noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a basic concept
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He was unfamiliar with the most basic concepts of chemistry.
abstract idea/concept etc
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the ability to translate abstract ideas into words
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■ ADJECTIVE
abstract
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As we shall see, there are problems inherent in trying to give shape to such an abstract concept as political culture.
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Ultimately, a central objective of political theorizing is to replace proper names with abstract concepts .
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The regime is abstract in concept , political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.
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As she gets older; she may have difficulty comprehending abstract concepts that are communicated through what she hears.
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We frequently telephone asking him to illustrate some obscure or abstract concept .
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All abstract , intellectual concepts that children will master at later ages are based on concepts they learn in their early relationships.
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Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions.
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Words are only essential to put across more abstract concepts and intellectual ideas.
basic
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Reichian therapy, acupuncture and many other healing techniques have as their basic principle the concept of energy flows in the body.
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People experience modernity without understanding its foundations, its basic concepts .
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But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
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They are scrambling definitions of basic concepts like quality, time, and values.
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But the basic concept can also be applied to the establishment of networks within large organizations.
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Moreover, the basic mythological concepts animating these two bodies of legend were not very different, either.
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Scamp a sketch of a design showing the basic concept .
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Accountants may not realize how much confusion there is amongst non-financial colleagues about basic accounting concepts .
general
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The effect of such an argument is however to view proportionality as a more general concept of fairness.
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We learn bow to learn, how to find out, what the general concepts are.
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A general concept of procedural fairness could therefore lead the courts into using and developing procedural forms other than classical adjudication.
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A general concept can be exemplified by any number of particular instances which need not stand in any causal relation with each other.
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Section I presents the general concepts used by him.
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Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women.
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The general concept of work is also shifting from man-machine interaction to man-man interaction with machines as aids. 10.
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Such a general concept was to be provided by Althusser's theory of relative autonomy within a structure in dominance.
key
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Excellence One of today's key management concepts is excellence.
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The strata identified in the class approach are called classes, the second key concept .
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Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty.
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You indicate in detail how key concepts are identified and measured in actual research settings.
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It is a stylised drama with understated dialogue that depends on recognition of key words and concepts .
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A key concept in understanding such major shifts, and relating them to wider economic change, is uneven development.
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For Lind, similarity is a key concept .
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It allows us to record the principal ideas, key concepts , competing explanatory theories and illustrations used. 5.
new
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Over eight million people came to admire this new concept of an environment where everything was intended to lift the spirits.
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Middleware Services Middleware is a relatively new concept that emerged only recently.
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They aim to give staff confidence before they have to deal with real customers, particularly with new concepts and ideas.
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The Spice of Life Human biological diversity is hardly a new concept .
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The provision of secondments to business and education is not a new concept .
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Hand in hand with the belt-tightening must come a new concept of government management.
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Cloud One has introduced a new concept in unit dose packaging.
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Clearly, though, the best way to improve your presentation skills is through practice and constructive criticism, hardly new concepts .
whole
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Put in a nutshell, it puts the whole concept of justice into jeopardy.
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And without steady caddie work, the whole concept of the trip was endangered.
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The whole concept depends upon the volume of water being sufficient.
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The whole concept , by the way, is indigenous to baseball.
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People have a whole concept of the tribe, of the other, of being together.
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With a simple statement we have done away with the whole concept of deafness itself.
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The whole concept of wealth made her distinctly uneasy.
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self
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It is considered that the self concept and the values a manager holds are of central importance in understanding motivation.
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apply
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The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
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ARPA-supported researchers applied this packet concept to their network-building projects.
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Accounting bases are methods of applying fundamental concepts to deal with the increasing variety of business transactions.
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The Motorola people talk all that jargon and apply the latest concepts along with the best of them.
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First are theoretical approaches which depend upon some empirical knowledge to apply theoretical concepts such as the continuity equation.
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Post-war Britain offers a suitable period in which to apply the concept of the social construction of old age.
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This applies even to the concept of authorial style.
based
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There is no doubt that the old rating system was based on the nebulous concept of a fair market rent.
