define
美 [dɪˈfaɪn] 
英 [dɪ'faɪn]
词形变化
第三人称单数：defines 现在分词：defining 过去式：defined 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 解释（词语的含义）；给…下定义to say or explain what the meaning of a word or phrase is |
| The term ‘mental illness’ is difficult to define. “精神病”这个词很难下定义。 |
| Life imprisonment is defined as 60 years under state law. 按照州法律终身监禁定义为 60 年。 |
2. | 阐明；明确；界定to describe or show sth accurately |
| We need to define the task ahead very clearly. 我们需要明确今后的任务。 |
| The difficulty of a problem was defined in terms of how long it took to complete. 问题的难易度是以解决这个问题所花时间的长短而定的。 |
| It is difficult to define what makes him so popular. 很难解释清楚什么原因使他如此走红。 |
3. | ~ sth 画出…的线条；描出…的外形；确定…的界线；界定to show clearly a line, shape or edge |
| The mountain was sharply defined against the sky. 那座山在天空的衬托下显得轮廓分明。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
From the moment of his first speaking to us, his voice had connected itself with an association in my mind that I could not define.
从他一开始和我们说话起，他的声音就在我的脑海里引起一种模模糊糊的联想。
Many researchers define irregular settlements as those that develop outside of the law. But such a notion can be misleading .
许多研究人员把这种“非正规居住”定义为违法操作，但这种观点可能导致误解。
Industry has spent the last five years trying to define the role the Internet would play in the global economy.
计算机业界已经历了五年时间试图定义因特网在全球经济中所扮演的角色。
If you plan to define parameters, name each cell that you want users to be able to use for input.
如果您打算定义参数，请命名希望用户能够用于输入的每个单元格。
She would be very unlikely to respect a child, it is difficult to clearly define the child is a complete independent personality.
她很可能不尊重孩子，难以清晰地界定孩子是另一完整的独立的个性。
The circle hot spot allows you to define the location for the center and a radius to determine the size.
使用圆形作用点，您可以定义圆心的位置和半径来决定大小。
Timer to define a category on the timer object is initialized to its initial value data member, said the number of seconds given.
定义一个计时器类，对计时器对象初始化就是给其数据成员赋初值表示秒数。
For the Year of the Rabbit, I have resolved to stop trying to define, categorize, or draw boxes around people.
在兔年到来之际，我已经下定决心不再尝试去给人下定义或是进行分类。
The second ui: define tag lets you specify the body of the page, which in the template page has no default content.
第二个ui：define标记让您指定页面主体，在模板页面中没有默认内容。
Most famously, as a young man, he made a list of personal virtues that he determined should define his life.
最著名的是那个单子，当他年轻时就明白的自己所要坚持的信条。
To define an EMF model using Java code, we use Interfaces to list the attributes of each class and relationships between them.
如果通过Java代码定义EMF模型，我们可以用Interface列出每一个类的属性，以及类之间的关系。
Thoughts like these- and perhaps other thoughts, which they did not acknowledge or define- threw an awe about the child, as she came onward.
象这样的想法，以及其它一些他们没有承认或尚未定形的可能的想法，当那孩子向前走着的时候，在她身上投射出一种使人敬畏的色彩。
Many of these annotations can be reused to define the Web interface or to create modifiable prototypes.
可以重用其中的许多注解来定义Web界面或创建可修改的原型。
Facebook's policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age.
脸谱网的政策胜过其他同类公司，它正帮助其明确对网络时代隐私标准的定义。
There is the ability to define a complex hierarchical structure of elements within a spec since the heart of a spec is an XML schema.
在spec中能够为元素定义一个复杂的层次结构，因为spec的核心是一个XML模式。
He began a shuttle back and forth between New York and Washington that would define the rest of his life.
他担任国内政策研究协调人，开始在纽约和华盛顿之间来回奔波，这成为他以后终身的生活方式。
Secondly, we attempt to define and expound the concept of fuzzy metadata by using fuzzy theory as the theoretical model.
接着，阐述模糊诠释资料，并以模糊理论模型解释其意涵。
The login name that you define in the Build Forge server auth must be able to access the source files to run the analysis.
您定义在BuildForge服务器上的登陆名认证必须要能够访问到源文件来执行分析过程。
Anonymous types allow you to define a class, then declare and initialize an object of that class, without giving the class a name.
