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absent

/adjective, preposition ab-suhnt; verb ab-sent, ab-suhnt/US // adjective, preposition ˈæb sənt; verb æbˈsɛnt, ˈæb sənt //

缺少,缺少的,缺失的,缺失

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing: absent from class.
    • : lacking; nonexistent: Revenge is absent from his mind.
    • : not attentive; preoccupied; absent-minded: an absent look on his face.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to take or keep away: to absent oneself from a meeting.
prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : in the absence of; without: Absent some catastrophe, stock-market prices should soon improve.

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Examples

  • While the giant has made efforts recently to elevate quality reporting in its algorithms, most of those ranking decisions are made absent of human judgement.

  • His social studies teacher was absent, which hadn’t been announced until the night before, and he hadn’t received the Zoom link for the substitute.

  • Noticeably absent are the US, China, and Russia—all home to companies with Covid-19 vaccines in development.

  • Google, when looking at sites it knew it could trust around YMYL topics, determined that they were absent of marketing language on informational pages.

  • Cultural influence shapes the gendered behavior of every human on this planet, meaning we cannot measure innate sex differences absent cultural factors.

  • Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

  • But, they added, that body scanners are absent at local airports, which they called “this large loophole.”

  • Noticeably absent are the multiple award nominations and high praise from critics.

  • The absent turkey had been blown clean away in the hurricane force winds, I concluded.

  • Kate has been absent from public view since the announcment was made on September 8.

  • In pneumonia chlorids are constantly very low, and in some cases are absent entirely.

  • The infectious diseases in which leukocytosis is absent (p. 160) often cause a slight decrease of leukocytes.

  • Murat was absent, and there was no evil influence to cloud his friendship with his great chief.

  • Pepsin is rarely or never absent in the presence of free hydrochloric acid.

  • Since the two enzyms are almost invariably present or absent together, the test for rennin serves also as a test for pepsin.