acute

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Brief, quick, short.

   “It was an acute event.”

2. sıfat High or shrill.

   “an acute accent or tone”

3. sıfat Intense; sensitive; sharp.

   “She had an acute sense of honour”

4. sıfat Urgent.

   “His need for medical attention was acute.”

5. sıfat With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).

   “204. Eremophila abietina […] Corolla 23–35 mm long, cream or very pale lilac, lobes faintly metallic bluish green or lilac, tube occasionally brownish, prominently purple spotted; outer and inner surfaces glandular-pubescent; lobes acute, lobe of lower lip strongly reflexed.”

6. sıfat Less than 90 degrees.

   “The teacher pointed out the acute angle.”

7. sıfat Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.

   “an acute triangle”

8. sıfat Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
9. sıfat Sharp, produced in the front of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
10. sıfat Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.

    “He dropped dead of an acute illness.”

11. sıfat Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.

    “The acute symptoms resolved promptly.”

12. sıfat Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.

    “The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute.”

13. isim A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.

    “Anne Marie had been assigned a ‘constant supervision’ status. […] Always avoiding the unrest of the television lounge, she would sometimes join some of the older ‘acutes’ who sat isolated in metal chairs at the end of the hallway and gaze out of the window with them.”

14. isim An accent or tone higher than others.

    “[I]t would be strange if we wer to recite Homer, raising our voices on the acutes, lowering them on the graves, and managing the circumflexes as well as we could, yet to recite Virgil without any of these regular elevations, depressions, and circumbendibus.”

15. isim An acute accent (´).

    “The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.”

16. fiil To give an acute sound to.

    “He acutes his rising inflection too much.”

17. fiil To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.

    “It had been over a week that I had not been over to visit my most favorable place. Since I was allowed a rare opening that jaggled an intense curiosity, it acuted my senses with great anticipation that a living current was felt in my center, brought on by something truly new.”