commence

动词 v.
/kəˈmɛns/    /kəˈmɛns/|/kəˈmens/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To begin, start. intransitive
    — Here the anthem doth commence:
  2. To begin, start. transitive
    — The speeches commenced three days of workshops, seminars, and cultural activities.
  3. To begin or start. Appalachia,intransitive
    — At dawn we'll commence to drive.
  4. To begin to be, or to act as. transitive
    — […] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.
  5. To take a degree at a university. UK,dated,intransitive
    — […] I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown […]

词形变化

commences present,singular,third-person commencing participle,present commenced participle,past commenced past

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词源

From Middle English commencen, comencen (also as contracted comsen, cumsen), from Anglo-Norman comencer, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, formed from Latin com- + initiō (whence English initiate).
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