英语词汇“vital principle”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

vital principle

释义

vital /vīˈt(ə)l/

adjective

Characteristic of life, or of living things
Supporting or necessary to life
Essential
Extremely important
Relating to life, birth, and death
Fatal to life (obsolete)
Full of life, lively, energetic
Being a manifestation of life (biology)
Life-giving, invigorating (poetic)
Animate, living (archaic)
Capable of living (obsolete)

noun

(pl; rarely in sing) the interior organs essential for life
The part of any whole necessary for its existence (obsolete)

ORIGIN: L vītālis, from vīta life, from vīvere to live; cognate with Gr bios life

viˈtalism noun

The doctrine that there is a vital force (qv below)

viˈtalist noun

A person who holds this doctrine

vitalisˈtic adjective

vitalisˈtically adverb

vitality /-talˈ/ noun (pl vitalˈities)

The state or quality of being vital
The quality of being fully or intensely alive
The capacity to endure and flourish
Animation, liveliness
The principle of life, power of living
The state of being alive
A living or vital thing or quality

vitalizāˈtion or vitalisāˈtion noun

viˈtalize or viˈtalise transitive verb

To give life to
To stimulate activity in
To give vigour to
To make lifelike

viˈtalizer or viˈtaliser noun

viˈtalizing or viˈtalising adjective

viˈtally adverb

viˈtascope noun

An early form of motion-picture projector

viˈtative adjective

Concerned with the preservation of life

viˈtativeness noun

Love of life, assigned by the phrenologists to a protuberance under the ear

vital air noun (obsolete)

Oxygen

vital capacity noun

The volume of air that can be expelled from the lungs after taking the deepest possible breath

vital force noun

The force on which the phenomena of life in animals and plants were thought to depend, distinct from chemical and mechanical forces operating in them

vital functions plural noun

The bodily functions that are essential to life, such as the circulation of the blood

vital principle noun

The principle (the anima mundi) which according to the doctrine of vitalism, gives life to all nature
A principle that directs all the actions and functions of living bodies

vital signs plural noun

(the level or rate of) breathing, heartbeat, etc

vital spark or vital flame noun

Life or a trace of life
The principle of life in man

vital stain noun (botany, zoology)

A stain that can be used on living cells without killing them

vital statistics plural noun

Statistics dealing with the facts of population, ie births, deaths, etc
A woman's bust, waist and hip measurements (informal)

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