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predetermined

/pree-di-tur-min/US // ˌpri dɪˈtɜr mɪn //UK // (ˌpriːdɪˈtɜːmɪn) //

预定的,预定的,预定,预设

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing.

    • : to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
    • : to ordain in advance; predestine: She believed that God had predetermined her sorrow.
    • : to direct or impel; influence strongly: His sympathy for the poor predetermined his choice of a career.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.decided in advance

Examples

  • With the Wizards sticking to their predetermined plan to not play Westbrook on consecutive nights, that means the point guard will sit for nearly a third of those contests.

  • Success and failure only look predetermined in hindsight—and even then, as this study illustrates, hindsight remains pretty murky.

  • If a swirling storm reaches wind speeds of 63 kilometers per hour, it gets a name from a list of 21 predetermined names.

  • He’ll offer to make a new beverage an Allied Brand only if the owner agrees to give KDP the right to purchase it based on a predetermined formula.

  • If armed clashes were to break out in a region-wide scale, the “victor” would by no means be predetermined.

  • But in this political season, the monthly jobs data has become just so much political football in a predetermined game.

  • A propensity to cry is, in part, biologically predetermined.

  • Aside from politics, some Chinese think their lack of World Cup talent may be genetically predetermined.

  • After all, like gender, race is predetermined; not a learned behavior like racism.

  • As a body the congress did not meet with any predetermined revolutionary purpose.

  • When a window or door is disturbed or moved more than a predetermined amount, the bell circuit is closed and the alarm sounded.

  • Pat's seeming free will was harnessed to serve the predetermined purposes of an ego less powerful but more unscrupulous.

  • He would not die till the second part of "Faust" was brought to its predetermined close.

  • It was to all appearance the doing of a man who had intended it and brought it to the predetermined conclusion.