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incipient 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/inˈsipēənt/,
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In an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop,
  1. In an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop
    • - he could feel incipient anger building up
    • - an incipient black eye
  2. (of a person) Developing into a specified type or role
    • - we seemed more like friends than incipient lovers
  1. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
  2. (incipiency) beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency"
  3. The incipit of a text, such as a poem, song, or book, is the first few words of its opening line. In music it can also refer to the opening notes of a composition. Before the development of titles, texts were often referred to by their incipits. Incipit comes from the Latin for "it begins". ...
  4. beginner; beginning, starting, coming into existence
  5. (in sip' nt)    In the first stages or beginning.  An incipient population is still small but beginning to reproduce and become established.
  6. Early in development (of a disease or condition). (5)
  7. adj.   Beginning to exist or appear; commencing; initial.
  8. (adj) - becoming apparent; beginning
  9. Beginning, in an early stage.
  10. Beginning to take place.