MODERN


Meaning of MODERN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a modern myth

Is it a modern myth that we are living in a classless society?

all-time/modern/design etc classic

The play has become an American classic.

an advanced/modern society

The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.

This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.

be too bright/modern etc for sb’s taste

The building was too modern for my taste.

by modern standards/today’s standards

The technology was crude by modern standards.

modern civilization

Technology is one of the benefits of modern civilization.

modern conveniences

a hotel with all the modern conveniences

modern culture

Computers are a part of modern culture.

modern industry

Modern industry needs to be in places where there are good transport links.

modern language

a degree in modern languages

modern languages (= languages that are spoken now )

The school has a good modern languages department.

modern medicine (= medicine based on science )

Thanks to modern medicine, these babies will survive.

modern methods (= methods used now, but not in the past )

Modern methods of solving crime depend a lot on forensic evidence.

modern pentathlon

modern techniques

Archaeologists now use modern techniques such as aerial photography.

modern

Many people were against such a modern design in the old city centre.

modern/classical/medieval etc architecture

modern/contemporary poetry

She finds modern poetry difficult.

new/modern technology

People have no faith in new technology.

new/modern/up-to-date

The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.

prehistoric/stone-age/modern man (= people who lived at a particular stage of human development )

recent/modern/contemporary history

The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.

secondary modern

the modern age (= from the 20th century until the present )

the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age

the modern obsession with sth

the modern obsession with celebrities' lives

the modern/modern-day equivalent (of sth)

Horror films are the modern-day equivalent of morality tales.

the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era

a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era

traditional/modern style

The rooms are furnished in a modern style.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

It is interested in MIG-31 high-altitude interceptors, more modern submarines and help in building aircraft carriers.

A more modern one is the prohibition of lotteries.

Ballantyne's style is old fashioned and Golding's is more modern and up to date.

Much more modern than anything else in the street, they were well designed and built in glossy red brick.

It will be given a sleeker, more modern look-again following the lead set by the latest R1150R.

Certainly, more modern uses of the survey method have disregarded some of the rather naive methodological assumptions of the early surveys.

The Kozloduy complex also includes two more modern 1,000-megawatt units.

most

On Broadway they appreciated the benefits of the most modern theatres in the world.

Those with the most modern gear can land in zero visibility.

A modern ship with the most modern communications.

According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion.

All metals are monitored during alloying and before despatch, using the most modern analytical equipment in their own laboratory.

In fact, our fleet is known to be the youngest and most modern of any major airline in the world.

This is within reach of most modern multimedia computers, but that power may not be available on older machines.

■ NOUN

age

Like football managers, conductors are a phenomenon of the modern age .

From this demotion, the modern age came to feel severed from cosmology as no other culture had ever felt before.

I don't think he's equipped for the modern age , quite frankly.

Over time, his story became emblematic of the spirit of the modern age .

And beyond these individuals, it raises the possibility of a Republican Party, tolerant and moderate, for the modern age .

From all this intellectual turbulence the modern age was born.

A society is being reborn, but one which does not articulate itself in the media of the modern age .

Was our modern age of triumph destined from the start to be tinged with despair?

architecture

Between the wars the idea of modern architecture was a heroic adventure which could actually improve man's condition.

Now, thanks to modern architecture and a porous defense, neither is a problem.

The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.

Contrary to one of the fantasies of modern architecture , brick and masonry buildings are far more flexible than concrete, steel-framed ones.

The current architectural debate has served to polarise popular opinion on modern architecture .

Why then should anyone want to conserve examples of modern architecture ?

But here, similarly, Ancient architecture is humanist and modern architecture structuralist.

Charles's attacks on modern architecture made him a hero of the silent majority.

art

Tamayo's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art .

Movies are the modern art form.

The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art , from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.

I asked why the history of modern art was structured in one way, along one mute, and not others?

What do you consider to have been Matisse's most important contribution to modern art ?

My blood dripped on the ring floor and turned instantly black, merging with the modern art collage of other stains.

And when they pick apart the history of modern art , they attack modern art's most powerful institution.

It is these that modern art , and science, is seeking.

culture

Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture.

For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.

Steiner and Sontag are in a sense correct about the centrality of homosexuality to modern culture .

Up to the present day, modern culture has been almost totally Alexandrian.

But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts, one social, one intellectual.

Such inroads as modern culture made into the village tended to fortify this conviction.

In addition, use will be made of a series of articles concerning the nature of modern culture .

However, it is foolish to live with the denial of death, as modern culture tends to do.

dance

From a child she had taken ballet and modern dance lessons and was naturally drawn to Medau after seeing a lecture demonstration.

