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mutual 音标拼音: [mj'utʃəwəl] a. 相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的 相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的 mutual互 mutual adj 1: common to or shared by two or more parties; " a common friend"; " the mutual interests of management and labor" [ synonym: { common}, { mutual}] 2: concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; " reciprocal aid"; " reciprocal trade"; " mutual respect"; " reciprocal privileges at other clubs" [ synonym: { reciprocal}, { mutual}] [ ant: { nonreciprocal}] Mutual \ Mu" tu* al\, a. [ F. mutuel, L. mutuus, orig., exchanged, borrowed, lent; akin to mutare to change. See { Mutable}.] 1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Conspiracy and mutual promise. -- Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster] Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters. -- G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. -- Bentley. [ 1913 Webster] Note: This use of mutual as synonymous with common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but the word has been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency is toward a careful discrimination. [ 1913 Webster] Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors? -- P. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster] { Mutual insurance}, agreement among a number of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or accident. { Mutual insurance company}, one which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders sharing losses and profits pro rata. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Reciprocal; interchanged; common. [ 1913 Webster] 94 Moby Thesaurus words for " mutual": accessory, accompanying, associated, attendant, attending, changeable, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coefficient, coincident, collaborative, collateral, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combined, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, commutable, commutative, commutual, complementary, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, conjunct, connected, conniving, convertible, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, correlative, coupled, ecumenic, equal, equalizing, equivalent, even, exchanged, fellow, general, give- and- take, harmonious, harmonized, in common, interactive, interchangeable, interchanged, joined, joint, noncompetitive, paired, parallel, permutable, popular, public, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, related, respective, retaliatory, returnable, shared, simultaneous, social, socialistic, societal, standard, swapped, switched, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, traded, transposed, twin, two- way, uncompetitive, united |
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