DIMENSION


Meaning of DIMENSION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fourth dimension

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

added

International investment involves the added dimension of dealing in foreign currencies, providing the opportunity for additional profits.

Recently, of course, there has been an added dimension - part media-and-politician inflated, part real: drugs.

Others find that amplified vibration opens a whole new field of perception, an added dimension from which information can be gathered.

To me there is an added dimension if that new country is of a similar type to my own habitat - islands.

In the public sector there is also the added dimension of the politician-official relationship.

Below: Satin or embroidered ribbons, brocades, bows and tassels can all give added dimension and interest to pictures.

cultural

But little attention was paid to the cultural and communication dimensions related to this process.

By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.

This realisation of the cultural dimension to landscape history has implications for modern nature conservation.

Not surprisingly, therefore, most approaches have been based on the cultural dimension with the addition of ecological and occupational factors.

We must also focus on the cultural dimensions of the problem.

Altogether it will encompass 64 talks, workshops and open studios by artists looking at the subject from their own cultural dimension .

The aim of the present project is to follow up the earlier research through concentration upon the cultural dimension .

different

The affair had a different dimension now.

The richer empirical studies, however, have indicated that there are different dimensions of political participation.

We need the models to make sense of structure, but we also need to examine how different dimensions of inequality interrelate.

He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.

Spirituality is a genuinely different dimension to reality.

A pointedly different dimension in the development of a new manager emerged from the research described in these chapters.

I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss.

Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.

economic

Sylvopastoralism could also add a new practical and economic dimension to the debate on alternative systems for laying hens.

It also has an economic dimension .

His/her specific interests may lie in the political, social, cultural, strategic or economic dimensions of the subject.

The participating States stress that the Economic Forum remains the main venue for discussion of economic dimension issues.

This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers.

There is something about adult society which hates young people because of the economic dimension .

ethical

Secondly, the ethical dimension of reason is apparent in the communicative process of a discipline.

They are not sensitive to the ethical and moral dimensions of quality. 4.

A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.

Both these statements have important ethical dimensions , and they require separate analysis.

extra

In the Bible, the sea represents all these, and an extra dimension as well.

Other similar psalms add one extra dimension , the cry for vengeance on those who have put him there!

But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found, with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension .

Let it give an extra colour spice dimension to everything you do.

To deal with this extra dimension , we add Chapter 9 on conversation, and Chapter 10 on speech and thought presentation.

Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension .

Like the secret of Stradivari's varnish, this extra dimension defies analysis.

Jim had been good with relatives, but Jack had some extra dimension to add to it.

further

A further dimension is added to our understanding.

But there are further dimensions of that call for which union schemes have not yet come up with adequate solutions. 1.

A further dimension concerns the implications of acceptance and of market potential for supply industries.

They begin, after all, as caricatures who only take on further dimensions as the tale develops.

There is a further dimension to the scandal.

Building up from the surface of a board or canvas adds further dimension and vigour.

To add a further dimension to the diversification, Fujitsu recently introduced a very fast supercomputer for scientific use.

human

Anecdotes of legal excess reflect the world we see around us and add a human dimension to an otherwise arcane issue.

Time, the human dimension , which makes us everything we are.

The scenery may have been a bit more impressive there, but the human dimension was all but lost.

Concrete actions and new initiatives are recommended to restore the human dimension to its central position in development policy-making and planning.

During the discussion, it was noted that major progress had been made in compliance with human dimension commitments.

I was reflecting my engineering background and was insufficiently appreciative of the human dimension .

The number of large-scale human dimension seminars will as a rule be reduced to two per year.

important

For this reason, we need a wise awareness of the important dimensions of life.

The problem with the analog method is that scale is an important dimension of an ecosystem.

The other important dimension of parent-child support is gender, and there are several dimensions to this.

This is one reason why standards and routines represent an important dimension of housework behaviour.

Bureaucracy for them will have two important dimensions .

Ethnicity represents another important dimension of money transfers, but this is not visible in most specialist studies of family relationships.

One very important dimension of the information specialists' life-world was their interaction with the computer.

Gender is an important dimension in personal care.

international

For a time it even had an international dimension .

Of more urgent concern is the international dimension .

The changes I have suggested as national and internal actually have a very strong international dimension .

This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers.

But this is only one kind of international dimension , only one way of understanding the geography of the international economy.

large

Sagittal and transverse scans of the gall bladder at its largest dimensions were obtained.

Men must define and defend the larger dimensions of their sexuality by external activity.

A box of larger dimensions could be ordered.

All that is needed is a pool-liner that is larger in one dimension than necessary for the pool envisaged.

Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation.

moral

But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.

They are not sensitive to the ethical and moral dimensions of quality. 4.

The moral dimension of the ambivalence surrounding regulatory control is most clearly exposed by regulatory rule-breaking.

The third is rather more significant and relates to the moral dimension of change.

Thus, we have two arguments with a moral dimension but with contradictory implications for policy and for international order.

In particular, regulatory control is characterized by an ambivalence which has both political and moral dimensions .

new

New dimensions Adding diagonal ribbons creates a new dimension.

Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.

Add a new dimension to carefree cruising.

Lately, my wife has added a new and terrifying dimension to the Air-Conditioning Wars: night maneuvers.

This delight of no thought is an authentic world of a new dimension .

