I. noun
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distinguishing feature/mark/characteristic
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The main distinguishing feature of this species is the leaf shape.
irritating habit/characteristics/mannerisms
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She has an irritating habit of interrupting.
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■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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The term social movement refers to a wide range of groups with certain characteristics in common.
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As dynamic wholes, these all share certain characteristics: a certain liveliness, for one.
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Constitutions there have certain essential characteristics , none of them found in Britain.
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Below turning to the Gobitis Case, however, it is desirable to notice certain characteristics by which this controversy is distinguished.
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Another way of distinguishing the services provided by local government is to group them according to certain shared characteristics .
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Although the Alsops' fortunes waxed and waned through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, certain family characteristics remained distinct.
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The ten years which followed had certain peculiar characteristics .
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These advances always share certain characteristics: 1.
defining
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The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm.
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This is a theoretical entity that contains a specification of the word's defining characteristics .
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Nevertheless, the defining characteristic of this period was undoubtedly the Cold War.
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Yet the defining characteristic of all patronal social relations is the privileged situation of the patron.
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The hard core of a programme is, more than anything else, the defining characteristic of a programme.
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The trouble is that one of the defining characteristics of twentysomethings is their cynicism towards advertising.
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This was particularly noticeable among the younger policemen, for whom this imagery seems to be a defining characteristic of their work.
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Finally, for both Wimsatt and Brooks a defining characteristic of poetry was irony.
demographic
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Apart from these demographic characteristics of informal care-giving, in other important respects it remains an issue of central importance to women.
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Television programs are aimed at people according to their demographic characteristics rather than their place of residence.
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Thus, people with similar socio-economic and demographic characteristics , but living in different places, may well vote for different parties.
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Interestingly, there is a striking lack of relationship between Mach scores and demographic characteristics .
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Fifty consecutive referrals in 1988 were compared with 50 consecutive referrals in 1990 with respect to demographic characteristics and patterns of drug misuse.
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It is particularly applicable where buying can be assessed in the light of the demographic characteristics of shoppers.
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It is very unlikely that future generations will exhibit this particular demographic characteristic .
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However, the concentration of people with particular demographic characteristics is clearly not just a selective effect.
different
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Interestingly, the dementia from this disease has different characteristics than the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
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However, Professor Gimbutas suggests that the Goddess displayed different characteristics .
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It does have different characteristics from other more fixed medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy.
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The twin communities, one on either side of the international river, had now taken on separate and quite different characteristics .
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Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type.
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The different characteristics of the Deity are then shown to reflect one or other of these ways.
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Landsats 1-3 and Landsats 4 and 5 have rather different characteristics .
distinctive
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There were three distinctive characteristics about the archosaurs that paleontologists discovered marked them off from their antecedents.
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During his lifetime, the distinctive characteristics of his vocation had begun to dwindle.
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These distinctive characteristics come from differences in minute quantities of flavouring constituents whose concentrations are at the threshold of human sensory perception.
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All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist, giving the blend its distinctive characteristics .
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The three islands have distinctive characteristics with the best of the game fishing being on South Uist.
essential
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The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm.
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Within the sacred whole, change, subjectivity, and diversity are essential characteristics of the natural world.
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To help the learner, complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised.
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There are four essential characteristics of the scientific method: 1.
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The essential characteristic of Byzantine dome construction is that such a dome is supported upon and covers a square form.
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But all these leaders share certain essential characteristics .
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Constitutions there have certain essential characteristics , none of them found in Britain.
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The essential characteristics of national elections in the United States and Britain are contrasted in Table 5.1.
general
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There are some general characteristics , however.
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The following chart offers general taste characteristics of the game featured.
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Be aware of the distinction between primary evidence and secondary evidence, and the general characteristics of each. 2.
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D., was willing to discuss the general characteristics of emotional development.
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The general characteristics of each period are discussed.
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Results Table I describes the general characteristics of the two groups studied.
human
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What he perceived were human characteristics , above all the truth of the heart.
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Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.
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This moral valuation of the geometrically simple is a markedly human characteristic .
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This lack of genuine relationships with other human beings is characteristic of the unreality of Capitol Hill.
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But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
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One can explain many apparently strange human characteristics by pointing to their value for survival at various stages of evolutionary development.
