vanish

名词 n. 动词 v.
发音 văn'ĭsh

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
    — a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
  2. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
    — The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.
  3. A disappearance; a vanishment.
动词 v.
  1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed. intransitive
    — Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
  2. To become equal to zero.
    — The function f such as f(x)#61;x² vanishes at x#61;0.
  3. To disappear; to kidnap. transitive
    — And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again.

词形变化

vanishes present,singular,third-person vanishing participle,present vanished participle,past vanished past vanishes plural

词源

词源 1
Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin van- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce.
Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
词源 2
Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin van- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce.
Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
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