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pref.（前缀）
- Variant of syn-
syn-的变体
sym-
prefix
before b, p, and m, a variant of syn-
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variant of syn- before b, p, m: symbol; symphony; symmetry.
Related Words
- asymptote
- symbiosis
- symbol
- sympathy
- symphysis
- symploce
sym-variant of syn-, before b, p, and m, as in sympathy.
sym-
⇨ see syn-
⇨ see syn-
sym-
prefix
- variant spelling of
SYN- assimilated before b, m, p (as in symbiosis, symmetry, symphysis)同SYN- （n在b,m,p音前同化为m, 如symbiosis, symmetry, symphysis）。
1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 103Our spiritualised human bodies..thus conformed or (as the Greek has it )..made *symmorphic to his spiritualised Body. [ Philipp. iii. 21]
Ibid. ,They would neither have this declared *symmorphism, nor..be fitted for a perpetual abode..with the Lord their glorious pattern.
1895 C. E. Benham in Engineering 26 July 127 (title)The *Sympalmograph.
1832 Maginn in Blackw.Mag. XXXII. 413Without..interrupting..the dialogue of the two venerable *sympatetics.
1890 Seebohm in Ibis Jan. 31In *synpelmous birds the plantars do not cross each other at the back of the tarsus.., but coalesce at the point where they usually cross.
1885 Stand. Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 369An arrangement to be called synpelmous, since the two tendons are completely blended... The synpelmous distribution of the deep plantar tendons obtains especially in the swifts, humming birds..and their allies.
1898 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Sympelmous.
1903 Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 3),*Symperitoneal..uniting two or more parts of the peritoneum artificially.
1870 A. W. Bennett in Jrnl. Bot. June 192,I would propose..terms similar to those applied to the pistil, where we use ‘apocarpous’, and ‘syncarpous’... The terms ‘aposepalous’, ‘synsepalous’, ‘apopetalous’, and ‘*synpetalous’, would at once convey their meanings.
1877 ― tr. Thomé'sBot. 129The corolla is gamopetalous or *sympetalous (less correctly ‘monopetalous’), when the petals are more or less coherent.
1916 H. Cushing in Genetics I. 91This paper will present a much more complete family record of an inherited trait... The malformation will be designated *symphalangism.
1943 Jrnl. Heredity XXXI. 344/1Similar reports of abnormalities of hands and feet including symphalangism, syndactylism, and polydactyly..seem to agree that many anatomical anomalies may be inherited as single dominant traits.
1965 Arch. InternalMed. CXV. 580/1Symphalangism (congenital fusion of the phalanges) is occasionally associated with brachydactyly.
1910 *Symphile . [ see synœketes.v. syn-]
1960 H. Oldroyd tr. Jeannel'sIntrod. Entomol. viii. 212The greater number of symphiles are beetles, cherished by the ants, and carried with them wherever the nest is moved, but nevertheless terrible enemies of the colony because of the great damage they do to it.
1971 E. O. Wilson Insect Societies xx. 403/1Many of the better⁓integrated symphiles dispense attractive substances to their hosts from epidermal glands.
1919 W. Osler Old Humanities & NewSci. ii. 12This attention is what our *symphilic community—to use a biological term—bestows on you.
1927 H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe Guests ofBrit. Ants p. xvi,They mostly possess characteristic or ‘symphilic’ colours and texture—a yellow-red, with an oily looking surface.
1971 E. O. Wilson Insect Societies xx. 403/2A large percentage of the symphilic beetles..possess peculiar tufts of red or golden hairs.
1903 Nature 12 Feb. 351/1 The phenomenon of ‘*symphilism’, that is to say, the harbouring of insects, &c., of various foreign species in the nests of ants and termites. It is stated that the number of *symphilous arthropods exceeds a hundred.
1899 D. Sharp in CambridgeNat. Hist. VI. 183The relations between ants and their guests..Wasmann..arranges..in four categories: 1, ‘*Symphily’ for the true guests, which are fed and tended by the ants, the guests often affording some substance the ants delight in.
1872 A. J. Ellis Presid.Addr. toPhilol. Soc. 13The Dingdong! theory..; let us call it *symphonesis.
1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Mus. xi. §2. 332A compound Song is where Two or more Voices go together,..so that the Melody each of them makes, is a distinct and different simple Song..; ..all such Compositions are very properly called *symphonetick Musick, or Musick in Parts.
