gravitate
verb[Ialways+ adv/prep]
us/ˈɡræv·ɪˌteɪt/to beattractedto ormovetoward something:
Peopletendto gravitate to thebeacheshere.
| 单词 | gravitate |
| 释义 | gravitate verb[Ialways+ adv/prep] us/ˈɡræv·ɪˌteɪt/to beattractedto ormovetoward something: Peopletendto gravitate to thebeacheshere. Examplesofgravitategravitate They gravitated towards familiar and simple activities, to 'defaults ' like watching television or visiting shopping malls. From theCambridge English Corpus By contrast, already strained family systems blessed with less negative babies may not have gravitated toward coparenting difficulties in the same lock-step fashion. From theCambridge English Corpus From this essentially neo-realist perspective, national political systems gravitated towards some form of stability due mainly to the presence of a large ensemble of interlocking social institutions. From theCambridge English Corpus I should like to give one example of how business gravitates towards section trade advisers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, in practice, economic power gravitates back to the centre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Recently research money has been gravitating towards the south-east where there is a concentration of large universities and departments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The water has gravitated three miles away from the seat of pumping, four or five miles further west, and threatens the existence of other collieries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 As a result, many people could not get money and gravitated to the unemployed workers centre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is built on the moor, the water gravitates downwards anti it is, therefore, cheaper to operate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I notice that recent speeches have naturally enough gravitated in the direction of considering problems other than those we are supposed to be considering to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He and his smart friends have no empathy with the farmer, who gravitates towards the market with his two quid all-day breakfast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Far too often the better the teacher the faster that teacher gravitates out of the system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is also migration for reasons of social demography, with people gravitating to the south, especially the south coast, to retire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Having gravitated up to the point of agreement and everything in the garden is beautiful—they may wish to abolish that machinery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In almost all existing federations, power is gravitating towards the centre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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