computer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kəmˈpjuːtə/|/kəmˈpjʉwtə/    美 /kəmˈpjʉːtə/|/kəmˈpjutɚ/|[kəmˈpjuɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
    — Meronyms: processor, microprocessor, CPU
  2. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. archaic,historical
    — I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
  3. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.; A male computer. archaic,historical
    — Coordinate term: (female) computress
动词 v.
  1. To use a computer. intransitive,nonstandard,rare
    — Cool he was computering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh?
  2. To send via computer. nonstandard,rare,transitive
    — They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.
  3. To transfer onto a computer; to computerize. nonstandard,rare,transitive
    — I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.

词形变化

computers plural computor alternative compooter alternative computers present,singular,third-person computering participle,present computered participle,past computered past compooter alternative

词汇关系

近义词
'puter box calculator computer data processing machine electronic brain electronic computer machine number cruncher thinking machine
上位词
device
下位词
server desktop laptop notebook subnotebook netbook mainframe
衍生词
anticomputer compucondria compunications compusex computeracy computer-aided design computer-aided translation computer architecture computerate computerbased computer-based computer-based teaching computer chess computer chip computercide computer code computer conferencing computer-controlled timing computer core computer dating computerdom computer engineer computer engineering computerese computeresque computerette computerful computer game Computergate computer graphics computerholic computer illiteracy computer illiterate computerisation computerise computerism computerist computeristic computeritis computerize computer lab computerland computer language computerless computerlike computer literacy computer-literate computer literate computerlore computer-mediated communication computer model computer network computernik computerologist computerology computer paper computer person computerphile computerphobe computerphobia computerphobic computerphone computer processor computer program computer programming computer programmer computer says no computer science computer scientist computer security computer shop computer simulation computerspeak computer system computer technician computer typesetting computer virus computer vision computer vision syndrome computerware computery computress computronium cyclocomputer human-computer interaction hypercomputer intercomputer macrocomputer maxicomputer mecomtronics memcomputer multicomputer neurocomputer noncomputer phoneputer precomputer precomputers telecomputer transputer computered computering
相关词
computation compute computing computus software chip data processing desktop hardware laptop mainframe microprocessor
部分词
hardware processor fan memory RAM ROM cache motherboard bus hard drive port card serial port parallel port USB port

词源

词源 1
From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. The sense referring to people first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. The sense referring to a machine first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.
词源 2
From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. The sense referring to people first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. The sense referring to a machine first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.
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