I. adjective
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an intellectual/physical/technical etc challenge
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I love the physical challenge of climbing.
emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment
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a child starved of emotional nourishment
intellectual curiosity
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Highly intelligent people are full of intellectual curiosity.
intellectual property
intellectual snobbery
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intellectual snobbery
intellectual snobs
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a bunch of intellectual snobs
intellectual/academic ability
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No one doubts his intellectual abilities.
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A degree is evidence of your academic ability in a particular subject area.
mental/physical/intellectual etc incapacity
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Evidence of his mental incapacity was never produced in court.
political/intellectual/cultural etc ferment
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the artistic ferment of the late sixth century
the intellectual climate (= the general way of thinking )
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New inventions can change the intellectual climate.
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■ NOUN
ability
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He says he wanted to find out if he had the intellectual ability to complete a degree starting from nothing.
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Almost all of the identified work-inhibited students had average to superior intellectual ability scores.
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Relaxation or withdrawal of treatment before mid-childhood has been associated with a further decline in intellectual ability .
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Only one student had a score that fell below the average range, and most had above-average intellectual ability scores.
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He combined outstanding intellectual ability with a vigorous, highly disciplined, and formidable personality.
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Mills refers to this intellectual ability as a certain flexibility or quality of the mind.
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It is difficult to conceive of such thinking taking place without the growth and development of intellectual ability .
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The issue of intellectual ability is especially important when considering the prevalence of mild dementia.
activity
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Tests show that many intellectual activities are highly correlated.
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Affect is responsible for the activation of intellectual activity and for the selection of which objects or events are acted on.
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The level of intellectual activity there.
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It refers to observable behaviors-sensorimotor and conceptual-that reflect intellectual activity .
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This intellectual activity was partly no doubt prompted by the blatant individualism of the New Right.
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It determines what contents intellectual activity focuses on.
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He kept repeating: sustained intellectual activity .
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Question Two: Do boys and girls participate equally in both physical and intellectual activities ?
capacity
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I probably felt that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, thought that the task was beyond my intellectual capacity .
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Furthermore, the size and weight of the brain are not the only determinants of intellectual capacity .
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The short answer to this question is no: it is not something which demands special intellectual capacity .
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Excellence continued to be defined in terms of intellectual capacity in theoretical or abstract analysis and not in terms of the practical application of knowledge.
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Paganism and extreme idolatry are indicative of a low level of intellectual capacity and of a limited concern for human welfare.
challenge
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There is, she says, little intellectual challenge , hardly any praise, not even much blame.
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Lent was also the season when the Church confronted perhaps its most vexing intellectual challenge .
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Problems, puzzles and policy issues Puzzles are mental tasks or games that present some intellectual challenge but are easily solved.
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Judge Bork responded that it was the intellectual challenge that appealed to him.
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But pleasure, and intellectual challenge , is in response to individual installations rather than to the exhibition as a whole.
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They could see how much they enjoyed actually selling and missed its intellectual challenge and glamor.
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There is no serious intellectual challenge to it.
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It did not present the kind of intellectual challenges that had attracted me into science.
climate
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The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate .
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Similarly, Labour in 1964 won because its message was in tune with the prevailing intellectual climate .
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Nevertheless, the intellectual climate of the Cortes of Cadiz was anti-aristocratic.
curiosity
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Finally, she lists the intellectual pursuit model, which is self-directed and self-motivated by intellectual curiosity .
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It is rich in intellectual curiosity and academic and cultural diversity.
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Where were the important elements: inventiveness, initiative, adaptability, intellectual curiosity , sensitivity, confidence, determination?
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This was a matter of both intellectual curiosity and national security.
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A shy, self-effacing man, Williams was self-taught, and showed an independent and determined intellectual curiosity .
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There is far more high-mindedness, racial tolerance and intellectual curiosity than you might expect.
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These investigations of the sun's luminosity are not just intellectual curiosity .
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Chimp behavior holds insights into teaching humans self-esteem, intellectual curiosity and the ability to get along with others, she says.
development
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The co-option of an academic may well be a statement about the way in which the school values intellectual development .
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Levels of intellectual development vary considerably among children.
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But now the struggle is for methodology to really be geared towards stimulating intellectual development and problem solving.
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Accordingly, differences in prior experiences can contribute to individual differences in intellectual development .
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For themostpart she was portrayed as a frivolous ingenue whose emotional and intellectual development was gently guided by her serious-minded husband.
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Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development .
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The relationship between early sensorimotor development and later intellectual development has been established.
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These changes in structures are a major aspect of intellectual development .
effort
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Most of them applied themselves to their exercise books, their faces contorted with intellectual effort .
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The central aim in intellectual effort is to live as fully as possible.
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No intellectual effort need therefore be wasted on this bit of ruling-class chatter.
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It was a mystery that had eluded the intellectual efforts of Isaac Newton and teased the mind of Albert Einstein.
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Natural language indexing tends to shift the intellectual effort necessary for effective retrieval to the end-user.
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The low level of intellectual effort was shocking.
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Yet it is not a picture of some one taking things easy: rather of continual, if misdirected, intellectual effort .
elite
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The opposition mostly represents the upper-middle class and intellectual elite .
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In this area, change is very slow, and is confined almost entirely to the intellectual elite .
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The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations.
ferment
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It was an age of intellectual ferment too.
freedom
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What, though, are the connections between criticism and this sense of intellectual freedom embedded in higher education?
