aggregate1
KK: [ˈæɡrɪˌɡеt]
DJ: [ˈæɡriɡеit]
vt.
- 使聚集
- 【口】總計達
The audiences
aggregated a million people.
觀眾總數達一百萬人。
vi.
- 聚集
辨析
aggregate2
KK: [ˈæɡrɪɡɪt]
DJ: [ˈæɡriɡit]
a.
- 聚集的;合計的[Z][B]
The
aggregate number of unemployed is fifty thousand this year.
今年失業人數總共達五萬人。
n.
- 聚集物,集合體[C][U]
- 總數,合計[C][U]
What is the
aggregate of goals from the two football matches?
兩場橄欖球賽的總進球數是多少?
- (拌水泥用的)粒料,骨料[U][S]
衍生
n.
/
ˈagrɪgət/
- a whole formed by combining several disparate elements.
- the total score of a player or team in a fixture comprising more than one game or round.
- a material or structure formed from a loosely compacted mass of fragments or particles.
▸pieces of broken or crushed stone or gravel used to make concrete.
adj.
/
ˈagrɪgət/
- formed or calculated by the combination of many separate units or items.
- Botany (of a group of species) comprising several very similar species formerly regarded as a single species.
- Economics denoting the total supply or demand for goods and services in an economy at a particular time.
v.
/
ˈagrɪgeɪt/
combine into a whole.
Derivative
- aggregation n.
- aggregative
/ˈagrɪgətɪv/
adj.
Etymology
ME: from L. aggregat-, aggregare ‘herd together’, from ad- ‘towards’ + grex, greg- ‘a flock’.