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1、 Designed for local application to or treatment of a bodily part.
2、 Referring to the topics of the day.
🌱If the topical ointment doesn't work on the rash, the doctor will prescribe an antibiotic pill. 🌳Like a topical medicine, a topical reference or story applies to something specific, focusing on a topic that's currently in the news. TV comedians often use topical humor, making jokes about a currently popular movie or the latest political scandal—if possible, one that just broke that same day. Topical humor has a short lifespan, though, because the news keeps changing and the new hot topics just keep coming. The medical meaning of topical stays closer to the meaning of the root, since it describes something that's put right on the place that seems to need it. ectopic Occurring or originating in an abnormal place.
🌱A pacemaker was installed to correct her ectopic heartbeat. 🌳Ectopic is a medical word that means basically "out of place." An ectopic kidney is located in an abnormal position. In patients with an ectopic heartbeat, the electrical signals that trigger the heart muscles originate in an abnormal area of the heart. But ectopic most commonly describes a pregnancy in which the fertilized egg begins to develop in an area outside the uterus, such as in a fallopian tube; such pregnancies may lead to serious problems if not treated. utopian Relating to an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect.
🌱Some of the new mayor's supporters had gotten increasingly unrealistic, and seemed to expect that she could turn the city into a utopian community. 🌳In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia, a description of a fictional island in the Atlantic with an ideal society, in order to draw a sharp contrast with the disorderly political situation of his own time. He created the name from topos （"place"） and ou, Greek for "no," since he was well aware that nowhere so perfect was likely to exist on earth. People have long dreamed of creating utopian communities; some of them have joined communes, societies where other idealists like themselves have chosen to live in a cooperative way according to certain principles. Not just communes but plans of all kinds have been labeled utopian by critics. But we can dream, can't we? topography 1、 The art of showing the natural and man-made features of a region on a map or chart.
2、 The features of a surface, including both natural and man-made features.
🌱Planning the expedition involved careful study of the region's topography. 🌳Topography combines top- with graph-, a root meaning "write" or "describe." The topography of the Sahara Desert features shifting sand dunes and dry, rocky mountains. A topographic （or topo） map not only shows the surface features of a region but also indicates the contours and approximate altitude of every location, by means of numerous curving lines, each indicating a single elevation. In other words, it shows a "three-dimensional" picture on a two-dimensional surface. Topo maps are commonly used by hikers, surveyors, government workers, and engineers, among other people.
2、 Referring to the topics of the day.
🌱If the topical ointment doesn't work on the rash, the doctor will prescribe an antibiotic pill. 🌳Like a topical medicine, a topical reference or story applies to something specific, focusing on a topic that's currently in the news. TV comedians often use topical humor, making jokes about a currently popular movie or the latest political scandal—if possible, one that just broke that same day. Topical humor has a short lifespan, though, because the news keeps changing and the new hot topics just keep coming. The medical meaning of topical stays closer to the meaning of the root, since it describes something that's put right on the place that seems to need it. ectopic Occurring or originating in an abnormal place.
🌱A pacemaker was installed to correct her ectopic heartbeat. 🌳Ectopic is a medical word that means basically "out of place." An ectopic kidney is located in an abnormal position. In patients with an ectopic heartbeat, the electrical signals that trigger the heart muscles originate in an abnormal area of the heart. But ectopic most commonly describes a pregnancy in which the fertilized egg begins to develop in an area outside the uterus, such as in a fallopian tube; such pregnancies may lead to serious problems if not treated. utopian Relating to an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect.
🌱Some of the new mayor's supporters had gotten increasingly unrealistic, and seemed to expect that she could turn the city into a utopian community. 🌳In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia, a description of a fictional island in the Atlantic with an ideal society, in order to draw a sharp contrast with the disorderly political situation of his own time. He created the name from topos （"place"） and ou, Greek for "no," since he was well aware that nowhere so perfect was likely to exist on earth. People have long dreamed of creating utopian communities; some of them have joined communes, societies where other idealists like themselves have chosen to live in a cooperative way according to certain principles. Not just communes but plans of all kinds have been labeled utopian by critics. But we can dream, can't we? topography 1、 The art of showing the natural and man-made features of a region on a map or chart.
2、 The features of a surface, including both natural and man-made features.
🌱Planning the expedition involved careful study of the region's topography. 🌳Topography combines top- with graph-, a root meaning "write" or "describe." The topography of the Sahara Desert features shifting sand dunes and dry, rocky mountains. A topographic （or topo） map not only shows the surface features of a region but also indicates the contours and approximate altitude of every location, by means of numerous curving lines, each indicating a single elevation. In other words, it shows a "three-dimensional" picture on a two-dimensional surface. Topo maps are commonly used by hikers, surveyors, government workers, and engineers, among other people.
TOP comes from topos, the Greek word for "place." A topic is a subject rather than a place; to the Greeks, the original word meant more or less "about one place or subject (rather than another)"—which just goes to show that it's not always easy to trace a word's meaning from its roots.🌸