Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 2
Abate (v. t.) 緩和，減弱，減少，廢除 To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
Abate (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
Abate (v. t.) To blunt.
Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
Abate (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
Abate (v. i.) 緩和，減弱，減少 To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
Abate (n.) Abatement.
Abate (v.) [ I ] (Formal) 減少；減弱；減輕；減退 To become less strong.
// The storm/ wind/ rain has started to abate.
// The fighting in the area shows no sign of abating.
Abatement (n.) 減少，減輕，緩和 The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
Abatement (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.
Abatement (n.) [ C or U ] A situation in which a rate, price, etc. goes down, or goes up more slowly than before.
// We have requested an abatement of interest on our late tax payment, as we received the tax bill late.
Abatement (n.) [ C or U ] A reduction in level, especially of something that is harmful.
// Industries have been set targets for the abatement of carbon emissions.
Noise abatement.
Abater (n.) [法] 撤銷者，訴訟中止原因，除害者 One who, or that which, abates.
Abater (n.) A person who, or thing which, abates, especially (chiefly Law) one that abates a nuisance.
Compare: Nuisance
Nuisance (n.) 討厭的人（或事物）；麻煩事 [C]；【律】妨害行為，騷擾行為 [C] [U] A person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.
‘It's a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house.’
‘I hope you're not going to make a nuisance of yourself.’
Nuisance (n.) Law An act which is harmful or offensive to the public or a member of it and for which there is a legal remedy.
See also: Private nuisance, Public nuisance
Abatis (n.) Alt. of Abattis.
Abattis (n.) 【軍】鹿砦；有刺鐵絲網 A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.
Abatised (a.) Provided with an abatis.
Abator (n.) (Law) 撤銷者，廢除者One who abates a nuisance.
Abator (n.) (Law) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. -- Blackstone.
Abator (n.) A person who abates a nuisance.
Abator (n.) Is, 1st, he who abates or prostrates a nuisance; 2, he who having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudice of an heir or devisee, after the time when the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters. See article Abatement. Litt. Sec. 897; Perk. Sec. 383; 1 Inst. 271; 2 Prest. Abst. 296. 300. As to the consequences of an abator dying in possession, See Adams' Eject. 43.
Abattoirs (n. pl. ) of Abattoir.
Abattoir (n.) （公共）屠宰場；角鬥場 A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Abattoir (n.) A building where animals are butchered [syn: {abattoir}, {butchery}, {shambles}, {slaughterhouse}].
Abattoir (n.) [ C ] (Mainly UK) (US usually Slaughterhouse) （牲畜）屠宰場 A place where animals are killed for their meat.
Abature (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. -- Crabb.
// I just matched Abature in Team Doubles and he got shit on.
Abature (Also Abatture) (n.) (Rare) (Chiefly in plural) The traces left by a stag in the undergrowth through which it has passed.
Abatvoix (n.) 吸音板 The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
Compare: Pulpit
Pulpit (n.) [ C ] 講道壇 A raised place in a church, with steps leading up to it, from which the priest or ministerspeaks to the people during a religious ceremony.
Compare: Rostrum
Rostrum (n.) (pl. Rostrums or Rostra) 講壇，講台；（樂隊指揮站的）指揮台 A raised surface on which a person making a speech or a music conductor (= leader) stands.
Compare: Conductor
Conductor (n.) [ C ] (Music) (B2) （合唱團、樂隊等的）指揮 Someone who directs the performance of musicians or a piece of music.
// The conductor raised his baton.
// A guest conductor.
Conductor (n.) [ C ] (Public transport) (US UK Guard) 列車長 A railway official who travels on and is responsible for a train.
Conductor (n.) [ C ] (Public transport) (UK) （公共汽車、火車或其他交通工具上的）售票員 Someone whose job is to sell tickets on a bus, train, or other public vehicle.
Conductor (n.) [ C ] (Substance) 導體 A substance that allows heat or electricity to go through it.
// Metal is a good conductor of heat.
Abawed (p. p.) Astonished; abashed.
Abaxial (a.) Alt. of Abaxile.
