Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 115
Consumptive (n.) 肺病患者 One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptive (a.) 消費的；消耗性的；肺病的 Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. -- Sharp.
A long consumptive war. -- Addison.
Consumptive (a.) (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. -- Dryden.
Consumptive (a.) Tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" [ant: {generative}, {productive}].
Consumptive (a.) Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough".
Consumptive (n.) A person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: {consumptive}, {lunger}, {tubercular}].
Consumptively (adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption. -- Beddoes.
Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
Compare: Consumption
Consumption (n.) [U] 消耗；用盡；消耗量；消費量 [S1]；消費；憔悴；肺癆；癆病 The using up of a resource.
‘Industrialized countries should reduce their energy consumption.’
Consumption (n.) The eating, drinking, or ingesting of something.
‘Liquor is sold for consumption off the premises.’
Consumption (n.) An amount of something which is used up or ingested.
‘A daily consumption of 15 cigarettes.’
Consumption (n.) The purchase and use of goods and services by the public.
‘An article for mass consumption.’
Consumption (n.) The reception of information or entertainment by a mass audience.
‘His confidential speech was not meant for public consumption.’
Consumption (n.) [Dated] A wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
‘His mother had died of consumption.’
Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually. -- Darwin. -- Con*ta*bes"cence, n.
Contact (n.) 接觸，觸碰 [U] [（+with）]；交往；聯繫，聯絡 [U] [（+with）] A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Contact (n.) (Geom.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
Contact (n.) (Mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. -- Raymond.
Contact (n.) (Electricity) A metallic conducting component of an electrical device connected to a circuit within and so situated that it may form a conducting pathway to an external power source or device when contacted by another conductor; as, the contact on a standard light bulb has the shape of a screw for easy insertion into the socket.
Contact (n.) A person who serves to commmunicate information to or from one group to another, whether formally or informally; as, a good Washington reporter has contacts in the White House.
Contact level, A delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.
Contact (n.) Close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings".
Contact (n.) The act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch" [syn: contact, physical contact].
Contact (n.) The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid".
Contact (n.) The physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" [syn: contact, impinging, striking].
Contact (n.) A person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor" [syn: contact, middleman].
Contact (n.) A channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication].
Contact (n.) (Electronics) A junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts" [syn: contact, tangency].
Contact (n.) A communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues" [syn: contact, touch].
Contact (n.) A thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication [syn: contact, contact lens]
Contact (v.) Be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get hold of, contact].
Contact (v.) Be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" [syn: touch, adjoin, meet, contact].
Contaction (n.) Act of touching. [Obs.]
Contagion (n.) (Med.) 接觸傳染，感染 [U]；（接觸）傳染病 [C] The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
Note: The term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, etc., but in this sense it is now abandoned. -- Dunglison.
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night? -- Shak.
Contagion (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. "The contagion of example." -- Eikon Basilike.
When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. -- Milton.
Contagion (n.) Venom; poison. [Obs.] "I'll touch my point with this contagion." -- Shak.
Syn: See Infection.
Contagion (n.) Any disease easily transmitted by contact [syn: contagious disease, contagion].
Contagion (n.) An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted [syn: infection, contagion, transmission].
Contagion (n.) The communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry" [syn: contagion, infection].
Contagioned (a.) Affected by contagion.
Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
Contagious (a.) (Med) 接觸傳染性的；（可能）帶接觸傳染原的；照料接觸傳染病人的 Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
His genius rendered his courage more contagious. -- Wirt.
The spirit of imitation is contagious. -- Ames.
Syn: Contagious, Infectious.
Usage: Although often used as synonyms, originally these words were used in very diverse senses; but, in general, a contagious disease has been considered as one which is caught from another by some near contact, by the breath, by bodily effluvia, etc.; while an infectious disease supposed some entirely different cause acting by a hidden influence, like the miasma of prison ships, of marshes, etc., infecting the system with disease. In either case, a pathogenic microorganism is the direct cause of the disease. This distinction, though not universally admitted by medical men, as to the literal meaning of the words, certainly applies to them in their figurative use. Thus we speak of the contagious influence of evil associates; their contagion of bad example, the contagion of fear, etc., when we refer to transmission by proximity or contact. On the other hand, we speak of infection by bad principles, etc., when we consider anything as diffused by some hidden influence.
