cause
原因,导致,原因是,引起
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- : the reason or motive for some human action: The good news was a cause for rejoicing.
- : good or sufficient reason: to complain without cause; to be dismissed for cause.
- : Law. a ground of legal action; the matter over which a person goes to law.a case for judicial decision.
- : any subject of discussion or debate.
- : a principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated: the Socialist cause; the human rights cause.
- : the welfare of a person or group, seen as a subject of concern: support for the cause of the American Indian.
- : Philosophy. the end or purpose for which a thing is done or produced.Aristotelianism.any of the four things necessary for the movement or the coming into being of a thing, namely a material , something to act upon it , a form taken by the movement or development , and a goal or purpose .
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caused, caus·ing.
- : to be the cause of; bring about.
Phrases
- cause a commotion
- cause raised eyebrows
- lost cause
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Some activists work on both causes, and others see their work as ideologically sympathetic.
The word comes from the grief that these players cause for others.
She offers, “Equity is about getting to the root causes of the patterns that you’re seeing and not stopping short” at what companies can see through analysis, “but rather, why is the context what it is.”
A seriously wobbly wheel may have compromised bearings in the hub, for instance, which causes it to spin irregularly.
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a parasite, but it is not contagious because you don’t get it just by being around or coming into contact with an infected person.
But Cosby Truthers are applying their principles to the wrong cause.
So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.
These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
If Dudesmash were to be something we continued doing, this would be an important year to do it, ‘cause we didn’t do one last year.
Michelle Obama tweeting a hashtag is somehow cause for outrage.
Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for or against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions?
Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.
There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.
If we are to have a real education along lines of expression we must begin with the "content," or cause, of expression.
Rapidity of action and a self-confidence which on the battlefield never felt itself beaten were the cause of Murat's success.