I. adjective
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a bad/negative image
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It’s difficult to explain why the industry has such a bad image.
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Many negative images of women are found in the media.
a bad/negative impression
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Arriving late for an interview gives a very negative impression.
a bad/negative influence
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He thought her friends were a bad influence.
a negative consequence (= a bad or unpleasant result )
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the negative consequences of drinking too much alcohol
a negative correlation (= showing that two things are not likely to exist together )
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Is there a negative correlation between a person's weight and the distance they walk on an average day?
a negative emotion (= anger, fear, hate etc )
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It’s not easy learning how to deal with negative emotions.
a negative point
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A few negative points should be mentioned.
a negative reaction (= showing that someone disagrees or dislikes something )
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We are concerned about the negative reaction of some of our customers.
a negative response
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In Russia, the planned expansion provoked a negative response.
a negative stereotype
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We should avoid negative stereotypes regarding the performance of older workers.
a negative/minus number (= a number that is less than zero )
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Can a negative number have a square root?
a negative/pessimistic outlook
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This pessimistic outlook on their lives leads to depression.
a positive/negative comment
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There were some very positive comments in the report.
double negative
HIV positive/negative (= having or not having HIV in your body )
negative aspect
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We have to consider tourism’s negative aspects.
negative equity
negative (= showing that someone does not have a condition )
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All the tests came back negative.
negative/damaging (= having a bad effect )
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The expansion of the airport would have a negative impact on the environment.
negative/detrimental (= bad or harmful )
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the negative effects of low rainfall
positive/good/poor/negative self-image
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Depression affects people with a poor self-image.
positive/negative terminal
positive/negative
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The entire experience has been very positive.
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Many people reported having negative experiences when dealing with their local council.
positive/negative
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A positive attitude is essential if you want to be successful.
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Many teenagers have a very negative attitude towards cooking.
test positive/negative (for sth)
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Athletes who test positive for steroids are immediately banned.
the positive/negative side
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On the positive side, the authors have assembled a wealth of useful material.
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■ ADVERB
more
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In general, attitudes to science itself became more negative .
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You can always interpret things in a more positive light or a more negative light.
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Notice that the enthalpies of formation of solid compounds tend to be more negative than the enthalpies of formation of gases.
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The results were not surprising: Work-inhibited students had more negative self-concepts than did students who per-formed their schoolwork.
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And each time Charles looked at his progress it seemed more negative .
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An even more negative view of such studies has been taken in academic psychology.
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Further, women often describe these early experiences in noticeably more negative terms than men.
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At each stage the judgement becomes more general, more negative and more personal.
very
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This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units.
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He presents a very negative view of Tombstone and the people here.
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But most journalists take a very negative line on things.
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This is very negative for the arts in general.
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A lot of reports said we were very negative and cynical against the scum.
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These opening remarks must seem very negative .
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They will not do this if all the recent most regrettable and very negative publicity persists.
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My immediate concern is that the tone of your coverage was very negative , speculative, and highly opinionated.
■ NOUN
ad
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Alexander, who was sharply critical of Forbes' negative ads , appeared to benefit from running a positive campaign.
answer
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These questions should be designed so that a positive answer indicates a strength, a negative answer a weakness.
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Besides, I was not at all sure that she had given a negative answer to my question.
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The negative answer proposed in this chapter raises some prior questions about policies intended to treat men and women as equals.
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Some have questioned whether small villages can be afforded, and most economic evidence in the 1970s suggested a negative answer .
aspect
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The imperative to change comes from one of two sources, each of which has positive and negative aspects .
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However, the negative aspect of this is that without people browsing freely, the magic of public networks will disappear.
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We should also, however, add a comment on a negative aspect , concerning the idea of applicability.
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For centuries we women have gloated over the one negative aspect of aging more evident in men than women: balding.
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The book dispels many of the negative aspects of growing older.
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Each course of action has some positive and some negative aspects .
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But there are two negative aspects .
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Both the positive and the negative aspects of the Monroe Doctrine were often repeated and reaffirmed in later years.
attitude
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Many of the female students had been academic failures at school and had negative attitudes to teachers.
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Her work suffered and her supervisor noticed an unusually negative attitude towards colleagues and customers alike.
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Such questions indicate how complex and deeply rooted are some of our negative attitudes to the aged.
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The negative attitudes lurk undetected till a social upheaval forces them to the surface.
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As Chapter 4 showed, the need to complete a task within a set period may produce a negative attitude towards it.
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Your negative attitude may be the best signal you have to begin rebuilding a relationship before it is too late.
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This will do more to inspire public confidence than the prison officers' negative attitude .
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If positive attitudes about religion seem to encourage health, negative attitudes might jeopardize it, he reasons.
comment
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His negative comments , however accurate, were converted into slights, compounded by Johnson's nationality and famous stature.
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Avoid at all costs unnecessary negative comments when speaking to a work-inhibited student.
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Our Susan and Vera saga in Bewley's is not that far-fetched and it replaces negative comment in many cases.
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Can teachers be sued for making negative comments about students in classrooms or in the teachers' lounge?
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From a basis of low expectations, and extremely negative comments , George W's standing can probably only improve.
