recessiveadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈsɛsɪv/, U.S.

/rəˈsɛsɪv/,

/riˈsɛsɪv/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin recess- , recēdere , -ive suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin recess-, past participial stem of recēdere recede v.¹ + -ive suffix.In sense A. 2 after German recessiv (G. J. Mendel, Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden, in Verhandl. der Naturforschung Vereins, Brünn (1865) 4 10).

A. adj.

a. Tending to recede or regress; yielding; secluded. Also: (of people) retiring, reserved.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > going away specifically of things

receding1653

recessive1654

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xiv. 328 When the particles of an Humor so insinuate themselves among the closely cohærent particles of a Hard body..they intermix among them, and so..cause the bodie to become yeelding and recessive.

1673 N. Grew Acct. Vegetation of Roots in Idea Phytol. Hist. 122 They will also be more pliable and recessive from the Centre.

1721 J. Clarke Enq. Cause & Orig. Moral Evil 23 That the constituent Particles of it should be indued with particular impulsive or recessive Forces.

1739 B. Morrice Miscellany 26 As wanton Winds can never fix'd remain, In Eddies visit the recessive Lane.

1837 Mag. Pop. Sci. 3 358 The impulse forward imparted to the air by one glass, is nearly as strong as the recessive impulse from the other.

1842 R. W. Hamilton Missions 37 To ask..why the ages were so dark, and the agitations of society so recessive,—is to object but not to reason.

1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. i. xiii. 95 She, for her part, felt recessive and thence evasive.

1988 F. Kaplan Dickens iii. 67 The dominant Hogarth complexion was creamy pale..the eyes bright blue, the chin recessive, the hair blond.

2007 New Yorker 19 Mar. 144/1 Kevin Kline is a recessive star,..but not recessive to the point of becoming knotted up in his own acting.

b. Phonetics. Of an accent: falling near or on the first syllable of a word.

ΚΠ

1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (new ed.) 27 In the majority of words, it recedes as far from the end as the foregoing rules allow; when thus placed, it may be called recessive accent.

1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 168/1 He [sc. the latinist] has still to reckon with the recessive-accent tendency, which has as good a right to a voice in the matter as his erudition.

1973 A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek v. 171 Action nouns..have recessive accent if masculine but final accent if feminine.

2000 R. L. Trask Dict. Hist. & Compar. Ling. 275 Recessive accent is pervasive in the Germanic languages, including modern English.

c. Of a language or linguistic feature: falling into disuse; obsolescent, moribund.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > falling out of use > that tends to

recessive1929

1929 Times 17 Dec. 15/4 Always begin the new line with a consonant, was the ancient Roman rule..and this rule was for a long time kept strictly in England, and is still a traditional, though a recessive, factor.

1935 Univ. Michigan Publ. Lang. & Lit. 13 14 Inasmuch as the -eth plural was a recessive characteristic, we naturally find the -e(n) form as well as the -eth form occurring south of this line.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 172 Possibly coal hod is a recessive form on the Banks.

2004 S. Wilson & R. Mesthrie Handbk. Varieties of Eng. 1010 It is a recessive form, judging from..the fact that it occurs rarely in our data base and only with older speakers.

2. Biology. Of a gene, allele, or hereditary trait: perceptibly expressed only when inherited from both parents, i.e. in homozygotes, being masked in heterozygotes by a dominant allele or trait (also with to the dominant allele or trait). Also: (of an organism) expressing such a trait.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > allele > dominant or recessive

recessive1900

non-dominant1917

pseudodominant1958

1900 W. Bateson in Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 25 58 In the case of each pair of characters there is thus one which in the first cross prevails to the exclusion of the other. This prevailing character Mendel calls the dominant character, the other being the recessive character.

1921 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts of Dean x. 246 In the terminology of Mendel, these diseases are recessive in the female sex and dominant in the male.

1930 R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory Nat. Selection iii. 52 The pronounced tendency of the mutant gene to be recessive, to the gene of wild type from which it arises, calls for explanation.

1950 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 113 123 To obtain a culture isogenic with the recessive parent, employ the usual backcross procedure.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 78 A single recessive gene produces the phenomenon of skipping generations and of carriers who do not show the condition themselves; certain kinds of mental deficiency are like this.

1971 D. J. Cove Genetics ii. 14 If a heterozygous strain..resembles the strain homozygous for the A allele,..the a allele is said to be recessive to the A allele.

1994 Dog World Feb. 28/1 Both breeds can carry black-and-tan as a recessive trait with some of these showing it as a ‘red sesame’ appearance (tips of some hairs are black).

2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 21/3 Colour experimentation proceeded apace and the Danish pied, also known as the recessive pied or harlequin, arrived in 1932.

