Definition of ascribe in English:

ascribe

verb əˈskrʌɪbəˈskraɪb

[with object]ascribe something to

1Regard something as being due to (a cause)
he ascribed Jane's short temper to her upset stomach
Example sentencesExamples
- Cynthia ascribes his behaviour to his upbringing.
- In Avalonia this last period is ascribed to a rift or wrench regime.
- The substantial increase in the navy in this period is ascribed to him.
- Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us.
- The AP obituary says it was lung cancer and ascribes the disease to his smoking history, both of which I think are incorrect.
- As long as a believer ascribes his views to his faith, he can say anything he wants and if you don't like it, you're the bigot.
- The 39-year-old businessman ascribes his career to his exploratory spirit and wise management.
- She now involves an assistant who understands what she wants, though she still ascribes the results to chance.
- This derives from a study that says just the opposite, ascribing the mortality figure to physical inactivity, risky weight-loss processes and poor diet.
- He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools.
- Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility.
- Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity.
- In 1926 Brown published a paper in which he ascribed these fluctuations to irregular changes in the Earth's period of rotation which has subsequently proved correct.
- In addition, in ascribing such influence to church outreach your reader implicitly assumes that the poor in New Orleans are organized around effective, cohesive religious and ethnic communities.
- Yet the two reporters ascribed the development to rural poverty.
- Have you noticed how each of us is guilty of ascribing motives to other people's actions, yet so often get it wrong?
- He partly ascribed the problems to a shortage of skills at municipal level in treating drinking water and waste water.
Synonyms
attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute
lay on, pin on, blame on, lay at the door of
connect with, associate with
1. 1.1 Regard a text, quotation, or work of art as being produced by or belonging to (a particular person or period)
  a quotation ascribed to Thomas Cooper
  Synonyms
  attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute
2. 1.2 Regard a quality as belonging to.
  tough-mindedness is a quality commonly ascribed to top bosses
  Example sentencesExamples
  Culture and religion ascribe subservient roles to females.
  Thus, for me, semiotics suggested that you could not ascribe universal values to literary texts.
  Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings.
  The Qur'an itself legitimizes the existence of tribes and peoples without ascribing any superiority to one group over the other.
  I am quite sure that no blame can be ascribed to Islington in that regard.
  One wonders if they ascribed a healing power to the paintings themselves.
  The author, unfortunately, often ascribes human qualities to viruses, whereas he knows that survival depends on a high rate of replication and mutation to provide candidates to fit the challenge of the ever changing environment.
  I still think that mischievous, but not nearly as vile as ascribing messianic qualities to a single man.
  As a result, we not only treat these animals in ridiculous ways, but ascribe rights to them modelled on our own.
  Would your workers ascribe these qualities to you?
  But I bristle when a show expects I'll ascribe salutary characteristics to someone because of their sexuality; it's as silly as automatically assuming negative characteristics.
  There is no foundation for ascribing an energetic quality to a crystal simply because it has a particular appearance, colour or name.
  The important point is that all peoples have reacted to memories of the flood in the same way - by ascribing some fault to human beings; and one can see why this is so psychologically satisfying.
  We stopped ascribing any value to integration, and began flirting with the notion that host countries aren't legitimate entities with their own cultures, only political frameworks for various co-existing cultures.
  It would be nice to ascribe these ravings to a past generation, except I'm pretty sure her son, who lives in a cosmopolitan city, thinks the same way.
  In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory.
  However, it requires that we ascribe interests to entities that are unable to suffer any pain or frustration if their so-called interests are not met.
  Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society.
  The same mistake would be made in ascribing those attributes to the foundation.
  When this axiom is applied to the chart of the readings of the three versions above, it will be seen that there are good grounds for ascribing the originality to the Masoretic Text.
  I don't want to ascribe human reactions to my dog, because that spoils the joy of seeing things from a dog perspective.
  As a disciplined believer, Witwer sees the danger of ascribing holy attributes to a man-made creation, but at the same time understands that it signals the potential for divine jurisprudence.
  On one hand, there is a position that ascribes a narrow meaning to the definition of ‘associated entity’ often through strained interpretation and flawed logic.
  It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven.
  Synonyms
  lay, pin, place, impose, fix

Derivatives

ascribable

adjective əˈskrʌɪbəb(ə)l

To assess the statistical significance of basic differences between male and female subjects that were independent of any disturbances ascribable to shiftwork, we conducted an initial analysis.
Example sentencesExamples
- The similar level of satisfaction in our two study groups may be ascribable to this difference, as the family doctors may have compensated for any shortcomings related to the junior physicians' inexperience.
- The problem with trouser suits is that despite their democratic appeal, they lack the universal qualities ascribable to men's tailoring.
- Legislators make speeches, attend committee meetings, cast votes and leave a paper trail of positions taken and poses struck, mostly without consequences clearly ascribable to them as individuals.
- The reason for this difference is hypothetical and may be ascribable to two different phenomena.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin ascribere, from ad- 'to' + scribere 'write'.

