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单词 partial
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Definition of partial in English:

partial

adjective ˈpɑːʃ(ə)lˈpɑrʃəl
  • 1Existing only in part; incomplete.

    部分的;不完全的

    a question to which we have only partial answers

    一个我们只知道部分答案的问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a very partial list, restricted to US sins and crimes in the Western Hemisphere.
    • A partial answer to this is that mere things only present themselves to mere beholding, but mere beholding is only a deficient mode of concern or engagement.
    • Often premature and unconvincing generalisations are made from rather more limited and partial changes.
    • For those of us who were expecting the Iraqi army to put up more resistance to the coalition this may provide a partial answer to why they did not.
    • I think that a partial answer to your question is that we're in a much more modern secular period here, post-1945.
    • I suspect that this may be a partial answer, but the major problem is that there is too much fishing available to match anglers these days.
    • I have a vague sense that dramaturgs may be a partial answer to the director capture problem, but I don't know enough about theatre to say.
    • In such cases, the children sometimes got partial answers or intuited something of their situations on their own.
    • A partial answer to the other question is that some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida.
    • One partial answer is a prediction from the years before the Oslo peace process collapsed.
    • Rummaging around the internet has provided a partial answer.
    • Buildings partially vacated may also qualify for a partial reduction in payments.
    • It should be thought of as a partial or incomplete dislocation.
    • Control of the marriage of a female heiress by the cadet branches of the chiefly house, and the office of tutor or guardian within the clan, were partial answers.
    • If you want to know why I am so hostile to religion, there are partial answers here and here.
    • The project essentially entailed a partial renewal of the existing line with some shortcut additions.
    • With a few cues, reminders or partial fragments in mind, we can select, interpret, and integrate one thing with another so as to make use of what we learn and remember.
    • Finding at least partial answers to questions about suffering and death brings satisfaction, if not certainty.
    • Quantitative measurement is necessarily, by its very nature, partial and incomplete.
    • This is a partial answer, satisfactory to explain my own suffering.
    Synonyms
    incomplete, limited, qualified, restricted, imperfect, fragmentary, unfinished
  • 2Favouring one side in a dispute above the other; biased.

    偏袒的,不公平的

    the paper gave a distorted and very partial view of the situation

    这份报纸对局势的看法不仅歪曲而且非常片面。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As partial academics they are unable to sponsor, promote or foster academic excellence.
    • Such a perspective would be as partial as the view that the American Revolution was a fight between natives and aliens.
    • Thus the written history of slavery is inevitably partial and one-sided.
    • Total war may describe certain isolated and uncharacteristic aspects of the Civil War but is at most a partial view.
    • I'm not an expert and I can't say for sure, but I think the UN weapons inspectors took a partial view of biological warfare.
    • It's about separating yourself and your ideas from everyone else's partial biases.
    • He said it was evident in the partial views of legislators in the House of Representatives.
    • Death doesn't seem to have any favourites; only humans have a partial view.
    • The original hawk-dove model predicted partial preferences for aggressiveness.
    • How can those who articulate the green case possibly be comfortable with such a curiously unbalanced mix of myths and beliefs, such a partial view of the world?
    • Published within one year of the Iraq War, the book offers only a partial view of the international dimension of the crisis.
    • The difficulty, as ever, is that it inevitably encompasses a very partial and contradictory world view.
    Synonyms
    biased, prejudiced, partisan, one-sided, slanted, skewed, coloured, interested, parti pris, discriminatory, preferential, jaundiced
    unjust, unfair, inequitable, unbalanced
  • 3partial toHaving a liking for.

    癖好的,偏爱的

    you know I'm partial to bacon and eggs

    你知道我对熏肉和鸡蛋情有独钟。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He'd always been more partial to Eliana, but Evangeline was his daughter nonetheless.
    • Unfortunately for me I'm very partial to cream buns and meat pies.
    • You know, I'm very partial to what you are saying here.
    • Today's side is also partial to knockout competition.
    • The wife of a colleague was known to be partial to bacon and banana.
    • I could afford the best wine by then, and I'd had become very partial to bacon every morning.
    • On another note, I have always been more partial to his poetry than his criticism.
    • Certainly, that touring party was more than partial to a peculiarly Kiwi version of bacon and egg pie.
    • But since Sophia is partial to dark colours herself, he'll probably never know.
    • I've been especially partial to their playing of Mozart.
    Synonyms
    like, love, enjoy, have a liking for, be fond of, be keen on, have a fondness for, have a weakness for, have a soft spot for, have a taste for, be taken with, care for, have a predilection/proclivity/penchant for, be enamoured of
    informal adore, be mad about/on, have a thing about, be crazy about, be potty about, be nutty about
    North American informal cotton to, be nutso over/about
    Australian/New Zealand informal be shook on
noun ˈpɑːʃ(ə)lˈpɑrʃəl
Music
  • A component of a musical sound; an overtone or harmonic.

    〔乐〕分音;泛音

    strings would like to oscillate as closely as possible to harmonic partials
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fortunately, Väisänen salvages the track by piling up shimmering partials over the depths-of-the-ocean drone before the track gently recedes into the distance.
    • At once the problem arises that the human voice is composed of many tones: the fundamental tone and a series of other tones called upper harmonics or partials.
    • In stringed instruments, additional strings of wire that vibrate in sympathy with a unison note or one of its partials, bowed or plucked on the main strings, adding a shimmer to the sound.
    • Bass players in these bands often play with picks, which also emphasizes higher partials.
    • One unusual aspect of this music is that the rich upper partials of the voices bring out the simple harmonies of the hymns in a way not normally heard.

