proposition

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. uncountable
  2. An idea, plan, or suggestion offered. countable
    — The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
  3. An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.; A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved). countable,informal,uncountable
    — Quinn looked into the intersection. Tonya was standing in the middle of it, stance wide, taser in both hands, Quinn's rickshaw on the sidewalk behind her. "Ow," said Quinn, and it came out just shy of a proposition.
  4. The terms of a transaction offered. countable
  5. In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate. US,countable
    — In November, though, voters will be faced with proposition one. It's a citizen's initiative that will do two things. If passed, it would open up all primaries in Idaho, and it would create a new voting system known as ranked choice voting.
  6. A complete sentence. countable,uncountable
    — Our English nouns remain unchanged, whether they form the subject or the object of a proposition.
  7. The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula. countable
    — “Wiktionary is a good dictionary” is a proposition.
  8. An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false. countable
  9. An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem. countable
  10. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed. countable,uncountable
    — the propositions of Wyclif and Huss
  11. The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. countable,poetic,uncountable
  12. Misspelling of preposition. alt-of,countable,misspelling,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make an offer or suggestion to (someone). informal,transitive
    — The Superintendent of the facility tried to proposition with me that if I snitched to the guards and would work with him, then he would put my friend and me back together again.
  2. To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).; To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved). informal,transitive
    — Yiannopoulos started releasing video interviews and other evidence meant to prove that [Ali] Alexander sexually propositioned both adult men in their 20s and at least two teenagers.

词形变化

propositions plural propositions present,singular,third-person propositioning participle,present propositioned participle,past propositioned past

词汇关系

近义词
proposal suggestion statement make a pass
衍生词
categorical proposition counterproposition discretive proposition metaproposition proplet propositional proposition bet propositionize propositionless proposition nation proposition player pseudoproposition Pythagorean proposition subproposition value proposition value proposition canvas
相关词
propose

词源

词源 1
From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.
词源 2
From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.
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