| 单词 | public |
| 释义 | public (once / 21 pages) adjn Something that affects the entire community — whether it's your town, your country, or the world — is public. Climate change, for example, is a public concern, as is finding a clean public bathroom. You can use the word public as a noun, when you're talking about a large group of people. You might say that the public is getting tired of the inefficient bus system in your city, or that the new library branch is open to the public. The adjective public is good for discussing things that concern everyone. The Latin root word, publicus, means "of the people, of the state, common, or ordinary." WORD FAMILYpublic: nonpublic, publically, publicise, publicity, publicize, publicly, publics, semipublic+/publicise: publicised, publiciser, publicising/publicist: publicists/publicity: publicist, publicities/publicize: publicized, publicizer, publicizes, publicizing/publicizer: publicizers/semipublic: semipublicly USAGE EXAMPLESIn October, Lucas unveiled similar but competing designs for Los Angeles and San Francisco sites, turning the project into a public competition. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) One such teenager ends up being severely beaten while waiting for a public defender to help him appeal. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) And they’re pushing their leaders to deny connection to the public sewage system the mosque would need. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole the public good public libraries public funds public parks a public scandal public gardens performers and members of royal families are public figures Syn|Ant exoteric suitable for the general public open, overtopen and observable; not secret or hidden in the public eyeof great interest to the public nationalowned or maintained for the public by the national government openopen to or in view of all semipublichaving some of the features of public institution state-supportedsupported and operated by the government of a state unexclusive, unrestrictedaccessible to all private confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy esotericconfined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle personalconcerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobbybefitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequesteredproviding privacy or seclusion closeconfined to specific persons closed-doornot open to the public confidential, secret(of information) given in confidence or in secret confidentialentrusted with private information and the confidence of another insularsuggestive of the isolated life of an island nonpublicnot invested with or related to prominent position or status etc. backstage, offstageconcealed from public view or attention one-on-onedirectly between two individuals privy, secluded, secrethidden from general view or use semiprivateconfined to a small number of hospital patients head-to-head, tete-a-teteinvolving two persons; intimately private toffee-nosedsnobbish; pretentiously superior 2adj affecting the people or community as a whole the public welfare Syn common belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public 3n people in general considered as a whole he is a hero in the eyes of the public Syn|Hypo|Hyper populace, world admass the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British) people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively 4n a body of people sharing some common interest the reading public Hyper body a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity |
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