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The rules are kind of based on a factory-stock concept .
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From this point of view the allocation of function and interface design are one core design activity based on the man-machine concept .
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All abstract, intellectual concepts that children will master at later ages are based on concepts they learn in their early relationships.
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Beveridge provided a rationale based on concepts of national efficiency, rationality and the rights of citizenship.
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The Royal Commission recommended a two-tier structure based on the concept of the enlarged city region.
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It introduced a single and unified code of child care law based upon a new concept of parental responsibility.
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Both the standard basis and the indemnity basis of taxation under rule 12 are based on concepts of reasonableness or unreasonableness.
develop
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He developed the concept of an open market within the Community to create the largest single market in the Western world.
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In the developing concepts of a machine aesthetic, these artists fully understood its relevance.
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In fact different groups of people see the world in different ways and develop words for their concepts .
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As people continue to have new experiences, they continue to develop new schemata and concepts .
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But judges seldom reach for a dictionary when seeking to develop a new legal concept .
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Children begin to construct knowledge about rules and justice, although typically they have not yet developed fully a concept of intentionality.
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Some programs are subject specific i.e. concentrate on developing skills and concepts in one subject area such as geography.
grasp
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The Opposition have totally failed to grasp the banding concept .
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Though I have no trouble grasping its concepts , math continues to be difficult for me.
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Other nations, notably the United States, grasped this concept years ago.
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There are those deep into their careers who still fail to grasp this concept .
introduce
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The purpose of the Bill is to introduce the concept of traffic calming into statute.
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Last year he successfully introduced the concept of market segmentation into a major corporate division.
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To understand the debate we must introduce the concept of portfolio balance.
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It is for this reason that we find concepts of such value and that I introduce here the concept of despair.
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The monographs should: Introduce the concepts of clean technology to academic and industrial practitioners.
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We have already introduced the concept of the manipulation of antecedents and consequences.
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The film should reinforce existing knowledge and then introduce further topics, concepts and principles.
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The intermediate form introduces a totally new concept , the named subcontractor.
understand
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To understand the concept of mikva, it may be helpful to picture it.
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Good understanding of most concepts up to and including algebra.
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Anyone who has paddled in the shallow waters of the Arahura river will understand how such a concept arose.
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Every researcher knows that a clear understanding of terms and concepts is necessary in order to communicate to other scientists and scholars.
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This makes driving an ideal context in which to understand the concept of subjective risk and explore its relationship with memory.
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S Department of Defense in the hopes of understanding better the concept of deception.
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I think the really critical issue is to understand the concepts behind the particular forms of financing which are used.
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Select an adviser who understands the self-victimisation concept and is far enough removed from the problem to be objective. 2.
use
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A fundamentally different analytical method is to use the concept of bibliographical coupling to construct clusters of co-citing journals.
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You might be surprised how difficult it is to develop a generally accepted definition of this most widely used political concept .
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The time has come to start using these concepts and arguments in relation to present-day urban sociology.
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Box 3. 1 suggests how you might try to use the concepts and methods of micropolitical analysis to assess such questions.
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To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency, economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency.
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This give-and-take using ideas provides emerging concepts with multiple experiential reference points.
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It would be inefficient and uneconomical to avoid such terminology when it can be used to crystallise a concept .
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Throughout the discussion every effort is made to show how the book uses these terms and concepts of social science.
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She thinks that marriage is an old-fashioned concept .
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The idea of a soul is a religious concept .
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What's your concept of an ideal society?
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Clearly, though, the best way to improve your presentation skills is through practice and constructive criticism, hardly new concepts.
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However, given finite resources, concepts of effectiveness and efficiency must be considered alongside concepts of need.
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The modular concept of custom-fitting a work space has taken on residential refinements.
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The Read codes adopt a particular approach to the representation of medical concepts.
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There is a continuing discussion as to what a concept really is.
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They are then arranged in a concept/keyword map that combines the syllabus concepts and the relevant subject content of indexed resources.
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To understand the nature of this challenge, we must first come to terms with the concept of a physical field.