请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 determiner
释义

Definition of determiner in English:

determiner

noun dɪˈtəːmɪnədəˈtərmənər
  • 1A person or thing that determines or decides something.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Supreme Court of Florida, which is the ultimate determiner of Florida law, you know, literally they read the statute.
    • They are really acting like they are the sole determiner of American foreign policy.
    • Hannah's words act as a determiner of Sula's defiance.
    • The tribe should be the sole determiner of membership and the Supreme Court has upheld this setup.
    • The real surprise is that in terms of total population and population density (the things I think are the biggest single determiners of whether a railway is viable or not) Los Angeles is remarkably similar to both New York and London.
    • But there is a powerful class that looks upon Madurai's response as the determiner of the happenings elsewhere in the State.
    • Todorov, Jauss and Culler all decentre the text (and by implication, I think, author intention) as the determiner of genre, and introduce the idea that genres are formed in relation to reader reception and expectation.
    • The determiner of whether something should be legalised is surely ‘is it right’?
    • This new artistic trend has been publicized and sanctified by the great determiner of what's hot and who's who, the Whitney Biennial; by galleries across Canada and the US; and by the art sections in independent booksellers.
    • It received mixed reviews, possibly because it is reasonable to focus upon the actors as the main determiner of success.
    • Parents are the prime determiners of how their children feel about the world.
    • In this case, as in the many other peaks and valleys of economic history, B.C. was not sole determiner of its fate, nor is it likely to be in the future.
    • The judge will be the final determiner and that is in November and our panel will assemble right after this.
    • And the judge had an opportunity, as an independent determiner of facts, to determine whether or not she is in a persistent vegetative state.
    • Your tension that you have outlined particularly was in terms of being that visible operational leader and determiner of the future in some ways, combined with - or as opposed to the general day-to-day perhaps running of the business.
    • You don't have, in your heart, a guiding determiner between what is right and wrong.
    • The second, almost a throwaway, notes that a rise in net income isn't the only determiner of whether you've moved up.
    • However, it may be a legitimate determiner, since physical disability may stem from, but not be limited to, the following factors: birth defect, infirmity, malformation, disfigurement, illness or bodily injury.
    Synonyms
    judge, authority, controller, director, governor, master, expert, pundit, critic
  • 2Grammar
    A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.

    See also article
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every noun phrase has a particular curve associated with it that is described by a lowering of pitch after the determiner and then a rise again after the noun.
    • It's not true that determiners are always atomic, certainly - it's normal for them to show gender and number agreement, of course, and there are some other sorts of morphologically complex determiners as well.
    • In this intermediate period, especially indefinite determiners seem to be distributed in a quite clear cut way according to the specificity of the referents introduced by the respective noun phrases.
    • I'm no kind of expert on translation, but if they'd asked me, I would have been tempted to nominate some morphological category like inchoative, or some preposition or determiner.
    • The idea that the determiner heads a noun phrase might seem counterintuitive to some readers.
 
 

Definition of determiner in US English:

determiner

noundəˈtərmənərdəˈtərmənər
  • 1A person or thing that determines or decides something.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The judge will be the final determiner and that is in November and our panel will assemble right after this.
    • In this case, as in the many other peaks and valleys of economic history, B.C. was not sole determiner of its fate, nor is it likely to be in the future.
    • Hannah's words act as a determiner of Sula's defiance.
    • The Supreme Court of Florida, which is the ultimate determiner of Florida law, you know, literally they read the statute.
    • It received mixed reviews, possibly because it is reasonable to focus upon the actors as the main determiner of success.
    • And the judge had an opportunity, as an independent determiner of facts, to determine whether or not she is in a persistent vegetative state.
    • The determiner of whether something should be legalised is surely ‘is it right’?
    • But there is a powerful class that looks upon Madurai's response as the determiner of the happenings elsewhere in the State.
    • Your tension that you have outlined particularly was in terms of being that visible operational leader and determiner of the future in some ways, combined with - or as opposed to the general day-to-day perhaps running of the business.
    • They are really acting like they are the sole determiner of American foreign policy.
    • Todorov, Jauss and Culler all decentre the text (and by implication, I think, author intention) as the determiner of genre, and introduce the idea that genres are formed in relation to reader reception and expectation.
    • However, it may be a legitimate determiner, since physical disability may stem from, but not be limited to, the following factors: birth defect, infirmity, malformation, disfigurement, illness or bodily injury.
    • The second, almost a throwaway, notes that a rise in net income isn't the only determiner of whether you've moved up.
    • Parents are the prime determiners of how their children feel about the world.
    • The real surprise is that in terms of total population and population density (the things I think are the biggest single determiners of whether a railway is viable or not) Los Angeles is remarkably similar to both New York and London.
    • The tribe should be the sole determiner of membership and the Supreme Court has upheld this setup.
    • This new artistic trend has been publicized and sanctified by the great determiner of what's hot and who's who, the Whitney Biennial; by galleries across Canada and the US; and by the art sections in independent booksellers.
    • You don't have, in your heart, a guiding determiner between what is right and wrong.
    Synonyms
    judge, authority, controller, director, governor, master, expert, pundit, critic
  • 2Grammar
    A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.

    See also definite article, indefinite article
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The idea that the determiner heads a noun phrase might seem counterintuitive to some readers.
    • It's not true that determiners are always atomic, certainly - it's normal for them to show gender and number agreement, of course, and there are some other sorts of morphologically complex determiners as well.
    • In this intermediate period, especially indefinite determiners seem to be distributed in a quite clear cut way according to the specificity of the referents introduced by the respective noun phrases.
    • I'm no kind of expert on translation, but if they'd asked me, I would have been tempted to nominate some morphological category like inchoative, or some preposition or determiner.
    • Every noun phrase has a particular curve associated with it that is described by a lowering of pitch after the determiner and then a rise again after the noun.
 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 15:12:15