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foreign    音标拼音: [f'ɔrən] [f'ɑrən]
n. 外国的;无关的,不相干的;外来的,异质的

外国的;无关的,不相干的;外来的,异质的

foreign
外来 外部

foreign
adj 1: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations
(other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign
office" [ant: {domestic}]
2: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another
place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign
accent"; "on business in a foreign city" [synonym: {foreign},
{strange}] [ant: {native}]
3: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of
something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of
capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and
temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [synonym: {alien},
{foreign}]
4: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
"foreign particles in milk" [synonym: {extraneous}, {foreign}]

Foreign \For"eign\, a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr.
L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores
doors, and E. door. See {Door}, and cf. {Foreclose},
{Forfeit}, {Forest}, {Forum}.]
1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign
country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." --Milton.
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2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or
belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or
locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
"Domestic and foreign writers." --Atterbury.
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Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
--Milton.
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3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected;
not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not
harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or
from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
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This design is not foreign from some people's
thoughts. --Swift.
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4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
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Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. --Shak.
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{Foreign attachment} (Law), a process by which the property
of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the
satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an
attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor
in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States
trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee
process. --Kent. --Tomlins. --Cowell.

{Foreign bill}, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in
another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is
one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter,
as well as in several other points of view, the different
States of the United States are foreign to each other. See
{Exchange}, n., 4. --Kent. --Story.

{Foreign body} (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of
the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced
from without.

{Foreign office}, that department of the government of Great
Britain which has charge British interests in foreign
countries.
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Syn: Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous;
extrinsic.
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89 Moby Thesaurus words for "foreign":
accidental, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric,
barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct,
disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exotic, exterior,
external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic,
extralateral, extraliminal, extramundane, extramural, extraneous,
extraorganismal, extrapolar, extraprovincial, extrasolar,
extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, extratribal, extrinsic,
foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, imported,
inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incommensurable,
incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
independent, insular, intrusive, irrelative, isolated,
nonsubjective, objective, obnoxious, odd, other, outland,
outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, overseas, peculiar, remote,
removed, repellent, repugnant, segregate, separate, separated,
strange, tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transpacific,
ulterior, unaffiliated, unallied, unassimilable, unassociated,
unconnected, unearthly, unfamiliar, unknown, unrelatable,
unrelated

FOREIGN. That which belongs to another country; that which is strange. 1
Peters, R. 343.
2. Every nation is foreign to all the rest, and the several states of
the American Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their
municipal laws. 2 Wash. R. 282; 4 Conn. 517; 6 Conn. 480; 2 Wend. 411 1
Dall. 458, 463 6 Binn. 321; 12 S. & R. 203; 2 Hill R. 319 1 D. Chipm. 303 7
Monroe, 585 5 Leigh, 471; 3 Pick. 293.
3. But the reciprocal relations between the national government and the
several states composing the United States are not considered as foreign,
but domestic. 9 Pet. 607; 5 Pet. 398; 6 Pet. 317; 4 Cranch, 384; 4 Gill &
John. 1, 63. Vide Attachment, for foreign attachment; Bill of exchange, for
foreign bills of exchange; Foreign Coins; Foreign Judgment; Foreign Laws;
Foreigners.


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  • FOREIGN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of FOREIGN is situated outside a place or country; especially : situated outside one's own country How to use foreign in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Foreign
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    foreign markets; foreign soil He liked visiting foreign cities Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started
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    FOREIGN definition: 1 belonging or connected to a country that is not your own: 2 Something can be described as… Learn more
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    FOREIGN definition: of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native See examples of foreign used in a sentence
  • foreign - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
    connected with foreign affairs external to one's own country or nation: a foreign country carried on abroad, or with other countries: foreign trade belonging to or coming from another district, province, etc located outside a specific district, province, etc Lawmaking of or pertaining to law outside of local jurisdiction
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    Define foreign foreign synonyms, foreign pronunciation, foreign translation, English dictionary definition of foreign adj 1 a Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city b Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one
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    6 meanings: 1 of, involving, located in, or coming from another country, area, people, etc 2 dealing or concerned with Click for more definitions
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  • foreign - Simple English Wiktionary
    Foreign means something that comes from a different place or country Foreign people are known as foreigners Sven has a foreign accent Foreign can mean something that is not familiar or not characteristic Greed was as foreign to him as a Frenchman in China





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