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degrees

/dih-gree/US // dɪˈgri //UK // (dɪˈɡriː) //

学位,学历,度数,度

Related Words

term术语,任期,条款,期strength强度,力量,实力,优势severity严重性,严重程度,严格,严厉程度rate率,费率,速率,税率point点,地点,指点,观点grade等级intensity强度,烈度,力度,激烈程度standard标准,标准的amount数量,数额,金额,量scale规模,尺度,等级,比例尺extent程度,范围,规模,幅度scope范围,范畴,规模quality质量,品质,质量问题,质量方面size尺寸,大小,规模,规格sort分类,种类,排序,分级status身份,身份地位,身份信息level水平,级别,层次,层面credit信用,贷款,信誉,贷方magnitude规模,幅度,量级,大小qualification资格,资质,资格认证,资格证书

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale.
    • : a stage or point in or as if in progression or retrogression: We followed the degrees of her recovery with joy.
    • : a stage in a scale of intensity or amount: a high degree of mastery.
    • : extent, measure, scope, or the like: To what degree will he cooperate?
    • : a stage in a scale of rank or station; relative standing in society, business, etc.: His uncouth behavior showed him to be a man of low degree.
    • : Education. an academic title conferred by universities and colleges as an indication of the completion of a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of achievement.
    • : a unit of measure, as of temperature or pressure, marked off on the scale of a measuring instrument: This thermometer shows a scale of degrees between only 20° and 40° C.
    • : Geometry. the 360th part of a complete angle or turn, often represented by the sign°, as in 45°, which is read as 45 degrees.Compare angle.
    • : the distinctive classification of a crime according to its gravity: murder in the first degree.
    • : Grammar. one of the parallel formations of adjectives and adverbs used to express differences in quality, quantity, or intensity. In English, low and careful are the positive degree, lower and more careful are the comparative degree, lowest and most careful are the superlative degree.
    • : Mathematics. the sum of the exponents of the variables in an algebraic term: x3 and 2x2y are terms of degree three.the term of highest degree of a given equation or polynomial: The expression 3x2y + y2+ 1 is of degree three.the exponent of the derivative of highest order appearing in a given differential equation.
    • : Music. a tone or step of the scale.
    • : Astrology. any of the 360 equal divisions of the ecliptic measured counterclockwise from the vernal equinox. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac contains 30 degrees.
    • : a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of relationship: a cousin of the second degree.
    • : Archaic. a line or point on the earth or the celestial sphere, as defined by degrees of latitude.
    • : Obsolete. a step, as of a stair.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noununit of measurement
Synonyms
amount数量,数额,金额,量extent程度,范围,规模,幅度grade等级intensity强度,烈度,力度,激烈程度point点,地点,指点,观点quality质量,品质,质量问题,质量方面rate率,费率,速率,税率scale规模,尺度,等级,比例尺scope范围,范畴,规模severity严重性,严重程度,严格,严厉程度size尺寸,大小,规模,规格standard标准,标准的strength强度,力量,实力,优势term术语,任期,条款,期amplitude振幅,波幅,幅度,幅员caliber口径,口徑,口径大小,口气dimension尺寸,维度,规模,层面division划分,部门,分工,分化expanse广袤无垠,广袤,广场,广阔gauge衡量标准,仪表,计量器,轨距gradation梯度,分级,渐变,层次感height高度,身高interval间隔,间隙,间歇期,间隔时间length长度,长,篇幅,长度limit限度,限额,限定,限期line线,行,路线,线条link链接,联系,连接,连线mark纪念,纪念品,纪念碑,纪念意义notch凹槽,槽口,凹痕,缺口period时间plane飞机,平面,平面图,飞机上proportion比例,配比,比率,比重quantity数量,数量方面,数量上,数量上的range范围,系列,幅度,幅度大小ratio比例,比率,比值,比数reach达到,达成,达到了,抵达rung隆隆声,铃声,轰隆隆,轰隆shade阴影,遮遮掩掩,阴凉处,遮蔽space空间,空间的,太空,场地stage阶段,舞台,阶段性,阶段性的stair梯级,阶梯,梯子,楼梯step阶梯,阶段,举措,阶级stint吝啬鬼,吝惜,吝啬的,吝啬的人tenor男高音,男中音,男音,男声tier级别,层级,层次,一层
nounrecognition of achievement; rank or grade of position
Synonyms
class类,类别,阶级,种类credit信用,贷款,信誉,贷方grade等级honor荣誉,尊重,荣誉感,荣誉证书level水平,级别,层次,层面magnitude规模,幅度,量级,大小point点,地点,指点,观点position位置,定位,职务,姿势qualification资格,资质,资格认证,资格证书quality质量,品质,质量问题,质量方面scope范围,范畴,规模sort分类,种类,排序,分级standard标准,标准的status身份,身份地位,身份信息strength强度,力量,实力,优势approbation认可,认可度,赞成,赞同approval批准,审批,认可,批准书baccalaureate学士学位,学士学位证书,学士学位证,学士文凭caliber口径,口徑,口径大小,口气compass指南针,罗盘,指北针,罗经credentials凭证,证件,资格证书,证书dignity尊严distinction区别,区分,区别对待,差异eminence杰出,突出表现,辉煌,突出表现为height高度,身高order秩序,订单,顺序,命令pitch沥青,场地,俯视,俯瞰potency效力,效价,效能,功效quantity数量,数量方面,数量上,数量上的range范围,系列,幅度,幅度大小rank级别,等级,排名,职级reach达到,达成,达到了,抵达sheepskin羊皮,羊皮的,羊皮的作用shingle砂石料,木瓦片,砂石,木瓦stage阶段,舞台,阶段性,阶段性的standing站立,站在,站立式,站立的station站,站台,站内,站长testimonial推荐书,推荐信,证言,证明testimony证言,证词,证供,证据dignification尊严,威严,庄严,庄重

Examples

  • They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.

  • At that time, only 16 Congolese were known to have college degrees.

  • Detainees were hosed down while shackled naked, and placed in rooms with temperatures as low as 59 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • There are fans, but Hetflaisz never once saw an air-conditioning unit—and temperatures get up to 100 degrees.

  • Six months out of the year, the temperatures exceed 100 degrees.

  • It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.

  • I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.

  • The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.

  • It is about three leagues wide and is forty-four and one half degrees from the Equator.

  • The fleet cannot see itself wiped out by degrees; and yet, without the fleet, how are we soldiers to exist?

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