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Definition of stricture in English: stricturenoun ˈstrɪktʃəˈstrɪk(t)ʃər 1A restriction on a person or activity. 限制，束缚，约束 the strictures imposed by the British Board of Film Censors 由英国电影审查委员会施加的限制。 Example sentencesExamples - Composers such as Webern leapt on the concept and ran with it, going so far as to impose these same strictures on all aspects of music including rhythm.
- Both sides in this political ‘debate’ between conservatism and liberalism stress personal freedom for themselves while piously imposing strictures on others.
- Muslims use much less silver because of strictures imposed by the Koran, which seems odd considering the lunar symbolism inherent in Islam.
- It must be rooted in the most difficult strictures of the scriptures of the major religions and the deepest springs of the human heart.
- The point is that Labour politicians see no reason to impose upon themselves the strictures against offensive language they demand be observed by others.
- Above these there is a vocal line so free and continuous that the strictures imposed by the repetition of the bass are scarcely felt.
- On stem-cell research, he stated that the strictures he imposed still gave scientists more than sixty usable lines of such cells, when they had only one.
- In suburbs, one could make new friendships and associations without worrying about old social conventions and strictures and separations.
- Teachers often complain that it imposes too many strictures on them that force them to teach too much too fast.
- The same intellectual strictures confined Hunter's achievements.
- You experience freedom from restrictions imposed by ideas and strictures.
- In all four gospel traditions, Jesus consistently makes the first move to reach out to the marginalized, often transgressing contemporary social mores and religious strictures in the process.
- You are released from restrictions and strictures that may have been binding for some time.
- Those same strong students (one hopes) will ultimately supercede the strictures imposed in the educational studio, but at what cost?
- By 1750 writers had begun to question the religious strictures laid down by men such as Samuel Moody.
- Significantly, ministers are to impose new strictures on police and social workers.
- Few local governors were Dissenters; but many were sympathetic to them and reluctant to impose the full strictures of the vindictive laws which Parliament went on to pass against their religious assemblies.
- Why impose such strictures on the whole of the market?
- But the most frightening thing about the entire affair is that public figures like congressmen inserted themselves into the case in order to uphold religious strictures.
- The statute essentially applies the strictures imposed by section 246 to deals involving foreign equities.
Synonyms constraint, restriction, limitation, control, restraint, straitjacket, curb, check, impediment, bar, barrier, obstacle 2A sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction. 指责，非难；苛评 his strictures on their lack of civic virtue 他对他们缺乏公民道德的指责。 Example sentencesExamples - Such strictures may seem ironic coming from a historian whom some critics have seen as letting the landlords off lightly when it came to the abuse of their social and economic power.
- Once again, my criticism of U.S. hegemony had to be tempered by a stricture on Japan's own insular nationalism.
- These tracts heed the critical strictures against both love and wit.
- Critics of both films offered strictures that suggest more than an awareness of this axiom.
- There is a powerful and self-regulating national interest in observing the strictures of the Convention, because prisoners are taken by both sides of any conflict.
- Understanding the historicity of Adorno's strictures and imperatives is an unavoidable task for critical theory and aesthetics today.
- However, I am also convinced that my stricture about the hermeneutic circle is and must be self-referential.
- The element of political satire in his recent work, although radical and, in the broadest sense, ‘leftish’, eschews the strictures of the language police.
Synonyms criticism, censure, blame, condemnation, reproof, reproach, admonishment, disparagement, flak informal knocking British informal stick, slating 3Medicine
Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body. 〔医〕（人体导管异常的）狭窄 结肠狭窄。 mass noun jaundice caused by bile duct stricture 胆管狭窄导致的黄疸。 Example sentencesExamples - At the time of referral, she was awaiting surgery for a colonic stricture resulting from a recurrence of carcinoma of the colon.
- His past history was significant for chronic alcoholic pancreatitis with pancreatic duct strictures and stones which had been treated with dilation and stone extraction 4 years ago.
- All patients should be evaluated for esophageal rings and strictures after the foreign body is removed.
- A clear distinction between the dysphagia of an inflammatory stricture and that of carcinoma is impossible on clinical grounds alone.
- Post inflammatory strictures most commonly develop in the colon, and are best demonstrated by barium enema.
Synonyms narrowing, constriction, strangulation, tightness
Derivativesadjective A colonic patch was mobilized and placed into the strictured area. Example sentencesExamples - This innovative and elegant procedure involved the ingenious refashioning of the stomach to replace the strictured oesophagus, and also to recreate the cardiac sphincter so as to maintain its function and continence.
- The high frequency of rectal bleeding may be because of mucosal trauma caused by scybalous stool traversing the strictured segment.
