sequester

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /sɪˈkwɛs.tə/|/səˈkwɛs.tə/    美 /sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/|/səˈkwɛs.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. sequestration; separation
    — A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer
  2. A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
  3. A sequestrum.
动词 v.
  1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
    — The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
  2. To separate in order to store.
    — The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
  3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
    — I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
  4. To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
  5. To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
  6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
    — c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
  7. To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget. US,transitive
    — The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
  8. To seize and hold enemy property.
  9. To withdraw; to retire. intransitive
    — to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
  10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband. dated

词形变化

sequesters present,singular,third-person sequestering participle,present sequestered participle,past sequestered past sequesters plural

词汇关系

近义词
segregate
衍生词
biosequester cryosequester geosequester resequester sequesterable sequestered adjective sequesterer sequesterment sequestrable adjective sequestrate verb sequestration noun sequestrator noun
相关词
sequel sequence sequacious segue

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).
词源 2
From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).
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