mutate / ˈmyu teɪt /

💦中学词汇变异变种突变变异的

mutate2 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

  1. to change; alter.
  2. 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.
  3. Phonetics. to change by umlaut.
v. 无主动词 verb

mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

  1. 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.
  2. 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

v. 动词 verb

convert

mutate 的近义词 7
mutate 的反义词 2

更多mutate例句

  1. 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.
  2. As viruses move from person to person, they mutate at a predictable pace, and over a chain of transmissions, those mutations accumulate.
  3. Numbers one and two detected against the SARS-CoV-2 and number three detected any coronavirus, in case it mutated.
  4. Perhaps there hasn’t been enough time, and the coronavirus moves quickly and is now mutating, so its metaphors may change, too.
  5. 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.
  6. He said, "Then, any survivors on earth will have to mutate into something other than mankind?"