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单词 heteroclite
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Definition of heteroclite in English:

heteroclite

adjective ˈhɛt(ə)rə(ʊ)klʌɪtˈhɛdərəˌklaɪt
formal
  • Abnormal or irregular.

    the book suffers from the heteroclite and ill-fitting nature of its various elements
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lefebvre's Marxism was heteroclite, and was heavily informed via his engagement with other thinkers.
    • In America on the other hand, immigrant publics, with weakened connexions to heteroclite pasts, could only be aggregated by narrative and visual schemas stripped to their most abstract, recursive common denominators.
    • His objection to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics lies in its lack of uniform argument or quality: ‘It is heteroclite, a hodge-podge of astute comment and utter bosh’.
    Synonyms
    unorthodox, unconventional, non-standard, unusual, uncommon, unwonted, out of the ordinary, radical, revolutionary, nonconformist, unconforming, irregular, offbeat, off-centre, avant-garde
noun ˈhɛt(ə)rə(ʊ)klʌɪtˈhɛdərəˌklaɪt
formal
  • 1An abnormal thing or person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The most monomaniacal and extreme of Berlin Dadaists, Johannes Baader is to Dada what Byron is to Romanticism, ultimately inassimilable and heteroclitic among heteroclites.
    • The ` moderns’ includes Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto and the ` heteroclites’ (a term used to describe those designers mixing styles from a number of sources such as surrealism and popular culture) features Gio Ponti and Isamu Noguchi.
    1. 1.1 An irregularly declined word, especially a Greek or Latin noun.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is not space here to catalogue the various irregularities, heteroclites, metaplastic forms, etc., of Attic Greek, but the lists given in Kuehner-Blass, or any other of the more elaborate Greek grammars, are enough to convince the most skeptical.
      • Lily had intended to supply a text on heteroclites, and Robertson did so; but no text is here mentioned.

Derivatives

  • heteroclitic

  • adjective
    formal
    • One strategy to improve the immune reaction is to make what are called heteroclitic antigen variants.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This server provides a computerised approach to the design of heteroclitic peptides, using the additive method to calculate affinities.
      • INNO - 305 also utilizes heteroclitic technology in which the wild-type WT1 sequences are altered to improve the immunotherapeutic's ability to activate T-cells.

Origin

Late 15th century: via late Latin from Greek heteroklitos, from heteros 'other' + -klitos 'inflected' (from klinein 'to lean, inflect').

 
 

Definition of heteroclite in US English:

heteroclite

adjectiveˈhedərəˌklītˈhɛdərəˌklaɪt
formal
  • Abnormal or irregular.

    the book suffers from the heteroclite and ill-fitting nature of its various elements
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lefebvre's Marxism was heteroclite, and was heavily informed via his engagement with other thinkers.
    • In America on the other hand, immigrant publics, with weakened connexions to heteroclite pasts, could only be aggregated by narrative and visual schemas stripped to their most abstract, recursive common denominators.
    • His objection to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics lies in its lack of uniform argument or quality: ‘It is heteroclite, a hodge-podge of astute comment and utter bosh’.
    Synonyms
    unorthodox, unconventional, non-standard, unusual, uncommon, unwonted, out of the ordinary, radical, revolutionary, nonconformist, unconforming, irregular, offbeat, off-centre, avant-garde
nounˈhedərəˌklītˈhɛdərəˌklaɪt
formal
  • 1An abnormal thing or person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The ` moderns’ includes Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto and the ` heteroclites’ (a term used to describe those designers mixing styles from a number of sources such as surrealism and popular culture) features Gio Ponti and Isamu Noguchi.
    • The most monomaniacal and extreme of Berlin Dadaists, Johannes Baader is to Dada what Byron is to Romanticism, ultimately inassimilable and heteroclitic among heteroclites.
    1. 1.1 An irregularly declined word, especially a Greek or Latin noun.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Lily had intended to supply a text on heteroclites, and Robertson did so; but no text is here mentioned.
      • There is not space here to catalogue the various irregularities, heteroclites, metaplastic forms, etc., of Attic Greek, but the lists given in Kuehner-Blass, or any other of the more elaborate Greek grammars, are enough to convince the most skeptical.

Origin

Late 15th century: via late Latin from Greek heteroklitos, from heteros ‘other’ + -klitos ‘inflected’ (from klinein ‘to lean, inflect’).

 
 
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