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acute

/uh-kyoot/US // əˈkyut //UK // (əˈkjuːt) //

急性,急症,急性病,急剧

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow;an acute pain.
    • : extremely great or serious; crucial; critical: an acute shortage of oil.
    • : brief and severe.
    • : sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception: an acute observer.
    • : extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions: acute eyesight.
    • : sharp at the end; ending in a point.
    • : Geometry. less than 90°. containing only acute angles.
    • : consisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ´, placed over vowel symbols in some languages to show that the vowels or the syllables they are in are pronounced in a certain way, as in French that the quality of an e so marked is close; in Hungarian that the vowel is long; in Spanish that the marked syllable bears the word accent; in Ibo that it is pronounced with high tones; or in classical Greek, where the mark originated, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with raised pitch: the acute accent; an acute e.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the acute accent.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.deeply perceptive
adj.severe, intense

Examples

  • Otherwise, the public purse and citizens are deprived of funds for much needed investments – the need for which is even more acute now to support Europe’s economic recovery.

  • I experience chronic sinusitis and headaches with fairly frequent acute infections.

  • So the hospital industry lobbied for a new kind of health system for older adults who were dependent on getting medical help but did not need acute care.

  • I am for more of it, not less, especially at this moment of acute need.

  • ProPublica focused on those who remained — the 55 people who died outside of any acute care setting, in categories the coroner labeled “decedent residence,” “hospice” and “other care center,” which often included hospice deaths.

  • Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.

  • This sense of vulnerability is, of course, even more acute in micro-states like Jamaica.

  • Hyperemesis Gravidarum is very acute morning sickness, which may require supplementary hydration, medication and nutrients.

  • The soil variations are acute enough that they can differ radically from one side of a road to another.

  • And my teenage daughters went into the town to shop at cute stores selling cute things at acute prices.

  • In acute and chronic parenchymatous nephritis the quantity is usually very large.

  • Renal cells are abundant in parenchymatous nephritis, especially the acute form.

  • There was acute disharmony in the room, where a little time before there had been at least an outward show of harmony.

  • As they got lower and lower down the hill, her wretchedness and disquiet became acute, to the point of a wild despair.

  • It seemed quite the forlornest hope I had ever heard of, but Jack's distress was so acute that I hadn't the heart to refuse.