I. noun
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a key element/feature/component (= a very important part )
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Advertising is a key element in the success of a product.
a vital ingredient/component
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Involving teachers in making decisions is a vital ingredient in raising morale.
an essential component
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Controlling inflation is an essential component of the government’s economic strategy.
the component/constituent parts of sth (= the separate parts that form it )
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The body is a complex thing with many constituent parts.
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■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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It doesn't stop there though, it advances into the basic components of a computer.
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The basic components we will describe are fairly typical.
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At £1,045, the Greenfield has many of the same basic components as its rivals.
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The participating States reaffirm that freedom of expression is a human right and a basic component of a democratic society.
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We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
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Kits are available with four basic components - surrounds, inserts, hearth and the fire itself.
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Yet, without altering the basic components of the mix, it was possible to detect a shift in the nuances.
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There are four basic components necessary to successful meditation.
crucial
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From the 1920s sports reporting and photography was accepted as a crucial and specialized component of popular journalism.
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A 3-D card is the crucial component in making a virtual world and its inhabitants look and function as its makers intended.
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Secondly, language being the usual vehicle of expression, linguistic meaning is a crucial component of social life.
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The implications for morale, a crucial component in the grim chemistry of war, are obvious.
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Demographic and social indicators are crucial components of most of these estimates.
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Profits, people and teamwork Higher productivity is a crucial component of our drive to improve profitability.
different
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In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
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All in all, the eatery is a breakfast bargain, with enough different components to keep boredom at bay.
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He continued: It is a complex regime, with maybe 20 different components ....
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The different components refer to the different curvatures in different directions in the space-time.
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The final product may have as many as 40 to 50 different components .
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More often than not, to account for linguistic phenomena we require diverse kinds of information from different components of a grammar.
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Martin describes the principles of the viewdata sets and the different components of the viewdata service.
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It enables us to formulate hypotheses about relationships among the different components of culture and to test these hypotheses empirically.
electronic
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One of the few exceptions is a small factory, mainly employing women, which produces electronic components .
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The new Computer Desk looks like a big, traditional desk yet features concealing spaces for electronic components .
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Prices of electronic components have fallen dramatically - this again usually is only possible with large scale in sales.
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These unique circuits contain semiconductor devices as well as other discrete electronic components soldered on a thin alumina substrate.
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The argument applies just as forcibly to many manufacturing industries, such as those of automobiles, electronic components , computers and aircraft.
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Such systems usually integrate additional electronic components , such as a laserdisc player.
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At one extreme it is used to support power cables; at the other to encapsulate electronic components .
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Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets.
essential
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It must be designed to constitute an essential component of those forces making for positive change in our country.
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Alternative Concepts of Accountability Public accountability is a essential component for the functioning of our political system.
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Mathematical and language skills unite in the understanding of logic and reasoning, an essential component of mature intelligence.
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A second essential component in all such programmes is winning over local people.
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The principle of exchange is urged as an essential component of the system.
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An essential component of any local management scheme is the staff training which precedes its introduction and continues throughout its operation.
fundamental
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Having established the phasor relationship between the fundamental components of phase voltage and current, the pull-out torque can be found directly.
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The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current.
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They are a major and fundamental component of the system of the unconscious, as distinct from the conscious and preconscious systems.
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This switched supply introduces a non-linearity, which can be eliminated by considering only the fundamental components of voltage and current.
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With the half-stepping excitation scheme, for example, the pull-out torque is predicted precisely from the d.c. and fundamental current components .
genetic
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Genetic evidence A number of studies have now firmly established the existence of a genetic component in the transmission of schizophrenia.
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The same study finds a genetic component to the susceptibility to nicotine addiction, too.
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Evidence supporting a genetic component to predisposition comes mainly from a large study of 15924 male twin pairs.
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Sometimes there seems to be a genetic component .
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Finding a remedy may be easier because there is less of a genetic component .
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In the case of diseases, the effect of any genetic component is more clear cut.
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The unusual geographical distribution is equally compatible with a genetic component .
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Because the sample is so large, even the last of these shows evidence of a genetic component .
important
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Of this cocktail the oxygen is by far the most important component for us when we breathe.
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An important component is the opportunity to receive up-to-date information from a childbirth educator.
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Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations' economy because it is a source of foreign income.
