delegate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈdɛlɪɡət/    /ˈdɛlɪɡət/|/ˈdɛləɡət/|/ˈdeləɡət/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
  2. A representative at a conference, etc.
  3. An appointed representative in some legislative bodies. US
  4. A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
    — Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.
  5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
    — The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.
动词 v.
  1. To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates. intransitive
    — New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).
  2. To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate. transitive
    — The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.
  3. (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own. Internet,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. delegated not-comparable,obsolete,participle,past
  2. Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate adjective,not-comparable,obsolete

词形变化

delegates plural delegates present,singular,third-person delegating participle,present delegated participle,past delegated past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.
词源 2
From the above noun by metanalysis or directly borrowed from Latin dēlēgātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
词源 3
From Middle English delegat(e) (“delegated”, used as a past participle and adjective), used as the past participle of delegate up until Early Modern English, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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