At one point Ronald was chasing me and I was pulling out all my modern dance technique.

Among their routines as they trip the light fantastic at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington are the old time and modern dances .

The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance .

Now Alvin set about creating in earnest his groundbreaking modern dance repertory company.

He was more comfortable with the straight forward physicality of another kind of modern dance that Crumb showed him.

day

I have already mentioned the influence of Barth in the modern day .

A modern day Gothic of such purity that it is almost a parody.

The 68K4 ... a modern day black beauty.

He shows the impact of history on his modern day characters.

They wanted to present a collage of what they had discovered in the format of a modern day local radio programme.

A modern day off-shoot of it.

The recipes though are the result of modern day trial and very lucky errors.

In a modern day Sleeping Beauty, set in New York, he wakes a medieval princess with a kiss.

era

Here, then, at the opening of the modern era , we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty.

I prefer a rendezvous without any reminders of the modern era at all, but there can be some leeway.

And, in this modern era , the squad sessions are not restricted to instruction on technique.

In a sense, the modern era of fusion research dates from that measurement in 1969.

Carl Lewis of the modern era has won eight.

In the modern era , players of their calibre would surely have followed the professional trail.

In the modern era , most families must send both parents into the workforce to make ends meet.

history

He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.

Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history .

The modern history of the Catholic Church has been immensely affected by that chain of events.

And in 1951 Great Britain, for the first time in modern history , made leprosy a reportable disease.

Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.

The United States is the most peaceful, least warlike nation in modern history .

The rest is miserable modern history .

This may have been the first time in modern history that a painting incited people to such public agitation.

language

Our modern language and our modern writing have grown out of the language and literature of the past.

This word, which was originally borrowed from a Celtic language , has been lost in the modern language.

The now voluminous literature on modernism and postmodernism has been dominated by philosophers and modern language theorists and historians of architecture.

The last group was used in secondary schools and in the modern language institute in Tunis.

Parents and teachers are largely in agreement in terms of supporting the most recent developments in modern languages in schools.

And the importance of modern language teaching will be very much greater.

The Nuffield modern languages survey has not yet reported and the only available account is an interim report from 1985.

life

The hustle and bustle of modern life occurs in the shadow of history.

Freund is likewise recognized for his fascinating revelations on modern life using juxtapositions of subliminally connected images.

Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time.

Singles may be peripheral in a sense; but their experience is central to the enigmas of modern life .

These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life .

Visitors know we made concessions to modern life .

We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty.

All concerns about modern life were supposedly resolved by National Socialism.

man

But it feels that the modern men have expanded comics, made them somehow more artistic.

The only sign of modern man from horizon to horizon is the road we followed in.

In these and other ways the implicatures of the title are developed, suggesting connections between modern man and the Neanderthalers.

One can write about the past, but from the point of view of a modern man .

A high regard for ivory has been part of the human heritage since the first appearance of modern man .

Who could blame modern woman if she yearns for something more civilized than modern man ?

I still don't enjoy going to the dentist but I have to admit that the modern men are wonderful.

Now suddenly I understood the tragedy of modern man .

medicine

The concerns of older people about their future health care probably reflect beliefs about modern medicine and priorities within the medical profession.

Underscoring this notion is the fact that other diseases continue to go unnoticed under the very nose of modern medicine .

In a way, though, that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine .

However, it was found in nearly all those cancer patients whom modern medicine could not help.

The clinical application of devices or materials which contact blood is of major importance in modern medicine .

Similarly, the rise of modern medicine developed at the expense of midwives and village healers, most of whom were women.

Are these rules unsuited to modern medicine ?

Of enormous importance, Holmes: all the hopes of modern medicine depend upon it.

period

It becomes a term whose reference is linguistic and whose meaning is not determined by the phenomenon of the early modern period .

The gradual assimilation of oppositional art into institutional orthodoxy represents one of the failed utopias of the modern period .

This construction of the artist as hero is a primary marker of the modern period .

It rapidly became a staple, and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period .

The modern period has left its mark too, literally.

In the modern period some cycles or groups have also found their way into museums.

But in the modern period , prestigious spaces had been found in which to celebrate machines.

Governmental pluralism was not of course peculiar to the early modern period .

science

On the other hand, modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression.

His proposal can not succeed without undermining the whole of modern science .

For this reason he had encouraged Claudia to enter these new, modern sciences .

Fanatical, uncultured leaders, little versed in modern science , can not give us a solution.

Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology.

Viewed through this ideological lens, all of nature appeared to yield to the triumphant structure of knowledge that was modern science .

Those who accept the general orientation of modern science may well find considerable difficulty in coming to grips with this main point.