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Such people manifestly lack those human characteristics a society both produces in its members and relies on for its continued existence.
important
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His intention was to convey the significant or important characteristics of a building.
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It was to determine the most important characteristic that accounted for their early success.
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This high frequency of participation across a large number of sports is an important characteristic of sports participation.
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This last is the most important characteristic of all.
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Trade-based classifications Though clearly important , income and population size are not the only important characteristics of countries.
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Several of the most important characteristics of preoperational thought are discussed in this chapter.
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But perhaps its most important characteristic is one which is only implicit.
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Another important characteristic of the sentimental comedy is its moralizing, ethical nature.
individual
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Bury, in short, reflected the wealth of an ordinary country district and displayed no strong individual characteristics .
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Affiliation may not imply successful recovery. Individual characteristics that have been investigated are as varied as the researchers performing the studies.
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Personal Factors Every individual is different; individual characteristics influence behaviour in complex and significant ways.
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Select chores that are appropriate to the individual characteristics of the child.
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We shall need to study, not just the individual characteristics of leadership, but also the reaction to leadership by others.
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My arrangement was good because I got to know the individual characteristics of my helicopter since I flew it day after day.
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For a novel writer who may possess individual writing characteristics , unknown to the handwriting recogniser, performance can be low.
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Essex displayed strong individual characteristics , not even the forested western fringe being markedly differentiated from the adjacent parts.
key
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It was found that key characteristics was by far the most popular strategy, followed by realist strategy.
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Otherwise, the partners would be profiled in terms of their key characteristics , financial performance and likely valuation.
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The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet.
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The key characteristics of each company which make them a good fit with the client should be identified.
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A key characteristic of research is that it is public.
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This can be illustrated by considering some of the key characteristics of jobbing production.
main
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Polar soils and their main characteristics are summarized in Table 3.1, and Figure 3.2 outlines stages in their development.
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The main characteristics of capitalism are private ownership of capital and freedom of enterprise.
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Moving away from traditional melody, the main characteristic of serialism is the non-repetition of rhythms.
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It will be useful therefore to spell out, if only briefly, some of its main characteristics .
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However, one of this industry's main characteristics is that it attracts the maverick.
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There were four main characteristics which distinguished the early retired from other older people.
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Age does not wither us: it accentuates our main characteristics .
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The main characteristics of a period of standstill are: 1.
other
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The War Wagon tower has its own toughness value, wounds, and other characteristics as shown below.
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Such organizations have many other characteristics which anybody who has worked in them for any length of time will recognize.
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Two other characteristics of the sample population require some comment: the incidence of employment, and of domestic help.
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The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet.
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But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
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If they are not a vocal species, or even if they are, their smell or other characteristics may also be different.
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Neither the price nor any other characteristic of the transport system enters into it.
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One other characteristic of the 1880 system is also remarkable.
particular
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He also pointed to the lack of evidence of consistent female choice for mates carrying particular characteristics .
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There could be millions of pools, each of which held mortgages with particular characteristics , each pool in itself homogeneous.
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Eysenck's theory depends on a high correlation between criminality and particular personality characteristics identified by personality tests.
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They had to be more specific about the traditionally accepted forms of behaviour, customs, occupations and particular national characteristics .
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The particular characteristics chosen above to characterise television and print-on-paper media, are one way of seeing their utilities.
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Personality traits are particular characteristics or aspects of this total personality.
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These traits are ingrained and stable dispositions to respond to certain situations in particular ways characteristic of the personality.
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This was conceptualised both generally and in terms which could take account of particular cultural characteristics .
personal
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But personal characteristics are certainly not the whole story.
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They are generalizations assumed to be true of an entire group of people, regardless of their personal characteristics and circumstances.
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Overall the characteristics of the remuneration scheme were shown to exert more consistent effects than were individuals' personal characteristics.
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Box 5. 1, pages 112-113, details the personal characteristics and background of two extraordinary extremist-activists.
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Because the original speaker's words are stored the personal characteristics remain, even the accent is readily detectable in some cases.
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And it is intriguing that their activism followed such divergent paths, despite notable similarities in personal characteristics .
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These developments were greatly facilitated and consolidated by the personal characteristics of a series of kings.