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Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom .
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On the issue of intellectual freedom , however, contrasts begin to appear.
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It was against a Jesuit who had written about comets and was a manifesto for intellectual freedom in science.
growth
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They felt a need to reorder a broken world, a need that contributed greatly to their intellectual growth .
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Reading, which in other settings has promoted the intellectual growth of a people, now threatens to arrest it.
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Learning, education, and intellectual growth in most cases were restricted to the period from childhood to young adulthood.
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Either of these extremes would result in abnormal intellectual growth .
history
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Contemporary intellectual history is an element in my present enterprise, though the very recent past is hard to see clearly.
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Male philosophers have, in effect, been doing so since the beginning of intellectual history .
inquiry
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It insisted on wholly open intellectual inquiry , and on a related entire tolerance.
level
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These differences are perhaps more acute on an intellectual level than in reality.
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She also figured out that she wanted to work with people on an emotional as well as an intellectual level .
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She's a pretty child, but hardly his intellectual level , I should have thought.
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Geoffroy's challenge had a significance beyond the purely intellectual level .
life
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How different Oxford was from Nebraska ... Oxford, the very centre of intellectual life .
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While Cooley bets his intellectual life upon inquiry that depends upon such methods, these strategies for learning may fall away.
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In the United States the graduate school is the major arena of pedagogic activity and intellectual life .
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I wanted an urban and intellectual life , not the desolation of a small farm.
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On the other hand there was a great surge of Left-wing sentiment in the political and intellectual life of the labour movement.
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The best demonstration that an academic person cares about others is sharing an active intellectual life .
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It was imaginatively true also in commerce and industry, in religious and intellectual life , and in the arts.
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He shares his intellectual life with literary scholars rather than the great sociologists.
property
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Effective intellectual property protection underpins this continued research and development.
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This agreement obliges countries to have measures for the intellectual property protection of plant varieties.
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The law of confidence can be a very useful adjunct to other intellectual property rights.
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He has traveled widely, lecturing on such obscure but important topics as cryptography, intellectual property and cognitive theory.
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He has, he says, no wish to compromise the commercial and intellectual property rights of the research based pharmaceutical companies.
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Since the world economy now rests more on brains than on brawn, intellectual property protection is crucial to honest trade.
stimulation
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A less complimentary analysis might be that value was placed on this because intellectual stimulation was at a premium on that unit.
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But there was next to no creative intellectual stimulation .
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Literature on Guillain-Barré syndrome places a high value on planning and implementing a programme to promote intellectual stimulation .
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They can be valuable purely as a means of providing social companionship, activities of all descriptions, and intellectual stimulation .
tradition
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Leese's idiosyncratic views on race derived from his own experiences rationalized in terms of a particular intellectual tradition .
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To split up work into its components mirrored the intellectual tradition of calculus.
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Scholars in certain intellectual traditions may be less prepared for everyday life than those in current political leadership.
work
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It may seem pretentious to say so but it is intended in Gramsci's terms as an organic intellectual work .
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They will inform my intellectual work .
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In St Luke's Hospital he would not have been allowed to engage in demanding intellectual work .
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Whether they choose to engage in serious intellectual work or not is up to them.
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He never recovered, and for the rest of his life was incapable of intellectual work .
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Reading this book, I am struck by how much intellectual work can revolve around playing with blocks.
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Defining the academic too narrowly can leave many without intellectual work to do.
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Doing intellectual work , I have always known, also makes things better for me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mental/intellectual/moral gymnastics
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I changed into my running clothes and did three miles while I went through the mental gymnastics of getting the case organized.
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None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make them into atmospheric phenomena.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She likes reading those trendy intellectual magazines about politics and society.
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the intellectual development of children
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There seemed to be remarkably few cultural or intellectual events for the undergraduates at the university.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accordingly, differences in prior experiences can contribute to individual differences in intellectual development.
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It could have defended the frontiers, repressed religious intolerance and done something to accelerate economic and intellectual progress.
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It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.
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She's a pretty child, but hardly his intellectual level, I should have thought.
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The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead causes intellectual impairment or behavioural disturbances in children.
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The libretto and music, completed in 1928, came from the rambunctious intellectual environment of Paris between the two world wars.
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This intellectual activity was partly no doubt prompted by the blatant individualism of the New Right.
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Thus, the roots of all intellectual development are in early sensorimotor behavior.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Stop thinking you're some great displaced intellectual all the time.
leading
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Like Dean Inge, the careers and culture of leading medical intellectuals displayed distinctive connections between science and morality.
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He enjoyed his social life with leading intellectuals and noblemen, where there was much debate, all without rancour.
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Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus, who died in 1308, was no dunce - he was a leading church intellectual .
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Other leading intellectuals were also told to leave the party and their job.
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It's an organization of writers, artists and intellectuals, who come together to discuss their ideas.
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Soviet intellectuals helped change the political climate of the country.
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The restaurant was once the meeting place for leading French left-wing intellectuals such as Sartre and de Beauvoir.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both were ambitious, leery of intellectuals, and contemptuous of liberals, whom they thought were hypocrites.
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It was not long before such people became the butt of the intellectuals.
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Park imprisoned dissenters, including opposing politicians, intellectuals, and journalists.
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Some intellectuals of the Cold War vintage support the bill ardently.
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The reaction from most intellectuals to these three cases has either been approval or silence.
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The third task of universities is a sort of Olympic games for intellectuals.