Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 69
Expire (v. t.) To bring to a
close; to terminate. [Obs.]
Expire the term Of a despised life. -- Shak.
Expire (v. i.) To emit the breath.
Expire (v. i.) To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
Expire (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
Expire (v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." -- Dryden.
Expire (v.) Lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: {run out}, {expire}].
Expire (v.) Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: {die}, {decease}, {perish}, {go}, {exit}, {pass away}, {expire}, {pass}, {kick the bucket}, {cash in one's chips}, {buy the farm}, {conk}, {give-up the ghost}, {drop dead}, {pop off}, {choke}, {croak}, {snuff it}] [ant: {be born}].
Expire (v.) Expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: {exhale}, {expire}, {breathe out}] [ant: {breathe in}, {inhale}, {inspire}].
Expiring (a.) Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
Expiring (a.) Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.
Expiry (n.) Expiration.
Expiscate (v. t.) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
Expiscation (n.) The act of expiscating; a fishing.
Expiscatory (a.) Tending to fish out; searching out
Explained (imp. & p. p.) of Explain
Explaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explain
Explain (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
Explain (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
Explain (v. i.) To give an explanation.
Explainable (a.) Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.
Explainer (n.) One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
Explanate (a.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.
Explanation (n.) The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
Explanation (n.) That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
Explanation (n.) The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.
Explanation (n.) A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
Explanation (n.) [ C or U ] (B1) 解釋；說明；給出的原因 The details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy to understand.
// Could you give me a quick explanation of how it works?
// What was her explanation for why she was late?
// [ + that ] The judge didn't believe his explanation that he had stolen the money in order to give it to charity.
// He said, by way of explanation, that he hadn't seen the traffic light change to red.
Explanative (a.) Explanatory.
Explanatoriness (n.) The quality of being explanatory.
Explanatory (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.
Explat (v. t.) Alt. of Explate
Explate (v. t.) To explain; to unfold.
Expletion (n.) Accomplishment; fulfillment.
Expletive (a.) Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
Expletive (n.) A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
Expletively (adv.) In the manner of an expletive.
Expletory (a.) Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.
Explicable (a.) Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.
Explicableness (n.) Quality of being explicable.
Explicate (a.) Evolved; unfolded.
Explicated (imp. & p. p.) of Explicate
Explicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explicate
Explicate (v. t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
Explicate (v. t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
Explication (n.) 解釋；辯明 The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
The explication of our Savior's parables. -- Atterbury.
Explication (n.) The sense given by an expositor. -- Bp. Burnet.
Explication (n.) The act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc.
Explication (n.) A detailed explanation of the meaning of something.
Explicative (a.) Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
Explicator (n.) One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.
Explicatory (a.) Explicative.
Explicit (a.) A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.
Explicit (a.) Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.
Explicit (a.) Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.
Explicitly (adv.) In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.
Explicitness (n.) The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.
Exploded (imp. & p. p.) of Explode
Exploding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explode
Explode (v. i.) 爆炸；爆破；爆發，突發，迸發 [（+in/ into/ with）]；激增，迅速擴大 To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.
Explode (v. i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
Explode (v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
Explode (v. t.) 使爆炸；使爆發；使突發；推翻；駁倒；戳穿 [H]；【語】發爆破音 To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. [Obs.]
Him old and young
Exploded, and seized with violent hands. -- Milton.
Explode (v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.
Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. -- Burke.
To explode and exterminate dark atheism. -- Bently.
Explode (v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
Explode (v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
But late the kindled powder did explode
The massy ball and the brass tube unload. -- Blackmore.
Explode (v.) Cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" [syn: {explode}, {detonate}, {blow up}, {set off}].
Explode (v.) Burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle exploded" [syn: {explode}, {burst}] [ant: {go off}, {implode}].
Explode (v.) Show a violent emotional reaction; "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary".
Explode (v.) Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise; "His anger exploded" [syn: {explode}, {burst forth}, {break loose}].
Explode (v.) Destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge".
Explode (v.) Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
Explode (v.) Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
Explode (v.) Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
Explode (v.) Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded" [syn: {detonate}, {explode}, {blow up}].
Explode (v.) Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted" [syn: {explode}, {irrupt}].
Explodent (n.) An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.
Explodent (n.) See Explosive, n., 2.
Exploder (n.) Used within Microsoft to refer to the Windows Explorer, the web-interface component of Windows 95 and WinNT 4. Our spies report that most of the heavy guns at MS came from a Unix background and use command line utilities; even they are scornful of the over-gingerbreaded {WIMP environment}s that they have been called upon to create.