Abaxile (a.) [醫] 遠軸的，離軸的，軸外的 Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.
Abay (n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See {Bay}. [Obs.]
Abb (n.) 橫絲，緯，羊毛 Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.
Abba (n.) 聖父（有些東正教和希臘正教對主教的尊稱）；天父（基督教祈禱時對上帝的稱呼） Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.
Abbacies (n. pl. ) of Abbacy.
Abbacy (n.) 男修道院院長（abbot）之職位、管區、任期 The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
Abbatial (a.) 修道院的 Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.
Abbatial (a.) Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
Abbatical (a.) Abbatial. [Obs.]
Abbe (n.) 男修道院院長；牧師；神父；長老 The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
Abbess (n.) 女修道院院長，尼庵住持 A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.
Abbeys (n. pl. ) of Abbey.
Abbey (n.) 修道院，修道士；大寺院 A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.
Abbey (n.) The church of a monastery.
Abbot (n.) 男修道院院長；大寺院男住持；方丈 The superior or head of an abbey.
Abbot (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
Abbott method (n.) For scoliosis of the spine; traction is applied to produce overcorrection, followed by casting.
Abbott method (n.) A method of treatment of scoliosis by use of a series of plaster jackets applied after partial correction of the curvature by external force.
Abbotship (n.) 大修道院院長之職 The state or office of an abbot.
Abbreviated (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviate.
Abbreviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviate.
Abbreviate (v. t.) 縮短；縮寫 To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Abbreviate (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
Abbreviate (n.) An abridgment.
Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
Abbreviation (n.) 縮寫；縮寫詞 The act of shortening, or reducing.
Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Abbreviation (n.) [ C ] 縮略，縮寫 A short form of a word or phrase.
// "ITV" is the abbreviation for "Independent Television".
Abbreviator (n.) [C] 使用縮寫者；縮寫的東西 One who abbreviates or shortens.
Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
Abbreviator (n.) One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work [syn: {abridger}, {abbreviator}].
Abbreviatory (a.) 縮寫的，縮略的，省略的 Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Abbreviature (n.) 簡短的草稿(草案) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [Obs.]
Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
Abb wool () See Abb.
A B C () The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.
A B C () A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.
A B C () The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance.
Abdal (n.) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
Compare: Devotee
Deotee (n.) [C] 熱心之士；愛好者，……迷 [（+of）]；虔誠（或狂熱）的宗教信徒 A person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about someone or something.
‘A devotee of Lewis Carroll.’
Deotee (n.) A strong believer in a particular religion or god.
‘Devotees of Krishna.’
Compare: Dervish
Dervish (n.) （回教的）托缽僧，苦行僧 [C] A member of a Muslim (specifically Sufi) religious order who has taken vows of poverty and austerity. Dervishes first appeared in the 12th century; they were noted for their wild or ecstatic rituals and were known as dancing, whirling, or howling dervishes according to the practice of their order.
Abderian (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
Abderite (n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.
Abdest (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
Abdicable (a.) 可放棄的；可辭職的 Capable of being abdicated.
Abdicant (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
Abdicant (n.) 退位者 One who abdicates.
Abdicated (imp. & p. p.) of Abdicate.
Abdicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abdicate.
Abdicate (v. t.) 正式放棄（權力等）；退（位）；辭（職）；【律】廢（嫡） To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II., to abandon without a formal surrender.
The cross-bearers abdicated their service. -- Gibbon.
Abdicate (v. t.) To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
He abdicates all right to be his own governor. -- Burke.
The understanding abdicates its functions. -- Froude.
Abdicate (v. t.) To reject; to cast off. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Abdicate (v. t.) (Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
Syn: To give up; quit; vacate; relinquish; forsake; abandon; resign; renounce; desert.
Usage: To Abdicate, Resign. Abdicate commonly expresses the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the government. Resign is applied to the act of any person, high or low, who gives back an office or trust into the hands of him who conferred it. Thus, a minister resigns, a military officer resigns, a clerk resigns. The expression, "The king resigned his crown," sometimes occurs in our later literature, implying that he held it from his people. -- There are other senses of resign which are not here brought into view.
