释义 |
propose /prə-pōzˈ/ transitive verb- To offer for consideration or acceptance
- To proffer
- To offer
- To suggest or put to someone as something to be done
- To purpose or intend
- To move formally
- To nominate
- To invite one's companions, etc to drink (a toast)
- To enunciate
- To bring to one's own or another person's attention
- To propound
- To face (Shakespeare)
- To imagine or suppose (Shakespeare)
- To formulate as something to be exacted (Shakespeare)
- To put forward or exhibit (obsolete)
intransitive verb- To form or put forward an intention or design
- To offer, esp marriage
- To converse (Shakespeare)
noun- A proposal (obsolete)
- Talk, discourse (Shakespeare)
ORIGIN: Fr proposer, from pfx pro-, and poser to place; see pose1 propōsˈable adjective propōsˈal noun - An act of proposing
- An offer, esp of marriage
- A tender (US)
- Anything proposed
- A plan
propōsˈer noun |