- These writers indicate a world where mature-age students are keenly looking for new learning and new social interactions after having participated in strictured career lives.
- In these 23 patients, the main pancreatic duct was considered to be strictured or obliterated to various degrees due to the ampullary carcinoma.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin strictura, from stringere 'draw tight' (see strict). Another sense of the Latin verb, 'touch lightly', gave rise to sense 2 via an earlier meaning 'incidental remark'. Definition of stricture in US English: stricturenounˈstrɪk(t)ʃərˈstrik(t)SHər 1A restriction on a person or activity. 限制，束缚，约束 religious strictures on everyday life Example sentencesExamples - Why impose such strictures on the whole of the market?
- Significantly, ministers are to impose new strictures on police and social workers.
- The point is that Labour politicians see no reason to impose upon themselves the strictures against offensive language they demand be observed by others.
- But the most frightening thing about the entire affair is that public figures like congressmen inserted themselves into the case in order to uphold religious strictures.
- By 1750 writers had begun to question the religious strictures laid down by men such as Samuel Moody.
- The same intellectual strictures confined Hunter's achievements.
- In suburbs, one could make new friendships and associations without worrying about old social conventions and strictures and separations.
- You experience freedom from restrictions imposed by ideas and strictures.
- In all four gospel traditions, Jesus consistently makes the first move to reach out to the marginalized, often transgressing contemporary social mores and religious strictures in the process.
- Few local governors were Dissenters; but many were sympathetic to them and reluctant to impose the full strictures of the vindictive laws which Parliament went on to pass against their religious assemblies.
- Muslims use much less silver because of strictures imposed by the Koran, which seems odd considering the lunar symbolism inherent in Islam.
- Those same strong students (one hopes) will ultimately supercede the strictures imposed in the educational studio, but at what cost?
- Both sides in this political ‘debate’ between conservatism and liberalism stress personal freedom for themselves while piously imposing strictures on others.
- On stem-cell research, he stated that the strictures he imposed still gave scientists more than sixty usable lines of such cells, when they had only one.
- Above these there is a vocal line so free and continuous that the strictures imposed by the repetition of the bass are scarcely felt.
- Composers such as Webern leapt on the concept and ran with it, going so far as to impose these same strictures on all aspects of music including rhythm.
- Teachers often complain that it imposes too many strictures on them that force them to teach too much too fast.
- You are released from restrictions and strictures that may have been binding for some time.
- It must be rooted in the most difficult strictures of the scriptures of the major religions and the deepest springs of the human heart.
- The statute essentially applies the strictures imposed by section 246 to deals involving foreign equities.
Synonyms constraint, restriction, limitation, control, restraint, straitjacket, curb, check, impediment, bar, barrier, obstacle 2A sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction. 指责，非难；苛评 his strictures on their lack of civic virtue 他对他们缺乏公民道德的指责。 Example sentencesExamples - Understanding the historicity of Adorno's strictures and imperatives is an unavoidable task for critical theory and aesthetics today.
- However, I am also convinced that my stricture about the hermeneutic circle is and must be self-referential.
- Critics of both films offered strictures that suggest more than an awareness of this axiom.
- Once again, my criticism of U.S. hegemony had to be tempered by a stricture on Japan's own insular nationalism.
- Such strictures may seem ironic coming from a historian whom some critics have seen as letting the landlords off lightly when it came to the abuse of their social and economic power.
- There is a powerful and self-regulating national interest in observing the strictures of the Convention, because prisoners are taken by both sides of any conflict.
- These tracts heed the critical strictures against both love and wit.
- The element of political satire in his recent work, although radical and, in the broadest sense, ‘leftish’, eschews the strictures of the language police.
Synonyms criticism, censure, blame, condemnation, reproof, reproach, admonishment, disparagement, flak 3Medicine
Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body. 〔医〕（人体导管异常的）狭窄 结肠狭窄。 jaundice caused by bile duct stricture 胆管狭窄导致的黄疸。 Example sentencesExamples - Post inflammatory strictures most commonly develop in the colon, and are best demonstrated by barium enema.
- A clear distinction between the dysphagia of an inflammatory stricture and that of carcinoma is impossible on clinical grounds alone.
- At the time of referral, she was awaiting surgery for a colonic stricture resulting from a recurrence of carcinoma of the colon.
- All patients should be evaluated for esophageal rings and strictures after the foreign body is removed.
- His past history was significant for chronic alcoholic pancreatitis with pancreatic duct strictures and stones which had been treated with dilation and stone extraction 4 years ago.
Synonyms narrowing, constriction, strangulation, tightness
OriginLate Middle English (in stricture (sense 3)): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’ (see strict). Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to stricture (sense 2) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’. |