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Speaking in terms of personal characteristics , for a moment, there must be certainly resources of the spirit and the will.
physical
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This states that the defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him, as regards his physical characteristics .
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But the profiles also try to pinpoint physical characteristics , the paper said.
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In his work, different cultural groups or social classes appear as separate races with definite and visible physical characteristics .
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Unlike the highly sensitive child, the defiant child has some physical characteristics that make a more aggressive approach possible.
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Earlier we talked about antimatter - particles which have all their physical characteristics opposite to those displayed by particles of matter.
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As I mentioned earlier, not all children who are aggressive display these physical characteristics .
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Biochemical Adaptation in Parasites Parasites - from protozoa to helminths - occupy many environments that have markedly different physical and chemical characteristics .
similar
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Acrylic fibres are made into fabric which is soft and warm, and consequently has similar characteristics to wool.
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These characteristics are similar to the characteristics of Nottinghamshire practices as a whole.
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The wealth of Worcester, its size and eminence in the textile industry not withstanding, showed similar characteristics .
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A new piece of legislation on this issue, the Disabled Persons Act 1986, seems to have similar characteristics .
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In fact, similar managerial characteristics have continued to prevail in larger, technologically-advanced firms.
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Many planning systems exist whereby consumers with similar characteristics of purchasing behaviour are grouped.
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For those sports possessing a similar collection of characteristics we would expect to have substitute relationships.
social
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Are the people different in their social characteristics and if so why?
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Readers will find a central concern about the factors that influence social welfare a characteristic of many writings on social policy.
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It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns.
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The social characteristics of the two outer-city communities differ quite considerably from those of the inner city.
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The 1981 decennial census provides information on the social and economic characteristics of small areas of these cities.
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Identity markers are those social characteristics of an individual that they might present to others to support their national identity claim.
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Positivist research has generated much data about specific relationships between individual or social characteristics and the likelihood of conviction.
special
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Any handicaps or special characteristics which obviously affect health and development can not be ignored.
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Together, books and television form a useful alliance which has another set of special characteristics .
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The latter may have its own special characteristics for the job you have in mind.
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Nothing was said there which relied on any special characteristic of pain.
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Even somebody as talented as Cadalora may have trouble adapting to the special steering characteristics of the Honda.
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These will highlight the special characteristics and training required by the horse, together with the physical resources needed.
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This is one of the special characteristics of catholicism, and is found to a much lesser extent in non-episcopal traditions.
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She recognizes her own special rights as an adult, but also the child's individual interests and special characteristics .
specific
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From this emerges the time-\#specific characteristic of the photograph.
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Detailed information relative to the specific characteristics of the long-term debt is disclosed in the footnotes to the financial statements.
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Even when their specific characteristics are recognized, they are given different interpretations and names.
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Each member has a specific role and a specific characteristic .
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The extent that such voluntary information disclosures can be explained by these specific company characteristics will then be explored.
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These two aspects together dictate the specific characteristics of a given model, or paradigm.
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Psychology also studies specific characteristics of black subjects.
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Ravenna churches have a number of specific characteristics .
unique
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The red spots in the caudal peduncle region are one of the unique characteristics of this species.
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Medical examiners are interviewing family members about any unique characteristics to help identify bodies.
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Each national market will have its unique characteristics .
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Thus the unique driving characteristics of a 911 are preserved.
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Each has unique characteristics , too.
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Because setting varies enormously, since each watercourse possesses its own unique characteristics , pollution is a highly relative notion.
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He saw the unique characteristics of adolescent thought and personality as a normal outgrowth of development.
■ NOUN
personality
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Eysenck's theory depends on a high correlation between criminality and particular personality characteristics identified by personality tests.
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What personality characteristics do you think are desirable in a political leader?
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During the first few years of life, enduring personality characteristics are established.
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Psychologists have never had much success at defining which personality characteristics are inherited in humans and which are not.
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But in fact lawyers vary all over the lot in their personality characteristics .
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Other event-producing situations are unrelated to an individual's approach to life or personality characteristics .
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There are also personality characteristics which are manifested both as strengths and weaknesses.
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define
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Psychologists have never had much success at defining which personality characteristics are inherited in humans and which are not.
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Those who hold that tongue speaking is the defining characteristic of pentecostalism insist on the Topeka advent.
