retained
past simple and past participle ofretain
| 单词 | retained |
| 释义 | retained past simple and past participle ofretain retain verb[T] uk/rɪˈteɪn/us/rɪˈteɪn/C2formal tokeeporcontinueto have something: She haslostherbattleto retaincontrolof thecompany. Hemanagedto retain hisdignitythroughouttheperformance. Shesucceededin retaining herleadin the secondhalfof therace. I have a goodmemoryand amableto retain(=remember)factseasily. to keep something
formal If asubstanceretains something, such asheatorwater, itcontinuestoholdorcontainit: Thesearetains the sun'swarmthlongerthan theland. See also retentionformal lawspecialized to get theservicesof alawyerbypayingthem before you need them
Keeping and storing things
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Applying for a job Examplesofretainedretained In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In this early period, the government did not intervene in such activities as long as theyretaineda purely philanthropic goal. From theCambridge English Corpus Only those utterances produced during shared attention episodes wereretainedin each protocol. From theCambridge English Corpus Weretainedthese items, however, because we wanted to compare the relative influence of family violence on an array of social dimensions including network size. From theCambridge English Corpus Only those variables that were significantly different between the groups under comparison wereretainedfor the propensity score model. From theCambridge English Corpus In all three populations roughly four-fifthsretainedthe same structure between registers. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the existence of a stress pattern to beretainedduring reading creates a potential conflict between the reading (primary) and memory (secondary) tasks. From theCambridge English Corpus These findings indicate that beginning readersretainedsome visual orthographic features of words in memory even after a 3-day delay. From theCambridge English Corpus In so doing, these enzymes may have generated selective pressure to beretainedand, therefore, broken free of the invasion-elimination cycle of most homing sequences. From theCambridge English Corpus Human exposure through biting incidents, especially unprovoked attacks, should be treated immediately with rabies post-exposure treatment and the bat, where possible,retainedfor laboratory analysis. From theCambridge English Corpus As with any historical change, it is impossible to predict exactly which features will change and which will beretained. From theCambridge English Corpus Itemsretainedare administered to test takers for calibration. From theCambridge English Corpus The different federal statesretainedprimary responsibility for providing the material. From theCambridge English Corpus Only the variables body size and displacement wereretainedin the model. From theCambridge English Corpus Type variables areretainedto give meaning to partially applied nodes. From theCambridge English Corpus Here denotes the existence of a path ofretainededges between two vertices. 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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