{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈpɑzətɪv" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/positive.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/positive.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Old French positif, from Latin positivus, from the past participle stem of ponere (“to place”). Compare posit." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Not negative or neutral." }, { "mean": "(law) Formally laid down. \n1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie\nIn laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so." }, { "mean": "Stated definitively and without qualification. \n1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban , The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, , London: W Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward’s son." }, { "mean": "Fully assured in opinion. \nSynonyms: certain, sure, wis\nAntonyms: uncertain, unsure\nI’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong." }, { "mean": "(mathematics) Of number, greater than zero. \nAntonym: nonpositive" }, { "mean": "Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.\n1701, , “Chapter I”, in A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences They Had upon Both Those States, London: John Nutt , →OCLC, page 11:Not to conſent to the Enacting of ſuch a Law, which has no view beſide to general Good, unleſs another Law ſhall at the ſame time paſs, with no other view but that of advancing the Power of one Party alone; What is this but to claim a positive Voice as well as a negative?" }, { "mean": "Overconfident, dogmatic.\n1709, , An Essay on Criticism, London: W. Lewis , published 1711, →OCLC:Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always so." }, { "mean": "(chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.\n1597, Francis , “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland , published 1632, →OCLC:f the privation be good, it followes not the former condition was evill, but lesse good; for the flower or blossome, is a positive good, although the remove of it to give place to the fruit, be a comparative good.\n1885, Marcellin Berthelot, Les Origines de l'Alkimie as quoted in M. M. Pattison Muir, A History of Chemical Theories and Laws, 1907.\nChemistry is not a primitive science, like geometry or astronomy; it is constructed from the debris of a previous scientific formation; a formation half chimerical and half positive..." }, { "mean": "(physics) Having more protons than electrons.\nAntonym: negative\nA cation is a positive ion as it has more protons than electrons." }, { "mean": "(grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.\n‘Better’ is an irregular comparative of the positive form ‘good’." }, { "mean": "(grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish." }, { "mean": "Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.\nSynonym: absolute\nThe idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes of individuals.\npositive knowledge" }, { "mean": "Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.\nThe box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it." }, { "mean": "Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.\nThe results of our experiment are positive." }, { "mean": "(photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.\nA positive photograph can be developed from a photographic negative." }, { "mean": "Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.\nThe first-night reviews were largely positive." }, { "mean": "Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.\nGood lord, you've built up a positive arsenal of weaponry here." }, { "mean": "Optimistic. \nHe has a positive outlook on life." }, { "mean": "(chemistry) electropositive" }, { "mean": "(chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals." }, { "mean": "(slang) HIV positive.\nquoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)\nWe certainly told him at that time that I was negative. We talked about transmission. We told him we don't do anything that would cause me to become positive." }, { "mean": "(New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').\n2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, p. 15\nNegative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy... In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create positive energy for taking action..." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.\n1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:rating Positives by their Privatives" }, { "mean": "A favourable point or characteristic." }, { "mean": "Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge." }, { "mean": "(grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs." }, { "mean": "(grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree." }, { "mean": "(photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative." }, { "mean": "The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell." }, { "mean": "A positive result of a test." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }