Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 90
Commensurably (adv.) In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
Commensurated (imp. & p. p.) of Commensurate.
Commensurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commensurate.
Commensurate (v. t.) To reduce to a common measure. -- Sir T. Browne.
Commensurate (v. t.) To proportionate; to adjust. -- T. Puller
Commensurate (a.) Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
Commensurate (a.) Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration. -- Tillotson.
Commensurate (a.) Corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked" [ant: {incommensurate}].
Commensurate (a.) (Formal) 相當的，相稱的 In a correct and suitable amount compared to something else.
// A salary that is commensurate with skills and experience.
Commensurately (adv.) In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.
Commensurately (adv.) With equal measure or extent. -- Goodwin.
Commensurateness (n.) The state or quality of being commensurate.
Commensurateness (n.) The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount [syn: {commensurateness}, {correspondence}, {proportionateness}].
Commensuration (n.) 同量；同大；通约 The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.
All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. -- South.
Commented (imp. & p. p.) of Comment.
Commenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comment.
Comment (v. i.) 做註解，做評註 [（+on/ upon）]；發表意見，評論 [（+on/ upon）] To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon.
Comment (v. t.) 註釋，解釋；評論 [Y] [+（that）] To comment on. [Archaic.]
Comment (n.) A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" [syn: {remark}, {comment}, {input}].
Comment (n.) A written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" [syn: {comment}, {commentary}].
Comment (n.) A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip" [syn: {gossip}, {comment}, {scuttlebutt}].
Comment (v.) Make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague" [syn: {comment}, {notice}, {remark}, {point out}].
Comment (v.) Explain or interpret something.
Comment (v.) Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: {gloss}, {comment}, {annotate}].
Comment (n.) [C] [U] 註釋，評註 [（+on/ about）]；批評，意見，評論 [（+on/ about）] A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.
Comment (n.) A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.
Comment (n.) [ C or U ] (B1) 評論；意見；評價；評語 Something that you say or write that expresses your opinion.
// I don't want any comments on/ about my new haircut, thank you!
// He made negative comments to the press.
// I suppose his criticism was fair comment (= a reasonable opinion).
// She was asked about the pay increase but made no comment (= did not give an opinion).
No comment (C2) (ph.) 無可奉告 Used to say that you do not want to answer someone's question.
Comment (v.) [ I or T ] (B2) 評論；議論；發表意見 To make a comment.
// My mum always comments on what I'm wearing.
// [ + that ] He commented that the two essays were rather similar.
// The official refused to/ declined to comment on the matter.
Commentaries (n. pl. ) of Commentary.
Commentary (n.) 評論 [C]；（對某一著作）系統的註釋（或評註）[C] A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
Commentary (n.) A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
Commentary (n.) A written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" [syn: {comment}, {commentary}].
Commentary (n.) [ C or U ] （廣播或電視所播事件的）評論，解說，實況報道 A spoken description of an event on the radio or television that is broadcast as the event happens.
// The commentary on the Olympic Games was much better on the other channel.
Commentary (n.) [ C or U ] 評論；評註；評述 A set of written remarks on an event, book, or person that explains its subject or expresses an opinion on it.
// There's good arts coverage in the newspaper, but not much political commentary.
Running commentary (ph.) 實況追蹤報道，現場評述 A continuous description of events as they are happening.
Commentate (v. t. & i.) To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.
Commentation (n.) （時事）評論 The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
Commentation (n.) The result of the labors of a commentator.
Commentator (n.) [C]（電臺、電視臺等的）時事評論者；實況播音員；注釋者，評註者 One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. -- Whewell.
Commentator (n.) An expert who observes and comments on something [syn: {observer}, {commentator}].
Commentator (n.) A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day [syn: {commentator}, {reviewer}].
Commentatorial (a.) 評論員的 Pertaining to the making of commentaries. -- Whewell.
Commentatorship (n.) The office or occupation of a commentator.
Commenter (n.) 批評家 One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
Commentitious (a.) Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion.
Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [F. commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis, merchandise. See {Merchant}.]
Commerce (n.) [U] 商業，貿易，交易 The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. -- Hume.
Commerce (n.) （思想，意見，感情的）交流；社交 Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser. -- Macaulay.
Commerce (n.) 【古】性交 Sexual intercourse. -- W. Montagu.
Commerce (n.) A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Commerce (n.) The name of a card-game. Any number can play with an ordinary pack. There are several variations of the game, but the following is a common one. Each player receives three cards, and three more are turned up as a “pool.” The first player may exchange one or two of his cards for one or two of the exposed cards, putting his own, face upwards, in their place. His object is to “make his hand” (see below), but if he changes all three cards at once he cannot change again. The next player can do likewise, and so on. Usually there are as many rounds as there are players, and a fresh card is added to the pool at the beginning of each. If a player passes once he cannot exchange afterwards. When the rounds are finished the hands are shown, the holder of the best either receiving a stake from all the others, or, supposing each has started with three “lives,” taking one life from the lowest. The hands, in order of merit, are: (i.) Tricon—three similar cards, three aces ranking above three kings, and so on. (ii.) Sequence—three cards of the same suit in consecutive order; the highest sequence is the best. (iii.) Flush—three cards of the same suit, the highest “point” wins, i.e. the highest number of pips, ace counting eleven and court-cards ten. (iv.) Pair—two similar cards, the highest pair winning. (v.) Point—the largest number of pips winning, as in “flush,” but there is no restriction as to suit. Sometimes “pair” and “point” are not recognized. A popular variation of Commerce is Pounce Commerce. In this, if a player has already three similar cards, e.g. three nines, and the fourth nine comes into the pool, he says “Pounce!” and takes it, thus obtaining a hand of four, which is higher than any hand of three: whenever a pounce occurs, a new card is turned up from the pack.
