obtaining
present participle ofobtain
单词 | obtaining |
释义 | obtaining present participle ofobtain obtain verb formaluk/əbˈteɪn/us/əbˈteɪn/obtainverb(GET)B2[T] to get something,especiallybyaskingfor it,buyingit,workingfor it, orproducingit from somethingelse: to obtainpermission Firsteditionsof thesebooksare nowalmostimpossibleto obtain. In the secondexperimentthey obtained a veryclearresult. Sugar is obtainedbycrushingandprocessingsugarcane. Synonyms acquire get(OBTAIN) getholdofinformal to receive or be given something
Getting, receiving and accepting
obtainverb(EXIST)[Inot continuous] (especiallyof asituation) toexist: Conditions ofextremepovertynow obtain in manypartsof thecountry. Existing and being
Examplesofobtainingobtaining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process ofobtaininga protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically. From theCambridge English Corpus Although fertilisation rates are extremely high (80-100%), the probability ofobtainingviable embryos is very low due to the high rate of polyspermic fertilisation. From theCambridge English Corpus We have to realize that the information requirements forobtainingthese shadow prices are tremendous. From theCambridge English Corpus As the canal system no longer provided the means ofobtainingwater, a series of wells were dug parallel to the old canal. From theCambridge English Corpus In all groups, however, there were respondents for whomobtaininga qualification was not important, particularly among those with the lowest previous qualifications. From theCambridge English Corpus In the old days the jobber was responsible forobtaininglabour. From theCambridge English Corpus This requirement is essential in the simply typed calculus forobtainingnon-trivial inequalities. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, increased reliance has to be placed on pre-production quality control, especially forobtaining, testing and housing vaccine donors free of harmful infections. From theCambridge English Corpus These included difficulty inobtainingprescription pads, lack of electronic prescribing, pharmacists not being aware of supplementary prescribing, and the restrictions on antibiotic prescribing. From theCambridge English Corpus Afterobtainingseveral hundred simple events through ecological modelling or through temporal and spectral transformations, we proceed to merge these events using constrained stochastic algorithms. From theCambridge English Corpus The procedure forobtainingthe maximum likelihood estimates is as follows. From theCambridge English Corpus Intracellular studies in the facial nucleus illustrating a simple new method forobtainingviable motorneurons in adult rat brain slices. From theCambridge English Corpus Similar problems were reported withobtaininginformation from social services, housing and voluntary agencies. From theCambridge English Corpus Subsequent toobtaininginformed consent, 373 subjects were recruited as potential controls. From theCambridge English Corpus The funder then allocates a budget to the purchaser who has responsibility forobtainingspecific outcomes or 'deliverables' at the best available price. 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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