Word Finder - defines

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To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.

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the defining power of an optical instrument

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To settle, decide (an argument etc.)

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To express the essential nature of something.

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I define myself as a techno-anarchist.

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To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.

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The textbook defined speed as velocity divided by time.

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To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.

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Person 1: Is she good at math?

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To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.

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to define the legal boundaries of a property

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To establish the referent of a term or notation.

Who defines the terms to be completed for the reincarnated?

Gibbon defines the great Logothete as "the supreme guardian of the laws and revenues," who "is compared with the chancellor of the Latin monarchies."

He defines it as benevolence (good-will), or rather as a disposition to benevolence, towards being in general.

The extine is a firm membrane, which defines the figure of the pollen-grain, and gives colour to it.

Euclid devotes his third book entirely to theorems and problems relating to the circle, and certain lines and angles, which he defines in introducing the propositions.

As then we find this identification of pleasure with activity in the Metaphysics and in the De Anima, as well as in the Nicomachean Ethics, the Eudemian Ethics and the Magna Moralia, the only logical conclusion, from which there is no escape, is that, so far as the treatment of pleasure goes, any Aristotelian treatise which defines it as activity is genuine.

But he does speak of certain sacred symbols which he defines elsewhere as figures of wild beasts.

This is one rule of wisdom with regard to religion; and another equally important is to avoid superstition, which he boldly defines as the belief that God is like a hard judge who, eager to find fault, narrowly examines our slightest act, that He is revengeful and hard to appease, and that therefore He must be flattered and importuned, and won over by pain and sacrifice.

St Benedict defines his monastery as " a school of the service of the lord " (Reg., Prol.).

By the treaty of Segauli, which defines the English relations with Nepal to the present day, the Gurkhas withdrew on the one hand from Sikkim, and on the other from those lower ranges of the western Himalayas which have supplied the health-giving stations of Naini Tal, Mussoorie and Simla.

Reduction he defines as " the framing of possible premises for given propositions, or the construction of a syllogism when the conclusion and one premise is given."

In the 7th series (1834) he defines a number of new terms, such as electrolyte, electrolysis, anode and cathode, &c., in connexion with electrolytic phenomena, which were immediately adopted into the vocabulary of science.

It declares no principles and defines no rights, but is for practical purposes worth a hundred articles guaranteeing constitutional liberty.'

The eastern boundary of this northern section of Baluchistan is the " red line " at the foot of the frontier hills, which defines the border of British India.

In the sequel he defines the role of the angel of baptism who does not infuse himself in waters, already holy from the first; but merely presides over the washing of the faithful, and ensures their being made pure for the reception of the holy Spirit in the rite of confirmation which immediately follows.

Sometimes the treaty creating the relation defines the obligations.

The Mariom Pamir defines the western extremity of the Kuen Lun, which stretches eastwards for 250 m.

Article III., which guarantees religious freedom, forbids sectarian control of public schools, prohibits polygamy and defines the relation of the state to the public lands of the United States, is irrevocable except by consent of the United States.

He defines the will as that by which the " mind chooses anything."

In Plato, however, this distinction is applied chiefly in an ethical and religious direction; and, while it defines philosophy, so far correctly, as the endeavour to express what things are in their ultimate constitution, it is not yet accompanied by a sufficient differentiation of the subsidiary inquiries by which this ultimate question may be approached.

This line defines the eastern limit of the Coal Measures proper, which cover a belt 20 to 80 m.

Thus to ascertain the value of goods on the platform of unknown weight at a given price per lb, it is only necessary to slide the steelyard till the weight acts at the division which represents the price per lb, and then to move the poise Q till the steelyard is in balance; the number of the division which defines the position of the poise Q will indicate the sum to be paid for the goods.

The document which defines their duties and privileges sets forth that every ceorl who throve so that he had fully five hides of land, and a helm, and a mail-shirt, and a sword ornamented with gold, was to be reckoned gesithcund.

With regard to the lower teeth the difficulties are greater, owing to the absence of any suture corresponding to that which defines the incisors above; but since the number of the teeth is the same, since the corresponding teeth are preceded by milk-teeth, and since in the large majority of cases it is the fourth tooth of the series which is modified in the same way as the canine (or fourth tooth) of the upper jaw, it is reasonable to adopt the same divisions as with the upper series, and to call the first three, which are implanted in the part of the mandible opposite to the premaxilla, the incisors, the next the canine, the next four the premolars, and the last three the molars.

North of the Aland Haf a ridge defines the southern edge of another depression, the Bothnian Sea, which in turn is separated from the most northerly division, the Gulf of Bothnia, by a ridge across the narrow Quarken or Kvarken Strait.

The last he defines simply as an abstinence from food in conformity with the rule of the church.

In Minnesota the system is carried out by the Railroad and Warehouse Commission (1885), which fixes and defines the different grades of wheat and directs the work.

This direction defines the vertical line.

This line defines an initial direction from which other directions are counted.

Then the plumb line not only defines the zenith as already shown, but in a downward direction it defines the nadir, which is the point of the sphere directly below our feet.

Again, since the constant of aberration defines the ratio between the velocity of light and the earth's orbital speed, the span of the terrestrial circuit, in other words, the distance of the sun, is immediately deducible from known values of the first two quantities.

Schleiermacher defines ethics as the theory of the nature of the reason, or as the scientific treatment of the effects produced by human reason in the world of nature and man.

Binz, for instance, defines it as treating of the origin, nature, chemical and physical qualities, physiological actions, and therapeutical uses of drugs; in France and in Italy it is restricted to the mere description of medicines and their preparations, the action and uses of which as remedies are included in the term therapeutics.

In order to accommodate chancy causation, Lewis (1986c) defines a more general notion of causal dependence in terms of chancy causation, Lewis (1986c) defines a more general notion of causal dependence in terms of chancy counterfactuals.

A man like Roy Ayers defines the very word, tho not something always associated with a 65 year old former choirboy.

The class that defines the constants that are used to identify generic SQL types, called JDBC types.

The specified X,Y position defines the bottom-left corner of the second region.

If the element type defines a destructor, the destructor is called on the element being removed.

The Diesels are the new, very concrete ' other ' in a Hegelian dialectic which defines the your world.

One dictionary defines marijuana as the leaves and flowering tops when taken to induce euphoria.

He defines his work as speculative fiction although he does not shy away from writing conventional urban fantasy or horror stories.

The design and development testing of a new gas turbine defines initially how often and to what extent these interventions ought to take place.

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Weiser defines a spectrum of access ranging from open to closed, with various gradations in between.

Highly polished granite on the cabinets creates the look that defines the character of this range.

This defines a natural homomorphism of C into the symmetric group of degree n.

Its methods may assume that gens generates A and that the mapping of gens to imgs defines an algebra homomorphism.

As long as t y never equals 1 this defines a unique order isomorphism from X into [0,1] .

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The set of all K vectors defines the reciprocal lattice.