Commerce (n.) Is a 19th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It is said that the wealthy family Brocielski of Poland was the known creator of the game, but around World War I they changed their name to Brociek to disappear from the German army. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno, Trent-et-Uno, applies basically to the same method of play, but also has slightly different combinations. [1]
{Chamber of commerce}. See {Chamber}.
Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication.
Commerced (imp. & p. p.) of Commerce.
Commercing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commerce.
Commerce (v. i.) To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.]
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -- B. Jonson.
Commerce (v. i.) To hold intercourse; to commune. -- Milton.
Commercing with himself. -- Tennyson.
Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -- Prof. Wilson.
Commerce (n.) Transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: {commerce}, {commercialism}, {mercantilism}].
Commerce (n.) The United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 [syn: {Department of Commerce}, {Commerce Department}, {Commerce}, {DoC}].
Commerce (n.) Social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
Commerce (n.) A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Commerce (n.), Trade, contracts. The exchange of commodities for commodities; considered in a legal point of view, it consists in the various agreements which have for their object to facilitate the exchange of the products of the earth or industry of man, with an intent to realize a profit. Pard. Dr. Coin. n. 1. In a narrower sense, commerce signifies any reciprocal agreements between two persons, by which one delivers to the other a thing, which the latter accepts, and for which he pays a consideration; if the consideration be money, it is called a sale; if any other thing than money, it is called exchange or barter. Domat, Dr. Pub. liv. 1, tit. 7, s. 1, n. 2. Congress have power by the constitution to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. 1 Kent. 431; Story on Const. Sec. 1052, et seq. The sense in which the word commerce is used in the constitution seems not only to include traffic, but intercourse and navigation. Story, Sec. 1057; 9 Wheat. 190, 191, 215, 229; 1 Tuck. Bl. App. 249 to 252. Vide 17 John. R. 488; 4 John. Ch. R. 150; 6 John. Ch. R. 300; 1 Halst. R. 285; Id. 236; 3 Cowen R. 713; 12 Wheat. R. 419; 1 Brock. R. 423; 11 Pet. R. 102; 6 Cowen, R. 169; 3 Dana, R. 274; 6 Pet. R. 515; 13 S. & R. 205.
Commercial (a.) Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.
Commercialism (n.) The commercial spirit or method.
Commercially (adv.) In a commercial manner.
Commigrate (v. i.) To migrate together.
Commigration (n.) Migration together.
Commination (n.) 威嚇；【宗】將受天譴的威嚇 A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. -- Foxe.
Those thunders of commination. -- I. Taylor.
Commination (n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.
Commination (n.) Prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday
Commination (n.) A threat of divine punishment or vengeance.
Commination (n.) A denunciation.
Commination (n.) A threat of punishment. Commination is derived from Latin comminatio, commination-, from comminari, "to threaten," from com-, intensive prefix + minari, "to threaten."
Comminatory (a.) Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. -- B. Jonson.
Comminatory (a.) Containing warning of punishment [syn: comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory].
Commingled (imp. & p. p.) of Commingle.
Commingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commingle.
Commingle (v. t. & i.) (v. t.) 摻和，混合；合併（資產等）(v. i.) 摻和；混合 To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. -- Bacon.
Commingle (v.) Mix or blend; "His book commingles sarcasm and sadness".
Commingle (v.) Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: {blend}, {flux}, {mix}, {conflate}, {commingle}, {immix}, {fuse}, {coalesce}, {meld}, {combine}, {merge}].
Commingle (v.) [ T ] (Finance) To mix an amount of money belonging to one person, business, or account with that of another when the money should have been kept separate.
// (Commingle sth between sth) The schools regularly commingled funds between accounts.
Commingling (n.) [ U ] A mixing or mixture.
// He had to answer questions about the commingling of endowment funds with other museum funds.
Comminuted (imp. & p. p.) of Comminute.
Comminuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comminute.
Comminute (v. t.) 研成粉末 To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. -- Pennant.
{Comminuted fracture}. See under {Fracture}.
Comminute (v.) Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: {grind}, {mash}, {crunch}, {bray}, {comminute}].
Comminution (n.) The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
Comminution (n.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
Comminution (n.) Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.
Commiserable (a.) Pitiable.
Commiserated (imp. & p. p.) of Commiserate.
Commiserating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commiserate.
Commiserate (v. t.) (v. t.) 憐憫；同情 (v. i.) 弔慰；同情 To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.
Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. -- Denham.
We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. -- Locke.
Syn: To pity; compassionate; lament; condole.
Commiserate (v.) To feel or express sympathy or compassion [syn: commiserate, sympathize, sympathise].
Commiseration (n.) 憐憫；同情 The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.
And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. -- Shak.
Syn: See Sympathy.
Commiseration (n.) A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos].
Commiseration (n.) An expression of sympathy with another's grief; "they sent their condolences" [syn: condolence, commiseration].
Commiserative (a.) 可憐的 Feeling or expressing commiseration. -- Todd.
Commiserative (a.) Feeling or expressing sympathy; "made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue" -- Kenneth Roberts
Commiserator (n. pl. -s) One who commiserates or pities.
Commiserator (n.) A person who commiserates with another or others; a person given to sympathizing or compassion.
Commissarial (a.) 前蘇聯之委員或代表的；軍需官的；供應糧食或日用品之商店的；主教之特別代理的 Of or pertaining to a commissary.
Commissariat (n.) (Mil.) 軍需部；糧食補給；舊蘇俄人民委員部 The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
Commissariat (n.) (Mil.) The body of officers charged with such service.
Commissariat (n.) A stock or supply of foods [syn: commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, victuals].
Commissariat (n.) The whole body of officers who act in the department of the commissary, are called the, commissariate.
Commissaries (n. pl. ) of Commissary.
Commissary (n.) 代表；委員；（部隊，學校，礦場等的）雜貨商店 One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. -- Donne.
Commissary (n.) (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
Commissary (n.) (Mil.) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
Commissary (n.) (Mil.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.]
Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. -- W. Irving
Commissary general, An officer in charge of some special department of army service; as:
(a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.]
(b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.]
Commissary general of subsistence (Mil. U. S.), The head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.
Commissary (n.) A retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel).
Commissary (n.) A snack bar in a film studio.
Commissaryship (n.) The office or employment of a commissary.
Commission (n.) 委任狀，任官令，命令，傭金，犯法，委託，代辦 The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Commission (n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
Commission (n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
Commission (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
Commission (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
Commission (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
Commissioned (imp. & p. p.) of Commission.
Commissioning (p. pr & vb. n.) of Commission.
Commission (v. t.) 委任，委託製作，使服役 To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
Commission (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.
Commission (n.) A special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: {committee}, {commission}].
Commission (n.) A fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary); "he works on commission".
Commission (n.) The act of granting authority to undertake certain functions [syn: {commission}, {commissioning}].
Commission (n.) The state of being in good working order and ready for operation; "put the ships into commission"; "the motor was out of commission".
Commission (n.) A group of representatives or delegates [syn: {deputation}, {commission}, {delegation}, {delegacy}, {mission}].
Commission (n.) A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: {commission}, {charge}, {direction}].
Commission (n.) An official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces [syn: {commission}, {military commission}].
Commission (n.) The act of committing a crime [syn: {perpetration}, {commission}, {committal}].
Commission (n.) A special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: {mission}, {charge}, {commission}].
Commission (v.) Put into commission; equip for service; of ships.
Commission (v.) Place an order for.
Commission (v.) Charge with a task.
Commissional (a.) Alt. of Commissionary.
Commissionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
Commissionate (v. t.) To commission.
Commissioned (a.) 受委任的，服役的 (of military officers) Holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above.
Commissioned (a.) Given official approval to act; "an accredited college"; "commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist"; "authorized representative".
Commissioner (n.) [C] （政府部門的）長，長官；（委員會的）委員；專員；特派員；地方司法行政長官 A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.
To another address which requested that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. -- Macaulay.
Commissioner (n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. -- Macaulay.
The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subordinates of the secretary of the interior. -- Bartlett.
{Commissioner of deeds}, An officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [U. S.]
{County commissioners}, Certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [U. S.]
Commissioner (n.) A government administrator.
Commissioner (n.) A member of a commission.
Commissioner (n.) Officer. One who has a lawful commission to execute a public office. In a more restricted sense it is one who is authorized to execute. a particular duty, as, commissioner of the revenue, canal commissioner. The term when used in this latter sense is not applied, for example, to a judge. There are commissioners, too, who have no regular commissions and derive their author from the elections held by the people. County commissioners, in Pennsylvania, are officers of the latter kind.
Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
Commissionnaire (n.) One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
Commissionship (n.) The office of commissioner. -- Sir W. Scott.
Commissive (a.) 許諾的 Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission. [R.]
Commissural (a.) 接合的 Of or pertaining to a commissure.
Commissure (n.) 接合處；【解】連合纖維組織 A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
Commissure (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
Commissure (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
Commissure (n.) (Bot.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
Commissure (n.) A bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord.
Committed (imp. & p. p.) of Commit.
Committing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commit.
Commit (v. t.) 犯（罪），做（錯事等）；使承擔義務；使作出保證；使表態 [（+to）]；把……交託給；把……提交給；把……付諸 [（+to）] To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
Commit thy way unto the Lord. -- Ps. xxxvii. 5.
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. -- Shak.
Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
These two were committed. -- Clarendon.