aspect
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).
Inflected forms:
form: aspects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aspects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aspecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aspected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aspected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
pos: noun
examples: Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy.
gloss: The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
pos: noun
examples: Given the limitations of planar representation[…] The painter is constantly forced to choose one aspect over the other.
gloss: The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
pos: noun
examples: in certain aspects [ = in certain respects]
“Perspective” can be understood in different ways. It can mean a single aspect from which something is considered or evaluated; it can also mean a view from a relation between aspects of a subject.
gloss: A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
pos: noun
gloss: One's appearance or expression.
pos: noun
examples: Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe,
That by Characters grauen in thy browes,
And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect,
Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?
In Knots they ſtand, or in a Rank they Walk, / Serious in Aſpect, earneſt in their Talk: […]
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
gloss: Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
pos: noun
examples: The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.
gloss: Prospect; outlook.
pos: noun
examples: This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built […]
gloss: A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
pos: noun
gloss: The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
pos: noun
examples: […] To the blanc moon / Her office they prescribed; to the other five / Their planetary motions, and aspects, / In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite, / Of noxious efficacy, and when to join / In synod unbenign; and taught the fix'd / their influence malignant when to shower, / Which of them rising with the sun, or falling / Should prove tempestuous: […]
Kepler (the Lyncæus of the laſt Age) defines an Aſpect in this manner: Aſpectus eſt Angulus à Radiis Luminoſis binorum Planetarum in terra formatus, efficax ad ſtimulandum naturam ſublunarem. It is (ſaith he) an Angle made in the Earth by the Luminous Beams of two Planets, of ſtrength to ſtir up the vertue of all ſublunary things.
I want to collect birthdates for a number of gay people, draw up astrological charts and compare them, looking for special aspects. I will send you your own chart if you send your time of birth, year, month, day, hour and place of birth.
gloss: The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
pos: noun
examples: The Mother Goddess in her many manifestations is termed Shakti, the female energy in creation, and worshipped as the supreme female aspect of Brahman.
gloss: The act of looking at something; gaze.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse.
[…] his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, […]
gloss: Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth Vol 1, Chapter IX.
They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.
Three days later he opened the parliament. The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering.
gloss: In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
pos: noun
gloss: The visual indication of railway signal as displayed to the driver. With three-aspect colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green, and on four-aspect signals, double-yellow also; a two-aspect signal displays red or green.
pos: noun
examples: It was in this work [on the Southern Railway] that the four-aspect system of indications, using red, yellow, double yellow, and green, was first installed. […][page 229, photo caption] Three-aspect colour-light signal with three-way junction indicator, Bow Junction, Eastern Region
The whole of the main lines to be electrified were being equipped with four-aspect colour-light signals, automatically operated, where appropriate, and spaced to give a 5min headway throughout.
SWR [South Western Railway] said the move was a precautionary measure, understood to relate to electromagnetic emissions from the fleet causing changes of signal aspect in front of moving trains.
gloss: To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
pos: verb
gloss: To channel a divine being.
pos: verb
gloss: To look at.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Related words: aspectuality
Aktionsart
aktionsart
Derived words: aspectism
aspective
aspectless
aspect particle
aspect ratio
aspect-related
aspectual
continuous aspect
habitual aspect
in full aspect
in trian aspect
modified aspect ratio
multi-aspect
multiaspect
multiple-aspect
original aspect ratio
signal aspect
subaspect
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: aspekt
lang: Aromanian
word: vidzutã
lang: Aromanian
word: videalã
lang: Belarusian
word: вы́гляд
roman: výhljad
lang: Belarusian
word: від
roman: vid
lang: Bulgarian
word: вид
roman: vid
lang: Bulgarian
word: перспекти́ва
roman: perspektíva
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 體 /体
roman: tǐ
lang: Czech
word: stránka
lang: Danish
word: aspekt
lang: Dutch
word: uiterlijk
lang: Dutch
word: aanblik
lang: Esperanto
word: aspekto
lang: Finnish
word: puoli
lang: Finnish
word: näkökanta
lang: Finnish
word: näkökulma
lang: French
word: aspect
lang: Galician
word: aspecto
lang: Georgian
word: ასპექტი
roman: asṗekṭi
lang: Georgian
word: სახე
roman: saxe
lang: German
word: Aspekt
lang: Greek
word: άποψη
roman: ápopsi
lang: Greek
word: όψη
roman: ópsi
lang: Hebrew
word: הֶבֵּט
roman: hebét
lang: Hindi
word: रूप
roman: rūp
lang: Hungarian
word: nézőpont
lang: Irish
word: dreach
lang: Italian
word: aspetto
lang: Japanese
word: 相
roman: sō
lang: Macedonian
word: изглед
roman: izgled
lang: Macedonian
word: аспект
roman: aspekt
lang: Malay
word: aspek
lang: Malay
word: rupa
lang: Māori
word: anga
lang: Māori
word: anganga
lang: Māori
word: karangatanga
lang: Marathi
word: रूप
roman: rūp
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: aspekt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: aspekt
lang: Polish
word: aspekt
lang: Portuguese
word: aspeto
lang: Portuguese
word: aspecto
lang: Romanian
word: aspect
lang: Romanian
word: înfățișare
lang: Russian
word: вид
roman: vid
lang: Russian
word: перспекти́ва
roman: perspektíva
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: raon
lang: Slovak
word: aspekt
lang: Spanish
word: aspecto
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: نمایش
roman: nümayiş
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́гляд
roman: výhljad
lang: Ukrainian
word: вид
roman: vyd