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单词 punctuated
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punctuatedadj.

Brit. /ˈpʌŋ(k)tʃʊeɪtᵻd/, /ˈpʌŋ(k)tjʊeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈpəŋ(k)(t)ʃəˌweɪdᵻd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: punctuate v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < punctuate v. + -ed suffix1.With sense 1 compare French ponctué (of animals) marked with spots (1778 in this sense), and compare slightly earlier punctated adj. 2 and slightly later punctate adj. 1.
1. Chiefly Botany, Zoology, and Medicine = punctate adj. 1.
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > pitted or punctate
maculous?a1425
maculose1727
punctuated1754
punctate1760
punctured1769
punctuate1872
the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > dappled or spotted > having minute dots
punctated1752
punctuated1754
punctate1760
irrorate1826
powdered1832
punctiform1839
irrorated1843
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [adjective] > marked with points or dots
guttated1727
maculose1727
punctated1752
punctate1760
puncticulate1800
punctuated1821
guttate1826
punctiform1839
tripunctate1872
guttiform1874
triguttulate1887
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 158/2 at Anona The fruit is a large berry, of an oval figure, covered with a squamose punctuated bark.
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. XII. 486 The Punctuated Viper... This species..is ash-coloured above and yellow underneath, having nine small black points or spots on the belly.
1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest i. ii. i. 146 This punctuated appearance is unquestionably a character of the inflammation.
1887 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 8 70 A circular ornament of beaten gold, decorated with five punctuated triangles at the upper edge.
1941 R. T. Cotton Insect Pests Stored Grain & Grain Products i. 36 In the black fungus beetle the surface of the thorax is coarsely and profusely punctuated.
2004 Pathol. Res. & Pract. 200 233/1 Large adrenal calcific deposits are very rarely observed, even if finely punctuated calcifications may be usually detected.
2. Of a text, etc.: provided with punctuation. Also in extended use.
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1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 128/1 It must not be supposed that those [stops] which are usually inserted even in well punctuated books are sufficient [as a guide to reading].
1896 Jewish Q. Rev. 8 507 Where these words occur only the consonants are given in the text,..whilst the punctuated Qerê is indicated in the notes.
1912 Trans. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 1910 109 What appears to be a punctuated m-rune is used for v as in the initial character of the name Vinland.
1949 A. Bose T. S. Eliot: Symp. 228 Fragmentary imagery, truncated syntax and broken rhythm, presenting a discontinuity on the surface and corresponding to a punctuated movement of thought.
1990 Gramophone May 1982/3 A fiercely reverberant acoustic means that the many bass-drum-and-cymbal-punctuated tuttis coarsen horribly.
2005 Ploughshares (Nexis) 22 Dec. 191 I wanted to return to a punctuated poem, in order to help make the radical shifts in tone a little less disconcerting to the reader.
3. Biology. Designating or relating to a model of evolution as proceeding by isolated outbursts of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change; evolutionary development of this kind; also in extended use. Originally and chiefly in punctuated equilibrium.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
theory of preformation1756
Darwinizing1807
development hypothesis1845
generationism1847
theory of evolution1858
Darwinism1860
Darwinianism1861
monogenesis1864
monogenism1865
monogeny1865
pangenesis1868
evolutionism1869
phylogeny1869
polygenism1871
derivation1874
phylogenesis1875
transformism1878
biogenetic law1879
gastraea theory1879
fortuitism1881
organicism1883
hereditism1884
kinetogenesis1884
Lamarckianism1884
Lamarckism1884
neo-Lamarckianism1884
monogenesy1885
neo-Lamarckism1887
preformationism1890
neo-Darwinism1891
blastogenesis1893
Haeckel-ismus1894
Weismannism1894
preformism1895
Haeckelism1899
mutation theory1902
directivity1903
Mendelianism1903
Mendelism1903
hereditarianism1906
mutationism1912
selectionism1912
hologenesis1931
parsimony1931
Morganism1934
Lysenkoism1948
neutralism1972
punctuated equilibrium1972
saltationism1975
punctuationism1977
punctuationalism1978
adaptationism1980
geneticism1984
adaptationalism1985
1972 N. Eldredge & S. J. Gould in T. J. M. Schopf Models in Paleobiol. 109 We have..named our alternate picture..punctuated equilibria.
1978 Evolutionary Biol. 11 596 (caption) In the actual example of punctuated equilibrium reported on..the change between two species of the same genus..was actually observed.
1984 A. Hoffman in M. K. Hecht et al. Evolutionary Biol. XVIII. i. 4 Many other cases of allegedly punctuated versus phyletic evolution are subject to ongoing debate.
1984 Compar. Politics 16 243 Punctuated equilibrium is an apt description of an analytic stance that sees political institutions enduring over long periods once they are established.
1989 Sci. Amer. June 37/2 We claim that folds are built..in a punctuated fashion by successive earthquakes over hundreds of thousands or millions of years, rather than by slow, steady deformation.
1996 R. Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable (1997) iii. 95 Depending on your definition, the theory of punctuated equilibrium is either modest and possibly true or it is revolutionary and probably false.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 May 52/2 Punctuated equilibrium posits that these species come into existence relatively rapidly (over tens of thousands of years).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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