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It does mean, however, that emotions are a very important component of attention.
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Training is an important component of the last two of these suggestions.
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Clearly, women are now an important component of the law profession.
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Housing may also be an important component as its relative cost increased in Britain from 1955 to 1975.
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Third, the choice of conservation techniques and/or other policy measures is another important component of a conservation policy.
individual
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Searching endless suppliers for individual components is time consuming and expensive.
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The period from 1927 to 1936 he describes as marking the gradual dispersion of the group into its individual components and styles.
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In chapters 15 to 17 we apply to the individual profile components the principles set out in chapter 14.
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Mean changes at 16 weeks in individual components of the Leicester score relative to placebo are shown in fig 2.
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Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish.
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The operating characteristics of both the individual components and the circuit itself - voltages, currents and operating frequencies etc.
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Indeed, its individual components are already coming to market as separate portable products.
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You can also buy the individual components from a department store, d-i-y superstore or by mail order from Woodfit.
key
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Instead, we concentrate upon some key components and examples, which serve to illustrate the issues and problems involved.
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The lineup appears to be strong from top to bottom, but all the players know Bagwell is the key component .
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Transport is usually considered as the key component of the provision of social overhead capital.
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The key component was Thompson Seedless, which also are consumed as table grapes, raisins and grape concentrate.
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Its key components include a graphical user interface builder, database access, reusable application framework and cross-platform portability, it says.
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Rockwell not only built the space shuttle but constructed key components for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs of the 1960s.
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The key component of Karpov's strategy, challenging Black's only well placed piece.
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Instead they turned up on site with stone panels missing and without many of these key components .
main
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Social selection has thus yielded two main strategic components in the behaviour responsible for societal organization.
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The project has three main components .
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In fact the main component of a country's money supply is not cash but deposits in banks and other financial institutions.
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The other main component I use is an ordinary household sponge, or synthetic sponge.
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The three surviving main components are no longer in their original frame.
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The main component is of type M, and is one of the largest stars known.
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It consists of two main components: a pixel processor and a display processor.
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The main components of the picture are masked off using liquid masking fluid diluted with water.
major
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There is no doubt that inheritance is a major component of the problem.
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Finch said the major components of the plane are working well.
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The two major components of these new managerial powers and responsibilities are financial delegation and staffing delegation.
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They are all fairly similar and usually use good vinegar and wine as major components .
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It is especially prized because carbon, its major component , is by far the most important of all plant nutrients.
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One of its major components is a comprehensive library media program designed to meet their needs.
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In each case the honours subject occupies the whole of the final year with a research project as a major component .
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The rivalry between Fabius and Rocard had been a major component of the party's internal problems.
necessary
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The other necessary component was the deceased's name, which through its power could preserve life and identity.
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We will teach you that they can be very necessary components in an emotionally healthy life.
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Oiling the wheels, smoothing the path - very necessary components which pay dividends.
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A finding of malice is a necessary component of murder.
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Managers were told what to make and were sent the necessary materials, components , people, and money for wages.
principal
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The principal component , as always, is lack of language proficiency.
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The programme plots speakers in terms of their scores on two principal components , represented as axes of the graph.
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The first principal component , carrying 50 percent of the original variance, was dominated by land-cover differences in the rural area.
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A second widely-used transform is that of principal components .
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The final attempt at classification involved a supervised classification of principal components , 2, 3 and 4.
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The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
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The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise.
various
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The various components of the mixture separate as they gradually move down the column.
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In this chapter, we will present such a framework, one that integrates the various components of the I-way.
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What is also new is that they are building on and developing research in the various components of information skills.
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Figure 4. 7 shows the architecture of a local Internet service provider with its various components .
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Kuhn insists that his account constitutes a theory of science because it includes an explanation of the function of its various components .
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This can be the first time they see how the wall will look with its various components life-size.
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The various components of the system are shown in Figure 1.
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This will involve examination of the relation of size to the various cost components .
vital
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They form a vital component of our defences against chemical attack from trace compounds found largely in our diet.
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This is a small but vital component of the communication system.
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That is a vital component of the nation's action on the environment, because only business can actually deliver environmental improvements.
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The partners' duties A vital component of a partnership is the mutual trust between partners.