3. Of or relating to economic recession; undergoing an economic recession.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > relating to states or trends of the economy

anti-inflation1870

anti-inflationist1874

robust1886

static1890

recessionary1897

deflationary1920

inflationary1920

maximized1920

mature1928

recessional1929

anti-inflationary1932

reflationary1932

reflationist1932

Kondratieff1935

anti-cyclical1938

flatline1946

maximizing1949

stagnationist1951

countercyclical1952

recessed1956

recessive1971

stagflationary1971

flatlined1986

1971 Times 17 July 18 There was in later months equally a dull, indeed a recessive market.

1983 P. Gzowski Unbroken Line i. 49 Attendance at racetracks goes up in recessive times.

1991 Westcoast Logger July 33/2 Bjorkland explained that this year's recessive housing market was the direct cause of the plant's shutdown.

2007 Internat. Rev. Financial Anal. (Nexis) 16 390 No improvements are observed for firms that were divested during recessive cycles.

B. n. Biology.

An individual in which a particular recessive allele is expressed; a recessive allele or trait.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > allele > dominant or recessive

recessiveness1896

recessive1900

dominance1902

coupling1906

pseudodominance1921

pseudodominant1948

1900 W. Bateson in Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 25 58 Mendel discovered that in this generation the numerical proportion of dominants to recessives is approximately constant, being in fact as three to one.

1931 E. B. Ford Mendelism & Evol. ii. iii. 47 The first gene to be discovered in Drosophila simulans was that for yellow body-colour. It is a sex-linked recessive.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xx. 343 The third kind (tt) were homozygous for dwarfness and were the pure recessives of Mendel's F₂ generation.

1998 Science 24 Apr. 505/2 Hemophilia, being an X-linked recessive condition, does not ‘hide’ like an autosomally coded recessive: it is expressed in all the hemizygous sons of a carrier mother.

Derivatives

reˈcessively adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > backwards in time or into the past

upwardc1055

backward1562

retro1634

upwards1689

back1711

recessively1880

1880 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 127 Possessive compounds..are always, or almost always, accented recessively.

1886 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 494 As she [sc. Greece] passes recessively from the grand Attic period to the Spartan, the Theban, the Macedonian, and the Asiatic.

1941 Sci. Monthly Apr. 362/1 Other important recessively determined types of mental defect are associated with symmetrical paralysis of both sides of the body from birth or any early age.

