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lacking 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ˈlakiNG/,
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Not available or in short supply,
  1. Not available or in short supply
    • - adequate resources and funds are both sadly lacking at present
  2. (of a quality) Missing or absent
    • - there was something lacking in our marriage
  3. Deficient or inadequate
    • - the students are not lacking in intellectual ability
    • - workers were asked in what way they found their managers lacking
  1. deficient: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
  2. nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
  3. (lack) miss: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
  4. (lack) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
  5. Łąck is a village in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łąck. It lies approximately south-west of Płock and west of Warsaw.
  6. (Lack (manque)) Lack (in French, manque), is, in Lacan's psychoanalytic philosophy, always related to desire. In his seminar Le transfert (1960-61) he states that lack is what causes desire to arise.
  7. Henrietta Lacks (August 18, 1920 – October 4, 1951)Note: Some sources report her birthday as August 2, 1920 vice August 1, 1920. ...
  8. (lack) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy; A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want; To be without, to need, to require; To be short (of or for something)
  9. (LACK) O.   TO STAND FOR SOMEONE OR SOMETHING
  10. (Lack) Not have enough of something what is needed or wanted.
  11. (Lack) Subtraction of body parts. Insufficient seed.
  12. Describes a neutral liquor with no body or pronounced characteristics.