1872 A. J. Ellis Presid.Addr. toPhilol. Soc. 15Is it interjectional, imitational, or symphonetic? [ sc. the word ‘scrumptious’]
1893 Smithsonian Rep. 41He was able to ascertain and formulate the principles..governing the number, kind, and position of notional stems in *symphrases, or word-sentences.
1904 A. W. Grabau in Amer. Geol. Apr. 236 note,Rocks of this type may be called *symphrattic rocks.
Ibid. 236Whether the metamorphism be due..to mountain making processes (regional or dynamo-metamorphism, or *symphrattism).
1828 Carlyle Germ. Rom. IV. 145Another series of..occurrences, not so much of a synchronistic, as of a *symphronistic kind.
1898 A. S. Packard Text-bk. Entomol. 21He..believed that the Symphyla are the forerunners of the myriapods, and not of the insects, his genealogical tree representing the *symphylan and thysanuran phyla as originating from the same point.
1964 U. Lanham Insects i. 19Two of these classes — the pauropods and the symphylans—are small, obscure creatures... The other two—centipedes and millipedes—are larger, more conspicuous. [ of many-legged arthropods]
1979 W. D. Russell-Hunter Life of Invertebrates xvi. 301In some structural features, symphylans resemble the centipedes and in others the apterygote insects.
1936 Trans. Soc. Brit. Entomol. III. 14The contention that the opisthogoneate condition in insects has been derived from *Symphylid stock.
Ibid. 16The heart, haemocoel, fat-body and anal glands have all been inherited from the Symphylids.
1973 Nature 16 Nov. 128/1 It is of interest that certain of the symphilids carry styli on the base of the second and third pairs of legs.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XII. 771/1Symphilid species are small, fragile, and lacking pigmentation.
1877 A. W. Bennett tr. Thomé'sBot. 134The perianth..may be gamophyllous or *symphyllous..on the one hand; or . [ etc.]
1885 L. Oliphant Sympneumata v. 81United with a ‘*Sympneuma’ free from the gross external covering of outer body.
Ibid. xii. 179The electric *sympneumatic life.
Ibid. xiii. 201The conscious notes echoed from the unconscious sympneumatic depths.
1891 Pall Mall G. 9 July 2/2 The *sympneumatism between the Times and the ‘Tories' Last Hope’.
1892 Daily News 16 July 5/2 The young lord who is bitten by ‘Sympneumatism’, or the theories of Mr. Laurence Oliphant.
1873 B. Gregory HolyCath. Ch. xv. 146There does arise a new *sympolity, a fellow-citizenship of the saints.
1963 P. Mitchell in Biochem. Soc. Symp. XXII. 148Over a certain range of concentration, the asymmetry of distribution of the molecules of one substrate across the membrane gives rise to an increased flow of the second substrate in the same direction. We will call this type of coupled movement *symport.
1978 Nature 2 Mar. 97/1 There are discussions of algal ion transport and of Na+/organic solute cotransport (symport).
1671 Baxter PowerMag. &Ch. Pastors ii. §44. 35The Major Vote of his *Syn-Presbyters are against it.
a1677 Barrow Serm. Heb. xiii. 17,Wks. 1686 III. 280The same titles, which the Apostles assumed to themselves, they ascribe to their Sympresbyters.
1896 D. S. Jordan in Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 601We are enabled to present a copy of the resultant *sympsychograph.
Ibid. 602One suggestion was that this was the blind spot on the retina in each of the *sympsychographers.
Ibid. 601From seven ideals, sympathetically combined, the true cat would be developed. This combination is the essence of *sympsychography.
sym-
assimilated form of syn-, from Greek form of syn- in compounds with words beginning in -b-, -m-, -p-, -ph-, -ps-.
ORIGIN: Repr. Greek sum- , assim. form of sun- syn-
sym-
prefix. the form of syn- before b, m, or p, as in symbol, symmetry, sympathy.
sym.
symbol.
Chemistry. symmetrical.
symphony.
sym-
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— see syn-
II.combining form
or s-
Etymology: symmetrical
usually italic : symmetrical — in names of organic compounds
< sym-dichloro-ethylene >
< s-dichloro-ethylene >
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— see syn-
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or s-
usually italic
< sym-dichloro-ethylene >
< s-dichloro-ethylene >
sym-
Prefix
- variant of syn-, used before the letters b, m and p.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συμ- (sum-), variant of συν- (sun-), from σύν (sún, “with, in company with, together with”).
Derived terms
前缀：sym- 共同、相同
sympathy 同情
symmetry 对称（两边相同之意）
symphony 交响乐，和音
symmetallism 金银混合本位
symbiosis （生物）共手、共栖