1977 J. Crosby Company of Friends Epil. 227 Valentina bowing recessively, staying out of the mainstream of the melody.

2004 M. V. Adams Fantasy Princ. viii. 108 Jung says that all people are ‘contrasexed’. For example, a person who is dominantly male is recessively female.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	recessive
释义	recessiveadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈsɛsɪv/, U.S. /rəˈsɛsɪv/, /riˈsɛsɪv/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin recess- , recēdere , -ive suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin recess-, past participial stem of recēdere recede v.¹ + -ive suffix.In sense A. 2 after German recessiv (G. J. Mendel, Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden, in Verhandl. der Naturforschung Vereins, Brünn (1865) 4 10). A. adj. 1. a. Tending to recede or regress; yielding; secluded. Also: (of people) retiring, reserved. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > going away specifically of things receding1653 recessive1654 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xiv. 328 When the particles of an Humor so insinuate themselves among the closely cohærent particles of a Hard body..they intermix among them, and so..cause the bodie to become yeelding and recessive. 1673 N. Grew Acct. Vegetation of Roots in Idea Phytol. Hist. 122 They will also be more pliable and recessive from the Centre. 1721 J. Clarke Enq. Cause & Orig. Moral Evil 23 That the constituent Particles of it should be indued with particular impulsive or recessive Forces. 1739 B. Morrice Miscellany 26 As wanton Winds can never fix'd remain, In Eddies visit the recessive Lane. 1837 Mag. Pop. Sci. 3 358 The impulse forward imparted to the air by one glass, is nearly as strong as the recessive impulse from the other. 1842 R. W. Hamilton Missions 37 To ask..why the ages were so dark, and the agitations of society so recessive,—is to object but not to reason. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. i. xiii. 95 She, for her part, felt recessive and thence evasive. 1988 F. Kaplan Dickens iii. 67 The dominant Hogarth complexion was creamy pale..the eyes bright blue, the chin recessive, the hair blond. 2007 New Yorker 19 Mar. 144/1 Kevin Kline is a recessive star,..but not recessive to the point of becoming knotted up in his own acting. b. Phonetics. Of an accent: falling near or on the first syllable of a word. ΚΠ 1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (new ed.) 27 In the majority of words, it recedes as far from the end as the foregoing rules allow; when thus placed, it may be called recessive accent. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 168/1 He [sc. the latinist] has still to reckon with the recessive-accent tendency, which has as good a right to a voice in the matter as his erudition. 1973 A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek v. 171 Action nouns..have recessive accent if masculine but final accent if feminine. 2000 R. L. Trask Dict. Hist. & Compar. Ling. 275 Recessive accent is pervasive in the Germanic languages, including modern English. c. Of a language or linguistic feature: falling into disuse; obsolescent, moribund. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > falling out of use > that tends to recessive1929 1929 Times 17 Dec. 15/4 Always begin the new line with a consonant, was the ancient Roman rule..and this rule was for a long time kept strictly in England, and is still a traditional, though a recessive, factor. 1935 Univ. Michigan Publ. Lang. & Lit. 13 14 Inasmuch as the -eth plural was a recessive characteristic, we naturally find the -e(n) form as well as the -eth form occurring south of this line. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 172 Possibly coal hod is a recessive form on the Banks. 2004 S. Wilson & R. Mesthrie Handbk. Varieties of Eng. 1010 It is a recessive form, judging from..the fact that it occurs rarely in our data base and only with older speakers. 2. Biology. Of a gene, allele, or hereditary trait: perceptibly expressed only when inherited from both parents, i.e. in homozygotes, being masked in heterozygotes by a dominant allele or trait (also with to the dominant allele or trait). Also: (of an organism) expressing such a trait. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > allele > dominant or recessive recessive1900 non-dominant1917 pseudodominant1958 1900 W. Bateson in Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 25 58 In the case of each pair of characters there is thus one which in the first cross prevails to the exclusion of the other. This prevailing character Mendel calls the dominant character, the other being the recessive character. 1921 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts of Dean x. 246 In the terminology of Mendel, these diseases are recessive in the female sex and dominant in the male. 1930 R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory Nat. Selection iii. 52 The pronounced tendency of the mutant gene to be recessive, to the gene of wild type from which it arises, calls for explanation. 1950 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 113 123 To obtain a culture isogenic with the recessive parent, employ the usual backcross procedure. 1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 78 A single recessive gene produces the phenomenon of skipping generations and of carriers who do not show the condition themselves; certain kinds of mental deficiency are like this. 1971 D. J. Cove Genetics ii. 14 If a heterozygous strain..resembles the strain homozygous for the A allele,..the a allele is said to be recessive to the A allele. 1994 Dog World Feb. 28/1 Both breeds can carry black-and-tan as a recessive trait with some of these showing it as a ‘red sesame’ appearance (tips of some hairs are black). 2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 21/3 Colour experimentation proceeded apace and the Danish pied, also known as the recessive pied or harlequin, arrived in 1932. 3. Of or relating to economic recession; undergoing an economic recession. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > relating to states or trends of the economy anti-inflation1870 anti-inflationist1874 robust1886 static1890 recessionary1897 deflationary1920 inflationary1920 maximized1920 mature1928 recessional1929 anti-inflationary1932 reflationary1932 reflationist1932 Kondratieff1935 anti-cyclical1938 flatline1946 maximizing1949 stagnationist1951 countercyclical1952 recessed1956 recessive1971 stagflationary1971 flatlined1986 1971 Times 17 July 18 There was in later months equally a dull, indeed a recessive market. 1983 P. Gzowski Unbroken Line i. 49 Attendance at racetracks goes up in recessive times. 1991 Westcoast Logger July 33/2 Bjorkland explained that this year's recessive housing market was the direct cause of the plant's shutdown. 2007 Internat. Rev. Financial Anal. (Nexis) 16 390 No improvements are observed for firms that were divested during recessive cycles. B. n. Biology. An individual in which a particular recessive allele is expressed; a recessive allele or trait. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > allele > dominant or recessive recessiveness1896 recessive1900 dominance1902 coupling1906 pseudodominance1921 pseudodominant1948 1900 W. Bateson in Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 25 58 Mendel discovered that in this generation the numerical proportion of dominants to recessives is approximately constant, being in fact as three to one. 1931 E. B. Ford Mendelism & Evol. ii. iii. 47 The first gene to be discovered in Drosophila simulans was that for yellow body-colour. It is a sex-linked recessive. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xx. 343 The third kind (tt) were homozygous for dwarfness and were the pure recessives of Mendel's F₂ generation. 1998 Science 24 Apr. 505/2 Hemophilia, being an X-linked recessive condition, does not ‘hide’ like an autosomally coded recessive: it is expressed in all the hemizygous sons of a carrier mother. Derivatives reˈcessively adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > backwards in time or into the past upwardc1055 backward1562 retro1634 upwards1689 back1711 recessively1880 1880 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 127 Possessive compounds..are always, or almost always, accented recessively. 1886 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 494 As she [sc. Greece] passes recessively from the grand Attic period to the Spartan, the Theban, the Macedonian, and the Asiatic. 1941 Sci. Monthly Apr. 362/1 Other important recessively determined types of mental defect are associated with symmetrical paralysis of both sides of the body from birth or any early age. 1977 J. Crosby Company of Friends Epil. 227 Valentina bowing recessively, staying out of the mainstream of the melody. 2004 M. V. Adams Fantasy Princ. viii. 108 Jung says that all people are ‘contrasexed’. For example, a person who is dominantly male is recessively female. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1654
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