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A defining characteristic of the Bund was its acceptance of debate and dissent.
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Originality is a defining characteristic of Great Groups.
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It is emblematic of the difficulties facing those who attempt definitions in the current age of resistance to overarching defining characteristics .
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Optimism and energy, especially in the face of adversity, are defining characteristics of our clan.
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The ability to define characteristics such as mass, velocity, inertia and elasticity is also planned.
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Solitude for this writer was the defining characteristic .
distinguish
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That is its distinguishing characteristic , and something to which we shall return.
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But race is not the distinguishing characteristic of this growing rape epidemic.
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His mildness and patience were particularly distinguishing characteristics .
exhibit
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Such a reaction is both natural and understandable: the Constitution does exhibit those very characteristics .
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It is a political project exhibiting all the characteristics of a centrally controlled socialist economic system.
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These are learned from others in the group who already exhibit these characteristics .
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To appear round and full was to exhibit the characteristics of prosperity and the patent outcome of regular meals.
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They do not exhibit the semantic indeterminacy characteristic of poetic metaphors.
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Populations that have the greatest potential for achieving benefits and cost-effectiveness in nutrition care exhibit the following characteristics: 1.
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Many women workers exhibit labour market characteristics traditionally associated with vulnerability to unemployment.
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Marijuana exhibits characteristics of a depressant as well as a stimulant; however, it is classified as neither.
identify
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Between them, these statements identify three characteristics at the heart of educational research.
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It is possible to identify the characteristics of organizations and institutions where scandals arise.
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These groups can be defined only by pilot programmes specifically designed to identify the characteristics of such groups.
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Meisel identifies three functional characteristics which-Mosca's elite has to have - group consciousness. coherence and conspiracy.
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This information is then used to profile each area and identify the principal characteristics of the neighbourhood.
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So, we have identified two characteristics of winning strategies: niceness and forgivingness.
possess
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Sport can possess the characteristic of a capital good, one that yields a return as part of a market production process.
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Sentimental comedy possesses several characteristics that are incompatible with the classic concept of tragedy and the tragic hero.
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The theory states that individuals possess certain characteristics so that they are predisposed to act in a certain way within a given situation.
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For a novel writer who may possess individual writing characteristics , unknown to the handwriting recogniser, performance can be low.
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They are buildings of the Romanesque or Gothic periods and possess strong Byzantine characteristics .
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What explanatory surveys require are cases which possess characteristics relevant to the problem of the research.
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Assets are imperfect substitutes because they possess different characteristics with respect to liquidity, marketability and profitability.
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The simplest creatures to possess these physical characteristics are the jellyfish and their relatives.
share
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Galton developed a technique for superimposing a number of photographed faces of people with shared characteristics or circumstances.
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As dynamic wholes, these all share certain characteristics: a certain liveliness, for one.
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To a much lesser degree, retailing may share some such characteristic .
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Headaches that share characteristics of both types are called mixed tension-migraine or combined headaches.
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She prided herself on her honesty and knew that Helen shared this characteristic .
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These advances always share certain characteristics: 1.
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This appears to be closely related to whether we share the observed characteristic or not.
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But all these leaders share certain essential characteristics .
show
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In addition, immediate relatives of diagnosed psychotics show schizotypal characteristics more frequently than would be expected by chance.
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The wealth of Worcester, its size and eminence in the textile industry not withstanding, showed similar characteristics .
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Conceivably, different forms, changing at different rates and showing contrasting combinations of characteristics , were present in different areas.
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This confirms that lesions associated with one particular virus type may show diverse morphological characteristics .
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These buildings show characteristics different from later Romanesque work.
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The few girls who enter science will not usually show these foreclosure characteristics .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All great leaders share certain characteristics which must be seen as the key to their success.
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Can you describe the robber's physical characteristics?
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Leadership and honesty are the characteristics of a good manager.
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One of the characteristics of this species is the dark blue markings on its back.
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Ralph can be very mean sometimes. It's one of his less endearing characteristics.
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The main characteristics of capitalism are private ownership of capital and freedom of enterprise.
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The two diseases have a number of characteristics in common.
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The UK shares many characteristics with other European countries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A chief characteristic of isolationism is not caring very much about what happens elsewhere.
