mutate 的 2 个定义
mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.
- to change; alter.
- Biology. to cause to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: The disease mutates the retina’s rod cells, and they slowly stop working.
- Phonetics. to change by umlaut.
mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.
- to undergo change: It was a gamble to mutate from hard rock frontman to big band crooner, but he went seriously retro and won that bet in a huge way.
- Biology. to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: Drug-resistant cells mutate more quickly and could migrate into surrounding tissue.
mutate 近义词
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更多mutate例句
- Yet even as airports have taken aggressive steps to keep travelers safe, they are battling a virus that continues to mutate in ways that make it more contagious and possibly more deadly, researchers said.
- As viruses move from person to person, they mutate at a predictable pace, and over a chain of transmissions, those mutations accumulate.
- Numbers one and two detected against the SARS-CoV-2 and number three detected any coronavirus, in case it mutated.
- Perhaps there hasn’t been enough time, and the coronavirus moves quickly and is now mutating, so its metaphors may change, too.
- Research suggests currently authorized vaccines will work against them, but there is always the frightening possibility that the virus will mutate enough that that’s no longer true.
- He said, "Then, any survivors on earth will have to mutate into something other than mankind?"