英语词汇“license”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	license
释义	li·cense I. noun or li·cence \ˈlīs^ən(t)s\ (-s ; see sense 5) Etymology: Middle English licence, from Middle French, from Latin licentia, from licent-, licens (present participle of licēre to be permitted, be for sale) + -ia -y; akin to Latvian līkt to come to terms 1. : permission to act < go from hence without their license — Daniel Defoe > 2. a. : unusual freedom of action permitted because of extenuating circumstances or special prerogatives < in the decoration the Chinese silversmiths had been allowed the utmost license — Osbert Lancaster > < reason and common sense were given full license to take no notice of pedants — Stuart Hampshire > < had a stranger's license to go everywhere — Nadine Gordimer > b. (1) : excessive freedom : the abuse of liberties granted < a wave of municipal reform … for the correction of what was regarded as license — Havelock Ellis > < Caesar's legions … were enjoying their victory in the license which is miscalled liberty — J.A.Froude > < freedom of the press also carries the grave responsibility that it not be turned into license — Time > (2) : abusive disregard for rules of personal conduct : licentiousness < like most women of that character and those circumstances her license was peculiarly unlimited — Tennessee Williams > < prenuptial chastity in one tribe and adolescent license in another — Ruth Benedict > 3. a. (1) : a right or permission granted in accordance with law by a competent authority to engage in some business or occupation, to do some act, or to engage in some transaction which but for such license would be unlawful < a license to sell liquor > < a marriage license > < a license to practice medicine > (2) : a document evidencing a license granted b. : authority or permission of one having no possessory rights in land to do something on that land which would otherwise be unlawful or a trespass — distinguished from lease c. : the grant by a patent holder to another of any of the rights embodied in the patent short of an assignment of a fractional interest therein and short of assigning all the rights protected by the patent d. : the grant of some but not all of the rights embraced in a copyright e. Canada : a free miner's certificate 4. : a deviation from strict fact, form, or rule utilized by an artist or writer on the assumption that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained < permitting myself a certain license of treatment, the better to round out the picture — S.H.Adams > < has little truck with those who have taken literary license — D.L.Horner > 5. plural license chiefly Midland a. : formal permission from local authorities b. : a document embodying such permission < get a pair o' license fer to marry — J.W.Riley > II. transitive verb also licence \“\ (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English licencen, from licence, n. 1. a. : to grant or issue a license to (someone) usually after special qualifications have been met < was licensed and later ordained to the ministry — J.C.Brauer > b. : to permit or authorize especially by formal license < patented processes were freely licensed in a general effort to do everything and anything to help win the war — Marquis James > 2. a. : to accord permission or consent to : allow < at a wedding everybody seemed licensed to kiss everyone else — Irwin Shaw > < a popular novelist may be licensed to draw on his imagination — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < an able man licensed by the times to do pretty much as he pleased — J.H.Hanford > b. [Middle French licencier, from licence, n.] archaic : to give permission for departure to : dismiss < thus licensed, the chief … left the presence chamber — Sir Walter Scott > Synonyms: see authorize
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