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单词 update
释义

updaten.

Brit. /ˈʌpdeɪt/, U.S. /ˈəpˌdeɪt/
Etymology: < update v.
Originally U.S.
1. New information received or supplied; an updated version of something. Also, an account or report of the present state of affairs. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > [noun] > new
news1532
noos1862
hap1957
update1967
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > modernizing > updated version
modernization1830
update1967
1967 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 804/3 Update, current information for use by a computer in order to make the calculations necessary for achieving a particular goal.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon v. 116 When you're ready to copy..I've got a couple of small flight plan updates.
1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch ix. 92 Thanks for the update. Keep on it.
1976 Physics Bull. July 313/2 Quarterly updates are available for each course.
1977 H. Greene FSO-1 xiii. 119 One of his people will..give you a full update on related problems.
1983 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 417/1 The editors of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine have bridged the gap between the 9th and 10th editions with a series of up~dates.
1984 Miami Herald 6 Apr. 11 d/1 An embarrassing update of the 1960s comedy filmed on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
1985 Times 5 Jan. 17/7 The new album is a high~grade Motown update, funky, sleek and packed with potential hits.
2. The action or result of updating; the supplying of new information, data, etc. Frequently in Computing.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > updating
updating1959
updater1961
update1968
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > modernizing
modernization1770
modernizing1829
updating1959
aggiornamento1962
update1968
1968 Amer. Documentation Jan. 75/1 Thus, interrogations, extractions and updates can be based upon items or subitems, but not upon units smaller than these.
1972 Computer Jrnl. 15 191/2 The effect, of course, is to put the clock back to the time of the last dump and all updates made since then must be repeated.
1976 Gramophone Aug. 353/3 Such ‘updates’ as they are called, involve switching individual tracks of the tape from the ‘read’ to the ‘write’ mode.
1982 ICL News No. 96. 5/1 A pre-Conference session..was followed by an overall update and presentations on latest versions of data management software.
3. attributive.
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1969 Sunday Times 13 July 13/2 Update pad, information on spacecraft attitudes, and other data, transmitted to the crew in standard format.
1972 Computers & Humanities 7 127 Working with this printout, the editor prepares data for the update module in which insignificant variants are deleted and citations added.
1983 Word Ways Nov. 197 It..is supplemented by update lists which the computer automatically generates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

updatev.

Brit. /ˌʌpˈdeɪt/, U.S. /ˌəpˈdeɪt/
Etymology: up- prefix 3a; compare up to date adv.
Originally U.S.
transitive.
a. To bring (information, esp. written material or material recorded in some other form) up to date.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > update (information)
update1948
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > make or render present [verb (transitive)] > make modern or update > information, etc.
to bring down1881
update1948
1948 Time 11 Oct. 22/1 [The speech] had been corrected and updated after last-minute teletype reports from..Paris.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 155/2 He would streamline the production, add a chorus of dancing girls, update the lyrics, and upjazz the music.
1962 C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare 12 All current allusions have been ‘updated’ (as of early 1962).
1979 Ottawa Law Rev. XI. 815 The entry for ‘Hudson's Bay Company’ needs to be updated.
b. To supply (a person) with the most recent information; to bring (a person) up to date.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > make or render present [verb (transitive)] > bring a person up-to-date
update1952
society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) > update
update1952
to read in1977
1952 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 14 Mar. 21/2 He updated me on a couple of gimmicks.
1970 J. Earl How to choose Tuners & Amplifiers 7 The book will have appeal, too, to the older hand, allowing him to become quickly updated without the task of researching into piles of technical literature.
1975 Sunday Times 16 Nov. 44/4 No doubt I'll update myself in a few weeks and emerge as a real Seventies mum.
c. Of equipment, processes, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > make or render present [verb (transitive)] > make modern or update > equipment, etc.
update1959
1959 Listener 4 June 998/1 This prescience has now been ‘up-dated’, as they say, by reference to nuclear warfare.
1970 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Feb. 7/2 Despite..updating the equipment to include new freezing facilities..this [whaling] venture also folded.
1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Oct. 45/1 To update the ‘dirty test tube’ analogy, the effects of the contaminants have been estimated and found to be minor.
1984 Daily Mail 1 Dec. 14/1 (advt.) This way, you can update your equipment whenever you want.

Derivatives

upˈdated adj. (Quot. 1910 is an isolated early British example.)
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society > communication > information > [adjective] > updated
updated1910
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern > modernizing > modernized or updated
modernized1748
new style1841
updated1910
1910 T. Hardy in Cornhill Mag. Jan. 6 Your up-dated modern page.
1954 Newsweek 27 Sept. 58/1 The new research center is an updated transplant of the National Bureau of Standards world-wide radio investigations formerly based in Washington.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 672/1 The plan adopted is said to be a revised and updated version of an outline plan for the development of the economy produced in 1975.
upˈdating n.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > updating
updating1959
updater1961
update1968
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > modernizing
modernization1770
modernizing1829
updating1959
aggiornamento1962
update1968
1959 Spectator 31 July 134/2 Despite the up-dating and jazzy typographical treatment, one fairly quickly perceives an enduring pattern of traditional attitudes.
1974 P. R. Adby & M. A. H. Dempster Introd. Optimization Methods iv. 96 Round-off errors in the computations of the up-dating process can lead to non-positive definitive Sk and divergence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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