system
英 ['sɪstəm]
美['sɪstəm]
	    - n. 制度,体制;系统;方法
 
英英释意
- 1. a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;
 - "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
 
- 2. instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity;
 - "he bought a new stereo system"
 - "the system consists of a motor and a small computer"
 
- 3. a complex of methods or rules governing behavior;
 - "they have to operate under a system they oppose"
 - "that language has a complex system for indicating gender"
 
- 4. a procedure or process for obtaining an objective;
 - "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
 
- 5. a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts;
 - "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
 
- 6. an organized structure for arranging or classifying;
 - "he changed the arrangement of the topics"
 - "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"
 - "he tried to understand their system of classification"
 
- 7. (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium;
 - "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"
 - "a system generating hydrogen peroxide"
 
- 8. the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole;
 - "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
 
- 9. an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized;
 - "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"
 - "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here"