demean

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈmiːn/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Management; treatment. obsolete,transitive,uncountable,usually
    — Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad
  2. demesne. transitive
  3. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. obsolete,transitive,uncountable,usually
    — ‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
  4. resources; means. transitive
动词 v.
  1. To debase; to lower; to degrade. transitive
    — It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
  2. To manage; to conduct; to treat. obsolete,transitive
    — But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
  3. To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set). transitive
    — Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) Tᵢ observations per unit.
  4. To humble; to humiliate. transitive
  5. To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun. archaic,transitive
    — they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.
  6. To mortify. transitive

词形变化

demeans present,singular,third-person demeaning participle,present demeaned participle,past demeaned past demeans present,singular,third-person demeaning participle,present demeaned participle,past demeaned past demeans plural demeans plural demeans present,singular,third-person demeaning participle,present demeaned participle,past demeaned past

词汇关系

近义词
abase bring down to size cut down to size debase defame degrade demean demote depress discredit disgrace dishonour disparage downgrade embase give a bad name humble humiliate knock down to size put someone in their place reduce relegate sink slur trim down to size whittle down to size
反义词
aggrandize glorify
上位词
aggravate decrease
下位词
disrate ruin
衍生词
demeaner misdemean
相关词
abash demeanor

词源

词源 1
(1595) From de- + mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ġemǣne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.
词源 2
From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).
词源 3
Variant of demesne.
词源 4
de- + mean
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