procedural

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
    — It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
  2. Ellipsis of police procedural. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,specifically
    — The Wire, however, did not kill the procedural. The procedural simply borrowed The Wire’s aesthetic. The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out, as the blue lights circle bleakly, but we, the viewers, sink gleefully into our sofas ready to drink it in like cocoa.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related to procedure.
    — The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
  2. Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
    — a procedural texture

词形变化

more procedural comparative most procedural superlative procedurals plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English procedure
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.

Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.

Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English procedural
From procedure + -al.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English procedure
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.

Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.

Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English procedural
From procedure + -al.
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