Abdicate (v. i.) （國王）退位；辭職；退出 [（+from）] To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. -- Burke.
Abdicate (v.) Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" [syn: {abdicate}, {renounce}].
Abdicate (v.) (King/ Queen) [ I or T ] 遜位；退（位），讓（位），正式放棄（王位） If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen.
// King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.
Abdicate (v.) (Not do) Abdicate responsibility (formal disapproving) 放棄職責 To stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of.
// She abdicated all responsibility for the project.
Abdication (n.) 遜位，棄權，辭職 The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
Abdication (n.) A formal resignation and renunciation of powers [syn: {abdication}, {stepping down}].
Abdication (n.) The act of abdicating [syn: {abdication}, {stepping down}].
Abdicative (a.) (Rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.
Abdicator (n.) 讓位者；放棄者 One who abdicates.
Abdicator (n.) One who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility.
Compare: Relinquish
Relinquish (v.) [T] (Formal) 放棄；拒絕 To give up something such as a responsibility or claim.
// He has relinquished his claim to the throne.
// She relinquished control of the family investments to her son.
Relinquish (v.) [T] (Formal) （不情願地）鬆開，放開，交出，讓予 To unwillingly stop holding or keeping something.
// She relinquished her hold/ grip on the steering wheel.
Abditive (a.) Having the quality of hiding. [R.] -- Bailey.
Abditory (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. -- Cowell.
Abdomen (n.) (Anat.) 腹，下腹；腹部 [C] The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
Abdomen (n.) (Zool.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
Abdomen (n.) The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: {abdomen}, {venter}, {stomach}, {belly}].
Abdomen (n.) The cavity
containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the
diaphragm [syn: {abdominal cavity}, {abdomen}].
Abdomen (n.) The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship,
with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient
faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the
altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one
deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in
the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
Abdomen (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) （人或動物的）腹（部）；（昆蟲的）腹部 The lower part of a person's or animal's body, containing the stomach, bowels, and other organs, or the end of an insect's body.
Abdominal (a.) 腹部的 Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.
Abdominal (a.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes.
Abdominal cavity (n.) 腹腔 The cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm.
Abdominal cavity (n.) The cavity within the abdomen that contains the stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, spleen, and kidneys, and the lower part of the esophagus.
Abdominal cavity (n.) The space bounded by the abdominal walls, diaphragm, and pelvis and containing most of the organs of digestion, the spleen, the kidneys, and the adrenal glands.
Abdominals (n. pl. ) of Abdominal.
Abdominales (n. pl. ) of Abdominal.
Abdominal (n.) A fish of the group Abdominales.
Abdominal muscles (n.) Important for support of the spine, these muscles are the rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, and transversus.
Abdominales (n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.
Abdominalia (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.
Abdominalia (n.) [Historical Zoology] Treated as plural. A former order of barnacles which bore into a variety of calcareous material, comprising typically small, shell-less forms having several pairs of cirri towards the end of the thorax.
Compare: Barnacle
Barnacle (n.) 藤壺（一種甲殼類動物）；戀棧的人；難以擺脫的人（或東西）；積習 A marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a variety of surfaces. Barnacles feed by filtering particles from the water using their modified feathery legs.
Class Cirripedia. See and acorn barnacle and , and goose barnacle.
Barnacle (n.) Used figuratively to describe a tenacious person or thing.
‘Buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles.’
Abdominoscopy (n.) 纖維腹腔鏡檢查 Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.
Abdominothoracic (a.) [醫] 腹胸的，腹部胸廓的 Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.
Abdominous (a.) Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.
Abduced (imp. & p. p.) of Abduce.
Abducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abduce.
Abduce (v. t.) 使外轉；把...引開；外展 To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
Abducted (imp. & p. p.) of Abduct.
Abducting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abduct.
Abduct (v. t.) 誘拐；劫持；綁架 To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
Abduct (v. t.) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.
Abduct (v.) [ T ] (Take a person) 綁架；劫持；誘拐 To force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence.
// The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.