Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 92
Commorient (a.) Dying together or at the same time. [R.] -- Sir G. Buck.
Commorse (n.) Remorse. [Obs.] "With sad commorse." -- Daniel.
Commote (v. t.) To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.]
Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. -- Hawthorne.
Commotion (n.) 騷動，喧鬧 [U] [C]；動亂；暴動；起義 [U] [C] Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.
[What] commotion in the winds ! -- Shak.
Commotion (n.) A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot.
When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. -- Luke xxi. 9
Commotion (n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." -- Clarendon.
Syn: Excitement; agitation; perturbation; disturbance; tumult; disorder; violence.
Commotion (n.) A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: {disturbance}, {disruption}, {commotion}, {flutter}, {hurly burly}, {to- do}, {hoo-ha}, {hoo-hah}, {kerfuffle}].
Commotion (n.) The act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: {commotion}, {din}, {ruction}, {ruckus}, {rumpus}, {tumult}].
Commotion (n.) Confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits" [syn: {whirl}, {commotion}].
Commotion (n.) [ S or U ] 喧鬧；喧囂；混亂；騷動 A sudden, short period of noise, confusion, or excited movement.
// His arrival caused quite a commotion.
// He looked up to see what all the commotion was about.
Commoved (imp. & p. p.) of Commove.
Commoving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commove.
Commove (v. t.) To urge; to persuade; to incite. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Commove (v. t.) To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle. [R.]
Straight the sands, () Commoved around, in gathering eddies play. -- Thomson.
Commove (v.) Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize].
Commove (v.) Change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up].
Communal (a.) Pertaining to a commune.
Communal (a.) resembling a commune[4] or the practises of a commune [4]; as, communal living.
Syn: collectivist.
Communal (a.) For or by a group rather than individuals; "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche; "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"; "a group effort".
Communaistic, () Relating to a small administrative district or community; "communal elections in several European countries".
Communal (a.) (Shared) 公共的；共有的；集體的；公用的 Belonging to or used by a group of people rather than one single person.
// Communal facilities/ food/ property.
We each have a separate bedroom but share a communal kitchen.
Communal (a.) 公社制的 A communal society is one in which everyone lives and works together and property and possessions are shared rather than being owned by a particular person.
Communal (a.) (In a community) （較大社會群體內）不同群體之間的 Involving different social or religious groups within a community.
// Communal riots/ disturbances have once again broken out between the two ethnic groups.
// Communal harmony/ solidarity.
Communalism (n.) A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.
Communalism (n.) The practice of communal living and common ownership.
Communalism (n.) Loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole.
Communalist (n.) An advocate of communalism.
Communalistic (a.) Pertaining to communalism.
Communed (imp. & p. p.) of Commune.
Communing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commune.
Commune (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
I would commune with you of such things That want no ear but yours. -- Shak.
Commune (v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.
To commune under both kinds. -- Bp. Burnet.
To commune with one's self or To commune with one's heart, To think; to reflect; to meditate.
Commune (n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
For days of happy commune dead. -- Tennyson.
Commune (n.) The commonalty; the common people. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few. -- J. R. Green.
Commune (n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.
Commune (n.) Absolute municipal self-government.
Commune (n.) A group of people living together as an organized community and owning in common most or all of their property and possessions, and sharing work, income, and many other aspects of daily life. Such sommunities are oftten organized based on religious or idealistic principles, and they sometimes have unconventional lifestyles, practises, or moral codes.
The Commune of Paris, or The Commune
(a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the "Reign of Terror."
(b) The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.
Commune (n.) The smallest administrative district of several European countries.
Commune (n.) A body of people or families living together and sharing everything.
Commune (v.) Communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature".
Commune (v.) Receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune, communicate].
Commune (n.) (Group) [ C, + sing/ pl. verb ] 公社；群居團體 A group of families or single people who live and work together sharing possessions and responsibilities.
