| 单词 | dyad |
| 释义 | dyad (once / 155518 pages) n A dyad is a group of two things or two people. If you have a dyad of brothers, there are two of them. While you can use the noun dyad to mean "pair," "couple," or "duo," it's much more common to find the word used in a technical way. Sociologists, for example, use dyad to refer to social groups that consist of only two people, like a brother-sister dyad or a mother-child dyad. The word stems from the Greek dyas, "the number two," or "a group of two," from duo, "two." WORD FAMILYdyad: dyads USAGE EXAMPLESDyads are thought to be of great concern because their ideas feed off each other, reinforcing their beliefs and lending confidence to their plans. BBC(Dec 11, 2016) Nearby the short “Coney Island at Night,” from 1905 by Edwin S. Porter, presents the classic dyad of film: the play of light against dark. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) At 19, she interned in the White House for Hillary Clinton, thus beginning the closely entwined dyad now being played out in this presidential election. Salon(Nov 05, 2016) n two items of the same kind Syn|Hypo|Hyper brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke doubleton (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player 2, II, deuce, two the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number |
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