formative — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Capable of forming something.

   Synonimy

   creantpoietic

   Antonimy

   unformative

   Przykłady

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   [I]ts thought, that, in the Seed are alvvaies potentially ſeuerall indiuiduating Qualities deriu'd from diuers of the neere Anceſtors, vvhich by the formatiue povver of the Parents may be expreſt in the Children, vvith reſpectiue habitude to either Sex; […]

   Hybrids, […] have their reproductive organs functionally impotent, as may be clearly seen in the state of the male element in both plants and animals; though the formative organs themselves are perfect in structure, as far as the microscope reveals.

2. Capable of forming something. Capable of producing new tissue.

3. Capable of forming something. Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.

4. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.

   Antonimy

   unformative

   Przykłady

   My formative years were spent in an inner city.

5. Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

Rzeczownik

1. A thing which causes formation to occur.

   Przykłady

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   [T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'

2. A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).

   Synonimy

   formansformant

   Terminy węższe

   affix

3. Synonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”).

   Synonimy

   descendantreflex

Przymiotnik

1. capable of forming new cells and tissues

   Przykłady

   a formative zone in developing bone

2. forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

   Synonimy

   shapingplastic

   Przykłady

   a formative influence

   a formative experience

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   the plastic forces of nature

Rzeczownik

1. minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function

   Terminy szersze

   language unitlinguistic unit