// She left her husband to join a women's commune.
Commune (n.) (Government) [ C ] 公社（某些國家的地方行政單位） In some countries, a unit of local government.
Commune (v.) [ I ] (Formal) 親密交談；交流；接觸；交融 To get very close to someone or something by exchanging feelings or thoughts.
// Lying naked in the grass, among the trees and birds, he felt he was communing with nature.
Communicability (n.) The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.
Communicable (a.) Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
Communicable (a.) Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson. -- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv.
Communicable (a.) (Of disease) Capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable].
Communicable (a.) Readily communicated; "communicable ideas".
Communicant (n.) One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member.
A never-failing monthly communicant. -- Atterbury.
Communicant (n.) One who communicates. -- Foxe.
Communicant (a.) Communicating. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Communicant (n.) A person entitled to receive Communion.
Communicated (imp. & p. p.) of Communicate.
Communicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Communicate.
Communicate (v. t.) To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.]
To thousands that communicate our loss. -- B. Jonson
Communicate (v. t.) To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. -- Jer. Taylor.
Communicate (v. t.) To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
Communicate (v. t.) To administer the
communion to. [R.]
She [the church] . . . may communicate him. -- Jer. Taylor.
Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.
He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. -- Clarendon.
Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.
Usage: To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves.
Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret.
Communicate (v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
Ye did communicate with my affliction. -- Philip. iv. 4.
Communicate (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
To do good and to communicate forget not. -- Heb. xiii. 16.
Communicate (v. i.) To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. -- Hakluyt.
The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. -- Arbuthnot.
Communicate (v. i.) To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
The primitive Christians communicated every day. -- Jer. Taylor.
Communicate (v.) Transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" [syn: communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across].
Communicate (v.) Transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: communicate, intercommunicate].
Communicate (v.) Transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate].
Communicate (v.) Join or connect; "The rooms communicated".
Communicate (v.) Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
Communicate (v.) Administer Communion; in church [ant: curse, excommunicate, unchurch].
Communicate (v.) Receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune, communicate].
Communicate (v.) (Share information) (B1) [ I or T ] 交流，溝通（資訊） To share information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using other signals.
// We can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the world.
// Unable to speak a word of the language, he communicated with (= using) his hands.
// Has the news been communicated to the staff yet?
// As an actor he could communicate a whole range of emotions.
Communicate (v.) (Share information) (B2) [ I ] 傳達，表達，傳遞，溝通（思想或感情） To talk about your thoughts and feelings, and help other people to understand them.
// I find I just can't communicate with her.
Communicate (v.) (Disease) [ T ] (Specialized) (Medical) 傳染，傳播（疾病） To pass a disease from one person or animal to another.
Communicate (v.) (Rooms) [ I ] (Formal) （房間）互通，相連 If one room communicates with another, it connects with it through a door.
// The bedroom communicates with both bathroom and hall.
// Communicating rooms.
Communication (n.) [U] 通訊，傳達，傳送；[U] [C] 交通；[C] 通訊系統 The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Communication (n.) Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
Argument . . . and friendly communication. -- Shak.
Communication (n.) Association; company.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. -- 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Communication (n.) Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. -- Arbuthnot.
Communication (n.) That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
Communication (n.) Participation in the Lord's supper. -- Bp. Pearson.
Communication (n.) (Rhet.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. -- Beattie.
Syn: Correspondence; conference; intercourse.
Communication (n.) The activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" [syn: {communication}, {communicating}].
Communication (n.) Something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups.
Communication (n.) A connection allowing access between persons or places; "how many lines of communication can there be among four people?"; "a secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms".
Communication, () contracts. Information; consultation; conference.
Communication, () In order to make a contract, it is essential there should be an agreement; a bare communication or conference will not, therefore, amount to a contract; nor can evidence of such communication be received in order to take from, contradict, or alter a written agreement. 1 Dall. 426; 4 Dall. 340; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 609. Vide Pour-parler; Wharton's Dig. Evid. R.