Objects and space literally take on a new dimension for the child.

other

Nevertheless, the excavations at Mallia may provide evidence that Minoan society had other dimensions .

What we may expect, know or not know about our audience can present other dimensions of difficulty and challenge.

Why did one time and three space dimensions flatten out, while the other dimensions remain tightly curled.

But, you see, there is the other dimension too.

The other important dimension of parent-child support is gender, and there are several dimensions to this.

In addition to the main distinction based on participant roles, the person system may be organized along a variety of other dimensions .

There are many other aspects and dimensions of vision for it is one of the authentic senses of men.

Our other dimension concerns the contrast between explaining and understanding.

political

Yet, inevitably it has a political dimension .

The protection of individual privacy, in the sense of anonymity, has an obvious political dimension .

Amalgamations were part of cooperative rationalisation in a drive to improve trading, but for Barnes this one had a distinct political dimension .

Social history Studies of the Miners' Strike have in general focused on their national political dimensions .

This political dimension may make the massive civil engineering work even more hazardous.

The political dimension makes any long-term transport project hard to carry out.

The Elf case has a political dimension that makes it an affair of state.

Needless to say, the material failure has had its political dimension .

single

Another dimension , or at least our world as a single dimension among many, he wrote.

A list of names is a single dimension array.

The information available is primarily on a single dimension and it is evaluated in sign language terms.

social

Three questions about the social dimension should be addressed to the Government.

The social dimensions go much deeper and involve a psychological division of labor as well.

It completely lacks the social dimension that Pugin and Disraeli both intended.

They ended by challenging many of the assumptions of scientific management and establishing that work had both social and psychological dimensions .

Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.

I commend his appreciation of the need for a social dimension in any reforms that may take place.

I need no lectures from the right hon. Gentleman about the social dimension .

ASWs are, by their training, the best equipped to examine social dimensions of section assessments.

spatial

Writers in this tradition do touch on some spatial dimensions but they are not central.

Therefore the spatial dimensions of accessibility and mobility have complex but very important social overtones.

spiritual

The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension .

The same may be said of the renewed attention to the spiritual dimension of life.

The links between the spiritual dimension and religion are in fact close.

The spiritual dimension in creative effort comes from that honest pursuit.

What happens when the spiritual dimension is recognised in treatment and rehabilitation?

People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all.

Just as there is a material dimension there is a spiritual dimension.

I mean, what about the spiritual dimension ?

whole

This is a collection of Sekers fabrics that will add a whole new dimension to the activities of the sales force.

It would give sports a whole new dimension .

It gave sight-seeing a whole new dimension .

It adds a whole new dimension to the story.

In the future, such systems will no doubt give a whole new dimension to videoconferencing.

Bringing a whole new dimension to the concept of in car entertainment.

■ VERB

add

Such a policy adds an entirely new dimension to the primary school curriculum and its planning.

LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.

Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension .

Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.

Breeding your own fish can add a new dimension to your fishkeeping.

An added dimension to these approaches is the portfolio.

Increasingly, evidence-based questions are being used which add two new dimensions to your study of history: 1.

For four days and nights, communal frenzy added a tragic dimension to this hapless and beleaguered city.

bring

The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension .

Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.

The great range of taped music currently available adds today's modern sounds and brings another dimension to the class.

What could be done to bring the metanormal dimensions of athletes into the open and nurture them more fully?

He brings to football a dimension which hasn't been present since the days of the great wingers.

It will be interesting to see whether Mains can bring a new dimension to All Black play.

consider

In this and the following chapters we shall consider the affective dimension more directly.

give

It simply gave my study another dimension .

Little boys-and girls for that matter-\#give Christmas another dimension .

He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.

This analogy can be helpful, particularly if it gives a visual dimension to our thinking.

The Watching after Mass is given a corporate dimension which can guide later private prayer.

The discovery that Diodorvs V contained a paraphrase of the same basic text gave an altogether different dimension to Posidonius' work.

Below: Satin or embroidered ribbons, brocades, bows and tassels can all give added dimension and interest to pictures.

introduce

I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss.

Modern education introduces a new dimension and changes the authority relationship between a woman and her group.

In the present chapter we shall introduce the dimension of input affect with an analysis of attitudes toward communicating about politics.

provide

Moving away from the camera, Alvin posed beside Rose Garden tubeworms, providing unarguable proof of dimension .

It does seem that the inspection provided a dimension in the appraisal process which otherwise would have been lacking.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the fourth dimension

"I think there's a fourth dimension, and taking drugs allows you to explore it," said Streminski.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a revival of interest in the spiritual and moral dimensions of life

The arrival of the South African team has brought a new dimension to the competition.

The new art gallery is impressive, but I felt the human dimension had been lost.

The plant closure could have an impact of unknown dimension on the local economy.

The political dimensions of the incident are clear.

The use of perspective allows us to represent three dimensions on a flat page.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A further dimension is added to our understanding.

All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life.

Bissett's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device.

But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found, with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension .

Chinatown was like its host city -- small and compressed in physical dimensions, boundless and ephemeral in spirit.

Practically nothing is known about the race dimension to ageing with a disability.

Suppose that in general, the ball is seen at a random angle in three dimensions, rather than two.

The general dimensions of the issue had not changed much from those noted during the 1980s.

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