匿名类型允许您定义一个类，然后在不给出类名称的情况下声明并初始化该类的对象。
The following example uses the Sub statement to define the name, parameters, and code that form the body of a Sub procedure.
下面的示例使用Sub语句定义组成Sub过程体的名称、参数和代码。
Since the function is cubic, four nodal quantities are required to define the distribution on a side.
因为函数是三次的，所以需要4个结点未知数确定每边的分布。
The observations which follow are intended to define a point of view and to indicate a program for the study of urban life.
下面这些意见，旨在说清一种观点，并对研究城市生活提出一个纲要。
Can you define the word "define" ?
你能给define一词下定义吗？
This thick man beside her dared to define her future.
在她身边的这个身材魁梧的男人，居然胆敢决定她的一生的前途。
They disagreed on how to define "liberal" .
他们对如何解释“liberal”一词的词义有不同意见。
But at the same time he found it very difficult to define them himself.
但同时，要他来说个一清二楚，他倒又觉得很困难。
The system uses sonar to locate and define structure, composition, as well depth directly below the transducer of up to 45 degrees coverage.
该系统使用声纳定位和定义的结构，组成，以及直接低于覆盖率达45度传感器的深度。
This matrix helps you define how much time is required for a specific role to complete its tasks.
该矩阵将帮助您定义某个特定角色完成其任务所需的时间。
Control makes it easy to define the basic appearance of cells and the display formatting of cell values.
控件使您可以轻松定义单元格的基本外观和单元格值的显示格式。
Economic constraints will oblige America to define its global objectives in terms of a mature concept of the national interest.
经济限制将迫使美国从国家利益出发，以成熟观念制定全球性目标。
WebSphere Integration Developer provides a state machine editor and a graphical interface that you can use to define the state machine.
WebSphereIntegrationDeveloper提供了状态机编辑器和图形界面，可用于定义状态机。
It will be necessary to define one of the other dimensions in the cube as a Timescale to be able to use the BiF.
在数据集中定义另一种维度是很有必要的，便于Timescale能够使用BiF。
With Hibernate, you can define an HQL query in a Hibernate mapping file (hbm. xml) and give it a name.
使用Hibernate，可以在Hibernate映射文件（hbm.xml）中定义HQL查询并为其命名。
And an effort to amend the Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman is now dead.
企图修改将婚姻定于为男女之间结合的宪法的努力失败了。
It is possible to define a package in two or more declarations.
在两个或更多的声明中定义一个包是可以的。
The Business Item Editor makes it easy to define the attribute as an array type.
业务项编辑器可以方便地将属性定义为数组类型。
All the facets for a simple type together define the set of legal values for that simple type.
属性。简单类型的所有方面一起定义该简单类型的一组合法值。
So the moment that I decide to define this the plus direction will also come out to be the same sign as this one So I flip the signs there.
因此我决定，在此处改变正方向，加速度方向就始终为正了，符号变了。
Three corporate executive were trying to define the word "fame" .
三位公司主管试图给“名声”这个词下个定义。
This whole thing was news to the BPMN team as they (including me) were blithely assuming that we were trying to define a language.
所有的这些对BPMN团队来说都是新闻，因为他们（包括我）都愉悦地认为我们正在努力定义一种语言。
Note: After the design process takes place, the complete set of documents that now define the UI is often referred to as the picture book.
注意：设计过程之后，定义UI的完整文档集往往称为图书（picturebook）。
If I were to ask you to dig a little further, how would you define who you really are from a spiritual, cosmic point of view?
如果让你讲的再深点，从精神、宇宙的角度你将如何定义你究竟是谁？
While that's a pretty good deal, the beauty of any programming language is the ability to define your own classes.
尽管这已经相当不错，但编程语言的美丽在于它们能帮助您定义自己的类。
Over the last decade there has been a revolution in the criteria that help define higher education quality.
十年以来，定义高等教育质量的标准发生了天翻地覆的变化。
When you use the QuestionTemplate property to define the appearance of the Question view, the QuestionLabelText property has no effect.
使用QuestionTemplate属性定义“提示问题”视图的外观时，QuestionLabelText属性不起作用。
XP uses "metaphor" in an attempt to define an overall coherent theme to which both developers and business clients can relate.
而XP使用“隐喻”定义一个从开发者到商业客户都可联系的全面一致的主题。
