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 sensitive ['sensitiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 敏感的, 易感的, 灵敏的, 感光的

[机] 敏感的, 灵敏的, 感度高的




    sensitive
    [ noun ]
    1. someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

    2. <noun.person>
      he consulted several mediums
    [ adj ]
    1. responsive to physical stimuli

    2. <adj.all>
      a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch
      a sensitive voltmeter
      sensitive skin
      sensitive to light
    3. being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

    4. <adj.all>
      sensitive to the local community and its needs
    5. able to feel or perceive

    6. <adj.all>
      even amoeba are sensible creatures
      the more sensible parts of the skin
    7. hurting

    8. <adj.all>
      the tender spot on his jaw
    9. of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

    10. <adj.all>


    Sensitive \Sen"si*tive\, a. [F. sensitif. See {Sense}.]
    1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
    capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
    as, a sensitive soul.

    2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action
    of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and
    feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

    She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
    --Macaulay.

    3.
    (a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or
    moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
    (b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by
    certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or
    bromide, when in contact with certain organic
    substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

    4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.]

    A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
    --Hammond.

    5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as,
    sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
    irritation. --E. Darwin.

    {Sensitive fern} (Bot.), an American fern ({Onoclea
    sensibilis}), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a
    slight tendency to fold together.

    {Sensitive flame} (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that
    under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly
    sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or
    become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight
    sounds of the proper pitch.

    {Sensitive joint vetch} (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb
    ({[AE]schynomene hispida}), with sensitive foliage.

    {Sensitive paper}, paper prepared for photographic purpose by
    being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.

    {Sensitive plant}. (Bot.)
    (a) A leguminous plant ({Mimosa pudica}, or {M.
    sensitiva}, and other allied species), the leaves of
    which close at the slightest touch.
    (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
    sensitive brier ({Schrankia}) of the Southern States,
    two common American species of Cassia ({C. nictitans},
    and {C. Cham[ae]crista}), a kind of sorrel ({Oxalis
    sensitiva}), etc.
    -- {Sen"si*tive*ly}, adv. --
    {Sen"si*tive*ness}, n.

    classified \classified\ adj.
    1. arranged into classes or categories; as, {unclassified}.

    Syn: categorized.
    [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

    2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general
    circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of
    {unclassified}.

    Note: [Narrower terms: {eyes-only}; {confidential};
    {restricted}; {secret}; {sensitive}; {top-secret}]
    [WordNet 1.5]

    1. Health Minister Ehud Olmert indicated Israel wants to expel more Arabs but is sensitive to U.S. criticism.
    2. Just where does the innocent family snapshot or the sensitive portrait of a young person differ from a naked picture sold to pederasts and prosecutable under the law?
    3. It is expected to be signed formally at the Washington peace talks, which enter their eleventh round this week. Many of the most difficult and sensitive details remain obscure.
    4. Working through the night under portable floodlights, they used dogs and sensitive microphones to hunt for victims.
    5. But he's also a very sensitive person and I know that for him this has been an ordeal because his work is his life," Mrs. Sutherland said.
    6. He said priority is being given to environmentally sensitive areas such as Prall's Island and Saw Mill Creek.
    7. A Senate panel is examining evidence that several countries believed to be working on clandestine nuclear-weapons programs have been getting sensitive data from three Energy Department weapons laboratories.
    8. American Savings continues to be highly sensitive to interest-rate swings, and its core deposit base has been weakening.
    9. It proposed a new set of annual media awards, for sensitive reporting or interpretation of racial matters.
    10. Sunday talk shows are a great place to peddle ideas to a large audience, but some care needs to be exercised in dealing with sensitive subjects.
    11. It's too sensitive, and it's not the role for the United States to do that.
    12. And although few taste buds are sensitive enough to tell the difference, some beer drinkers say that non-draft beers can taste slightly "cooked" because they're pasteurized.
    13. It is a sensitive, unfussed and traditional recension by Maina Gielgud.
    14. On the sensitive issue of military involvement, the communique said "the control of illegal trafficking is essentially a law enforcement matter" rather than a military one.
    15. "We want lawmen to be more sensitive to their needs," says Archbishop Patrick Flores.
    16. There is growing evidence that the Soviets are placing high priority on gaining access to Western computers with sensitive military, nuclear and space research information stored inside them.
    17. Simultaneously, patients, in "revolt," want more sensitive doctors who will enlist them as partners and share responsibility with them.
    18. Shortly after taking office, Bush imposed a temporary moratorium on drilling in environmentally sensitive areas off the Florida and California coasts.
    19. "That semicircle relates to being very proud of his masculinity, the macho aspect, forcefulness, and being very sensitive to appearing weak in front of other people," she said.
    20. In three terms, Mr. Dukakis's legacy also includes seemingly bright ideas that flopped, and an unwillingness or inability to resolve certain politically sensitive or long-festering problems.
    21. All are sensitive to the economic cycle.
    22. Whatever he may think about what the Fed has done already, he is highly sensitive to the political environment and the weak state of public confidence.
    23. He said the technology which made use of a battery and wire embedded beneath the pieces of cardboard used for the ad was sensitive and some systems were likely to get crushed in the binding and mailing processes.
    24. West German shares, which are highly sensitive to foreign exchange swings, were badly battered by these events, brokers said.
    25. Justice goofed, but a near-frantic woman found a judge who was sensitive to her holiday plight, despite his tough reputation.
    26. "We're so sensitive, so vulnerable that when the water hits our very soft sand, it just crumbles and disappears," Valence said.
    27. Despite warnings from the United States, the government continued to give sensitive defense contracts to a Munich company after Libya bought control of the firm, a news report says.
    28. The protesters have been demanding that only citizens of former East Germany have access to the highly sensitive files, and immediately denounced the investigators' actions.
    29. The indictment charges violation of the Export Administration Act, which limits the export of sensitive U.S. materials, and conspiracy to export two Digital Equipment Corp.
    30. Goldman is "very sensitive to succession.
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