stereotype

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/|/ˈstɪə.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/    /ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/|[ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtʌɪp]|/ˈstɪɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/|[ˈstɪɹ.i.əˌtʌɪp]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people). countable,uncountable
    — Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.
  2. A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type. countable,uncountable
  3. A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface. countable,uncountable
  4. An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype. transitive
    — Unable to ascertain what is in the minds of so many individuals, he must try to simplify his problems by eliminating individual differences: he must try to control and stereotype interests and beliefs by education and propaganda.
  2. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of. transitive
    — to stereotype the Bible
  3. To print from a stereotype. transitive
  4. To make firm or permanent; to fix. figuratively,transitive
    — Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
    — At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!
  2. Synonym of stereotyped. figuratively,rare
    — It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it were stereotype. Ahhough I do not conceive that they are quite so strongly marked, yet, to make my idea understood, I would say that they are like the last impressions taken from a copper-plate engraving, where the whole of the subject to be represented is made out, although parts of it from much use have been obliterated.

词形变化

stereotypes plural stereotypes present,singular,third-person stereotyping participle,present stereotyped participle,past stereotyped past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.
词源 2
Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.
词源 3
Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.
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