Contagious (a.) Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another; "a contagious grin".
Contagious (a.) (Of disease) Capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable].
Contagiously (adv.) 傳染性地；蔓延地 In a contagious manner.
Contagiously (adv.) In a contagious manner; "she was contagiously bubbly" [syn: contagiously, infectiously].
Contagiousness (n.) 傳染性 ； 蔓延 Quality of being contagious.
Contagium (n.) [L.] Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of measles." -- Tyndall.
Contained (imp. & p. p.) of Contain
Containing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contain
Contain (v. t.) 包含；容納；控制，遏制 To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! -- 2 Chron. vi. 18.
When
that this body did contain a spirit. -- Shak.
What thy stores contain bring forth. -- Milton.
Contain (v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. [Obs., exept as used reflexively.]
The
king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions. -- Spenser.
Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves. -- Shak.
Contain (v. i.) 自制 To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
But if they can not contain, let them marry. -- 1 Cor. vii. 9.
Contain (v.) Include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" [syn: {incorporate}, {contain}, {comprise}].
Contain (v.) Contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" [syn: {hold}, {bear}, {carry}, {contain}].
Contain (v.) Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger" [syn: {control}, {hold in}, {hold}, {contain}, {check}, {curb}, {moderate}].
Contain (v.) Be divisible by; "24 contains 6".
Contain (v.) Be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" [syn: {contain}, {take}, {hold}].
Contain (v.) Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: {check}, {turn back}, {arrest}, {stop}, {contain}, {hold back}].
Containable (a.) 可容納的；可控制的 Capable of being contained or comprised. -- Boyle.
Containant (n.) 貨櫃 [C]；容器（如箱、盒、罐等）[C] (Archaic) A container.
Contained (a.) 泰然自若的；被控制的；從容的 Gotten under control; "the oil spill is contained".
Container (n.) 貨櫃 [C]；容器（如箱、盒、罐等）[C] One who, or that which, contains ; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects.
Container (n.) A large metallic box designed to hold many smaller boxes or packages, and used for convenience in loading and unloading large quantities of freight, such as on ships, trains, or airplanes.
Container (n.) Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another).
Containment (n.) 包含；封鎖；圍堵；阻遏；【軍】牽制 That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.]
The containment of a rich man's estate. -- Fuller.
Containment (n.) the act of containing.
Containment (n.) (Diplomacy) the act or policy of restricting the influence or territorial growth of a hostile nation.
Note: The policy of containment is employed when the defeat of a hostile nation or overthrow of its government is considered impractical or too costly.
Containment (n.) the act of restricting some deleterious substance within a confined space, especially when such material is released unintentionally or by accident; as, containment of nuclear waste; containment of an oil spill. Also used attributively, as a containment boom.
Containment (n.) A structure surrounding a nuclear power plant designed to prevent release of radioactive materials into the environment in the event of an accident.
Containment (n.) A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975".
Containment (n.) (Physics) A system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
Containment (n.) The act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion".
Contaminable (a.) 受到污染的 Capable of being contaminated.
Contaminate (a.) 弄髒的；受汙染的；受毒害的 Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. "Contaminate drink." -- Daniel.
Contaminate (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Contaminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Contaminating.] [L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See Contact.] 弄髒；汙染；毒害；使受毒氣影響；使受放射性汙染 To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes? -- Shak.
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. -- Goldsmith.
Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt.
Contaminate (v.) Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]
Contaminate (v.) Make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" [ant: decontaminate].
Contaminated (imp. & p. p.) 弄髒的；受汙染的；受毒害的 of Contaminate
Contaminated (a.) Corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence" [ant: uncontaminated].