Exploder (n.) 爆炸者；爆發物；爆炸裝置；雷管 One who or that which explodes.
Exploder (n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. -- South.
Exploit (n.) 功績，功勛；輝煌的成就；英勇的行為 [C] 【電腦】漏洞利用（以取得電腦系統的控制權） A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.
Exploit (n.) Combat; war.
Exploit (n.) To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.
Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
Exploit (n.) A notable achievement; "he performed a great feat"; "the book was her finest effort" [syn: {feat}, {effort}, {exploit}].
Exploit (v.) (v. t.) 剝削；利用；利用……而自肥；開發，開採，開拓 Use or manipulate to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy" [syn: {exploit}, {work}].
Exploit (v.) Draw from; make good use of; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely" [syn: {exploit}, {tap}].
Exploit (v.) Work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students" [syn: {overwork}, {exploit}].
Exploitation (n.) [U] 開發；開採；利用 The act of exploiting or utilizing.
Exploiture (n.) 開發 The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement. [Obs.] -- Udall.
Exploiture (n.) Exploitation. -- Harper's Mag.
Explorable (a.) 【修】可勘探的；可探索的 That may be explored; as, an explorable region.
Explorable (a.) Capable of being explored.
Explorable (n.) (Rare) That which can be explored; a subject for exploration.
Explorate (v. t.) To explore. [Obs.] -- Sir. T. Browne.
Exploration (n.) 勘查；探測；探索；探究；調查；研究 The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries
Exploration (n.) physical examination.
Exploration (n.) [ C or U ] 探測；勘查；探索；研究 The activity of searching and finding out about something.
// Livingstone was the first European to make an exploration of the Zambezi river (= to travel to it in order to discover more about it).
// We need to carry out a full exploration (= examination) of all the alternatives.
// The exploration (= search) for new sources of energy is vital for the future of our planet.
Explorative (a.) 探險的；探究的 Exploratory.
Explorative (a.) Serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats" [syn: {exploratory}, {explorative}] [ant: {nonexplorative}, {nonexploratory}, {unexplorative}, {unexploratory}].
Explorator (n.) 偵查員；獵人；追蹤人 (Dated) One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.
Exploratory (a.) 勘探的；探究的 Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.
Explored (imp. & p. p.) of Explore
Exploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Explore
Explore (v. t.) 勘探，探測；探究，探索 To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Explore (v. t.) To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.
Explorement (n.) The act of exploring; exploration. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Explorer (n.) 探險家；勘探者 [C] One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
Explorer (n.) Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) [syn: {explorer}, {adventurer}].
Explorer (n.) A commercial browser [syn: {Internet Explorer}, {Explorer}, {IE}].
Eploring (a.) Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." -- Bancroft.
Explosion (n.) [C] 爆發；爆炸，炸裂；擴張，劇增；劇變 The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
Explosion (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.
Explosion (n.) A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath.
A formidable explosion of high-church fanaticism. -- Macaulay.
Explosion (n.) A sudden and substantial increase; a rapid acceleration; as, the population explosion.
Explosion (n.) A violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction [syn: {explosion}, {detonation}, {blowup}].
Explosion (n.) The act of exploding or bursting; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft" [syn: {explosion}, {burst}].
Explosion (n.) A sudden great increase; "the population explosion"; "the information explosion".
Explosion (n.) The noise caused by an explosion; "the explosion was heard a mile away".
Explosion (n.) The terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant [syn: {plosion}, {explosion}].
Explosion (n.) A sudden outburst; "an explosion of laughter"; "an explosion of rage".
Explosion (n.) A golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball.
Explosive (a.) 爆炸（性）的；爆發性的；（性情等）暴躁的；【語】爆破音的 Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
Explosive (n.) 爆炸物；炸藥 [C] [U] An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
Explosive (n.) A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. Note: [See Guide to Pronunciation, [root] 155-7, 184.]
Explosive (a.) Serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper" [ant: {nonexplosive}].
Explosive (a.) Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" [syn: {explosive}, {volatile}].
Explosive (a.) Sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh".
Explosive (n.) A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck.
Explosively (adv.) 爆發地；引起爆炸地；暴躁地 In an explosive manner.
Explosively (adv.) Suddenly and rapidly; "the population in Central America is growing explosively".
Explosively (adv.) In an explosive manner; "the political situation in Kashmir and Jammu is explosively unstable".
Expoliation (n.) 強奪，掠奪，毀滅文件 See {Exspoliation}. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall
Exspoliation (n.) [U] Spoliation. [Obs.]