Communicative (a.) 毫無隱諱交談的，愛說話的，暢談的 Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.
Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. -- Swift.
Communicative (a.) Of or relating to communication; "communicative arts".
Communicative (a.) Able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: {communicative}, {communicatory}] [ant: {incommunicative}, {uncommunicative}].
Communicativeness (n.) 通信性 [電子計算機] ；與聽眾交流 The quality of being communicative. -- Norris.
Communicativeness (n.) The trait of being communicative [ant: {uncommunicativeness}].
Communicator (n.) 傳達者，發報機，列車內通報器 One who communicates. -- Boyle.
Communicator (n.) A person who communicates with others.
Communicatory (a.) 有關通信的 Imparting knowledge or information.
Canonical and communicatory letters. -- Barrow.
Communicatory (a.) Able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: {communicative}, {communicatory}] [ant: {incommunicative}, {uncommunicative}]
Communion (n.) [U] [S1] 共享，共有；[U] [（+with）]（思想等的）交流；親密的交談；[U] [S1] [（+with）] 融洽關係；密切配合；[C] 宗教團體；教派；[U] （大寫）聖餐式，領聖餐禮；聖餐 The act of sharing; community; participation.
Communion (n.) Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints.
We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. -- Hooker.
What communion hath light with darkness? -- 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. -- South.
Communion (n.) A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.
Communion (n.) The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion ; called also Holy Communion.
Close communion. See under Close, a.
Communion elements, The bread and wine used in the celebration of the Lord's supper.
Communion service, The celebration of the Lord's supper, or the office or service therefor.
Communion table, The table upon which the elements are placed at the celebration of the Lord's supper.
Communion in both kinds, Participation in both the bread and wine by all communicants.
Communion in one kind, Participation in but one element, as in the Roman Catholic Church, where the laity partake of the bread only.
Syn: Share; participation; fellowship; converse; intercourse; unity; concord; agreement.
Communion (n.) The act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation" [syn: Communion, Holy Communion, sacramental manduction, manduction].
Communion (n.) Sharing thoughts and feelings [syn: communion, sharing].
Communion (n.) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites.
Communion, () Fellowship with God (Gen. 18:17-33; Ex. 33:9-11; Num. 12:7, 8), between Christ and his people (John 14:23), by the Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 2:1), of believers with one another (Eph. 4:1-6). The Lord's Supper is so called (1 Cor. 10:16, 17), because in it there is fellowship between Christ and his disciples, and of the disciples with one another.
Communion rite, () The celebration of the Eucharist as a paschal meal. It implies that the faithful in good dispositions should answer to the Lord's command by receiving his body and blood as their spiritual nourishment. They are prepared for the Communion and thank him afterward in a series of liturgical rites, beginning with the Lord's Prayer and ending with the Post-Communion.
Communism (n.) [U] 共產主義；（大寫）共產主義政體；共產主義社會 A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
Note: At different times, and in different countries, various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions of domestic life, as well as in the distribution of wealth, have been called communism.
Communism (n.) A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership.
Communism (n.) A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society.
Communist (n.) An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.
Communist (n.) A supporter of the commune of Paris.
Communist (a.) Relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda" [syn: communist, communistic].
Communist (n.) A member of the communist party.
Communist (n.) A socialist who advocates communism [syn: communist, commie].
Communistic (a.) 共產主義的，共產主義者的 Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.
Communistic (a.) (Zool.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds.
Communistic (a.) Relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda" [syn: {communist}, {communistic}].
Communities (n. pl. ) of Community
Community (n.) [C] 社會，社區;；[C] 共同體 ；[U] 同一地區的全體居民 Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
The original community of all things. -- Locke.
An unreserved community of thought and feeling. -- W. Irving.
Community (n.) A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.
Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth.
Community (n.) Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. -- Hallam.
Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community.
Community (n.) Common character; likeness. [R.]
The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. -- H. Spencer.
Community (n.) Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]
Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. -- Shak.
Community (n.) A group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community".
Community (n.) Common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions".
Community (n.) A group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community".
Community (n.) Agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" [syn: {community}, {community of interests}].
Community (n.) A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: {residential district}, {residential area}, {community}].
Community (n.) (Ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other [syn: {community}, {biotic community}].
Community. () This word has several meanings; when used in common parlance it signifies the body of the people.
Community. () In the civil law, by community is understood corporations, or bodies politic. Dig. 3, 4.
Community. () In the French law, which has been adopted in this respect in Louisiana, Civ. Code, art. 2371, community is a species of partnership, which a man and woman contract when they are lawfully married to each other. It consists of the profits of all, the effects of which the husband has the administration and enjoyment, either of right or in fact; of the produce of the reciprocal industry and labor of both husband and wife, and of the estates which they may acquire during the marriage, either by donations made jointly to them, or by purchase, or in any other similar way, even although the purchase he made in the name of one of the two, and not of both; because in that case the period of time when the purchase is made is alone attended to, and not the person who made the purchase. 10 L. R. 146; Id. 172, 181; 1 N. S. 325; 4 N. S. 212. The debts contracted during the marriage enter into the community, and must be acquitted out of the common fund; but not the debts contracted before the marriage.
Community. () The community is either, first, conventional, or that which is formed by an express agreement in the contract of marriage itself; by this contract the legal community may be modified, as to the proportions which each shall take, or as to the things which shall compose it; Civ. Code of L. art. 2393; second, legal, which takes place when the parties make no agreement on this subject in the contract of marriage; when it is regulated by the law of the domicil they had at the time of marriage.
Community. () The effects which compose the community of gains, are divided into two equal portions between the heirs, at the dissolution of the marriage. Civ. Code of L. art. 2375. See Poth. h.t.; Toull. h.t.; Civ. Code of Lo. tit. 6, c. 2, s. 4.
Community. () In another sense, community is the right which all men have, according to the laws of nature, to use all things. Wolff, Inst. Sec. 186.
Community (n.) Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
Community (n.) Common character; likeness.
Community (n.) Commonness; frequency.
Community (n.) [ C, + sing/ pl. verb ] (B2) 社區；群體；社團，團體，界 The people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group, or nationality.
// He's well known in the local community.
// There's a large black/ white/ Jewish community living in this area.
// Her speech caused outrage among the gay community.
// Drug trafficking is a matter of considerable concern for the entire international community (= all the countries of the world).
// There's a real sense of community (= caring and friendly feeling) in this neighbourhood.
Community (n.) [ C, + sing/ pl. verb ] (Specialized) (Biology) （動植物的）群落 A group of animals or plants that live or grow together.
The community [ S ] 公眾，群眾 The general public.
// Unlike the present government, we believe in serving the community.
Communique (n.) 公報；官報 An official report (usually sent in haste) [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {communique}].
Commutability (n.) The quality of being commutable.
Commutable (a.) Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
The predicate and subject are not commutable. -- Whately.
Commutable (a.) Subject to alteration or change; "the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment" [ant: incommutable].
Commutable (a.) Capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent [syn: commutable, substitutable].
Commutableness (n.) The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.
Commutation (n.) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. [R.]
So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. -- South.
Commutation (n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange. [Obs.]
The use of money is . . . that of saving the commutation of more bulky commodities. -- Arbuthnot.
Commutation (n.) (Law) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.
Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance. -- Blackstone.
Commutation (n.) A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.
Commutation (n.) regular travel from a place of residence to a place where one's daily work is performed; commuting. Most often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city.
Angle of commutation (Astron.), The difference of the geocentric longitudes of the sun and a planet.
Commutation of tithes, The substitution of a regular payment, chargeable to the land, for the annual tithes in kind.
