| 单词 | synoptic |
| 释义 | synoptic (once / 18614 pages) adj If you’ve heard of a movie synopsis, which gives an overview of the plot, you can guess what synoptic means: summarizing. At the end of your 900-page treatise on morals, try to give a synoptic conclusion to drive your ideas home. Synoptic can be broken down to syn-, meaning together, and -optic, meaning view or sight. So something that is synoptic pulls everything together. At the end of a long day touring your great aunt’s ancestral home, hearing endless stories about every dinner party she ever gave and all the people that ever stayed there, you might synoptically comment, “Basically she cooks well and has lots of fancy friends.” WORD FAMILYsynoptic: synoptical, synoptically USAGE EXAMPLESOne sunny spring morning last year, I sat in on an undergraduate course at the University of Washington called Weather Prediction and Advanced Synoptic Analysis. New York Times(Oct 17, 2016) “Future facilities like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and ESA’s Euclid satellite, will gratefully exploit the Gaia catalog,” Brown says. Science Magazine(Sep 14, 2016) “Future facilities like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope , the James Webb Space Telescope, and ESA’s Euclid satellite, will gratefully exploit the Gaia catalog,” says Brown. Science Magazine(Sep 14, 2016) 1adj presenting a summary or general view of a whole a synoptic presentation of a physical theory 2adj presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament synoptic sayings Syn synoptical same closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree |
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