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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a defining characteristic (= one that is necessary in order to be a particular type of person or thing )
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Originality is one of the defining characteristics of a great band.
a defining moment (= something that shows the real character or purpose of something )
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The win was a defining moment in the boxer’s career.
broadly defined
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Independent films are, broadly defined , movies that appeal to sophisticated audiences.
define the scope of sth (= say exactly what the scope is )
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The group’s first task was to define the scope of the review.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Fat women are defined as undesirable, asexual, maternal, sexually desperate, rampant or repressed.
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What young people come to define as intellectual competence what it means to know things and use themis shaped by their schooling.
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Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure.
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The suffocation of social pressure, the idea of self-worth as defined by men, it all rings true.
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Third, we are, inpart at least, talking about an activity which appears to be defined as problematic by users themselves.
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The power goes beyond that which can be defined as physical or mental.
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When they are present they are present for the most part performing female roles as defined by that society.
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Kennedy because he was said to lack the punch and aggressiveness defined as essential Kennedy traits.
broadly
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The Meaning and Purpose of Regulation Economic regulation might be defined broadly as government interference in what could be a market-based activity.
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Personality Personality can be broadly defined as the propensities within an individual to act a certain way, given a particular context.
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Independent films are, broadly defined , movies that appeal to sophisticated audiences, usually produced outside the traditional studio system.
clearly
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Progress on each syllabus is clearly defined in the contents section describing the units.
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The clearly defined black spots and red bands of courage that set the rainbow apart from other trout are truly remarkable.
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Quadrant 2 contains those activities where goals and outputs are more clearly defined but the means to achieve them are not.
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A cable industry trade group said the technological exemption has not been clearly defined by legal tests.
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The institution is expected to wait until investigations are complete and criminal responsibilities are more clearly defined before bringing charges.
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Plot: It should be clearly defined and complex enough to keep the reader involved.
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Acronyms and symbols are defined clearly and used consistently.
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Develop a mission statement of two sentences or less that clearly defines your definition of personal and business success.
sharply
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Within this framework, every character is sharply defined .
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His nose was long and straight and his mouth was sharply defined and beautifully shaped.
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In fact there are some nice examples of mixes of higher education and new technology thriving in sharply defined cultural niches.
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Only she, and you as her parents, have any sharply defined reality.
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The buildings were two stories high, sharply defined by the hard Hopperesque light.
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None of these élites had sharply defined boundaries, and there was much overlap among them.
■ NOUN
area
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Equally, how is language pedagogy to be defined in relation to other areas of enquiry that impinge upon it?
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It is helpful to define these areas in writing so that you both know where you are.
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In the late nineteenth century, at the time when the border was defined , the area was sparsely popula-ted.
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She defines the area of feminist epistemology as that of developing theoretical accounts of knowledge which retain continuity with women's experiences.
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Still, his borrowings and his changes do at least define his area of interest.
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The face is defined as that area below the eyebrows and extending down to the chin.
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The reproducible symbolic visual image became a mode of defining a social area of credit or of power.
attempt
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Despite this there have been various Parliamentary attempts to define the phrase.
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However, few make any attempt to define it or shape it in positive ways.
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Actually, I made no attempt to define anything.
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Each was an attempt to define the respective limits of integration and loyalty.
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Inevitably, this attempt to define the most powerful school of art since the war is going to lead to fierce arguments.
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If this be thought to be disingenuously restrictive, an attempt to define away the opposition, then consider the alternative.
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One would therefore expect to find an attempt to define what debentures are.
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Browsing: a definition Various attempts at defining the nature of browsing have been made.
boundary
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First, it entails defining the site's boundaries beforehand, and these are not always known with certainty.
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Of course, that figure depends on how you define the geographic boundaries of the area.
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The need to define the boundaries of obedience is at the heart of Richardson's novel.
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Every political system defines its boundaries of legitimate action differently.
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None of these élites had sharply defined boundaries , and there was much overlap among them.
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In this chapter we define the boundaries of the sports industry and outline the key contributors to its economic importance.
class
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These findings are consistent across studies despite variations in methodology, ways of defining social class and populations studied.
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The consumption of ducks has increased in recent years, so it may be practical to define the various classes of ducks.
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The test of benefit of a class leaves the courts considerable discretion as to how to define the class.
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We shall treat this problem in greater detail when we define the major classes of political culture.
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In a clearly stratified society, the interests of this audience were predominantly defined by class .
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But their first difficulty is to define class .
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CenterLine's software can now define object classes with Objectivity/DB and interactively access Objectivity/DB objects.
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ParaSet defines a new product class based on parametric software development, which manages the complexity of design and maintenance.
need
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You will be able to define your needs without knowing the solution.
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The Disabled Persons Act 1986 recommends, but does not legislate, that local authorities should define need and provide for it.
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Who defines teachers' professional needs ?
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Severe urgency was defined as an urgent need to defecate which has to be relieved in less than one minute to avoid incontinence.
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In other areas geriatrics patients are defined by their need for rehabilitation and multi-disciplinary care.
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Each school was encouraged to define its particular needs and prepare a programme which would best meet them.
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Consequently, management performance is defined as a need to know whether money was spent wisely.
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There was a tendency to acquiesce in low expectations of disadvantaged children and to define their needs in emotional rather than educational terms.
position
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A-CONFORMOLINES is used to supply the location coordinates of a set of points defining the position of the boundary of each zone.
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The authority and task boundaries that define his position , however, continually shift like sand.