Commutation ticket, A ticket, as for transportation, which is the evidence of a contract for service at a reduced rate. See 2d Commute, 2.
Commutation (n.) The travel of a commuter [syn: commutation, commuting].
Commutation (n.) A warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one.
Commutation (n.) (Law) The reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law [syn: commutation, re-sentencing].
Commutation (n.) The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help" [syn: substitution, exchange, commutation].
Commutation, () punishments. The change of a punishment to which a person has been condemned into a less severe one. This can be granted only by the executive authority in which the pardoning power resides.
Commutative (a.) Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal. -- Com*mut"a*tive"ly, adv.
Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. -- Burke.
Commutative (a.) (Math.) Having the property of commutativity.
Commutative (a.) (Of a binary operation) Independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a".
Commutator (n.) (Elec.) A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction. It may be attached to the end of the spindle of an electric motor, where a brush is in contact sequentially with the parts of the spindle that conduct current to the different windings of the motor.
Commutator (n.) Switch for reversing the direction of an electric current.
Commuted (imp. & p. p.) of Commute.
Commuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commute.
Commute (v. t.) 減輕 （刑罰等） [（+to）]；用……交換 （或代替）；交換 [（+for/ into）]；改變，使變成 [（+into）]；折合；折償 [（+into/ for）] To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. -- J. Harris
The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. -- Macaulay.
Commute (v. i.) （購用月票或季票）通勤 [（+between/ from/ to）]；替代；代償 To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
Commute (v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
Commute (n.) 【口】通勤 [C] A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"
Commuter (n.) 通勤者；經常搭乘公共交通車輛往返者 [C] One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
Commuter (a.) Of or pertaining to commuting, in the sense of traveling; used for commuting; as, a commuter airline.
Commuter (n.) A passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another [syn: {commuter}, {commuter train}].
Commuter (n.) Someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city.
Commutual (a.) (Poetic) 相互的；共同的 Mutual; reciprocal; united. [R.]
There, with commutual zeal, we both had strove. -- Pope.
Comose (a.) (Bot.) 有鬚的；多毛的 Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. -- Gray.
Comose (a.) Bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts; "comate royal palms"; "pineapples are comate" [syn: comate, comose].
Comose (a.) Of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair; "comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft" [syn: comate, comose, comal].
Compact (a.) 緊密的；緊湊的；簡潔的 Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. [Obs.]
"Compact with her that's gone." -- Shak.
A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. -- Peacham.
Compact (a.) Composed or made; -- with of. [Poetic]
A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. -- Milton.
Compact (a.) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies. -- Sir I. Newton.
Compact (a.) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
Syn: Firm; close; solid; dense; pithy; sententious.
Compacted (imp. & p. p.) of Compact
Compacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compact
Compact (v. t.) 使簡潔；使裝滿；壓實 To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. -- Blackstone.
Compact (v. t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth. -- Eph. iv. 16.
Compact (n.) 合約；條約 An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
The law of nations depends on mutual compacts, treaties, leagues, etc. -- Blackstone.
Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact. -- Macaulay.
The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. -- Wharton.
Syn: See Covenant. compact disc.
Compact (a.) 緊湊的；密實的；小巧的 Consisting of parts that are positioned together closely or in a tidy way, using very little space.
// Compact soil/ sand.
// A compact camera/ bag.
What a compact office! How did you fit so much into so little space?
Compact (n.) [ C ] (Case) （裝女性敷麵粉用的）粉盒 A small, flat case that contains women's face powder.
// A powder compact.
Compact (n.) [ C ] (Car) (US) 小型汽車 A small car.
Compact (n.) [ C ] (Agreement) (Formal) 合約；契約；協定 A formal agreement between two or more people, organizations, or countries.
// [ + to infinitive ] They made a compact not to reveal any details.
Compact (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 壓縮；把…壓實；把…壓緊 To press something together in a tight and solid way.
