词汇 | niche |
释义 | niche noun[ C ] uk /niːʃ/ us /nɪtʃ/ nichenoun[C] (POSITION)a job or position that is very suitable for someone, especially one that they like: (尤指本人合意的)适合的工作(或职位);称心的工作 He has carved/made a niche for himself as a financial advisor.他成为了财务顾问,为自己找到了合适的发展方向。 an area or position that is exactly suitable for a small group of the same type: 合宜的小环境 an ecological niche生态龛 Animal dwellings - natural anthill arboreal biome burrow byre cobweb earth eyrie foxhole guest habitat hole holt lair lodge rookery sett spider's web warren wildlife corridor nichenoun[C] (HOLLOW)a hollow in a wall, especially one made to put a statue (= artistic object) in so that it can be seen(尤指用来放置塑像的)壁龛 Christophe Boisvieux/The Image Bank/Getty Images /GettyImages Parts of buildings: walls & parts of walls alcove balcony baseboard cavity wall chimney breast dado damp course damp-proof damp-proofing drystone wall party wall pebbledash plasterboard recess sconce siding wainscoting wallboard walled woodwork niche adjective uk /niːʃ/ us /nɪtʃ/ interesting to, aimed at, or affecting only a small number of people: MMA is not a niche sport any more. Cars with classic black or grey are easy to resell, but those with red or green interiors are more niche. niche marketing Range and limits all the way toidiom ambit anywhere at largeidiom band compass diapason dividing line finite finitely finitude gamut hedge parameter parametric parametrically point spread proviso spectrum stretch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Advertising and marketing niche | American Dictionaryniche noun[ C ] us/nɪtʃ/ nichenoun[C] (POSITION)a job, position, or place that is very suitable for someone: She’s never quite found her niche on television. biology A niche is also an organism's specific position or purpose within the group of organisms with which it lives nichenoun[C] (HOLLOW)a hollow made in a wall, esp. one designed to put a statue in so that it can be seen niche | Business Englishniche noun[ C ] uk /niːʃ/ us /nɪtʃ/ MARKETING, COMMERCE an opportunity for a business to offer a product or service that is not offered by other businesses: a niche in sthThere is a niche in the market for this kind of product. create/carve a nicheThe company has carved a niche for itself in the watch-making business. look for/find a nicheThey found a niche by selling their line of leather goods through small boutiques that could offer personalized service. exploit/expand a niche HR a job or position that is suitable for a particular type of person: High-quality web development has generated lots of new niche roles in organizations. a niche job/position See alsomarket niche Examples of nicheniche Unlike pharmaceuticals, and apart from the giants mentioned above, the industry is highly fragmented, consisting of numerous small niche markets with a few products only. There were higher inter-habitat food niche overlaps within-species than between-species. Competition, contacts and other factors restricting niches of parasite helminthes. Our theoretical analyses, which employed two-locus, population-genetic models, uncovered a number of interesting evolutionary consequences of the feedback from niche construction. However, that does not mean there has been no evolutionary feedback from niche construction: it merely switches the evolutionary responses to the cultural domain. This is consistent with the view that it was filling a niche in the grammar, that is, speaker thought processing. In the following sections we argue that a niche construction perspective is particularly valuable in the study of human evolution. In many cases, the niche-constructed by-products of several organisms are exploited by a population. Apparently, species with smaller niches (= specialists) have less chance to survive deforestation and are more prone to local extinction than those with wider niches. Even here, however, the niche construction model so far promises more than it delivers. For humans, cultural information may be expressed in niche construction, but that does not make cultural evolution the same thing as niche construction. Yet clearly there was too little space under the roof of the southern niche for machinery of the sort that could work flyings. Although the south niche shows clearly in the groundplan, it must have been demolished, along with its side-linking walls and the staircases on either side. The mass of the enclosing walls is emphasised by the angled window splays, the thickness of the walls accentuated by the depth of the niches. These spiders tend to be quite specialized, exploiting narrow niches that preclude convective air currents. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withnichenicheThese are words often used in combination with niche. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. empty niche The empty niche in the bedrock pit may be a similar example. new niche However, as time went by, the public enterprises created a newniche that did not exist beforehand. niche application This, plus its ease of use, make it a valuable nicheapplication, but certainly not for any serious video project. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with niche |
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