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As educators, we are concerned with the characteristics of both learners and their environments.
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But in fact lawyers vary all over the lot in their personality characteristics.
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In this chapter we have seen that growth is an inherent characteristic of both the Kingdom and the Church.
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The most striking characteristic of Morris's designs is a sensuous vitality derived from his deep love of nature.
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The second characteristic of my industrial world is that it is incredibly international.
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Their acidic characteristics makes them particularly suitable for the dairy industry, breweries and soft drink manufacturers.
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These are also the characteristics of good citizenship, and they should be emphasized in the teaching of all subjects.
II. adjective
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highly
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Basking is highly characteristic of arctic insects.
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This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place.
most
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The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
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The location and quality of the pain are most characteristic .
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The most characteristic feature of addictive disease is that it is a relapsing condition.
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When, in his most characteristic gesture, he presses a gesticulating finger to his forehead, his hand trembles.
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These spatter cones contain little, if any, fine-grained ashy material and are amongst the most characteristic products of Hawaiian eruptions.
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I have focused attention on identification with the society as being the most characteristic attitude thus expressed by citizens.
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These small crystals are known as phenocrysts and are one of the most characteristic features of andesites.
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One of the most characteristic signals of a cat entering or leaving a social group is the raising of its tail.
so
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Within the legal container of marriage, the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock.
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This change is so characteristic that its absence should raise a serious question about the diagnosis.
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And this is without the inevitable political and legal wrangling so characteristic of any nuclear activity in the United States.
very
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The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough, and is very characteristic with × 20.
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Mitch Miller always had a very characteristic conducting style, with his hand in the 0.
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There is something very characteristic of Mary Leapor in these lines.
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This kind of difference in detail is very characteristic of convergent evolution, as we have seen.
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The whole cluster is in the same binocular field, even with × 20, and the shape is very characteristic .
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But amygdalin reacts with an enzyme in the almond to produce glucose and two very characteristic compounds, benzaldehyde and prussic acid.
■ NOUN
feature
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Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life, they have been with us for a very long time.
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These are the characteristic features of a Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood as seen in a male.
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The use of alternative names is a characteristic feature of Near Eastern writing.
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These small crystals are known as phenocrysts and are one of the most characteristic features of andesites.
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The characteristic feature of Brindley's canals was their winding routes, following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks.
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One of the characteristic features of their communities is the street-based group activity.
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Consider two of the characteristic features of the first sub-stage of the period Piaget calls the period of concrete operations.
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This social mobility is a characteristic feature , and has two implications.
form
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Yet they did have an important influence on the evolution of bargaining structure and the characteristic form which it assumed.
pattern
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The result is a characteristic pattern of light and dark fringes.
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In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.
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M39 is very loose, but sufficiently condensed to make it obvious, particularly in view of the characteristic pattern of its leading stars.
style
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Whatever the colour scheme, there are certain characteristic styles .
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The characteristic styles of great architects and designers may be seen clearly reflected - Chippendale, Sheraton, Adam and Hepplewhite.
way
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It shatters satisfyingly when hammered, and it does so in a characteristic way .
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They were all running, each in its own characteristic way , like a gathering of old friends in animated conversation.
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A few characteristic ways of changing minds may be examined.
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The evangelists make the point in their own characteristic ways .
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It is helpful to think of a leader more as a role with characteristic ways of behaving than as a particular person.
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Each has already developed its own characteristic way of exploiting that major insect invention, flight.
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The mammals have their own special and characteristic way of fuelling their developing young.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each species of bird has its own characteristic song.
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Larry, with characteristic generosity, invited everyone back to his house.
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Naomi is meeting the changes in her life with characteristic optimism.
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This pattern is characteristic of the local architecture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few characteristic ways of changing minds may be examined.
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Component subskills in reading and spelling A characteristic feature of any skill is a hierarchical organisation of component subskills.
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Contrasts of major and minor keys with the same root, found but once in Stuck's first book, are characteristic .
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Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses.
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In the advanced case, the upper limb is carried in a characteristic posture of flexion, adduction, and pronation.
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The choices are unlimited, but here are some of the characteristic elements which help to give a kitchen a particular atmosphere.
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What is characteristic of his interpretation is that he did not attribute any importance to the Maccabean movement.