Word Finder - method

definition

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):

example

If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you.

definition

(often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Constantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed.

definition

A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object, synonym of member function

definition

Marijuana.

definition

An instruction book systematically arranged.

definition

To apply a method

definition

(casting, by extension) to apply particular treatment methods to a mold

example

The company employs extensive use of 3D modelling combined with solidification simulation to ensure that critical castings are properly methoded.

We have already seen this method work.

Now I'm able to adjust my method of operation accordingly.

His method was direct — addressing her needs with simple statements and questions.

This method in one shape or another has been often employed.

A third radical method of redistribution is called land reform, which is actually a polite term for taking land from one person and giving it to another.

To obtain an absolutely pure culture with certainty it is necessary, even when the gelatin method is employed, to start from a single cell.

Another method of genetic modification, called mutagenesis, dates to the early part of the twentieth century.

She got the language from the language itself, and this is, next to hearing the language spoken, the way for any one to get a foreign tongue, more vital and, in the end, easier than our schoolroom method of beginning with the grammar.

The restaurant's real claim to fame is the cooking method.

Had the idea only been a clever method to gain favors?

The distinction between the old and new method of observation may thus, in one sense, be described as the difference between shooting at a moving object and in shooting at one at rest.

The method first employed for working a telephone line was extremely simple.

A cord circuit, similar in many respects, including the method .y.^9 Jr '' of operation, but equipped with condensers and impedance coils, in place of the repeating coil, is shown in fig.

Unfortunately, however, the method of agreement is liable to be baffled by " plurality of causes."

But at this stage in historical investigation it is generally the want of evidence of a sufficiently complete and continuous character, rather than difficulties of method, which forces us to leave the problem unsolved.

When we come to exclusively modern questions, there is no reason or necessity for a fundamental change of method.

To buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest; to secure cheapness by lowering the expenses of production; to adopt the less expensive rather than the more expensive method of obtaining a given result - these and other maxims are as old as human society.

It is certain that the first four volumes were written if not printed before that method was promulgated, and when the fame of Linnaeus as a zoologist rested on little more than the very meagre sixth edition of the Systema Naturae and the first edition of his Fauna Suecica.

A second method of radical redistribution is to increase marginal tax rates to a point that is confiscatory.

We use democracy as a method of selecting representatives.

Communication was established by this method in the year 1895 with the lighthouse on the Fastnet."

There is no evidence, however, that the method proposed could or did effect the transmission of speech or signals between stations separated by any distance.

In December 1898 communication was established by the Marconi method between the East Goodwin lightship and the South Foreland lighthouse; and this installation was maintained for upwards of a year, during which it was the means of saving both life and property.

If these spark balls are set at the right distance, then when the potential difference accumulates the antenna will be charged and at some stage suddenly discharged by the discharge leaping across the spark gap. This was Marconi's original method, and the plan is still used under the name of the direct method of excitation or the plain antenna.

This method of receiving soon came to be known as the telephonic method.

Another method of distribution, largely adopted, is to run the lead cables into the interior of blocks of buildings, and to terminate them there in iron boxes from which the circuits are distributed to the surrounding buildings by means of rubber-covered wires run along the walls.

Aerial distribution from distributing poles is a method frequently adopted.

The original method of charging adopted in Great Britain took the telephone instrument as the unit, charging a fixed annual rental independent of the amount of use to which the instrument was put.

Another method of charge, known as the " measured service rate," is de - signed to make the subscriber pay in proportion to the quality and quantity of the service he takes.

In the province of Naples, Caserta, &c., the method of fallows is widely adopted, the ground often being left in this state for fifteen or twenty years; and in some parts of Sicily there is a regular interchange of fallow and crop year by year.

In order to understand the future history of Italy, it is necessary to form a clear conception of the method pursued by the Lombards in their conquest.

Such a philosophy makes little serious attempt at constructive work in antiquity; but, upon the first great victories of physical science in modern times, a desire arose to extend the new and wonderfully fruitful method to the ultimate problems of speculation.

Or at least he has rightly seen what are the assertions to aim at; it is difficult to accept the principle or method upon which his answer to the riddle proceeds, the dialectic method.

Anyhow, whatever the method or interpretation is to be, idealism, even more fully than materialism, is pledged to monism and to the rejection of dualism.

The new method of definition which Socrates applied to problems of human conduct was extended by Plato to the whole universe of the knowable.

Assuredly Butler did not mean to give him his right of speaking about moral evil and good when he waived the " high priori method of vindicating their real existence.

Still, the Design argument is a good sample of a proof by means of the inferior method.

It is very interesting, but it does not constitute any marked advance in the history of parliament, as it merely expresses the customary method of summoning a council.

Nearly every possible method of reproduction occurs amongst the Hydromedusae.

The direct method of medusa-budding only differs from the polyp-bud by its greater complexity of parts and organs.

The entocodon is to be regarded, therefore, not as primarily an ingrowth of ectoderm, but rather as an upgrowth of both bodylayers, in the form of a circular rim (IVa), representing the umbrellar margin; it is comparable to the bulging that forms the umbrella in the direct method of budding, but takes place before a manubrium is formed, and is greatly reduced in size, so as to become a little pit.

It is very remarkable that this method of characterizing and diagnozing species has never been extended to the marine hydroids.

The buds become medusae by the direct method of budding described above.

It is in these parasitic forms that we meet with the method of reproduction by sporogony described above.

First of all, his genetic method as applied to the mind's ideas - which laid the foundations of English analytical psychology - was a step in the direction of a conception of mental life as a gradual evolution.

The method is simply the logical result of the fact that every existing form of life stands at the summit of a long branch of the whole tree of life.

In embryology the method finds its expression in the limitation of comparisons to the corresponding stages of low and high forms and the exclusion of the comparisons between the adult stages of low forms and the embryonic stages of higher forms.

Another expression of the same method, due to Cope, and specially valuable to the taxonomist, is that when the relationship between orders is being considered, characters of subordinal rank must be neglected.

It must not be supposed that earlier writers all neglected this method, or still less that all writers now employ it, but merely that formerly it was frequently overlooked by the best writers, and now is neglected only by the worst.

Enough, however, has already been done to show the vast importance of the method in grouping and codifying the empirical facts of life, and in so preparing the way for the investigation of ultimate " causes."