Rhymes

bribe, gybe, imbibe, jibe, proscribe, scribe, subscribe, transcribe, tribe, vibe

Definition of ascribe in US English:

ascribe

verbəˈskrībəˈskraɪb

[with object]ascribe something to

1Attribute something to (a cause)
he ascribed Jane's short temper to her upset stomach
Example sentencesExamples
- Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility.
- He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools.
- The AP obituary says it was lung cancer and ascribes the disease to his smoking history, both of which I think are incorrect.
- The 39-year-old businessman ascribes his career to his exploratory spirit and wise management.
- Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity.
- He partly ascribed the problems to a shortage of skills at municipal level in treating drinking water and waste water.
- Have you noticed how each of us is guilty of ascribing motives to other people's actions, yet so often get it wrong?
- Yet the two reporters ascribed the development to rural poverty.
- This derives from a study that says just the opposite, ascribing the mortality figure to physical inactivity, risky weight-loss processes and poor diet.
- Cynthia ascribes his behaviour to his upbringing.
- Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us.
- In Avalonia this last period is ascribed to a rift or wrench regime.
- In 1926 Brown published a paper in which he ascribed these fluctuations to irregular changes in the Earth's period of rotation which has subsequently proved correct.
- She now involves an assistant who understands what she wants, though she still ascribes the results to chance.
- In addition, in ascribing such influence to church outreach your reader implicitly assumes that the poor in New Orleans are organized around effective, cohesive religious and ethnic communities.
- As long as a believer ascribes his views to his faith, he can say anything he wants and if you don't like it, you're the bigot.
- The substantial increase in the navy in this period is ascribed to him.
Synonyms
attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute
1. 1.1usually be ascribed to Attribute (a text, quotation, or work of art) to a particular person or period.
  a quotation ascribed to Thomas Cooper
  Synonyms
  attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute
2. 1.2usually be ascribed to Regard a quality as belonging to.
  tough-mindedness is a quality commonly ascribed to top bosses
  Example sentencesExamples
  I still think that mischievous, but not nearly as vile as ascribing messianic qualities to a single man.
  The important point is that all peoples have reacted to memories of the flood in the same way - by ascribing some fault to human beings; and one can see why this is so psychologically satisfying.
  On one hand, there is a position that ascribes a narrow meaning to the definition of ‘associated entity’ often through strained interpretation and flawed logic.
  It would be nice to ascribe these ravings to a past generation, except I'm pretty sure her son, who lives in a cosmopolitan city, thinks the same way.
  When this axiom is applied to the chart of the readings of the three versions above, it will be seen that there are good grounds for ascribing the originality to the Masoretic Text.
  Thus, for me, semiotics suggested that you could not ascribe universal values to literary texts.
  However, it requires that we ascribe interests to entities that are unable to suffer any pain or frustration if their so-called interests are not met.
  I don't want to ascribe human reactions to my dog, because that spoils the joy of seeing things from a dog perspective.
  One wonders if they ascribed a healing power to the paintings themselves.
  The same mistake would be made in ascribing those attributes to the foundation.
  As a result, we not only treat these animals in ridiculous ways, but ascribe rights to them modelled on our own.
  As a disciplined believer, Witwer sees the danger of ascribing holy attributes to a man-made creation, but at the same time understands that it signals the potential for divine jurisprudence.
  In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory.
  I am quite sure that no blame can be ascribed to Islington in that regard.
  The Qur'an itself legitimizes the existence of tribes and peoples without ascribing any superiority to one group over the other.
  But I bristle when a show expects I'll ascribe salutary characteristics to someone because of their sexuality; it's as silly as automatically assuming negative characteristics.
  We stopped ascribing any value to integration, and began flirting with the notion that host countries aren't legitimate entities with their own cultures, only political frameworks for various co-existing cultures.
  Culture and religion ascribe subservient roles to females.
  Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society.
  There is no foundation for ascribing an energetic quality to a crystal simply because it has a particular appearance, colour or name.
  The author, unfortunately, often ascribes human qualities to viruses, whereas he knows that survival depends on a high rate of replication and mutation to provide candidates to fit the challenge of the ever changing environment.
  It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven.
  Would your workers ascribe these qualities to you?
  Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings.
  Synonyms
  lay, pin, place, impose, fix

Origin

Middle English: from Latin ascribere, from ad- ‘to’ + scribere ‘write’.

