【topic】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句
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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
名词(Noun)
topic (plural topics)
- 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.
- (Internet) Discussion thread.
- (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.
- 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics (page 9)
- (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
- 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
- (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)
翻译(Translations)
subject; theme
discussion thread — see thread
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)
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