reason

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

reasonsrasenraisenraysinraison

1.
A cause:
2.
(uncountable)Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.
3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
16th century Edmund Spenser, Lines on his Promised Pension I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
4.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)(mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
5.
A wall plate.

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verb

V_es/s

reasons

V_ing/Gerund

reasoning

V_ed/pp

reasoned

1.
(intransitive)To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
2.
(intransitive)To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
3.
(intransitive, obsolete)To converse; to compare opinions.
4.
(ambitransitive)To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
I reasoned the matter with my friend.
5.
(rare, transitive)To support with reasons, as a request.
6.
(transitive)To persuade by reasoning or argument.
to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan
7.
(transitive, with down)To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
to reason down a passion
8.
(transitive, usually)(transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon

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Đồng nghĩa

motive rationale cause excuse occasionratiocinate (formal)that which causes causemotive for an action rationale, motivethought offered in support excuse

Cùng gốc / liên quan

reasonability reasonable reasonableness reasonably unreasonability unreasonable unreasonably unreasonableness

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ine-pro From Middle English resoun, reson, from raisun (Old French raison), from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (reckon), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- (to think), reanalysed root of *h₂er- (to put together). Displaced native reden, from rǣden, from the same Proto-Indo-European source (compare reden, reden). ration ratio.