Word Finder - aspect

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Any specific feature, part, or element of something.

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Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy.

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• facet

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The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

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The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.

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A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.

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One's appearance or expression.

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• appearance
• blee
• look

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Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.

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The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.

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Prospect; outlook.

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(grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.

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The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.

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The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.

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The act of looking at something; gaze.

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Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.

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In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.

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The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.

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(of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.

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To channel a divine being.

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To look at.

The house had escaped the fire; it showed signs of damage but its general aspect was unchanged.

My favorite aspect of this home is the large, farmhouse style kitchen.

Before taking on a leadership position, you should understand how each aspect of your organization runs.

Which aspect of Michelangelo's artwork are you most amazed by?

The shape was the important aspect.

It has been well said that statistics furnish the means by which the railway manager disciplines his property; this is the aspect of control.

The Greeks who accompanied Alexander described with care the towns and villages, the products and the aspect of the country.

Did Alex think about that aspect?

Though less mountainous than the other islands, its aspect is barren.

But apart from the applied science, there is an aspect of pure geography which concerns the theory of the relation of economics to the surface of the earth.

How could I improve the aspect of the plan that you disagree with the most?

The positive aspect is presented in the third clause.

Lastly, there is the moral aspect of the problem.

But in this aspect he is rather to be regarded as the diligent expositor of other men's views than as an original thinker.

On the Thames below London Bridge, London appears in the aspect of one of the world's great ports, with extensive docks and crowded shipping.

In this aspect the principal extension of London has been into the counties of Kent and Surrey, to the pleasant hilly districts about Sydenham, Norwood and Croydon, Chislehurst and Orpington, Caterham, Redhill and Reigate, Epsom, Dorking and Leatherhead; and up the valley of the Thames through Richmond to Kingston and Surbiton, Esher and Weybridge, and the many townships on both the Surrey and the Middlesex shores of the river.

He unexpectedly gained the accession of many Jews by race who were indifferent to the religious aspect of Judaism, but he quite failed to convince the leaders of Jewish thought, who from first to last remained (with such conspicuous exceptions as Nordau and Zangwill) deaf to his pleading.

Very different is the aspect of the Alto Douro.

The whole aspect of the city has been changed by the construction of handsome public buildings, the laying-out of parks and the widening of the streets.

The houses are generally built of wood and wear a poverty-stricken aspect.

Indeed, the historical and present importance of this aspect or branch of zoological science is so great that the name " zoology " has until recently been associated entirely with it, to the exclusion of the study of minute anatomical structure and function which have been distinguished as anatomy and physiology.

Allusion has already been made to the great change in the aspect of London and its surroundings made during the Norman period by the establishment of a large number of monasteries.

Its somewhat gloomy aspect, enhanced by the tortuous narrow lanes flanked by gabled houses of the 15th century, has gained for it among countryfolk the sobriquet of the "Witches' nest" (Hexen-Nest).

In 1864, owing to the serious aspect of the prevalent adulteration, a union of traders was formed under the name of the " Linseed Association."

The Sicilians honoured his august aspect as he moved amongst them with purple robes and golden girdle, with long hair bound by a Delphic garland, and brazen sandals on his feet, and with a retinue of slaves behind him.

In philosophy, the term (with its antithesis "heteronomy") was applied by Kant to that aspect of the rational will in which, qua rational, it is a law to itself, independently alike of any external authority, of the results of experience and of the impulses of pleasure and pain.

Religion, for example, seems altogether too vast a theme for him to embark on, and he usually prefers to deal with some single element or aspect.

Altogether, in mana we have what is par excellence the primitive religious idea in its positive aspect, taboo representing its negative side, since whatever has mana is taboo, and whatever is taboo has mana.

Later, they are winged maidens of serious aspect, in the garb of huntresses, with snakes or torches in their hair, carrying scourges, torches or sickles.

The typical faults of the dark ages, pluralism, simony, lax observation of the clerical rules, contented ignorance, worldliness in every aspect, were all too prevalent in England.

It is the best specimen of the final aspect of scholasticism.

It is a plain and massive structure with crenelated walls, and has the aspect of a fortress rather than of a church.

The result of these geological changes is that, although the internal structure of the Tian-shan region is highly mountainous, its external appearance, or in other words its geographical aspect, is that of a plateau."

Here too were found the repositories of an early shrine containing exquisite faience figures and reliefs, including a snake goddess - another aspect of the native divinity - and her votaries.

But as the city became the recognized mart for exchange of goods between east and west, the freedom of the western outlet assumed the aspect of a paramount question.

From 1350 onwards the Crusade assumes a new aspect; it becomes defensive, and it is directed against the Ottoman Turks, a tribe of Turcomans who had established themselves in the sultanate of Iconium at the end of the 13th century, during the confusion and displacement of peoples which attended the Mongol invasions.

In the southern region, which is by far the better known, the oldest rocks are granites, crystalline schists and other rocks of Archean aspect.

The aspect of the country is everywhere grand, and often beautiful, fully justifying the title, "The Switzerland of South Africa," often applied to it.

As it is rich in specific expressions for the various aspects of certain ideas, it is requisite to employ always the most appropriate term suited to the particular aspect.

The great stress which they laid upon this aspect of Christian truth caused them to be charged with unbelief in the current orthodox views as to the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the person and work of Christ, a charge which they always denied.

The plateau, known as the Ogaden plateau, everywhere presents the same monotonous aspect of a boundless steppe clothed with a scanty vegetation of scrubby plants and herbaceous growths.

The narrow winding streets and the Arab bazaars present an Oriental scene contrasting with the European aspect of the district already described.

The natural aspect of the country is one desolate tract, without a single permanently running stream.

The conversion of nitrogen into ammonia by electricity has received much attention, but the commercial aspect appears to have been first worked out by de Hemptinne in 1900, who used both the spark and silent discharge on mixtures of hydrogen and nitrogen, and found that the pressure and temperature must be kept low and the spark gap narrow.

The point at issue was, that neither in the polyphonic school, in which Zarlino was educated, nor in the later monodic school, of which his recalcitrant pupil, Vincenzo Galilei, was the most redoubtable champion, could those proportions be tolerated in practice, however attractive they might be to the theorist in their mathematical aspect.

The medicine of the i 8th century is notable, like that of the latter part of the 17th, for the striving after complete theoretical systems. The influence of the iatro-physical school was by no means exhausted; and in England, especially through the indirect influence of Sir Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) great astronomical generalizations, it took on a mathematical aspect, and is sometimes known as iatro-mathematical.

In March the aspect of affairs changed.

In aspect they are very distinct from any of the other groups.

B ut more important and less speculative is the hero's aspect as a national type or an amalgamation of tribal types of physical force, of dauntless effort and endurance, of militant civilization, and of Hellenic enterprise, " stronger than everything except his own passions," and " at once above and below the noblest type of man " (Jebb).

The latter aspect may be taken first.