Word Finder - unaided

definition

Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.

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Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.

There are a Government college, a collegiate school and an unaided Hindu college.

The Bible interpreted by man's unaided intelligence is as valueless as other writings, but it has a sacramental value when the Holy Spirit accompanies its teaching, and the power of God uses it and makes the soul capable of holiness.

The northern provinces had fallen into the power of Holland; the southern, peopled in a great measure by the hardy descendants of the successive colonists who had issued on all sides from the central establishment of Sao Paulo, had learned from their habits of unaided and successful enterprise to court independence.

Those of warmer countries cannot be cultivated in British gardens without protection from the rigours of winter; still less are they able to hold their own unaided in an unfavourable climate.

In their coarsest forms such striae are readily visible to the unaided eye, but finer ones escape detection unless special means are taken for rendering them visible; such special means conveniently take the form of an apparatus for examining the glass in a beam of parallel light, when the striae scatter the light and appear as either dark or bright lines according to the position of the eye.

What he usually aims at is either to record the more or less rapid movements of he ground which we can feel, or the slow but large disturbances which do not appeal to our unaided senses.

Meanwhile Mahmud, realizing the impossibility of crushing the Greek revolt unaided, had bent his pride to ask the help of Mehemet Ali, who was to receive as his reward Crete, the Morea and the pashaliks of Syria and Damascus.

The eye, unaided or armed with a telescope, is able to see, as points of light, stars subtending no sentsible angle.

On examining the stars telescopically, many which appear single to the unaided eye are found to be composed of two or more stars very close together.

Eurystheus imposed upon Heracles the task of clearing out all his stalls unaided in one day.

He did not indeed accept the infallibility of sense or of any other operation unaided.

The city had been founded on too elaborate and extensive a plan to be left to the initiative and unaided resources of its citizens.

They attempted to explain the fundamental problems of existence by the unaided evidence of the new natural science.

To the unaided eye the disease is seen as purplish brown or blackish blotches of various sizes, at first on the tips and edges of the leaves, and ultimately upon the leaf-stalks and the larger stems. On gathering the foliage for examination, especially in humid weather, these dark blotches are seen to be putrid, and when the disease takes a bad form the dying leaves give out a highly offensive odour.

Thus the two concluding essays contend that man has not, like the other animals, been produced by the unaided operation of natural selection, but that other forces have also been in operation.

In "frilling" or "frilled structure" the folds have still smaller amplitude, and in many highly corrugated rocks minute folds are observable with the microscope that do not appear to the unaided eye.

Nothing could be farther from Green's teaching than the belief that constructive metaphysics could, unaided by the intuitions of the moral consciousness, discover laws for the regulation of conduct.

To meet this difficulty, a farmer with more crops than he can reap unaided will summon his neighbours to his assistance, supplying them with food, but no money, and binding himself to repay the service in kind.

But however divine, the king could not wield his power unaided.

In return for the privileges granted them the companies undertook the construction out of their own unaided resources of 1500 m.

When Valens met his death fighting against the Goths near Adrianople on the 9th of August in the same year, the government of the eastern empire devolved upon Gratian, but feeling himself unable to resist unaided the incursions of the barbarians, he ceded it to Theodosius (January 379) With Theodosius he cleared the Balkans of barbarians..

Indeed more than six centuries passed before the idea was again resuscitated; and even then it required a group of brilliant Frenchmen to do what the old Dominican had carried out unaided.

The Macdonalds of Clanranald and Kinloch Moidart, along with other chieftains, again attempted to dissuade him from the rashness of an unaided rising, but they yielded at last to the enthusiasm and charm of his manner, and Charles landed on Scottish soil in the company of the "Seven Men of Moidart" who had come with him from France.

In the following year by the efforts of Sir William Temple the much vaunted Triple Alliance was concluded between Great United Provinces to face unaided the vengeance of the French king.

The duke of Burgundy, feeling as incapable of coming to an understanding with the masterful Englishman as of resisting him unaided, tried to 1428.

On the refusal of the privileged classes and after an interval of six weeks, the third estate, considering that they represented 96% of the nation, and in accordance with the proposal of Sieys, declared that they represented the nation and therefore were authorized to take resolutions unaided, the first being that in future no arrangement for taxation could take place without their consent.

When the details are no longer recognizable by the unaided eye, the magnifying glass or the simple microscope is necessary.

In nature, clays are rarely free from foreign ingredients, many of which can be detected with the unaided eye, while others may be observed by means of the microscope.

However, today I woke up unaided, in the middle of a rather surreal dream.

Ultimately, he owned and operated his own foundry and kept his own books, unaided.

It could therefore be that using a single gestalt throughout the execution could be a false blessing when novices are using the trace unaided.

Work submitted for assessment must include preparatory supporting studies and be carried out during the 132 hours of unaided time.

The loans for peerages scandal has rocked Tony Blair who was unable to walk unaided last week.

Terrain is generally suitable of unaided access on smooth tarmac surfaces.

The criteria for discharge are that the patient should be able to walk unaided without stumbling or feeling unstable.

Once inside your building can a wheelchair user get to use all customer areas or make use of your service unaided?

He rejects the attempt to explain human personality as " generated by the material molecular aggregate of its own unaided latent power," and affirms that the " universe where the human spirit is more at home than it is among these temporary collocations of matter" is " a universe capable of infinite development, of noble contemplation, and of lofty joy, long after this planet - nay the whole solar system - shall have fulfilled its present spire of destiny, and retired cold and lifeless upon its endless way " (pp. 199-200).

The complete conversion was, however, in the end due rather to the arms of the Carolingian kings than to the unaided efforts of the missionaries.

No contemporary, unaided by personal knowledge, could be expected to trust in Wagner's purity of ideal on the strength of Tannhauser, which actually achieved popularity by such coarse methods of climax as the revivalistic end of the overture, by such maudlin pathos as 0 du mein holder Abendstern, and by the amiably childish grand-opera skill with which half the action is achieved by processions and a considerable fraction of the music is represented by fanfares.

Protected by this dynasty, the priesthood developed into a completely organized state church, which was able to employ the power of the state in enforcing strict compliance with the religious law-book hitherto enjoined by their unaided efforts only.

Karay was a shaggy old dog with a hanging jowl, famous for having tackled a big wolf unaided.

Measuring 89cm x 56 x 50 cm when erected it is suitable for use until baby can sit unaided.

However, once your baby manages his first unaided steps, it usually only takes a few days before he starts to waddle around.

To understand what infrared is, you must first understand the electromagnetic spectrum, much of which is not visible to the unaided human eye.

Climbing stairs and rising unaided may become impossible by age nine or ten, and most boys use a wheelchair for mobility by the age of 12.

Once an infant can breathe unaided, physical therapy is initiated to help the child relearn how to suck and swallow.

Myopia is diagnosed by determining a child's unaided vision and is confirmed objectively by the eye care practitioner with various techniques, including retinoscopy and refraction.

Blind at birth, his visor technology lets him see even more than the unaided human eye.

The same is true in the case of a liquid such as water; it can be divided into drops and these again into smaller drops, or into the finest spray the particles of which are too small to be detected by our unaided vision.

His knowledge of the higher mathematics was acquired by his own unaided efforts after he had left the college.