Contaminated (a.) Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams" [syn: contaminated, polluted].
Contaminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contaminate
Contaminating (a.) Spreading contamination; especially radioactive contamination. clean
Syn: dirty.
Contaminating (a.) Causing moral or behavioral degredation. the contaminating influence of violent movies.
Syn: corrupting.
Contaminating (a.) Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant: clean, uncontaminating].
Contaminating (a.) That infects or taints [syn: corrupting, contaminating].
Contaminate (v. t.) 弄髒；汙染；毒害；使受毒氣影響；使受放射性汙染 To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Shall we
now Contaminate
our figures with base bribes? -- Shak.
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. --
Goldsmith.
Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt.
Contaminate (a.) Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. "Contaminate drink." -- Daniel.
Contaminate (v.) Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate].
Contaminate (v.) Make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" [ant: decontaminate].
Contamination (n.) 污染，汙物，混淆 The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
Contamination (n.) The state of being contaminated [syn: {contamination}, {taint}].
Contamination (n.) A substance that contaminates [syn: {contaminant}, {contamination}].
Contamination (n.) The act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors [syn: {contamination}, {pollution}] [ant: {decontamination}].
Contamitive (a.) Tending or liable to contaminate.
Contangoes (n. pl. ) of Contango
Contango (n.) 交易延期費；延期付款之預付利息 (Stock Exchange) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.
Contango (n.) (Law) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See {Backwardation}. -- N. Biddle.
Contection (n.) A covering. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Contek
(n.) 競爭；爭端；擾亂(平靜) Quarrel; contention; contest. [Obs.]
Contek with bloody knife. -- Chaucer.
Contek (n.) Contumely; reproach. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Contemned (imp. & p. p.) of Contemn
Contemning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contemn
Contemn (v. t.) 侮辱；蔑視 To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. -- Milton.
One who contemned divine and human laws. -- Dryden.
Syn: To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn; slight; neglect; underrate; overlook.
Usage: To Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain. Contemn is the generic term, and is applied especially to objects, qualities, etc., which are deemed contemptible, and but rarely to individuals; to despise is to regard or treat as mean, unbecoming, or worthless; to scorn is stronger, expressing a quick, indignant contempt; disdain is still stronger, denoting either unwarrantable pride and haughtiness or an abhorrence of what is base.
Contemn (v.) Look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain].
Contemner (n.) 犯藐視罪的人One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." -- South.
Contemningly (adv.) Contemptuously. [R.]
Contemper (v. t.) To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften. [Obs.]
The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. -- Johnson.
Contemperate (v. t.) To temper; to moderate. [Obs.]
Moisten and contemperate the air. -- Sir T. Browne.
Contemperation (n.) The act of tempering or moderating. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Contemperation (n.) Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." -- Boyle.
Contemperature (n.) The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.]
The different contemperature of the elements. -- South.
Contemplance (n.) Contemplation. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Contemplant (a.) Given to contemplation; meditative. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Contemplated (imp. & p. p.) of Contemplate
Contemplating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contemplate
Contemplate (v. t.) 思忖，思量，仔細考慮 [+v-ing]；注視，凝視；預期；盤算，計議 To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. -- Milton.
We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. -- Byron.
Contemplate (v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions. -- A. Hamilton.
If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war. -- Kent.
Syn: To view; behold; study; ponder; muse; meditate on; reflect on; consider; intend; design; plan; propose; purpose. See Meditate.
Contemplate (v. i.) 冥思苦想，深思熟慮 [（+on/ upon）] To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
So many hours must I contemplate. -- Shak.
Contemplate (v.) Look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel".
Contemplate (v.) Consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job".
Contemplate (v.) Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study" [syn: study, meditate, contemplate].
Contemplate (v.) Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate].
Contemplate (v.) [ I or T ] (C2) 盤算；沈思，冥想 To spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way.
// [ + -ing verb ] I'm contemplating going abroad for a year.
