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单词 supervene
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Definition of supervene in English:

supervene

verb ˌsuːpəˈviːnˌsupərˈvin
[no object]
  • 1Occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation.

    he had appendicitis and as complications supervened, refrained from work for months
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ulceration and gangrene may then supervene and can result in loss of the limb if not treated.
    • Sleep disorders, disorientation, and fatigue may supervene, followed by serious intellectual deterioration, such as the inability to speak, recognize objects, read, or write.
    • You were not for example in the position where you occupied accommodation that was reasonable but then a new or supervening event occurred which led to your current homelessness.
    • For instance, it has been claimed that events supervene on their participants, or that objects depend on the events in which they partake.
    • Bronchitis and pneumonia may supervene, resulting in hospital admission and sometimes death.
    • But it must not be allowed to succeed, because it produces manifest injustice. The supervening event has not made the plaintiff less lame nor less disabled nor less deprived of amenities.
    • In each case, there was a supervening international context for the fall of the old Republic: the end of European colonialism in the case of France, and the end of the Cold War in the case of Italy.
    • The company would have ceased as a result of liquidation supervening to beneficially own it.
    • Complications can occur if infection supervenes leading to an inflammation of the gall bladder.
    • On day two, by reason of supervening events, the defendant's negligence ceases to be a cause of that continued trading.
    • Even when the tort occurs first a subsequent event may supervene, removing the causative potency of the original wrong.
    • Only in rare instances do serious complications supervene.
    • James was aged 82 years and lived and farmed in Clorane with his sister Maureen until illness supervened.
    • As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
    • I am sorry if I have given you bad news but my understanding is that there were two appeals involving the Department which have been withdrawn, apparently because of supervening legislation which deals with the issue.
    Synonyms
    result, follow, develop, stem, spring, arise, derive, evolve, proceed, emerge, emanate, issue, flow
    1. 1.1Philosophy (of a fact or property) be entailed by or consequent on the existence or establishment of another.
      〔哲〕(事实,特性)由另一事实(或特性)导致,是另一事实(或特性)的结果
      the view that mental events supervene upon physical ones

      心理事件都源自身体状况的观点。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • For it is clearly not in general true that to know whether an object x has a property P one has to know how things stand with respect to the facts on which P supervenes.
      • For consider an epiphenomenalist substance dualist, who holds the completeness of physics, and that mental properties supervene on physical properties, and yet mental properties are properties of a mental substance.
      • According to this conception, we supervene upon, contain, or bear some other exotic relation to a distinguishable source of activities which then become attributable to us by a kind of logical courtesy.
      • If all the atoms within you and in your vicinity have absolutely determinate properties, then the indeterminate mass and shape and volume of you, your brain, and your teeth somehow supervene on the determinate microstructure.
      • This is because it remains possible that evaluative epistemic facts supervene on naturalistic ones.

Derivatives

  • supervenient

  • adjective ˌsuːpəˈviːnɪənt
    • 1Occurring as an interruption or change to an existing situation; subsequent.

      a new supervenient system has emerged
      1. 1.1Philosophy (of a fact or property) entailed by or consequent on the existence or establishment of another.
        〔哲〕(事实,特性)由另一事实(或特性)导致,是另一事实(或特性)的结果
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thus, for instance, a tough individualist may treat groups just as certain individuals ‘acting groupishly’ or a somewhat holistically disposed theoretician may treat them as entities supervenient on certain individuals.
      • A supervenient property P is related to a set of properties at a lower level such that every change in P is accompanied by a change in some one property at the lower level, and every change of a lower-level property changes P.
      • This is because atrocities are supervenient on subordinates, but not on command structures.
      • mental features are supervenient on neuronal features
      • supervenient causation
  • supervention

  • noun ˌsuːpəˈvɛnʃ(ə)nˌsupərˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n
    • There is no phase of development which delimits the state of adolescence unless it be the sudden supervention of those phenomena associated with the blossoming of the sex function.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That supervention of my wired-in chimpanzee priorities is not necessarily more correct.
      • This is an elementary pattern (in the Durkheimian sense) for ordered successions, progressions, and superventions.
      • This paper proposes that the content of religious instruction, traditions, or beliefs should not be viewed as harmful in the sense necessary to justify government second-guessing or supervention of parents’ decisions about such instruction.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin supervenire, from super- 'in addition' + venire 'come'.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Definition of supervene in US English:

supervene

verbˌsupərˈvinˌso͞opərˈvēn
[no object]
  • 1Occur later than a specified or implied event or action, typically in such a way as to change the situation.

    随后发生(尤指这样发生的事件或行为可改变情况)

    he had appendicitis and as complications supervened, refrained from work for months
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For instance, it has been claimed that events supervene on their participants, or that objects depend on the events in which they partake.
    • But it must not be allowed to succeed, because it produces manifest injustice. The supervening event has not made the plaintiff less lame nor less disabled nor less deprived of amenities.
    • In each case, there was a supervening international context for the fall of the old Republic: the end of European colonialism in the case of France, and the end of the Cold War in the case of Italy.
    • You were not for example in the position where you occupied accommodation that was reasonable but then a new or supervening event occurred which led to your current homelessness.
    • The company would have ceased as a result of liquidation supervening to beneficially own it.
    • Sleep disorders, disorientation, and fatigue may supervene, followed by serious intellectual deterioration, such as the inability to speak, recognize objects, read, or write.
    • Complications can occur if infection supervenes leading to an inflammation of the gall bladder.
    • I am sorry if I have given you bad news but my understanding is that there were two appeals involving the Department which have been withdrawn, apparently because of supervening legislation which deals with the issue.
    • Even when the tort occurs first a subsequent event may supervene, removing the causative potency of the original wrong.
    • As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
    • Only in rare instances do serious complications supervene.
    • James was aged 82 years and lived and farmed in Clorane with his sister Maureen until illness supervened.
    • Ulceration and gangrene may then supervene and can result in loss of the limb if not treated.
    • Bronchitis and pneumonia may supervene, resulting in hospital admission and sometimes death.
    • On day two, by reason of supervening events, the defendant's negligence ceases to be a cause of that continued trading.
    Synonyms
    result, follow, develop, stem, spring, arise, derive, evolve, proceed, emerge, emanate, issue, flow
    1. 1.1Philosophy (of a fact or property) be entailed by or consequent on the existence or establishment of another.
      〔哲〕(事实,特性)由另一事实(或特性)导致,是另一事实(或特性)的结果
      the view that mental events supervene upon physical ones

      心理事件都源自身体状况的观点。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • For consider an epiphenomenalist substance dualist, who holds the completeness of physics, and that mental properties supervene on physical properties, and yet mental properties are properties of a mental substance.
      • According to this conception, we supervene upon, contain, or bear some other exotic relation to a distinguishable source of activities which then become attributable to us by a kind of logical courtesy.
      • If all the atoms within you and in your vicinity have absolutely determinate properties, then the indeterminate mass and shape and volume of you, your brain, and your teeth somehow supervene on the determinate microstructure.
      • This is because it remains possible that evaluative epistemic facts supervene on naturalistic ones.
      • For it is clearly not in general true that to know whether an object x has a property P one has to know how things stand with respect to the facts on which P supervenes.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin supervenire, from super- ‘in addition’ + venire ‘come’.

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