convene

动词 v.
/kənˈviːn/    /kənˈvin/|/kənˈviːn/|[kənˈvɪin]

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To come together; to meet; to unite. intransitive
    — In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
  2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. intransitive
    — The Parliament of Scotland now convened.
  3. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon. transitive
  4. To summon judicially to meet or appear. transitive
  5. To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention. transitive
    — To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.

词形变化

convenes present,singular,third-person convening participle,present convened participle,past convened past

词源

Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.
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