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apprehensions 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/ˌapriˈhenSHən/,
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apprehensions, plural;
  1. Anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen
    • - he felt sick with apprehension
    • - she had some apprehensions about the filming
  2. Understanding; grasp
    • - the pure apprehension of the work of art
  3. The action of arresting someone
    • - they acted with intent to prevent lawful apprehension
  1. (apprehension) fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
  2. (apprehension) understanding: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
  3. (apprehension) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
  4. (Apprehension (fear)) Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. Some psychologists such as John B. ...
  5. (Apprehension (understanding)) In psychology, apprehension (Lat. ad, "to"; prehendere, "to seize") is a term applied to a model of consciousness in which nothing is affirmed or denied of the object in question, but the mind is merely aware of ("seizes") it.
  6. (apprehension) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception; Opinion; conception; ...
  7. (Apprehension) The arrest of a removable alien by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Each apprehension of the same alien in a fiscal year is counted separately.
  8. (apprehension) The ability to think and use memory; seizing or capturing perceptions or knowledge. The "span of apprehension" is the number of items one is able to hold in memory at one time, and was studied by James McKeen Cattell.
  9. (Apprehension) An actual arrest of a suspected criminal resulting from the police department responding to a dispatched alarm.
  10. (Apprehension) includes such conditions such as terrified, anxious, fearful and frightened.
  11. (apprehension) (n.): In this case, fear