🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯
檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
- shaving 109
- kestrel 42
- slack off 80
- demoniacal 58
- bindi 64
- ambiguous 269
- quintessentially 46
- pancreas 60
- lineny 47
- delegation 448
- felt-tip 66
- Fresco 167
- luggage 523
- horsewhip 63
- Henry, Cape 117
- golden rule 93
- Screening 183
- front bench 107
- duplication 126
- homo- 33
- long-awaited 43
- migrate 259
- fruiterer 88
- fatalism 128
- outlast 78
- averse 106
- prospect 613
- armour 137
- Expect 209
- vibration 512
- montana 39
- smile 344
- laminated 50
- birchen 46
- self-aware 82
- scummiest 27
- stealth 190
- Unremarkable 65
- movement 582
- ironically 73
- incendiarism 33
- full-fledged 183
- Unsure 110
- dissuasion 69
- groper 42
- examinee 91
- sunshade 113
- big 363
- alexander 42
- pertain 67
- candidate 514
- airstream 86
- brunette 124
- Serum 194
- creamy 281
- kipper 75
- villain 207
- gold leaf 103
- interjectional 47
- mixtec 40
- neg 45
- antibiotic 288
- confusing 180
- chump 141
- nondescriptly 33
- mistral 44
- snippy 108
- electronic cigarette 68
- insurmountable 190
- manspreading 44
- begotten 102
- panter 34
- full-scale 212
- felt-tip pen 76
- colorado 35
- civilian 449
- NB 139
- rinky-dink 91
- Restorative 17
- bald 202
- machine gun 55
- maltese 60
- syria 74
- down the hatch 66
- fly 293
- hulky 37
- lead sb by the nose 62
- sign away 45
- does 111
- mkt 43
- inadvertent 84
- car bomb 93
- It 253
- concuss 96
- Curly 221
- czar 123
- Implore 53
- jockeyship 45
- Acoustics 77
- pye 37
- fishing rod 71
- primp 54
- homebodies 30
- inseparability 123
- monied 62
- insides 47
- comparably 120
- stoop 502
- latch 181
- stardust 94
- Clan 81
- symmetry 191
- backhanded 132
- ducal 112
- Outright 184
- cutting room 107
- bodleian 30
- impropriety 160
- unwell 223
- underpay 79
- mattress 64
- leveler 197
- literary 455
- brick-and-mortar 104
- candy cane 82
- friary 92
- mega 133
- arrogantly 135
- Inseparable 245
- Personnel 196
- dromedaries 29
- Athletics 147
- Base 213
- information 326
- observatories 37
- brick 587
- Scarcely 65
- clumps 75
- crown 568
- Renegade 30
- nectareous 43
- Muzzle 204
- mollies 27
- jawless 33
- calligraphy 171
- mutter 595
- CHARACTER 112
- stooge 69
- gunshot 162
- wavelet 62
- Combat 210
- krypton 67
- shorter 21
- shall 222
- sling 97
- lupous 45
- colleague 551
- nonrenewable 71
- chevrony 41
- spun 63
- blue moon 72
- char 421
- tactful 198
- uproar 133
- hookworm 43
- underpinning 81
- malarial 34
- yoke 86
- break up 102
- off 306
- outlaid 31
- sane 225
- JOURNAL 128
- Ponder 184
- prearranged 55
- anytime 149
- decoder 102
- concordance 115
- podiatrist 49
- expecting 47
- conversationalist 106
- brighten 498
- they 97
- claptrap 96
- Bomb 214
- kernel 124
- dispute 572
- dido 5
- stallholder 56
- explore 514
- white-knuckle 55
- war-torn 75
- bareheaded 103
- Cheerful 170
- stridency 187
- elbow 483
- fix up 120
- pneumatic 187
- aberrational 53
- lassi 48
- gallivant 115
- camp follower 91
- rehabilitate 185
- corral 134
- date 218
- maplelike 27
- unsecured 45
- bulbous 117
- compartmentalized 67
- unheard-of 62
- LIFE 136
- nibbles 31
- kilojoule 36
- one up 68
- Turmoil 233
- harass 296
- prolification 40
- frisk 113
- scholar 473
- In place 42
- blandish 3
- romanced 43
- -ment 57
- virgoan 30
- tiddlywink 35
- Cambridge 70
- nappe 38
- tune 1613
- snub 226
- drop 527
- whatchamacallit 80
- blandishments 89
- accrual 107
- NASA 111
- asphyxiate 111
- gerard 35
- desperado 104
- groves 61
- chummiest 44
- duncish 40
- soapbox 210
- clutch 223
- lipoprotein 41
- Loyal 210
- daughterly 72
- zumba 47
- lowbrow 75
- photosensitive 82
- paraquat 41
- broad-based 100
- guppy 119
- hosanna 76
- crowd out 83
- Territory 222
- manhole 56
- clotted 73
- familiar 605
- grasshopper 128
- bushes 59
- Salmon 111
- deformities 44
- handbag 211
- details 79
- distract 360
- Hall of Fame 95
- other 193
- Friday 105
- malformation 65
- Disrupt 185
- handgun 73
- con 347
- ductwork 48
- loser 91
- Oasis 111
- backwoodsman 106
- sciolism 20
- Lake 109
- quinoa 41
- metathesis 69
- Brandish 1
- symphony 257
- homoeopath 30
- Spur 341
- saliency 45
- distune 53
- gender-specific 64
- gravitas 90
- Summons 107
- Rust 149
- authoress 110
- henries 25
- X-ray 159
- pleurisy 62
- ailment 144
- paradoxology 43
- hermeneutic 54
- jersey 76
- edgewise 119
- Blandish 2
- Kiwi 49
- indian 78
- displace 183
- balkanize 86
- ecuadorian 48
- key 269
- swamp 441
- bewitch 123
- lebanon 50
- Plump for 44
- tweeds 27
- flat-footed 101
- mingy 76
- adulthood 96
- evangelic 46
- audience 522
- sedimentation 51
- affirm 183
- scuba diving 68
- statuesque 139
- brownnose 99
- hippodrome 30
- billable 52
- parochialism 177
- overzealous 69
- fall for 63
- uncontentious 36
- grant 729
- astigmatic 97
- keep your eye on the ball 54
- risible 49
- voyeuristic 147
- newcomer 131
- commissioner 249
- Ingratiate 155
- malfunction 185
- bishop 138
- division 589
- composition 493
- amino acid 107
- obstacle course 67
- inhumanity 81
- bookbinding 115
- freedom 512
- oz 100
- hydrocarbon 102
- sedentary 134
- lotos 33
- absent-minded 135
- Sun. 78
- boneless 76
- enzymatic 105
- overheated 69
- wrangle 145
- postie 45
- SIMULATE 120
- Holocaust 110
- amazedly 43
- squinty 51
- puberty 133
- lose 508
- pistil 60
- plentiful 450
- double bass 98
- figurine 97
- pique 92
- trousseau 58
- closemouthed 66
- bank statement 93
- Prompt 133
- get around to (something) 59
- easterlies 47
- violative 37
- moisturizer 192
- rectifiable 61
- loyally 41
- crumminess 41
- arrear 71
- celebrity 226
- machinery 183
- downsize 156
- hundreds 39
- rosy 82
- omission 225
- binder 134
- admirer 108
- aircraftsman 57
- corrugation 78
- big money 78
- drainboard 104
- ingenuous 111
- homing 78
- paling 51
- manned 79
- Confute 2
- gilbert 45
- ash 534
- forswear 127
- Profane 32
- come in 136
- convivial 140
- correctness 73
- assert 227
- Agenda 138
- get along 121
- Homo sapiens 55
- knot 491
- Confession 77
- declension 86
- mini 60
- valve 101
- foul up 116
- Yankee 77
- heroic 472
- nc 96
- lazinesses 53
- clarity 161
- cold 526
- couscous 126
- free association 78
- familiarity 203
- austerity 182
- bizarre 304
- expenditure 449
- reinforcement 217
- suburb 555
- go along 116
- Consortium 154
- enigmatic 226
- winter 126
- reunited 14
- extrovert 191
- naturopath 50
- pitched battle 38
- Unbiased 161
- retiring 66
- iceberg 162
- Wealth 121
- fluted 117
- topper 81
- levy 189
- why not 12
- thumbscrew 209
- booked up 57
- drain 489
- hair 287
- auto-suggestion 39
- jawbreaker 73
- global warming 150
- hair's breadth 126
- cyclone 231
- Matriarch 29
- portuguese man-of-war 65
- build 257
- provocative 178
- boot 515
- conservatory 147
- evangelist 166
- rebound 173
- spiky 84
- coitus 109
- Easter 112
- MADNESS 139
- Financier 142
- lumps 50
- sit on 60
- heroin 94
- machinations 45
- hydrogenous 29
- sufficient 570
- harpies 34
- whip through 96
- indictable 70
- leftism 53
- thruway 65
- ameliorate 155
- booties 41
- muckluck 41
- sweetmeat 63
- cross-pollinate 98
- Belief 159
- hold down 40
- idiosyncrasy 128
- Outer 76
- I shudder to think 42
- nuer 33
- guide dog 117
- gang bang 60
- stock market 65
- on the edge 41
- sasquatch 59
- hadst 48
- Pacifier 187
- contrition 103
- vegetated 28
- dark age 93
- anneal 90
- Progressively 10
- gavel 114
- bear market 72
- Identity 222
valence
noun
va·lence ˈvā-lən(t)s 
1
: the degree of combining power of an element as shown by the number of atomic weights of a monovalent element (such as hydrogen) with which the atomic weight of the element will combine or for which it can be substituted or with which it can be compared
2
a
: relative capacity to unite, react, or interact (as with antigens or a biological substrate)
