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单词 ee
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
-ee, suffix. 
  1. -ee is attached to verbs that take an object to form nouns with the meaning "the person who is the object of the action of the verb'':address + -ee → addressee (= the person whom someone else addresses).
  2. -ee is attached to verbs that do not take an object to form nouns with the meaning "the one doing or performing the act of the verb'':escape + -ee → escapee (= one performing the act of escaping).
  3. -ee is attached to other words to form nouns with the meaning "the one who is or does'':absent + -ee → absentee (= one who is absent).

E.E., an abbreviation of:
  1. electrical engineer.
  2. electrical engineering.

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
E, e /i/USA pronunciation   n. [countable], pl. Es or E's, es or e's. 
  1. Linguisticsthe fifth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.

E.,  an abbreviation of:
  1. GeographyEarth.
  2. Geographyeast.
  3. eastern.
  4. engineering.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
-ee, 
  1. a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee;
    employee;
    grantee
    );
    recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb (escapee;
    returnee;
    standee
    ) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee;
    refugee
    ).
  • Latin -ātus, -āta -ate1
  • French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings

EE, 
  1. Clothinga proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.

E.E., 
    1. ArchitectureEarly English.
    2. electrical engineer.
    3. electrical engineering.

e.e., 
  1. errors excepted.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
E, e  (ē),USA pronunciation n., pl. E's or Es, e's or es. 
  1. the fifth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
  2. any spoken sound represented by the letter E or e, as in met, meet, mere, etc.
  3. something having the shape of anE.
  4. a written or printed representation of the letter E or e.
  5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter E or e.

E, 
    1. Geographyeast.
    2. Educationeastern.
    3. Music and DanceEnglish.
    4. excellent.
    5. Expressway.

E,  Symbol.
  1. the fifth in order or in a series.
  2. (sometimes l.c.) (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work is in need of improvement in order to be passing.
  3. [Music.]
    • the third tone in the scale of C major or the fifth tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
    • a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
    • a written or printed note representing this tone.
    • (in the fixed system of solmization) the third tone of the scale of C major, called mi.
    • the tonality having E as the tonic note.
  4. (sometimes l.c.) the medieval Roman numeral for 250. Cf. Roman numerals.
  5. [Physics, Elect.]
    • electric field.
    • electric field strength.
  6. [Physics.]energy.
  7. [Biochem.]See glutamic acid. 
  8. Philosophy[Logic.]See universal negative. 
  9. Clothinga proportional shoe width size narrower than EE and wider than D.

e, 
    1. Physicselectron.
    2. Physics, Philosophyelementary charge.

e, Symbol.
  1. [Math.]a transcendental constant equal to 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms;
    the limit of the expression (1+1/n)n as n approaches infinity.
  2. [Logic.]See universal negative. 

e-, 
  1. var. of ex-1, occurring in words of Latin origin before consonants other than c, f, p, q, s, and t: emit.

E., 
    1. Earl.
    2. Earth.
    3. Geographyeast.
    4. Easter.
    5. eastern.
    6. engineer.
    7. engineering.
    8. English.

e., 
    1. eldest.
    2. Sport[Football.]end.
    3. engineer.
    4. engineering.
    5. entrance.
    6. Sport[Baseball.]error;
      errors.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-ee suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er): assignee, grantee, lessee
  2. indicating a person in a specified state or condition: absentee, employee
  3. indicating a diminutive form of something: bootee
Etymology: via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate1
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