Word Finder - formative

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(grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.

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Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.

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My formative years were spent in an inner city.

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Capable of forming something.

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Capable of producing new tissue.

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(grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.

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Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

An organism was to him something controlled by a formative organizing principle.

When this stage was reached the formative age of feudalism may be considered at an end.

But we may say that the formative age was over when these features of the system had combined to be its characteristic marks.

God knows, I've seen the bastards before, in their formative years.

To assign any specific date to the end of this formative age is of course impossible, but meaning by the end what has just been stated, we shall not be far wrong if we place it somewhere near the beginning of the 10th century.

The assessment strategy has an adequate formative and diagnostic function.

Beyond this, he eloquently pleaded the cause of painting as a distinct art, which Lessing in his desire to mark off the formative arts from poetry and music had confounded with sculpture.

The questions which lived in the earlier and more formative period of his life concerned mainly the idea of the church, the historical interpretation of the documents which described the persons who had created the Christian religion, especially the person and work of its founder; but those most alive in his later and maturer time chiefly related to the philosophy of religion and ethics.

B3 is developed through self assessment of assignments, staff feedback on formative assignments, and student self-appraisal.

Assessment is not only evaluative; it is also formative and diagnostic.

This condition usually appears at about the age of 12 months when breast-feeding is discontinued, but it can develop at any time during a child's formative years.

Their function is primarily formative, setting objectives for the day-to-day process of learning throughout the course.

In the settlement of labour disputes conciliatory methods were successful in the formative period, when the parties to disputes adopted customary attitudes of hostility and fought to the end unless they were reconciled by the Board to a final agreement or to an agreement to arbitrate.

To this power the successful guidance of the Dominion through its critical formative period must be ascribed.

Thus there came into the fluctuating mass a strong movement and formative impulse, and the individual systems and sects sprang up like mushrooms from this soil.

Its manifoldness is not then to be taken as excluding its fundamental unity; the divisions which our ordinary perception and thought introduce into it have not absolute validity, but are to be interpreted as the outcome of the single formative energy or complex of forces which is the inner aspect, the soul of nature.

The reason why at this level the walls must form an upright instead of an inverted cone, why the furnace must widen downward instead of narrowing, is, according to some metallurgists, that this shape is needed in order that, in spite of the pastiness of the slag in this formative period of incipient fusion, this layer may descend freely as the lower part of the column is gradually eaten away.

In each bundle, separating the xylem and phloem, is a layer of meristem or active formative tissue, known as cambium; by the formation of a layer of cambium between the bundles (interfascicular cambium) a complete ring is formed, and a regular periodical increase in thickness results from it by the development of xylem on the inside and phloem on the outside.

H2 Noted by several staff focusing on lack of progress with formative assessment.

The Great God and Great Goddess personified the cataclysm of creation and the formative Universe.

The issues to be included in the questionnaire and interview would be clarified through formative evaluation while the course proceeded.

This call for learner involvement in formative and summative evaluation, however, proves problematic on two counts.

Extraordinary tho this may seem, Newton's formative years were by no means exceptional.

After each consultation the GP gives immediate formative feedback to the student about specific skills and the way the consultation was managed.

Throughout these formative years MY peers went on to become key industry figureheads.

In addition, it can be used to provide useful formative as well as summative information to students.

These include written formative and summative tests to monitor and advance progress, essays and seminar presentations and continuous practical assessment.

Closer to home, another Scottish architect is playing an equally formative role in Scotland's political foundations.

It had also revealed the still formative, transitory, and potentially transformative nature of artists' networks in local, national and global contexts.

G.R. Driver suggests that lz)z( may have been derived from the Arabic 'azâzu(n) 'rough ground' to which a formative lamed was added 5.

David completely agrees with the concept that appraisal must be developmental and formative, not managerial and punitive.

The course will adopt an analytical rather than a narrative approach to this formative period in the history of the medieval papacy.

The same formative element appears in the adjective Mons Massicus, and the names Glanica and Marica belonging to the Auruncan district, with Graviscae in south Etruria, and a few other names in central Italy (see " I due strati nella popolazione Indo-Europea dell' Italia Antica," in the Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Storiche, Rome, 1903, p. 17).

Thus, though he looked on species as fixed, being the realization of an unchanging formative principle (c0vis), he seems, as Ueberweg observes, to have inclined to entertain the possibility of a spontaneous generation in the case of the lowest organisms.

One of Harvey's prime objects is to defend and establish, on the basis of direct observation, the opinion already held by Aristotle, that, in the higher animals at any rate, the formation of the new organism by the process of generation takes place, not suddenly, by simultaneous accretion of rudiments of all or the most important of the organs of the adult, nor by sudden metamorphosis of a formative substance into a miniature of the whole, which subsequently grows, but by epigenesis, or successive differentiation of a relatively homogeneous rudiment into the parts and structures which are characteristic of the adult.

While he should continue to grow steadily throughout his formative years, there will be periods of time in which he will gain weight and inches more rapidly than others.

Your daughter's childhood is a pivotal stage in her life, marking her formative years.

Babies born between 1952-1957, often called the peak years of the Baby Boom, grew up with the decade of the 1960s as their formative years.

Children born during the middle six years of the Baby Boom had a different set of experiences in the 1960s, which were their formative years.

These questions can often be the most emotional, because you are taking him back to the formative years - which can be both good or bad, wistful, painful, or happy.

Since your toddler is having enough trouble walking on his own, there's no need to make his formative years more of a struggle, right?

His formative years weren't easy, as one of five children who were shuttled between various friends and relatives.

In any case, however, this myth has exercised a formative influence on the conception of Antichrist.

But all forms by which thought holds sensations in unity (the formative or synthetic elements of language) had their place assigned in a system where one leads up to and passes over into another.

His free use of relating concepts, that of sameness, for instance, bears no impress of his theory of the general notion, and it is possible to put out of sight the fact that, taken in conjunction with his nominalism, it raises the whole issue of the possibility of the equivocal generation of formative principles from the given contents of the individual consciousness, in any manipulation of which they are already implied.

Haeckel distinguished autogeny and plasmogeny, applying the former term when the formative fluid in which the first living matter was supposed to arise was inorganic and the latter when it was organic, i.e.

Few Englishmen have exercised so formative and controlling an influence on European thought and opinion as Ames.

At successive moults the somites increase in number, new somites being added behind those already differentiated, from a formative zone in front of the telsonic region.

There are ways to make summative assessment more formative, and to get students to take formative tasks seriously.

Most likely, the student has learned their current reading method at a very formative age - probably on their mother's knee.