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单词 successive
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Definition of successive in English:

successive

adjective səkˈsɛsɪvsəkˈsɛsɪv
  • attributive Following one another or following others.

    they were looking for their fifth successive win
    Example sentencesExamples
    • London routed hapless Halifax to record their third successive Super League home win.
    • They kept six successive clean sheets on their way to winning in Mali two years ago.
    • The Reds soaked up immense pressure placed late on to win their second successive game.
    • Great Britain will be hoping for a hat trick of golds today to add to the two won in successive days in Athens.
    • They are in a strong position this term, however, having clocked up eight successive wins.
    • When entries from the Harrogate District won in successive years it was a triumph.
    • The following centuries saw the successive rise and fall of new civilisations.
    • There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments.
    • If Congs continue in this vein it will be a brave man who bets against them winning a fourth successive title.
    • This is the second successive win for this horse who is proving to be a right good one.
    • It was his third successive tournament triumph after winning on grass at Halle and Wimbledon.
    • This was a great way to start a year that will hopefully see the boys win their third successive title.
    • Bury is one of only five councils to move up a place in successive years.
    • The Swede produces two successive winning returns to win the game and level the set.
    • This was their ninth successive win and it took them to the top of Division Two.
    • Two months ago and half a world away, England won their fourth successive Test series.
    • York will be bidding for a third successive win following victories at Hull and at home to Horden last week.
    • For the third successive year the centre had won the Gradam award for the best run centre.
    • For centuries the land has been tilled by successive generations of farmers.
    • Joel has already won the West Yorkshire race series with three successive wins.
    Synonyms
    consecutive, in a row, straight, solid, sequential, succeeding, in succession, following, serial, running, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted
    informal on the trot
    rare seriate

Derivatives

  • successiveness

  • noun
    • For in all change there is successiveness, one part coming after another, and from our numbering antecedent and consequent parts of change there arises the notion of time, which is simply the numberedness of before and after in change.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In order to achieve the object described above, according to one aspect of this invention, given data is compressed on the basis of the successiveness of identical patterns in one-byte unit as by the prior art method and after that the information thus obtained by the compression described above is rearranged so that it can be again compressed and compressed once more.
      • This inadequacy is partly inherent in the fact that our terms and categories belong to discourse taken from this world of space, time, and successiveness.
      • What you need is to represent a successiveness in the series of appearances, and in the successiveness you need to represent an existence which follows from the non-existent, and hence you need to represent a change.
      • This is a successiveness that becomes real only when the succession is completed.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin successivus, from success- 'followed closely', from the verb succedere (see succeed).

Rhymes

aggressive, compressive, concessive, degressive, depressive, digressive, excessive, expressive, impressive, obsessive, oppressive, possessive, progressive, recessive, regressive, repressive, retrogressive, transgressive
 
 

Definition of successive in US English:

successive

adjectivesəkˈsesivsəkˈsɛsɪv
  • attributive Following one another or following others.

    they were looking for their fifth successive win
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is the second successive win for this horse who is proving to be a right good one.
    • There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments.
    • They kept six successive clean sheets on their way to winning in Mali two years ago.
    • York will be bidding for a third successive win following victories at Hull and at home to Horden last week.
    • For centuries the land has been tilled by successive generations of farmers.
    • When entries from the Harrogate District won in successive years it was a triumph.
    • Joel has already won the West Yorkshire race series with three successive wins.
    • If Congs continue in this vein it will be a brave man who bets against them winning a fourth successive title.
    • London routed hapless Halifax to record their third successive Super League home win.
    • Great Britain will be hoping for a hat trick of golds today to add to the two won in successive days in Athens.
    • This was a great way to start a year that will hopefully see the boys win their third successive title.
    • The Swede produces two successive winning returns to win the game and level the set.
    • The Reds soaked up immense pressure placed late on to win their second successive game.
    • Bury is one of only five councils to move up a place in successive years.
    • It was his third successive tournament triumph after winning on grass at Halle and Wimbledon.
    • For the third successive year the centre had won the Gradam award for the best run centre.
    • The following centuries saw the successive rise and fall of new civilisations.
    • This was their ninth successive win and it took them to the top of Division Two.
    • They are in a strong position this term, however, having clocked up eight successive wins.
    • Two months ago and half a world away, England won their fourth successive Test series.
    Synonyms
    consecutive, in a row, straight, solid, sequential, succeeding, in succession, following, serial, running, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin successivus, from success- ‘followed closely’, from the verb succedere (see succeed).

 
 
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