- 1預先決定、事先訂好。
To predetermine something is to decide or arrange it before it happens, so it does not happen by chance. A teacher may predetermine the topics. A meeting may have a predetermined length because someone predetermined it. Though actually, the word can sound cold, as if a person or a system locked the ending. Scientists also use it without a villain: the result was predetermined by the starting conditions — the setup left only one way for things to fall. It is more formal than “decide in advance” or “fix ahead of time,” which is what most people say. It is not predict. Predict is a guess about the future. Predetermine is making (or having) the future already decided.
組成From Latin praedetermino; the English pieces are pre- (before) + determine (to decide / to settle).
同家族的字
- determinethe base verb; this is pre- + determine
- determinationthe related noun without pre-
- predeterminedthe usual -ed adjective from this verb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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predetermineverb/ˌpɹiː.dɪˈtɜː.mɪn/
- 1
To determine or decide in advance.
- God's Counsel doth not predetermine the Will to any evil
- That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
- 2
To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
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