// They were contemplating a move to California.
// It's too awful/ horrific/ dangerous to contemplate.
Contemplation (n.) [U] 凝視；沉思，冥想；深思熟慮，研究；意圖；期望 The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God. -- Milton.
Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. -- Locke.
Contemplation (n.) Holy meditation. [Obs.]
To live in prayer and contemplation. -- Shak.
Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. -- Reid.
{To have in contemplation}, To inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.
Contemplation (n.) A long and thoughtful observation.
Contemplation (n.) A calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn: {contemplation}, {reflection}, {reflexion}, {rumination}, {musing}, {thoughtfulness}].
Contemplatist (n.) A contemplator. [R.] -- I. Taylor.
Contemplative (a.) 沈思的，愛默想的，冥想的 Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.
Fixed and contemplative their looks. -- Denham.
Contemplative (a.) Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. -- Ray.
Contemplative (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.
Contemplative (a.) Deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: {brooding}, {broody}, {contemplative}, {meditative}, {musing}, {pensive}, {pondering}, {reflective}, {ruminative}].
Contemplative (n.) A person devoted to the contemplative life.
Contemplatively (adv.) With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
Contemplativeness (n.) The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.
Contemplativeness (n.) Deep serious thoughtfulness [syn: pensiveness, meditativeness, contemplativeness].
Contemplator (n.) One who contemplates. -- Sir T. Browne.
Contemporaneity (n.) The state of being contemporaneous.
The
lines of contemporaneity in the oolitic system. -- J. Philips.
Contemporaneity (n.) The quality of being current or
of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of
modernity into this village" [syn: modernity,
modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness].
Contemporaneity (n.) The quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness].
Contemporaneous (a.) 同時期的，同時代的 Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. -- Milman -- Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.
Contemporaneous (a.) Occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary].
Contemporaneous (a.) Of the same period [syn: coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous].
Contemporaneous (a.) 同時期的；同時發生的 Existing or occurring in the same period of time.
‘Pythagoras was contemporaneous with Buddha.’
Contemporaneously (adv.) 同時地；同時代地 At the same time with some other event.
Contemporaneously (adv.) During the same period of time; "contemporaneously, or possibly a little later, there developed a great Sumerian civilisation".
Contemporaneousness (n.) The quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" [syn: modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness].
Contemporaneousness (n.) The quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness].
Contemporaneousness (n.) 同時代 See contemporaneous.
Contemporaneousness (n.) (Uncountable) The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
Contemporariness (n.) 當代性 Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. -- Howell.
Contemporary (a.) 同時代的，同時，屬於同一時期的 Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. -- Strype.
Contemporary (a.) Of the same age; coeval.
A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. -- Cowley.
Contemporaries (n. pl. ) of Contemporary
Contemporary (n.) 同時代的人 One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
Contemporary (n.) A person of nearly the same age as another.
Syn: coeval.
Contemporary (a.) Characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: contemporary, modern-day].
Contemporary (a.) Belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: contemporary, present-day(a)].
Contemporary (a.) Occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary].
Contemporary (n.) A person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary, coeval].
Contempt (n.) [U] 輕視，蔑視 [（+for）]；恥辱，丟臉；【律】（對法庭等的）藐視 [（+of）] The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
Criminal contempt of public feeling. -- Macaulay.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. -- Addison.
Contempt (n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back. -- Shak.
Contempt (n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.
Little insults and contempts. -- Spectator.
The contempt and anger of his lip. -- Shak.
Contempt (n.) (Law) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.
Note: Contempt is in some jurisdictions extended so as to include publications reflecting injuriously on a court of justice, or commenting unfairly on pending proceedings; in other jurisdictions the courts are prohibited by statute or by the constitution from thus exercising this process.
Syn: Disdain; scorn; derision; mockery; contumely; neglect; disregard; slight.
Contempt (n.) Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in whic outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite].
Contempt (n.) A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous [syn: contempt, disrespect].
