【topic】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

替代形式(Alternative forms)

• topick (obsolete)

词源(Etymology)

From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒpɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑpɪk/

• Audio (US)

• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk
• Hyphenation: top‧ic

形容词(Adjective)

topic

1. topical

名词(Noun)

topic (plural topics)

1. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

   A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.

   stick to the topic

   an interesting topic of conversation

   romance is a topic that frequently comes up in conversation

   • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy.

2. (Internet) Discussion thread.
3. (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
   • 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics (page 9)

     In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.

4. (obsolete) An argument or reason.
   • 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion

     contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon

5. (obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wiseman to this entry?)

同义词(Synonyms)

• (area of interest): subject, subject area

衍生词(Derived terms)

• -topic

翻译(Translations)

查看更多(Further reading)

• topic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• topic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

变位词(Anagrams)

• cop it, optic, picot