单词	ascribe
释义	Definition of ascribe in English: ascribe verb əˈskrʌɪbəˈskraɪb [with object]ascribe something to 1Regard something as being due to (a cause) he ascribed Jane's short temper to her upset stomach Example sentencesExamples Cynthia ascribes his behaviour to his upbringing. In Avalonia this last period is ascribed to a rift or wrench regime. The substantial increase in the navy in this period is ascribed to him. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us. The AP obituary says it was lung cancer and ascribes the disease to his smoking history, both of which I think are incorrect. As long as a believer ascribes his views to his faith, he can say anything he wants and if you don't like it, you're the bigot. The 39-year-old businessman ascribes his career to his exploratory spirit and wise management. She now involves an assistant who understands what she wants, though she still ascribes the results to chance. This derives from a study that says just the opposite, ascribing the mortality figure to physical inactivity, risky weight-loss processes and poor diet. He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools. Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility. Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity. In 1926 Brown published a paper in which he ascribed these fluctuations to irregular changes in the Earth's period of rotation which has subsequently proved correct. In addition, in ascribing such influence to church outreach your reader implicitly assumes that the poor in New Orleans are organized around effective, cohesive religious and ethnic communities. Yet the two reporters ascribed the development to rural poverty. Have you noticed how each of us is guilty of ascribing motives to other people's actions, yet so often get it wrong? He partly ascribed the problems to a shortage of skills at municipal level in treating drinking water and waste water. Synonyms attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute lay on, pin on, blame on, lay at the door of connect with, associate with 1.1 Regard a text, quotation, or work of art as being produced by or belonging to (a particular person or period) a quotation ascribed to Thomas Cooper Synonyms attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute 1.2 Regard a quality as belonging to. tough-mindedness is a quality commonly ascribed to top bosses Example sentencesExamples Culture and religion ascribe subservient roles to females. Thus, for me, semiotics suggested that you could not ascribe universal values to literary texts. Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings. The Qur'an itself legitimizes the existence of tribes and peoples without ascribing any superiority to one group over the other. I am quite sure that no blame can be ascribed to Islington in that regard. One wonders if they ascribed a healing power to the paintings themselves. The author, unfortunately, often ascribes human qualities to viruses, whereas he knows that survival depends on a high rate of replication and mutation to provide candidates to fit the challenge of the ever changing environment. I still think that mischievous, but not nearly as vile as ascribing messianic qualities to a single man. As a result, we not only treat these animals in ridiculous ways, but ascribe rights to them modelled on our own. Would your workers ascribe these qualities to you? But I bristle when a show expects I'll ascribe salutary characteristics to someone because of their sexuality; it's as silly as automatically assuming negative characteristics. There is no foundation for ascribing an energetic quality to a crystal simply because it has a particular appearance, colour or name. The important point is that all peoples have reacted to memories of the flood in the same way - by ascribing some fault to human beings; and one can see why this is so psychologically satisfying. We stopped ascribing any value to integration, and began flirting with the notion that host countries aren't legitimate entities with their own cultures, only political frameworks for various co-existing cultures. It would be nice to ascribe these ravings to a past generation, except I'm pretty sure her son, who lives in a cosmopolitan city, thinks the same way. In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory. However, it requires that we ascribe interests to entities that are unable to suffer any pain or frustration if their so-called interests are not met. Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society. The same mistake would be made in ascribing those attributes to the foundation. When this axiom is applied to the chart of the readings of the three versions above, it will be seen that there are good grounds for ascribing the originality to the Masoretic Text. I don't want to ascribe human reactions to my dog, because that spoils the joy of seeing things from a dog perspective. As a disciplined believer, Witwer sees the danger of ascribing holy attributes to a man-made creation, but at the same time understands that it signals the potential for divine jurisprudence. On one hand, there is a position that ascribes a narrow meaning to the definition of ‘associated entity’ often through strained interpretation and flawed logic. It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven. Synonyms lay, pin, place, impose, fix Derivatives ascribable adjective əˈskrʌɪbəb(ə)l To assess the statistical significance of basic differences between male and female subjects that were independent of any disturbances ascribable to shiftwork, we conducted an initial analysis. Example sentencesExamples The similar level of satisfaction in our two study groups may be ascribable to this difference, as the family doctors may have compensated for any shortcomings related to the junior physicians' inexperience. The problem with trouser suits is that despite their democratic appeal, they lack the universal