| 单词 | affinity |
| 释义 | affinity (once / 1056 pages) n If you get along with someone very well, you have an affinity with them. Sometimes opposites attract, so you might feel a strange affinity to someone who is seemingly very different from you. When you are attracted to someone or something a great deal, we say that you have an affinity, a natural connection. Likewise, scientists use affinity to describe organisms that are alike or resemble each other. Interestingly, the Middle English word, affinite, originally applied to people who were connected or related by marriage, rather than by biology. WORD FAMILYaffinity: affinities+/affine: affines, affinity USAGE EXAMPLESCody’s affinity for children is rooted in his own childhood. Seattle Times(Dec 19, 2016) This news was accompanied by candidate Trump’s strange affinity for Vladimir Putin. Time(Dec 19, 2016) But it is Mr Trump’s affinity with Mr Putin, rather than Russia’s active measures, that helped him win. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) 1n a natural attraction or feeling of kinship an affinity for politics the mysterious affinity between them James's affinity with Sam Hyper attraction, attractiveness the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts 2n a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character found a natural affinity with the immigrants Syn|Hypo|Hyper kinship rapport, resonance a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people sympathya relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other mutual affection, mutual understandingsympathy of each person for the other relation an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together 3n (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship Ant|Hypo|Hyper blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity (anthropology) related by blood steprelationship a family relationship by virtue of remarriage family relationship, kinship, relationship (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption 4n (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans Syn|Hyper phylogenetic relation family relationship, kinship, relationship (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption 5n inherent resemblance between persons or things Hyper resemblance similarity in appearance or external or superficial details 6n the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk Syn|Hyper chemical attraction force (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity 7n (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody Hyper attraction, attractive force the force by which one object attracts another |
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