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词汇 postulate
释义 postulate
verb[ I or T ]
 formaluk /ˈpɒs.tʃə.leɪt/ us /ˈpɑːs.tʃə.leɪt/
to suggest a theory, idea, etc. as a basic principle from which a further idea is formed or developed: 假定,假设
[ + that ]It was the Greek astronomer, Ptolemy, who postulated that the earth was at the centre of the universe.是希腊天文学家托勒密假定地球是宇宙的中心。
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postulate
noun[ C ]
 formaluk /ˈpɒs.tʃə.lət/ us /ˈpɑːs.tʃə.lət/
an idea that is suggested or accepted as a basic principle before a further idea is formed or developed from it假定,假设
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suggestions & proposals
about
bounce something off someone
can't
co-sponsor
co-sponsorship
drop
imply
make noisesidiom
maybe
move
mover
nomination
on the tableidiom
proposition
put ideas into someone's headidiom
put someone to somethingidiom
put something in
put something up
resubmission
table

postulate | American Dictionary


postulate
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ˈpɑs·tʃəˌleɪt/
to suggest or accept that a theory or idea is true as a starting point for reasoning or discussion:
[ + that clause ]Astronomers postulate that the comet will reappear in 4000 years.

postulate


noun[ C ]us/ˈpɑs·tʃə·lɪt, -ˌleɪt/
fml
He suggested an original and interesting postulate.

Examples of postulate


postulate
They are also postulated to stimulate other cells for granuloma formation.
The advantage of postulating such a dependency is that the grammar rules used for subordinate clauses are also applicable in main clauses.
If so, then postulating a veil of ignorance is a quite different move from postulating impartiality.
The coupling with the domain is small since it postulates and uses only prototypical descriptions of simple structures.
As a first hypothesis, it may be postulated that there is a large 'core distribution', and that flies outside this range are genetically differentiated.
Firstly, in contrast with daily hassles, cumulative trivia specifically postulates that loss of independence will occur in the absence of interruption or intervention for trivia.
Thus, the law is itself postulated as an objective, ontological feature of the behaviour of individual objects ; induction relies upon the postulated lawfulness.
The implied adult attachment model thus postulates that earned secures will parent as competently as continuous secures and better than insecures.
The apparent postponement of saturation is postulated to be due to modification of the flow field by convergence.
Rather, in my view it postulates the wrong kind of structures, namely mechanical rather than evolutionary ones.
Changing the perspective to an outsider's view reverses the "charity" inherent in this interpretation into a clear-cut sentence against these postulates.
Perhaps one group is right and the other wrong, but neither is postulating a policy as ridiculous as oceans full of lemonade.
We postulated that the current voluntary reporting system considerably underestimates the number of listeriosis cases.
Focusing on the logical structure of beliefs, they formulate eight postulates which a revised theory has to verify.
Subsequent research has postulated senses as objects characterised with various degrees of underspecification that implicatures, or indeed other contextual inferences, augment and help to constitute.
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