary sketch... I adopted it: mutating the mutanda, to my fancy.
1882 Mind 7 441 Thus:—..mutating the premises and contrapositing O [etc.].
b. intransitive. To undergo change; to be transformed into something else.In later use strongly influenced by sense 2.
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the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
braidOE
change?c1225
turnc1300
remue1340
varyc1369
flitc1386
strange1390
alter?a1425
degenerate1548
variate1605
commutatea1652
veer1670
mutate1818
reschedule1887
switch1906
to change up1920
1818 J. Brown Psyche 53 Since men of rank, when they mutate From one into another state, Assume the nature most allied To that which they must throw aside.
1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 39 We had the luck to see a rare discontinuity, Old Russia suddenly mutate into a proletarian state.
1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card xxiii. 188 As the story spread it mutated, becoming increasingly bizarre with each telling.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Jan. 8/2 Evangelism mutated into a campaign to impose Victorian moral standards on the natives.
c. intransitive. Linguistics. To undergo mutation (see mutation n. 5).
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1981 P. Meara & A. W. Ellis in Linguistics 19 797 In other cases the phonemes appear to mutate before reversing.
1991 D. Crystal Dict. Linguistics & Phonetics (ed. 3) 228 When Old English was developing, the influence of an /i/ vowel in certain circumstances caused other vowels to ‘mutate’ in the direction of the cloze vowel.
2. Biology.
a. intransitive. To undergo genetic mutation. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [verb (intransitive)] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > mutation
sport1712
mutate1913
1913 Amer. Naturalist 47 12 A mutation need not be a loss, and..a recessive may revert in the sense that it may mutate.
1926 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 12 687 The first frequently mutating character observed in Drosophila virilis was the body ‘reddish’, which was found to mutate frequently to wild type.
1951 E. Hamilton Star Kings xix. 145 I think they were human once—human colonists who mutated under radioactive influence.
1972 Sci. Amer. Apr. 65/2 We have no reason to think the gene for cytochrome c mutates more slowly than the gene for hemoglobin.
1992 Animals Nov. 19/1 Classic examples of the speed with which viruses can recombine and mutate are the Asian influenza virus..and the new epidemic HIV virus.
b. transitive. To cause to undergo genetic mutation; to mutagenize.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [verb (transitive)] > mutation
mutate1961
1961 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 3 142 There are many genetic sites which can be mutated by HA.
1972 Nature 14 Apr. 326/1 Clearly, in at least some phage genes certain segments of DNA are more readily mutated than others.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 3849/2 We show that the non-responsiveness of T cell clones..to mutant viruses can be reversed by mutating a single residue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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