单词 | unorganizable |
释义 | unorganizableadj. 1. Medicine and Biology. Not able to be converted into organized tissue. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > absence of life or consciousness > [adjective] > inorganic > not brought into organic state > not capable of being brought into organic state unorganizable1827 1827 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 236 A limb laden with such a mass of unorganisable coagulum and disorganised structure. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 515/2 The floor is covered by dead or dying unorganizable materials, without any layer of regenerative cells. 1988 Jrnl. Theoret. Biol. 134 189 We hypothesized that the presence of an inhibitor..rendered the limb tip mesenchyme ‘unorganizable’ during these abrupt transitions. 2. Not organizable; unsusceptible to ordering or regulation; spec. (of a group) incapable of forming a trade union, political party, or similar body. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective] > not organized > incapable of being organized unorganizable1844 inorganizable1883 1844 C. MacFarlane French Revol. I. iv. 42/1 We may briefly describe the composition of the unorganized and unorganizable body. 1868 R. H. Quick Ess. Educ. Reformers viii. 222 To cram the mind with isolated, or as Mr. Spencer calls them, unorganizable facts. 1910 J. Jastrow Qualities of Men vi. 73 The idiosyncrasies of unorganizable genius. 1968 Punch 13 Nov. 699/2 He needs the presence of a few idiosyncratic, unorganisable creatures. 2013 J. Becker Campaigning for Justice i. ii. 35 It gave domestic workers a voice and demonstrated that a so-called unorganizable group could, in fact, be organized. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1827 |
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