Compare: Spoliation
Spoliation (n.) 強奪；教會俸祿之冒領；【律】文件毀棄；變造文書 The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. -- Sir G. C. Lewis.
Spoliation (n.) Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
Spoliation (n.) (Eccl. Law) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. -- Blackstone.
Spoliation (n.) (Eccl. Law) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
Spoliation (n.) (Law) Injury done to a document.
Spoliation (n.) (Law) The intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence.
Spoliation (n.) The act of stripping and taking by force [syn: {spoil}, {spoliation}, {spoilation}, {despoilation}, {despoilment}, {despoliation}].
Spoliation () Eng. eccl. law. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church, or for the church itself. F. N. B. 85.
Spoliation () It is also a waste of church property by an ecclesiastical person. 3 Bl. Com. 90.
Spoliation (n.) Torts. Destruction of a thing by the act of a stranger; as, the erasure or alteration of a writing by the act of a stranger, is called spoliation. This has not the effect to destroy its character or legal effect. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 566. 2. By spoliation is also understood the total destruction of a thing; as, the spoliation of papers, by the captured party, is generally regarded as proof of. guilt, but in America it is open to explanation, except in certain cases where there is a vehement presumption of bad faith. 2 Wheat. 227, 241; 1 Dods. Adm. 480, 486. See Alteration.
Expolish (v. t.) To polish thoroughly. [Obs.] -- Heywood.
Expone (v. t.) To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. [Old Eng. & Scotch] -- Drummond.
Exponent (n.) (Alg.) 指數說明者，說明物 A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated;
Note: thus a^{2 denotes the second power, and a^{x} the xth power, of a (2 and x being the exponents). A fractional exponent, or index, is used to denote the root of a quantity. Thus, a^{1/3 denotes the third or cube root of a.
Exponent (n.) One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.
Exponent (n.) One who explains, expounds, or interprets.
Exponent of a ratio, The quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]
Exponent (n.) A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent].
Exponent (n.) Someone who expounds and interprets or explains.
Exponent (n.) A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself [syn: exponent, power, index].
Exponent () (Or "characteristic") The part of a floating-point number specifying the power of ten by which the mantissa should be multiplied. In the common notation, e.g. 3.1E8, the exponent is 8. (1995-02-27)
Exponential (n.) <Mathematics> 指數 A function which raises some given constant (the "base") to the power of its argument. I.e. f x = b^x.
If no base is specified, e, the base of {natural logarthims}, is assumed.
Exponential (n.) Exponential-time algorithm. (1995-04-27)
Exponential (a.) 【數】指數的；冪數的 Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.
Exponential (a.) Changing over time in an exponential manner, i. e. increasing or decreasing by a fixed ratio for each unit of time; as, exponential growth; exponential decay.
Note: {Exponential growth} Is characteristic of bacteria and other living populations in circumstances where the conditions of growth are favorable, and all required nutrients are plentiful. For example, the bacterium {Escherichia coli} in rich media may double in number every 20 minutes until one of the nutrients becomes exhausted or waste products begin to inhibit growth. Many fascinating thought experiments are proposed on the theme of exponential growth. One may calculate, for example how long it would take the progeny of one {Escherichia coli} to equal the mass of the known universe if it multiplied unimpeded at such a rate. The answer, assuming the equivalent of 10^{80} hydrogen atoms in the universe, is less than three days. Exponential increases in a quantity can be surprising, and this principle is often used by banks to make investment at a certain rate of interest seem to be very profitable over time.
{Exponential decay} Is exhibited by decay of radioactive materials and some chemical reactions (first order reactions), in which one-half of the initial quantity of radioactive element (or chemical substance) is lost for each lapse of a characteristic time called the {half-life}.
{Exponential curve} A curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation.
{Exponential equation} An equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity enters as an exponent.
{Exponential quantity} (Math.) A quantity whose exponent is unknown or variable, as a^{x}.
{Exponential series} A series derived from the development of exponential equations or quantities.
Exponential (a.) Of or involving exponents; "exponential growth".
Exponential (n.) A function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent [syn: {exponential}, {exponential function}].
Exponential () A function which raises some given constant (the "base") to the power of its argument. I.e. f x = b^x
If no base is specified, e, the base of natural logarthims, is assumed.
Exponential () Exponential-time algorithm. (1995-04-27)
Exported (imp. & p. p.) of Export
Exporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Export
Export (v. t.) 輸出，出口，外銷 To carry away; to remove. [Obs.]
[They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. -- Bacon.