corruption

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.

   “It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.”

2. isim The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

   “The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.”

3. isim The product of corruption; putrid matter.
4. isim The decomposition of biological matter.
5. isim Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
6. isim The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
7. isim The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

   “a corruption of style”

8. isim A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)

   “The affix ty, like té, Fr., ta, It., dad, Sp., is a corruption of the Latin affix tas, tat, and Greek tes; as bounty, bonté, Fr., bonta, It., bondad, Sp., bonitas from bonus, good; vanity, vanité, Fr., vanita, It., vanidad, Sp, vanitas from vanus, vain.”

9. isim Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

   “They admitted that there were corruptions in the Church of Scotland, but denied that these corruptions were such as to render a separation from her necessary.”