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amorphous
Without a definite shape or form; shapeless.
🌱Picking up an amorphous lump of clay, she molded it swiftly into a rough human shape. 🌳According to the Greek myths of the creation, the world began in an amorphous state; and the Bible states that, at the beginning, "the earth was without form, and void." Most of us have had nightmares that consist mostly of just a looming amorphous but terrifying thing. A plan may have so little detail that critics call it amorphous. And a new word may appear to name a previously amorphous group of people, such as yuppie in 1983 and Generation X six years later. anthropomorphic 1、 Having or described as having human form or traits.
2、 Seeing human traits in nonhuman things.
🌱The old, diseased tree had always been like a companion to her, though she didn't really approve of such anthropomorphic feelings. 🌳Anthropomorphic means a couple of different things. In its first sense, an anthropomorphic cup is a cup in the shape of a human, and anthropomorphic gods are human in appearance—like the Greek and Roman gods, for example, even though Socrates and others believed that their fellow Greeks had created the gods in their own image rather than the other way around. In its second sense, the animal characters in Aesop's fables are anthropomorphic since they all have human feelings and thoughts even though they don't look like humans. Thus, when the fox calls the grapes sour simply because they're out of reach, it's a very human response. Thousands of years after Aesop, anthropomorphism is still alive and well, in the animal stories of Beatrix Potter, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and hundreds of cartoons and comic strips. metamorphosis 1、 A physical change, especially one supernaturally caused.
2、 A developmental change in an animal that occurs after birth or hatching.
🌱Day by day the class watched the gradual metamorphosis of the tadpoles into frogs. 🌳Many ancient myths end in a metamorphosis. As Apollo is chasing the nymph Daphne, she calls on her river-god father for help and he turns her into a laurel tree to save her. Out of anger and jealousy, the goddess Athena turns the marvelous weaver Arachne into a spider that will spin only beautiful webs. But natural substances may also metamorphose, or undergo metamorphosis. Heat and pressure over thousands of years may eventually turn tiny organisms into petroleum, and coal into diamonds. And the most beloved of natural metamorphoses （notice how this plural is formed） is probably the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies. morphology 1、 The study of the structure and form of plants and animals.
2、 The study of word formation.
🌱The morphology of the mouthparts of the different mayfly species turns out to be closely related to what they feed on and their methods of eating. 🌳Within the field of biology, morphology is the study of the shapes and arrangement of parts of organisms, in order to determine their function, their development, and how they may have been shaped by evolution. Morphology is particularly important in classifying species, since it can often reveal how closely one species is related to another. Morphology is studied within other sciences as well, including astronomy and geology. And in language, morphology considers where words come from and why they look the way they do.
🌱Picking up an amorphous lump of clay, she molded it swiftly into a rough human shape. 🌳According to the Greek myths of the creation, the world began in an amorphous state; and the Bible states that, at the beginning, "the earth was without form, and void." Most of us have had nightmares that consist mostly of just a looming amorphous but terrifying thing. A plan may have so little detail that critics call it amorphous. And a new word may appear to name a previously amorphous group of people, such as yuppie in 1983 and Generation X six years later. anthropomorphic 1、 Having or described as having human form or traits.
2、 Seeing human traits in nonhuman things.
🌱The old, diseased tree had always been like a companion to her, though she didn't really approve of such anthropomorphic feelings. 🌳Anthropomorphic means a couple of different things. In its first sense, an anthropomorphic cup is a cup in the shape of a human, and anthropomorphic gods are human in appearance—like the Greek and Roman gods, for example, even though Socrates and others believed that their fellow Greeks had created the gods in their own image rather than the other way around. In its second sense, the animal characters in Aesop's fables are anthropomorphic since they all have human feelings and thoughts even though they don't look like humans. Thus, when the fox calls the grapes sour simply because they're out of reach, it's a very human response. Thousands of years after Aesop, anthropomorphism is still alive and well, in the animal stories of Beatrix Potter, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and hundreds of cartoons and comic strips. metamorphosis 1、 A physical change, especially one supernaturally caused.
2、 A developmental change in an animal that occurs after birth or hatching.
🌱Day by day the class watched the gradual metamorphosis of the tadpoles into frogs. 🌳Many ancient myths end in a metamorphosis. As Apollo is chasing the nymph Daphne, she calls on her river-god father for help and he turns her into a laurel tree to save her. Out of anger and jealousy, the goddess Athena turns the marvelous weaver Arachne into a spider that will spin only beautiful webs. But natural substances may also metamorphose, or undergo metamorphosis. Heat and pressure over thousands of years may eventually turn tiny organisms into petroleum, and coal into diamonds. And the most beloved of natural metamorphoses （notice how this plural is formed） is probably the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies. morphology 1、 The study of the structure and form of plants and animals.
2、 The study of word formation.
🌱The morphology of the mouthparts of the different mayfly species turns out to be closely related to what they feed on and their methods of eating. 🌳Within the field of biology, morphology is the study of the shapes and arrangement of parts of organisms, in order to determine their function, their development, and how they may have been shaped by evolution. Morphology is particularly important in classifying species, since it can often reveal how closely one species is related to another. Morphology is studied within other sciences as well, including astronomy and geology. And in language, morphology considers where words come from and why they look the way they do.
MORPH comes from the Greek word for "shape." Morph is itself an English word with a brand-new meaning, which was needed when we began to digitally alter photographic images or shapes to make them move or transform themselves in often astonishing ways.🌸