英和和英

語源

counter- +‎ attract

動詞

counterattract (三人称単数 現在形 counterattracts, 現在分詞 counterattracting, 過去形および過去分詞形 counterattracted)

1. (まれに) To attract at the expense of someone or something else.
   • 1948: Glasgow Medical Journal, volume 147, page 111

     The provision of nurses for them is a major problem in itself, relieved to a large extent in county districts by part-time workers, but remaining only partially solved by such methods in the cities, where more congenial occupations counterattract them.

   • ante 1979–2002: American Institute of Physics, Current Physics Index, volume 27^?: part 1^?, page 6,393 ⁽¹⁹⁷⁹⁾ or 4,917 ⁽²⁰⁰²⁾

     Flexible polymers also counterattract.

   • 1986: Robert Donald Swisher, Surfactant biodegradation, page 162 (Marcel Dekker; ISBN 0824769384, 9780824769383)

     If the cell has amongst its armament such a latent potential matching the novel compound we are presenting, and if that compound can counterattract the repressor away from the DNA, synthesis of the enzyme can then proceed, the newly formed enzyme starts degrading the compound, and acclimation by enzyme induction is accomplished.

派生語

• counterattracting (adjective)

関連する語

• counterattraction
• counterattractive

参照

1. ^ English–Khasi dictionary, volume 1, by Edingson Blah and L. Harrison (1976, Harrison), page 177