promote

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /pɹəˈməʊt/    美 /pɹəˈmoʊt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank. transitive
    — He promoted his clerk to office manager.
  2. To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity. transitive
    — They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
  3. To encourage, urge or incite. transitive
    — so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
    Fanny Hill
  4. To elevate to a higher league. passive,regional
    — At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
  5. To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure. transitive
  6. To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank. transitive
    — Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  7. To move on to a subsequent stage of education. Singapore,intransitive
    — At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
  8. To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority. transitive
    — to promote an int to a long

词形变化

promotes present,singular,third-person promoting participle,present promoted participle,past promoted past

词汇关系

衍生词
co-promote copromote cross-promote depromote mispromote oncopromoting overpromote promotability promotable promoteability promotee promotement promoter promote to customer promote to Glory promotingly promotive promotor repromote self-promote underpromote

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin prōmoveō
Latin prōmōtusbor.
English promote
From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).
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