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Dole, the hardest of men to manage, has moved with glacial slowness to define his own position .
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This is a standard operating procedure that enables our grassroots membership to define the small-business positions on important issues.
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They may define positions that have often been repeated, but they can not be given a timeless quality.
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The new managers generally defined their new positions by their responsibilities, not their relationships.
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The contours of the tube are then defined by the position of the entanglement points in the network.
problem
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By defining our problem more clearly we help ourselves in deciding what we are going to do about it.
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Increasingly, federal officials were defining the problems of urban areas as local problems requiring local solutions.
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She must first define the problem implicit in her client's questions and decide which parameters are relevant.
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He would have the resources and training to be able to help them and to define and solve their problems .
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In spite of this we do need to make an effort to define the problem .
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Since we are unlikely to find the best definition we should try defining the problem in alternative ways.
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But, of course, safety had been defined out of the problem .
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The view of pedagogy proposed here, then, makes teachers responsible for defining their own problems and providing their own solutions.
relationship
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Thus a set type can be defined as a named relationship between record types.
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It came to me that this was a defining moment in the relationship between these two brilliant minds.
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Temple defined the relationships which constituted our real wealth as existing in terms of family, community and nation.
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Moreover, we use space to define our relationships .
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The virgin is the reserved figure who does not define herself in terms of her relationships with men.
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The problem should be clearly and explicitly defined , and the relationship to health should be stated. 2.
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The object will be one of those defined in the Zone Relationship Diagram mentioned above.
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A bond can be defined as a unique relationship between two people that is specific and endures through time.
role
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Emerging autonomy - the employees begin to define their own role but still need guidance. 6.
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Like the others in the managers' networks, their peers defined the managerial role according to their own priorities.
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The truth of this does not make it easy to define the teacher's role in management.
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No wonder the new managers found it difficult to make sense of and define their new role .
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The other was that in defining individual teachers' roles , schools were asked to recognize the importance of job-satisfaction.
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He is therefore deeply dependent on the structure of the society to define his role .
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The new treaties will define that role and extend it.
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In fact, nearly half of the superiors explicitly mentioned agenda setting in defining the managerial role .
section
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Progress on each syllabus is clearly defined in the contents section describing the units.
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Instead, the Cut / Copy Rectangle command used the exact position of the cursor to define the vertical section of text.
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Section 24 provides for a power of summary arrest in respect of arrestable offences as defined in that section.
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Columns are defined as vertical sections of text separated from other text by tab or tab-align codes.
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Thus corporal punishment is defined in the section with reference to the tort of battery.
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It is for this reason that technical terms be clearly defined in this section of the proposal.
set
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It is recommended that this is defined as a fixed set by the Project Manager concerned.
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Leaders have a clearly defined set of values.
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It is, in any case, impossible to define a consistent set of masculine interests served by such stereotyping.
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Certain occupational groups style themselves as professions and the concept is defined in terms of a set of purported characteristics.
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The nature of the relationships is defined by a set of keywords followed by the name of the related module.
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Exchange of cost information is clearly important in defining the set of possible agreements and arriving at one.
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It discusses the current status of the different detection methods and summarises their applicability to defined set of foods and food products.
term
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Obligations can also be defined in negative terms , by excluding duties which would otherwise arise.
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Markets define things in terms of their exchange value.
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The consultants working on the Fastlink plan will define the terms of a competition to encourage interest among private companies.
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A StructuralFunctional Definition A state can be defined in terms of its essential structures and functions rather than by its legal standing.
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We shall define the term as follows.
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That product can be identified and defined in terms of its customer, internal or external.
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So before we examine the debate in more detail let us define our terms .
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Every minute of his life was defined in terms of the opening second of the fight.
word
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It is difficult to define which words or phrases constitute jargon.
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An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity.
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Helpfully the New Oxford Dictionary is on hand to define any difficult words that may crop up.
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He defines the Arabic word hamas as enthusiastic, but intelligent, anger.
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And you define yourself by the words you use, in my case words that seek to present bare facts.
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Dictionaries define one word in terms of others, and this characteristic may be shared to some extent by semantic memory.
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A learner's dictionary will define far fewer words and concentrate on examples of usage for those words.
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A sentence spent defining a word or phrase can make valid the rest of your answer.
■ VERB
help
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But these will be accompanied by organizational arrangements, systems of administration and working conventions which will also help to define policy.
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Using eight criteria that help define the risk-reward equation, Bloomberg takes a look at Albers and his fund.
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Its special force of percussive tone helps to define musical entries and mark changes of tempo.
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He would have the resources and training to be able to help them and to define and solve their problems.
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These help to define how consumers' participation decisions relate to price changes.
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They help to define the prey's body as a body.
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What lies ahead is a battle that will help define the 21st century.
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It has helped particularly in defining its nature.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dietary fibre can be loosely defined as the cell-wall material of plants.
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Each of us might define the concept of freedom in a slightly different way.
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The dictionary defines it as "a narrow passage".
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Early childhood educators are rarely involved in defining problems, shaping solutions, or choosing options.
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It must define the target and the date by which it is to be achieved.
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Some one else defines who they are and what they stand for as public figures.
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The outer boundary of a closed figure usually defines its size.
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The rest of the movie, however, is not as successful; motivations are unexplained and characters are less than defined.
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They define a good patient as one who accepts their state-ments and their actions uncritically and unquestioningly.
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This, clearly, is another key concept in the theory, so how is it defined?