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But many caddies offer a great deal more and look upon themselves as vital components in the professional golfer's armoury.
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The use of the imagination is one of the vital components of successful hypnotherapy, whether regression is involved or not.
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These are the vital components of your engine's breathing system.
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Cholesterol, an excess of which can block blood vessels, is actually a vital component of every living cell.
■ VERB
contain
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Any partial parse that is rejected will be removed - thereby removing any parse that would have contained this component .
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The commission has insisted that the memorial contain a significant educational component , but the contents are still under discussion.
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It contains an optional listening component for the course.
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He said it contained engine components .
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When and, the approaching waves contain an impulsive component .
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The project also contains a cross-national component .
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They contain impulsive wave components , and therefore do not satisfy the conditions of Tipler's theorem.
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Consequently, age data contain a considerable error component that differs among surveys.
identify
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Woolf correctly identifies some of the components of an adequate theory of the penal crisis.
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It identifies each component by its part number and displays the assembly sequence in a series of levels.
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It attempted to identify the components of learning with a clarity not found elsewhere.
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Now, however, it is possible to identify specific gene components that contain the relevant hereditary information.
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The first is to take visual systems apart, identify their components and characterize the way these components work.
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It identified the components of the bomb - not who made it or how it was put aboard Flight 103.
include
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Part 2 introduces a new grammar, and includes a functional component .
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Their fabric typically included the following three components .
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These include components valuable to birds, such as temporary grassland, spring sowing and winter stubble.
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We therefore arrive at more recent definitions of myth which include a contributory component of surface-meaning.
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There is no doubt that our conceptions of various kinds of conscious episodes do indeed include relational components .
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For example, I had done a custom install of Word for Windows 95 and not included all the components .
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They include an impulsive component and a step component.
use
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In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
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Data are collected prospectively, using standardized surveillance components and nosocomial infection definitions.
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The mapper will use components from existing spacecraft to cut costs.
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Independent characters when used as partial components in compound characters sometimes occur in different positions in these more complex graphs.
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They are used mainly as components with other detergents to form commercial blends.
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The good news is that you can dial in most of your suspension needs using the standard Kawasaki components .
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A similar scoring system is used for the anxiety component .
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They complained that the Law of Similars often obliged them to use overpriced components , handicapping their products in world markets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bolt-on part/component/extra
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All the components should be tested before they are assembled.
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Gaining confidence is a major component of developing leadership skills.
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Researchers have identified the substance's chemical components.
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stereo components
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The factory makes aircraft engine components.
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All in all, the eatery is a breakfast bargain, with enough different components to keep boredom at bay.
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All the components of the Pythagorean model interlock, each absolutely necessary to the proper operation of the whole.
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If no physiological monitoring equipment is to be used, you will begin presenting both drinking and sensitization scene components.
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In order to construct an integrated theory of linguistic competence, it is essential to discover the logical ordering of components or levels.
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It is especially prized because carbon, its major component , is by far the most important of all plant nutrients.
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The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism.
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These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
analysis
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The observed inter-element correlations are reflected by the four major factors identified in a principle component analysis .
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Variance component analysis showed that at least two biopsy specimens should be evaluated per subject to allow a precise individual characterisation.
part
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First, the fairly simple trick of separating two component parts of a clue by a number of pages.
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The nation, on those subjects on which it can act, must necessarily bind its component parts .
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Check the Boss's Book for all the component parts .
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Finally, the state is fragmented, both in terms of political authority and the organizational form and logic of its component parts .
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Once the component parts have been established, their order in terms of time-scale can be decided.
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Some will be restored to running the exhibition condition, the remaining vehicles being used for component parts .
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Table 7.2 is a breakdown of the costs of each of the component parts .
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Gilt strips Here gilts are divided or stripped into their component parts that is, the interest and redemption payments.
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AlterNet operates its own network and maintains direct connections to most other component networks of the Internet.
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Methods for synchronizing such embryos and their component cells are dealt with in Sections 3.1 and 3.2.
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The component ratios are shown in Fig 3.
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The component systems of a complex system were loosely coupled, the component parts relatively autonomous.
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This branch of thermodynamics applies the laws of statistics to component microscopic particles.
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This is particularly true within areas such as avionic systems and component diagnostics.
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Whole armies disintegrated into their component individuals and sub-groupings.