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Cosa (chi) è acute - definizione
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Accute; Acute (disambiguation)
acute
¦ adjective
1. critical; serious: an acute housing shortage.
(of an illness) coming sharply to a crisis; severe. Often contrasted with chronic.
2. perceptive; shrewd.
(of a physical sense or faculty) highly developed.
3. (of an angle) less than 90°.
4. (of a sound) high; shrill.
¦ noun short for acute accent.
Derivatives
acutance noun
acutely adverb
acuteness noun
Origin
ME: from L. acut-, acuere 'sharpen', from acus 'needle'.
Acute
·vt To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
II. Acute ·adj High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound;
- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
III. Acute ·adj Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed;
- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
IV. Acute ·adj Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis;
- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
V. Acute ·adj Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd;
- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
VI. Acute ·adj Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
acute
1.
You can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense.
The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government...
The labour shortage is becoming acute.
= severe
ADJ
2.
An acute illness is one that becomes severe very quickly but does not last very long. Compare chronic
. (MEDICAL)
. (MEDICAL)
...a patient with acute rheumatoid arthritis.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If a person's or animal's sight, hearing, or sense of smell is acute, it is sensitive and powerful.
In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.
= keen
ADJ
4.
ADJ
5.
An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'cafe'.
ADJ: ADJ n, n ADJ
Esempi dal corpus di testo per acute
1. By the time Lee arrived, there had been a "code AMI," he said, meaning Ritter was having an acute myocardial infarction _ an acute heart attack.
2. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection spread by contaminated water or food, causes vomiting and acute diarrhea that can lead to dehydration and death within 24 hours.
3. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection spread by contaminated water or food, causes vomiting and acute diarrhoea that can lead to dehydration and death within 24 hours.
4. As the violence escalated, Israel sank into acute recession.
5. But the measure has caused acute shortages of basic goods.