Contempt (n.) Open disrespect for a person or thing [syn: contempt, scorn].
Contempt (n.) A willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority oFf a court or legislative body.
Contemptibility (n.) 可鄙，下賤，卑鄙 The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. -- Speed.
Contemptibility (n.) Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn: baseness, sordidness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicability]. despicableness, despicability].
Contemptible (a.) 卑鄙的，可輕蔑的，不足齒的 Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. -- Milton.
The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. -- Burke
Contemptible (a.) Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. -- Locke.
Contemptible (a.) Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. [Obs.]
If she should make tender of her love, 't is very Possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit. -- Shak.
Syn: Despicable; abject; vile; mean; base; paltry; worthless; sorry; pitiful; scurrile. See Contemptuous.
Usage: Contemptible, Despicable, Pitiful, Paltry. Despicable is stronger than contemptible, as despise is stronger than contemn. It implies keen disapprobation, with a mixture of anger. A man is despicable chiefly for low actions which mark his life, such as servility, baseness, or mean adulation.
A man is contemptible for mean qualities which distinguish his character, especially those which show him to be weak, foolish, or worthless. Treachery is despicable, egotism is contemptible. Pitiful and paltry are applied to cases which are beneath anger, and are simply contemptible in a high degree.
Contemptible (a.) Deserving of contempt or scorn [ant: estimable].
Contemptibleness (n.) 可鄙，下賤，卑鄙 The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
Contemptibly (adv.) 卑鄙地；下賤地 In a contemptible manner.
Contemptibly (adv.) In a manner deserving contempt.
Contemptuous (a.) 輕蔑的，侮辱的，瞧不起人的 Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
A proud, contemptuous behavior. -- Hammond.
Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm. -- Macaulay
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion o the Jews. -- Atterbury.
Syn: Scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious; insulting; contumelious.
Usage: Contemptuous, Contemptible. These words, from their similarity of sound, are sometimes erroneously interchanged, as when a person speaks of having "a very contemptible opinion of another." Contemptible is applied to that which is the object of contempt; as, contemptible conduct; acontemptible fellow. Contemptuous is applied to that which indicates contempt; as, a contemptuous look; a contemptuous remark; contemptuous treatment. A person, or whatever is personal, as an action, an expression, a feeling, an opinion, may be either contemptuous or contemptible; a thing may be contemptible, but can not be contemptuous.
Contemptuous (a.) Expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful].
Contemptuously (adv.) 輕蔑地 In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. -- Jer. Taylor.
Contemptuously (adv.) Without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously,disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously].
Contemptuousness (n.) 輕視；輕蔑；鄙視 Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
Contemptuousness (n.) The manifestation of scorn and contempt; "every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return".
Contended (imp. & p. p.) of Contend
Contending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contend
Contend (v. i.) 奮鬥，鬥爭，競爭 To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood. -- Shak.
The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. -- Deut. ii. 9.
In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor. -- Shak.
Contend (v. i.) To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
You sit above, and see vain men below Contend for what you only can bestow. -- Dryden.
Contend (v. i.) To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
The question which our author would contend for. -- Locke.
Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial. -- Dr. H. More.
Syn: To struggle; fight; combat; vie; strive; oppose; emulate; contest; litigate; dispute; debate.
Contend (v. t.) 為…鬥爭 To struggle for; to contest. [R.]
Carthage shall contend the world with Rome. Dryden.
Contend (v.) Maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future" [syn: contend, postulate].
Contend (v.) Have an argument about something [syn: argue, contend, debate, fence].
Contend (v.) To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race" [syn: contest, contend, repugn].
Contend (v.) Come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" [syn: cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage].
Contend (v.) Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others [syn: compete, vie, contend].
Contend (v.) Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" [syn: contend, fight, struggle].
Contendent (n.) 敵手，對手，競爭者，角逐者，質疑者 An
antagonist; a contestant. [Obs.]
In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have
been still made a prey to the third party. -- L'Estrange.