obeying
present participle ofobey
| 单词 | obeying |
| 释义 | obeying present participle ofobey obey verb uk/əʊˈbeɪ//əˈbeɪ/us/oʊˈbeɪ/B2[IorT] toactaccordingto what you have beenaskedororderedto do by someone inauthority, or tobehaveaccordingto arule,law, orinstruction: Thesoldiersrefusedto obey(orders). to obey therulesofinternationallaw See also obedient to obey someone or something
according to the law, rules, etc.
[T] tobehaveaccordingto ascientificprinciple: Fallingobjectsobey thelawofgravity. [T] Ifyourbodyorpartofyourbodydoes not obey you, it does notworkin the way it should: She was sotiredherlegsjust wouldn't obey her anylonger.
Obeying & breaking the law
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Occurring and happening Inability and awkwardness Examplesofobeyingobeying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In return forobeyingthe type rules, the programmer is rewarded with compile-time error messages instead of run-time bugs. From theCambridge English Corpus These relationships can never be grasped as merely causal,obeyingsome clear principle of mathematical logic. From theCambridge English Corpus Once agreed laws are in place, however, my obligation to abide by those laws is not conditional upon yourobeying. From theCambridge English Corpus Like the imperative construction, the diminutive and inchoative affixations produce a syllableobeyinga familiar condition : codas may consist only of homorganic nasals. From theCambridge English Corpus Even if morality, properly understood, has no extra-moral purpose, one can worry thatobeyingit frustrates too many of our extra-moral purposes. From theCambridge English Corpus Each stream flows largely independently of the others, containing its own dynamics andobeyingits own logic. From theCambridge English Corpus Nothing is more natural thanobeyingthe dictates of habit. From theCambridge English Corpus Each individual child was classified as eitherobeyingor disobeying each grammatical principle. From theCambridge English Corpus Each child was then classified as "obeying" or "disobeying" each principle. From theCambridge English Corpus If < 0, then only trivial isomonodromy transformationsobeyingthe conditions (i)-(iv) exist. From theCambridge English Corpus The robot stops the paddle,obeyingthis command. From theCambridge English Corpus These commands presumably would be promulgated in such a way that every agentobeyingthem would recognize their divine source. From theCambridge English Corpus The second is not justobeyingorders; he advances because he believes it is his patriotic duty to advance. From theCambridge English Corpus They may communicate this information to other components,obeyinga simple protocol for identifying them and determining the information they can provide. From theCambridge English Corpus Largely, they were former soldiers, used to enforcing andobeyingstrict military discipline. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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