character
特征
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Definitions
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- : the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- : one such feature or trait; characteristic.
- : moral or ethical quality: a man of fine, honorable character.
- : qualities of honesty, courage, or the like; integrity: It takes character to face up to a bully.
- : reputation: a stain on one's character.
- : good repute.
- : an account of the qualities or peculiarities of a person or thing.
- : a person, especially with reference to behavior or personality: a suspicious character.
- : Informal. an odd, eccentric, or unusual person.
- : a person represented in a drama, story, etc.
- : a part or role, as in a play or film.
- : a symbol as used in a writing system, as a letter of the alphabet.
- : the symbols of a writing system collectively.
- : a significant visual mark or symbol.
- : status or capacity: the character of a justice of the peace.
- : a written statement from an employer concerning the qualities of a former employee.
- : Literature. a formal character sketch or descriptive analysis of a particular human virtue or vice as represented in a person or type.Compare character sketch.
- : Genetics. any trait, function, structure, or substance of an organism resulting from the effect of one or more genes as modified by the environment.
- : Computers. any symbol, as a number, letter, punctuation mark, etc., that represents data and that, when encoded, is usable by a machine.one of a set of basic symbols that singly or in a series of two or more represents data and, when encoded, is usable in a computer.
- : a style of writing or printing.
- : Roman Catholic Theology. the ineffaceable imprint received on the soul through the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and ordination.
- : a cipher or cipher message.
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- : Theater. representing a personality type, especially by emphasizing distinctive traits, as language, mannerisms, physical makeup, etc. acting or specializing in such roles.
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Archaic.
- : to portray; describe.
- : to engrave; inscribe.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
When I was offered this, I was extremely pleased because he’s an interesting character.
In preparing to play the twisted character, Paulson studied the novel and the film in detail and even borrowed some gestures from the movie.
A recent survey from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, for example, found that 38% of characters featured in advertisements at the 2019 Cannes Lions festival were people of color, compared to 26% in 2006, the earliest available data.
While for the video titles, we don’t have too many characters to work with, the video description field allows more characters than enough, so take the full advantage of those.
Female speaking characters have only marginally increased over the last 13 years, reaching 34% in 2019.
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
Our fans have seen all our sketches, so we wanted to give them something a little deeper about each character.
Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”
I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.
It is the development of character, the triumph of intellectuality and spirituality I have striven to express.'
She never realized that the reserve of her own character had much, perhaps everything, to do with this.
Messa urges the king to send a new governor, and gives his advice as to the character of him who should be sent.
Some peculiar lines between these contracted brows gave a character of ferocity to this forbidding and sensual face.