absentadj詞源 1/ˈæb.sn̩t/

• 1

  Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing.

  • Owing to his own illness and then his family's, Ramzi has often been absent from class this month. We will help him catch up with his studies.
  • When they were able to return to the clinic some months later, certain pieces of equipment were absent.
• 2

  Not existing.

  • The body part was rudimentary or absent in 1% of specimens.
  • Empathy seemed to be absent from the messages.
• 3

  Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.

  • Tom was there, but he seemed absent and withdrawn. Normally he is quite present [= engaged] during a meeting.
  • What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.

absentnoun詞源 1/ˈæb.sn̩t/

• 1

  Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.

  • The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent.
  • That very sense of longing, of yearning for the absent, which 'nostalgia' conveys to us now.
• 2

  obsoleteAn absentee; a person who is not there.

absentprep詞源 1/ˈæb.sn̩t/

• 1

  In the absence of; without; except.

  • Absent taxes modern governments cannot function.
  • If the accused refuse upon demand to pay money or deliver property (absent any excuse or excusing circumstance) which came into his hands as a bailee, such refusal might well constitute some evidence of conversion, with the requisite fraudulent intent required by the statute.

absentverb詞源 2/æbˈsɛnt/

• 1

  To keep (oneself) away.

  • Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace.
  • Absent thee from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story.
• 2

  archaicTo keep (someone) away.

  • Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more;
• 3

  obsoleteStay away; withdraw.

  • The iron rule of the plantation, always passionately and violently enforced in that neighborhood, makes flogging the penalty of failing to be in the field before sunrise in the morning, unless special permission be given to the absenting slave.
• 4

  rareLeave.

• 5

  rareTo omit.

  • When we realize that the digitalisation of the image involves - by reducing and even absenting - the role of 'the physical', the 'sensuous' (by reducing and eventually absenting the indexical aspects of the image) […]
  • Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.