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display
1 If you display something that you want people to see, you put it in a particular place, so that people can see it easily.
= exhibit
2 If you display something, you show it to people.
= show
3 If you display a characteristic, quality, or emotion, you behave in a way which shows that you have it.
= show
= show
4 When a computer displays information, it shows it on a screen.
5 A display is an arrangement of things that have been put in a particular place, so that people can see them easily.
6 A display is a public performance or other event which is intended to entertain people.
= show
7 The display on a computer screen is the information that is shown there. The screen itself can also be referred to as the display.
= screen
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screen
1 A screen is a flat vertical surface on which pictures or words are shown. Television sets and computers have screens, and films are shown on a screen in cinemas.
2 You can refer to film or television as the screen.
3 When a film or a television programme is screened, it is shown in the cinema or broadcast on television.
= broadcast
4 A screen is a vertical panel which can be moved around. It is used to keep cold air away from part of a room, or to create a smaller area within a room.
5 If something is screened by another thing, it is behind it and hidden by it.
6 To screen for a disease means to examine people to make sure that they do not have it.
7 When an organization screens people who apply to join it, it investigates them to make sure that they are not likely to cause problems.
8 To screen people or luggage means to check them using special equipment to make sure they are not carrying a weapon or a bomb.
9 If you screen your telephone calls, calls made to you are connected to an answering machine or are answered by someone else, so that you can choose whether or not to speak to the people phoning you.
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entertain
1 entertain entertains entertaining entertained
If a performer, performance, or activity entertains you, it amuses you, interests you, or gives you pleasure.
2 If you entertain people, you provide food and drink for them, for example by inviting them to your house.
3 If you entertain an idea or suggestion, you allow yourself to consider it as possible or as worth thinking about seriously.
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inviting
If you say that something is inviting, you mean that it has good qualities that attract you or make you want to experience it.
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flat
1 A flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor and part of a larger building. A flat usually includes a kitchen and bathroom. = apartment
2 Something that is flat is level, smooth, or even, rather than sloping, curved, or uneven.
3 Flat means horizontal and not upright.
4 A flat object is not very tall or deep in relation to its length and width.
= shallow * deep
5 Flat land is level, with no high hills or other raised parts.
6 A low flat area of uncultivated land, especially an area where the ground is soft and wet, can be referred to as flats or a flat.
7 You can refer to one of the broad flat surfaces of an object as the flat of that object.
8 Flat shoes have no heels or very low heels.
* high-heeled
9 A flat tyre, ball, or balloon does not have enough air in it.
10 A flat is a tyre that does not have enough air in it.
11 A drink that is flat is no longer fizzy.
* effervescent
12 A flat battery has lost some or all of its electrical charge.
* charged
13 If you have flat feet, the arches of your feet are too low.
14 A flat denial or refusal is definite and firm, and is unlikely to be changed.
15 If you say that something happened, for example, in ten seconds flat or ten minutes flat, you are emphasizing that it happened surprisingly quickly and only took ten seconds or ten minutes.
16 A flat rate, price, or percentage is one that is fixed and which applies in every situation.
= fixed * variable
17 If trade or business is flat, it is slow and inactive, rather than busy and improving or increasing.
= sluggish * active, busy
18 If you describe something as flat, you mean that it is dull and not exciting or interesting.
19 You use flat to describe someone's voice when they are saying something without expressing any emotion.
20 Flat is used after a letter representing a musical note to show that the note should be played or sung half a tone lower than the note which otherwise matches that letter. Flat is often represented by the symbol * after the letter.
* sharp
21 If someone sings flat or if a musical instrument is flat, their singing or the instrument is slightly lower in pitch than it should be.
* sharp
22 If you say that something is as flat as a pancake, you are emphasizing that it is completely flat.
23 If you fall flat on your face, you fall over.
24 If an event or attempt falls flat or falls flat on its face, it is unsuccessful.
= fail
25 If you say that you are flat broke, you mean that you have no money at all.
= penniless
26 If you do something flat out, you do it as fast or as hard as you can.
= all out
27 You use flat out to emphasize that something is completely the case.
= utter, complete
28 On the flat means on level ground.
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[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 00:59|