单词 | postpose |
释义 | postposev.ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [verb (transitive)] > place after in order of estimation or importance postponea1522 postpose1598 subordinate1620 posthabit1646 postposit1661 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] forslowc888 eldc897 forsita940 gele971 lengOE drilla1300 delayc1300 onfrestc1300 tarryc1320 jornc1330 dretchc1380 defer1382 forbida1387 to put offa1387 to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393 dilate1399 fordrawa1400 to put overc1410 latch?c1422 adjournc1425 prolongc1425 proloynec1425 rejournc1425 to put in respite1428 sleuthc1430 respitea1450 prorogue1453 refer1466 sleep1470 supersede1482 respectc1487 postpone1496 overseta1500 respett1500 enjourna1513 relong1523 retract1524 tarde1524 track1524 to fode forth1525 tract1527 protract1528 further1529 to make stay of1530 surcease1530 prorogate1534 to fay upon longc1540 linger1543 retard?1543 slake1544 procrastine1548 reprieve1548 remit1550 suspense1556 leave1559 shiftc1562 suspend1566 procrastinate1569 dally1574 post1577 to hold off1580 drift1584 loiter1589 postpose1598 to take one's (own) timea1602 flag1602 slug1605 elong1610 belay1613 demur1613 tardya1616 to hang up1623 frist1637 disjourn1642 future1642 off1642 waive1653 superannuate1655 perendinate1656 stave1664 detard1675 remora1686 to put back1718 withhold1726 protract1737 to keep over1847 to hold over1853 laten1860 to lay over1885 hold1891 back-burner1975 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > place after in order postpose1598 postplace1599 postponec1620 postliminiate1659 postliminate1690 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > have syntactic relation with [verb (transitive)] > place after postpose1598 postponec1620 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. x. 19 Doubtfull..which first to go to; least the other being postposed [L. postpositi] should take it in disdaine. c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. viii. §6 We utter our wil be verbes signifying the form of our wil, or postposing the supposit. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 218 We..in post-posing the Apochryphall, into an inferior place, have..testimony from the People of God. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 205 The Defence of the Kings Person and Authority..in this Covenant is postposed to the Priviledges of Parliament. 1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons vi. 59 in Elements Philos. Which reputation I have alwayes postposed to the common benefit of the studious. 2. transitive. Grammar. To place (a modifying word, phrase, morpheme, etc.) after the item modified. ΚΠ 1860 [see postposed adj. at Derivatives]. 1930 T. Sasaki On Lang. R. Bridges' Poetry i. i. 7 Not a single adj. in ‘-able’ or ‘-ible’ is postposed in Bridges. 1962 R. Quirk Use of Eng. xiv. 241 To postpose an adjective as in ‘the young man carbuncular’. 1978 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 106 It is obvious that there are similarities..between the rule of extraposition which postposes the string into the heavens in (46 b) and the one which postposes into the clouds in (42 b). 1994 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 7 121 The form man (you, one), preposed or postposed, is always clitic and thus permits no insertion at all between man and the verb. Derivatives postˈposed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > placed after postpositive1712 postposed1860 postpositional1968 1860 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 7 331 To indicate the nasalization of a vowel..Prof. Lepsius employs the Greek circumflex above it..: where this is for practical reasons not available, a postposed superior n (as an, on, un) is a very good substitute. 1927 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. III. i. 19 Postposed adjectives are not in general accord with colloquial English. 1993 T. Givón Eng. Gram. II. 312 Post-posed purpose clauses most typically describe the purpose of the main-clause subject in initiating the event. postˈposing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > placing of word after postposition1586 postposing1971 postpositioning1973 1971 Language 47 278 A second useful fact about Postposing may be inferred using the fact that it is structure-preserving. 1975 Language 51 815 Passivization..may involve not one but two transformational operations—subject postposing and object preposing. 1988 Eng. World-wide 9 172 A noun phrase may be focused by postposing, ‘He's a complete idiot, that brother of yours’, preposing, ‘Your friend John, I saw him here last night’, or even interposing, ‘He's got a good future, your brother, if he perseveres’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1598 |
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