The way of the glaciers allowed him to fuse traditional creationism with the insights of modern science .

society

The source for the basic difference in taste is traced by Bourdieu to the different experiences of these classes in modern society .

The Romantics had raised the alarm about the disintegration in modern society of much that is essential to the full human experience.

Undoubtedly many of the apprehensions about mental handicap stem from the nature of modern society with its emphasis on achieving and competition.

He observes, Those of us socialized in modern societies generally maintain an irrationally uncritical attitude toward new technologies.

In modern societies , by contrast, direct symbolic violence between subjects declines.

The varied strata of modern society present numerous challenges to surveillance.

The dominant groups in modern societies , whose definition of reality is accepted, are not necessarily non-neurotic in Freud's sense.

He has suggested that the socially held beliefs of modern society are qualitatively different from those of previous societies.

standard

Outside school - and maritime mishaps - community life was restricted when compared to modern standards .

Such systems were usually, by modern standards , inequitable, exploitive, rigid, and inefficient.

Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts.

Will these peoples continue to live in poverty and disease, or will they be brought up to modern standards of living?

Many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards .

While slow by modern standards , it was considered fast in 1985.

Although of limited accuracy by modern standards , the Scuds were reasonably successful at hitting large targets such as urban settlements.

state

The solid financial foundations required by a modern state had not been laid by 1603.

But, at the same time, the apparatus of the modern State imposed a new order which strictly limited such freedom.

Ever since the emergence of the modern state Tilly et al. 1975.

But it would be highly destabilising for any modern state .

The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.

It is the provision of welfare, however, which distinguishes the modern state from previous states.

style

Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela's hair, cutting it into a more tailored and modern style .

Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles , and prices to fit any budget.

A.R. What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford?

Classic and modern styles , glowing with lights, colour, and gilding.

Modern style After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style?

Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.

He led Coffin to a bright back kitchen, furnished in the most modern style , with new canary-yellow paint.

technology

It's the age old battle of traditional skills versus modern technology .

By using and learning about the hardware and software, developing country professionals will become familiar with a variety of modern technologies .

They are quicker-thinking and have a grasp of modern technology .

The arts, too, have been transformed by modern technology , though to a lesser extent than industry.

The younger generation is used to Computer Assisted Learning and other modern technology which is an adjunct to learning.

Its industries could not have failed to be impressive, since they have benefited from the latest advances of modern technology .

It is modern technology all wrapped up without the cable to trip over, and the restriction of power point locations.

Given modern technology , firms can be flexible vis-a-vis the market and vis-a-vis government plans.

times

This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times .

On the street, amid the detritus of modern times , he was unknown.

If we think those ancient people were silly, we should look to ourselves in modern times .

It had never happened before, not in modern times .

Again, in modern times office-staff attend to all calls and enquiries; who would, or could, breach these defences?

But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times .

It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times .

In modern times , the demands we make have changed in some ways.

version

This effect is well established empirically and is dealt with by all modern versions of the standard associative model.

Today, modern versions of windmills, called wind turbines, are used to create electricity.

And out of this fascination with man two modern versions of him are born.

Sun saloon 10, a modern version of the old cross-bench car, upon delivery in 1939.

The modern versions of Taylorism are expressed in terms of job design and work study.

They are, ironically, the modern version of the church of the Middle Ages.

world

As a criticism of the modern world , Fantasia of the Unconscious is a book to keep at hand and re-read.

The development of printing was one of the most important events in the making of our modern world .

Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world .

We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began, with the scientific revolution.

This latest act of outrage reminds us of one of the great burdens of the modern world .

Who is kidding whom that a middle-size country such as the United Kingdom is sovereign in the modern world ?

These groups have apparently been isolated from other humans for long periods of time and have no knowledge of the modern world .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a modern computer network

Doherty is a professor of modern European history.

Drugs have become the plague of the modern world.

He'll receive the most modern medical treatment.

I don't like modern architecture at all.

I like both modern dance and classical ballet.

Many criticisms have been made of modern farming methods.

Seattle has a very modern public transportation system.

The company occupies a bright, modern office building in the heart of the city.

the horrors of modern warfare

The most compelling work in the modern British theater is being created in the smaller and non-profit theaters.

The prince is known for his critical views of modern architecture.

The pyramids are a remarkable piece of engineering, even judged by modern standards.

They're a very modern couple -- he stays at home with the kids and she goes out to work.

We want to create a modern and uncluttered look in the new kitchen.

Your work was my first route into an understanding of modern art.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery.

The 1908 Act is an obsolete restriction that is not appropriate for modern mining methods.

The root of the modern use of the term ideology lies with Marx.

They will go anywhere in the world to research issues of concern to modern Christians.

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