uncountable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A noun that is uncountable.
    — But inherent uncountables such as 'stuffs' can be conceptualized in two different ways, depending on whether they are viewed in terms of quantity or in terms of quality.
形容词 adj.
  1. So many as to be incapable of being counted. not-comparable
    — The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
  2. Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof. not-comparable
    — Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
  3. That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information. not-comparable
    — Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.

词形变化

uncountables plural

词汇关系

衍生词
uncountability uncountable noun uncountable set uncountably

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English countable
English uncountable
From un- + countable.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English countable
English uncountable
From un- + countable.
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