b
[in part from valence in chemistry, in part borrowed from Late Latin valentia "power, capacity," noun derivative of Latin valent-, valens, present participle of valēre "to have strength, be well" — more at wield] : the degree of attractiveness an individual, activity, or thing possesses as a behavioral goal
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But Zucker was forced to resign from the network, and a new regime under Chris Licht stepped in, with a goal of rejiggering CNN’s programming, scrubbing it of liberal political valence. 
Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2022 The prize bestowed in his name, this year awarded to Margaret Atwood, is for free speech, a concept whose political valence has shifted since his death. Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 In Kinshasa, the capital city, bushmeat (antelope, pangolin, even bonobo) takes on a more complicated moral valence when pushed up against contemporary marketplaces and buyer-seller dynamics. Outside Online, 24 May 2020 Raffi’s resistance to learning Russian, his discomfort with his father’s choice, has no cultural valence to it, but it certainly, and understandably, does to Gessen. Phillip Maciak, The New Republic, 27 June 2022 In Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel, the figuratively magical network that aided enslaved people in their pursuit of freedom took on a real mythical valence: the miracle of The Underground Railroad was powered by a literal locomotive. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022 Texas didn’t really try to hide the political and ideological valence of HB 20. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 June 2022 Thousands of Christians flocked to his events, where prayer and singing took on a new valence of defiance. New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022 The valence on this crisis might flip unpredictably. WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 See More
Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2022 The prize bestowed in his name, this year awarded to Margaret Atwood, is for free speech, a concept whose political valence has shifted since his death. Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 In Kinshasa, the capital city, bushmeat (antelope, pangolin, even bonobo) takes on a more complicated moral valence when pushed up against contemporary marketplaces and buyer-seller dynamics. Outside Online, 24 May 2020 Raffi’s resistance to learning Russian, his discomfort with his father’s choice, has no cultural valence to it, but it certainly, and understandably, does to Gessen. Phillip Maciak, The New Republic, 27 June 2022 In Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel, the figuratively magical network that aided enslaved people in their pursuit of freedom took on a real mythical valence: the miracle of The Underground Railroad was powered by a literal locomotive. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022 Texas didn’t really try to hide the political and ideological valence of HB 20. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 June 2022 Thousands of Christians flocked to his events, where prayer and singing took on a new valence of defiance. New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022 The valence on this crisis might flip unpredictably. WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from German Valenz, short for Quantivalenz "(chemical) valence," borrowed from English quantivalence, from Latin quantus "how much" + -i- -i- + English -valence, noun derivative from -valent, in univalent entry 1, bivalent entry 1, etc., on the model of equivalent, equivalence — more at quantity
First Known Use
1884, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of valence was in 1884 Phrases Containing valence
👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文