// Cars had compacted the snow until it was like ice.
Compact (a.) Closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers" [ant: loose].
Compact (a.) Having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset].
Compact (a.) Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide- ranging subject" [syn: compendious, compact, succinct, summary].
Compact (n.) A small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse [syn: compact, powder compact].
Compact (n.) A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action [syn: covenant, compact,
concordat].
Compact (n.) A small and economical car [syn: compact, compact car].
Compact (v.) Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" [syn: compact, pack].
Compact (v.) Compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, bundle, wad, compact].
Compact (v.) Make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" [syn: compress, compact, pack together] [ant: decompress, uncompress].
Compact (v.) Squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press].
Compact (a.) Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and FORTRAN is not, but C is more powerful than FORTRAN. Designs become non-compact through accreting { features and cruft that don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact).
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isolated (Or "finite", "isolated") In domain theory, an element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any chain S, a subset of D, d <= lub S => there exists s in S such that d <= s.
I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of steps up the chain.
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isolated Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and Fortran is not, but C is more powerful than Fortran. Designs become non-compact through accreting features and cruft that don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact). (2008-10-13)
Compact, () contracts. In its more general sense, it signifies an agreement. In its strict sense, it imports a contract between parties, which creates obligations and rights capable of being enforced, and contemplated as such between the parties, in their distinct and independent characters. Story, Const. B. 3, c. 3; Rutherf. Inst. B. 2, c. 6, Sec. 1. 2. The constitution of the United States declares that "no state shall, without the consent of congress, enter into agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power." See 11 Pet: 1; 8 Wheat. 1 Bald. R. 60; 11 Pet. 185.
Compacted (a.) Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
Compactedly (adv.) In a compact manner.
Compactedness (n.) A state of being compact.
Compacter (n.) One who makes a compact.
Compactible (a.) That may be compacted.
Compaction (n.) The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Compaction (n.) An increase in the density of something [syn: compaction, compression, concretion, densification].
Compaction (n.) The act of crushing [syn: crush, crunch, compaction].
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Uncompression, () (Or "compaction") The coding of data to save storage space or transmission time. Although data is already coded in digital form for computer processing, it can often be coded more efficiently (using fewer bits). For example, run-length encoding replaces strings of repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and a count. There are many compression algorithms and utilities.
Compressed data must be decompressed before it can be used.
The standard Unix compression utilty is called compress though GNU's superior gzip has largely replaced it. Other compression utilties include pack, zip and PKZIP.
When compressing several similar files, it is usually better to join the files together into an archive of some kind (using tar for example) and then compress them, rather than to join together individually compressed files. This is because some common compression algorithms build up tables based on the data from their current input which they have already compressed. They then use this table to compress subsequent data more efficiently.
See also TIFF, JPEG, MPEG, Lempel-Ziv Welch, "{lossy", "{lossless}".
Compaction, () Reducing the dynamic range of an audio signal, making quiet sounds louder and loud sounds quieter. Thus, when discussing digital audio, the preferred term for reducing the total amount of data is "compaction". Some advocate this term in all contexts. (2004-04-26)
Compactly (adv.) 緊密地；簡潔地 In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
Compactly (adv.) In a compact manner or state; "The children were packed compactly into the car".
Compactly (adv.) With concise and precise brevity; to the point; "Please state your case as succinctly as possible"; "he wrote compactly but clearly" [syn: succinctly, compactly].
Compactly (adv.) Taking up no more space than necessary; "liquid food compactly stored in a pressurized tank".
Compactness (n.) [U] 緊密；堅實；緊湊；小巧 The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.
Compactness (n.) The spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution].
Compactness (n.) The consistency of a compact solid.
Compacture (n.) Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. [Obs.] "With comely compass and compacture strong." -- Spenser.
Compages (n. sing. & pl. ) A system or structure of many parts united.
A regular compages of pipes and vessels. -- Ray.