qualities ascribable to men's tailoring. Legislators make speeches, attend committee meetings, cast votes and leave a paper trail of positions taken and poses struck, mostly without consequences clearly ascribable to them as individuals. The reason for this difference is hypothetical and may be ascribable to two different phenomena. Origin Middle English: from Latin ascribere, from ad- 'to' + scribere 'write'. Rhymes bribe, gybe, imbibe, jibe, proscribe, scribe, subscribe, transcribe, tribe, vibe Definition of ascribe in US English: ascribe verbəˈskrībəˈskraɪb [with object]ascribe something to 1Attribute something to (a cause) he ascribed Jane's short temper to her upset stomach Example sentencesExamples Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility. He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools. The AP obituary says it was lung cancer and ascribes the disease to his smoking history, both of which I think are incorrect. The 39-year-old businessman ascribes his career to his exploratory spirit and wise management. Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity. He partly ascribed the problems to a shortage of skills at municipal level in treating drinking water and waste water. Have you noticed how each of us is guilty of ascribing motives to other people's actions, yet so often get it wrong? Yet the two reporters ascribed the development to rural poverty. This derives from a study that says just the opposite, ascribing the mortality figure to physical inactivity, risky weight-loss processes and poor diet. Cynthia ascribes his behaviour to his upbringing. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us. In Avalonia this last period is ascribed to a rift or wrench regime. In 1926 Brown published a paper in which he ascribed these fluctuations to irregular changes in the Earth's period of rotation which has subsequently proved correct. She now involves an assistant who understands what she wants, though she still ascribes the results to chance. In addition, in ascribing such influence to church outreach your reader implicitly assumes that the poor in New Orleans are organized around effective, cohesive religious and ethnic communities. As long as a believer ascribes his views to his faith, he can say anything he wants and if you don't like it, you're the bigot. The substantial increase in the navy in this period is ascribed to him. Synonyms attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute 1.1usually be ascribed to Attribute (a text, quotation, or work of art) to a particular person or period. a quotation ascribed to Thomas Cooper Synonyms attribute, assign, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute 1.2usually be ascribed to Regard a quality as belonging to. tough-mindedness is a quality commonly ascribed to top bosses Example sentencesExamples I still think that mischievous, but not nearly as vile as ascribing messianic qualities to a single man. The important point is that all peoples have reacted to memories of the flood in the same way - by ascribing some fault to human beings; and one can see why this is so psychologically satisfying. On one hand, there is a position that ascribes a narrow meaning to the definition of ‘associated entity’ often through strained interpretation and flawed logic. It would be nice to ascribe these ravings to a past generation, except I'm pretty sure her son, who lives in a cosmopolitan city, thinks the same way. When this axiom is applied to the chart of the readings of the three versions above, it will be seen that there are good grounds for ascribing the originality to the Masoretic Text. Thus, for me, semiotics suggested that you could not ascribe universal values to literary texts. However, it requires that we ascribe interests to entities that are unable to suffer any pain or frustration if their so-called interests are not met. I don't want to ascribe human reactions to my dog, because that spoils the joy of seeing things from a dog perspective. One wonders if they ascribed a healing power to the paintings themselves. The same mistake would be made in ascribing those attributes to the foundation. As a result, we not only treat these animals in ridiculous ways, but ascribe rights to them modelled on our own. As a disciplined believer, Witwer sees the danger of ascribing holy attributes to a man-made creation, but at the same time understands that it signals the potential for divine jurisprudence. In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory. I am quite sure that no blame can be ascribed to Islington in that regard. The Qur'an itself legitimizes the existence of tribes and peoples without ascribing any superiority to one group over the other. But I bristle when a show expects I'll ascribe salutary characteristics to someone because of their sexuality; it's as silly as automatically assuming negative characteristics. We stopped ascribing any value to integration, and began flirting with the notion that host countries aren't legitimate entities with their own cultures, only political frameworks for various co-existing cultures. Culture and religion ascribe subservient roles to females. Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society. There is no foundation for ascribing an energetic quality to a crystal simply because it has a particular appearance, colour or name. The author, unfortunately, often ascribes human qualities to viruses, whereas he knows that survival depends on a high rate of replication and mutation to provide candidates to fit the challenge of the ever changing environment. It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven. Would your workers ascribe these qualities to you? Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings. Synonyms lay, pin, place, impose, fix Origin Middle English: from Latin ascribere, from ad- ‘to’ + scribere ‘write’.
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