单词 | nominator |
释义 | nominatorn. 1. Chiefly Politics. A person who nominates a candidate for election or for an honour, award, etc. In early use also: a person who nominates another to an office or duty. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > nomination to office > one who nominates nominator1645 nominor1765 proposer1795 1645 R. Baillie Dissuasive from Errours of Time 24 If they were not the Electors, and first Nominators, the man should be an intruder and a Woolfe, whom they might not lawfully hear. 1659 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1901) IV. 299 The Counceil..agreed on 7 to be Nominators of Officers. 1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking II. lii. 66 While Tiberius Gracchus was creating new Consuls; one of the Nominators suddenly fell down dead. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. ix. 77 It is too probable that the nominator shall stipulate conditions with his member, that may..take away his power of voting according to the dictates of his judgment and conscience. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 203 To oppose Lord Dysart, the first and improper nominator. 1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man I. vi. 202 We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. 1865 Harper's Mag. Nov. 741/1 The returning officer, the nominators, the seconders, all spoke in a ludicrous dumb show. 1897 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 461/1 The nominators are self-constituted, and..the bulk of the party is not consulted. 1942 Amer. Hist. Rev. 47 535 Heckling and hooting so interrupted the speeches from the hustings that only Cobbett and his nominators could be distinctly heard. 1990 D. Shekerjian Uncommon Genius i. Introd. p. xv The nominators secretly gather information about a candidate and submit it to the small foundation staff for further development. 2. Mathematics. A numerator. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > expressed by numerator and denominator > elements of numerator1539 denominator1552 nominatora1690 separatrix1770 a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 41 This is called the Numerator, and sometime Nominator. 1934 Biometrika 26 254 Each term in the nominator..cannot exceed the corresponding term in the denominator. 1992 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 87 1149/2 In combination with (LC3) we get the following representation..for the nominator of the statistic T. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645 |
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