Define

(verb.) give a definition for the meaning of a word; 'Define `sadness''.

(verb.) determine the nature of; 'What defines a good wine?'.

(verb.) show the form or outline of; 'The tree was clearly defined by the light'; 'The camera could define the smallest object'.

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• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• All this I was forced to define and describe by putting cases and making suppositions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• From that night there grew up in my breast a feeling for Peggotty which I cannot very well define. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The term variety is almost equally difficult to define; but here community of descent is almost universally implied, though it can rarely be proved. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If I answer that question, I know you'll be at me with half a dozen others, each one harder than the last; and I'm not a going to define my position. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Now sexual morality is pretty clearly defined for the Commission. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Sound waves may be said to consist of a series of condensations and rarefactions, and the distance between two consecutive condensations and rarefactions may be defined as the wave length. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It is the fact that the aim is thought of as more activity in the same line, without defining continuity of action in reference to results produced. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• You looked white as the wall; but you only spoke of 'something,' not defining _what_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Psychologically, the defining characteristic of play is not amusement nor aimlessness. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This subject matter meant so much that it vitalized the defining and systematizing brought to bear upon it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But let me remark, that in defining justice you have yourself used the word 'interest' which you forbade me to use. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The dynamo is one of the great factors of modern civilization, and its potential name, like that of dynamite, rightly defines its character. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Hanging on the tail of a kite it photographs the face of mother earth, and, acting quicker than the lightning, it catches and defines the path of that erratic flash. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• For method defines the kind of organization in virtue of which science is science. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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