Derivatives

  • partialness

  • noun

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective): from Old French parcial (sense 2 of the adjective), French partiel (sense 1 of the adjective), from late Latin partialis, from pars, part- 'part'.

Rhymes

court-martial, impartial, marshal, martial

Definition of partial in US English:

partial

adjectiveˈpärSHəlˈpɑrʃəl
  • 1Existing only in part; incomplete.

    部分的;不完全的

    a question to which we have only partial answers

    一个我们只知道部分答案的问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a partial answer, satisfactory to explain my own suffering.
    • Control of the marriage of a female heiress by the cadet branches of the chiefly house, and the office of tutor or guardian within the clan, were partial answers.
    • Rummaging around the internet has provided a partial answer.
    • This is a very partial list, restricted to US sins and crimes in the Western Hemisphere.
    • With a few cues, reminders or partial fragments in mind, we can select, interpret, and integrate one thing with another so as to make use of what we learn and remember.
    • I have a vague sense that dramaturgs may be a partial answer to the director capture problem, but I don't know enough about theatre to say.
    • One partial answer is a prediction from the years before the Oslo peace process collapsed.
    • Buildings partially vacated may also qualify for a partial reduction in payments.
    • Finding at least partial answers to questions about suffering and death brings satisfaction, if not certainty.
    • I think that a partial answer to your question is that we're in a much more modern secular period here, post-1945.
    • Quantitative measurement is necessarily, by its very nature, partial and incomplete.
    • For those of us who were expecting the Iraqi army to put up more resistance to the coalition this may provide a partial answer to why they did not.
    • In such cases, the children sometimes got partial answers or intuited something of their situations on their own.
    • Often premature and unconvincing generalisations are made from rather more limited and partial changes.
    • I suspect that this may be a partial answer, but the major problem is that there is too much fishing available to match anglers these days.
    • A partial answer to this is that mere things only present themselves to mere beholding, but mere beholding is only a deficient mode of concern or engagement.
    • The project essentially entailed a partial renewal of the existing line with some shortcut additions.
    • It should be thought of as a partial or incomplete dislocation.
    • If you want to know why I am so hostile to religion, there are partial answers here and here.
    • A partial answer to the other question is that some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida.
    Synonyms
    incomplete, limited, qualified, restricted, imperfect, fragmentary, unfinished
  • 2Favoring one side in a dispute above the other; biased.

    偏袒的,不公平的

    the paper gave a distorted and very partial view of the situation

    这份报纸对局势的看法不仅歪曲而且非常片面。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm not an expert and I can't say for sure, but I think the UN weapons inspectors took a partial view of biological warfare.
    • Thus the written history of slavery is inevitably partial and one-sided.
    • He said it was evident in the partial views of legislators in the House of Representatives.
    • Total war may describe certain isolated and uncharacteristic aspects of the Civil War but is at most a partial view.
    • Published within one year of the Iraq War, the book offers only a partial view of the international dimension of the crisis.
    • How can those who articulate the green case possibly be comfortable with such a curiously unbalanced mix of myths and beliefs, such a partial view of the world?
    • The original hawk-dove model predicted partial preferences for aggressiveness.
    • It's about separating yourself and your ideas from everyone else's partial biases.
    • The difficulty, as ever, is that it inevitably encompasses a very partial and contradictory world view.
    • As partial academics they are unable to sponsor, promote or foster academic excellence.
    • Such a perspective would be as partial as the view that the American Revolution was a fight between natives and aliens.
    • Death doesn't seem to have any favourites; only humans have a partial view.
    Synonyms
    biased, prejudiced, partisan, one-sided, slanted, skewed, coloured, interested, parti pris, discriminatory, preferential, jaundiced
  • 3partial topredicative Having a liking for.

    癖好的,偏爱的

    you know I'm partial to bacon and eggs

    你知道我对熏肉和鸡蛋情有独钟。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today's side is also partial to knockout competition.
    • I've been especially partial to their playing of Mozart.
    • Unfortunately for me I'm very partial to cream buns and meat pies.
    • But since Sophia is partial to dark colours herself, he'll probably never know.
    • You know, I'm very partial to what you are saying here.
    • I could afford the best wine by then, and I'd had become very partial to bacon every morning.
    • Certainly, that touring party was more than partial to a peculiarly Kiwi version of bacon and egg pie.
    • On another note, I have always been more partial to his poetry than his criticism.
    • He'd always been more partial to Eliana, but Evangeline was his daughter nonetheless.
    • The wife of a colleague was known to be partial to bacon and banana.
    Synonyms
    like, love, enjoy, have a liking for, be fond of, be keen on, have a fondness for, have a weakness for, have a soft spot for, have a taste for, be taken with, care for, have a penchant for, have a predilection for, have a proclivity for, be enamoured of
nounˈpärSHəlˈpɑrʃəl
Music
  • A component of a musical sound; an overtone or harmonic.

    〔乐〕分音;泛音

    the upper partials of the string
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In stringed instruments, additional strings of wire that vibrate in sympathy with a unison note or one of its partials, bowed or plucked on the main strings, adding a shimmer to the sound.
    • Bass players in these bands often play with picks, which also emphasizes higher partials.
    • At once the problem arises that the human voice is composed of many tones: the fundamental tone and a series of other tones called upper harmonics or partials.
    • Fortunately, Väisänen salvages the track by piling up shimmering partials over the depths-of-the-ocean drone before the track gently recedes into the distance.
    • One unusual aspect of this music is that the rich upper partials of the voices bring out the simple harmonies of the hymns in a way not normally heard.

Origin

Late Middle English (in partial (sense 2 of the adjective)): from Old French parcial ( partial (sense 2 of the adjective)), French partiel ( partial (sense 1 of the adjective)), from late Latin partialis, from pars, part- ‘part’.

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