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We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group, but we still expected negative comments .
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Every negative comment was a deep wound because he wanted everyone to love him.
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Forty-six percent were in favour, 46 percent against residential homes, with 6 percent making both positive and negative comments .
connotation
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It was also a positive term with none of the negative connotations of Nonconformist or Dissenter.
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In recent years multimedia has taken on a negative connotation in the computer industry.
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If one accepts this interpretation then the third-person form would not have the negative connotations defined so sharply by John Lyons.
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Others know only the negative connotations of the word.
consequence
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As will be seen, however, this high commitment of the training staff had both positive and negative consequences .
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And will the label have negative consequences for the person to whom it is applied?
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What Simmel accomplishes is a realization of the inseparability of the positive and negative consequences of these social transformations.
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This report deals with the positive and negative consequences of activities and behaviors from a health and medical point of view.
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The negative consequences of inappropriate behaviour should be predictable to the child: he/she should know what to expect.
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Lack of this awareness can have serious negative consequences .
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And I have indicated some of the negative consequences of pragmatic failure.
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If such labeling had some positive effects, it might be worth risking the negative consequences for those who are labeled abnormal.
control
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Normally the antisense probe is used to detect mRNA whereas the sense probe serves as a negative control .
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One negative control sampled was processed for every three tissue samples examined.
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An irrelevant monoclonal antibody, J13, to human small intestinal brush border membranes served as a negative control .
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As negative controls , additional sections were stained with appropriately diluted normal rabbit or sheep sera.
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A negative control , in which the primary antibody was omitted, was performed for all sections.
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Each set of sections included a positive colorectal carcinoma control , and a negative control in which the primary antibody was omitted.
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And how far can negative controls succeed in raising public standards?
correlation
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Numerous studies have shown a consistent negative correlation between age and participation in virtually every sporting activity.
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We found significant negative correlations in faeces between soluble fatty acids and bile acids and insoluble calcium and phosphate.
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However, for exemplars of the less risky junctions a negative correlation was observed.
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This correlation is confirmed in the regression model which also shows a negative correlation with education level of project leader.
effect
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It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work.
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While the net negative effect on employment is small, this apparently minor response masks some disturbing compositional changes.
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These results show a significant positive effect of maturity on volatility, and this contradicts the Samuelson hypothesis of a negative effect.
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He was not concerned with long-term negative effects .
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The negative effects , however, were the less welcome members of society coming and going quite freely.
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As a practical matter, hydrogen use has some negative effects .
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With Ian, his inner sensitivity has a negative effect mainly in his working environment.
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Numerous statistical studies find negative effects of family disruption on outcomes for children.
emotion
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Muddy colours in the aura indicate negative emotions or ill health; clear colours are generally a positive sign.
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Conscious work on negative emotions makes the entrance of positive emotions more and more certain, as each day passes.
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But all people have experience of negative emotions such as fear and anger.
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We begin by looking at the negative emotions .
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The more positive emotions come from the inner part of the emotional centre, the negative emotions from the outer part.
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As I have already suggested, unless care is taken, work in the house can become a focus for negative emotions .
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While we are the prey of negative emotions we merely exist.
equity
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The risk of another plague of negative equity in the highly-priced areas must now be significant.
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Those with negative equity clearly benefit from higher prices, but many others gain from lower ones.
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Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity .
feedback
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There are conflicting reports as to whether negative feedback inhibition exists in humans and whether it is mediated by cholecystokinin.
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To survive, they learned to cope with the stresses associated with negative feedback and emotions.
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In addition, even if overall negative feedback is used, it has low overall distortion.
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Conceptually, the electrical negative feedback loop is a toilet flusher or thermostat.
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We are now trying to find out the details of this negative feedback system.
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This form of game-playing begins with praise of a peer, and ends with negative feedback on that peer.
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Positive feedback enhances the initial release, but this is soon curtailed as the accumulation of calcium activates the negative feedback component.
image
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In all likelihood, the racially polarized vote will reinforce Mississippi's negative image far beyond its borders.
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Moreover, critics say that many of the black-themed shows are demeaning and filled with negative images .
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Lateral reversal a positive or negative image transposed from left to right as in a mirror reflection of the original.
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A lot of people stood by me, despite the negative images and what people were saying.
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Napoli 99 is a private organisation founded in1984 to improve the negative image that the city was acquiring.
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He may even believe the negative image that has been presented of him cost him a spot on the latest Dream Team.
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Many pre-school poetry collections include material which presents negative images of older people.
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Brown led the opposition campaign, and later criticized the media for creating a negative image of the Legislature.
impact
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While this has not affected sales, it has had a negative impact on profits, Sage noted.
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This changing scene has both positive and negative impacts on the technology transfer process.
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The telecoms sector had the biggest negative impact on the market.
publicity
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They will not do this if all the recent most regrettable and very negative publicity persists.
reaction
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Those who seek to lead must act with subtlety and caution or they will meet with strong negative reactions .
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The absence of negative reaction was almost eerie.
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The evidence is of both positive and negative reactions to the older worker as employee and co-worker.
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Their negative reaction was added impetus.
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The trauma is still exerting an influence, but in the negative reactions it pushes against the trauma being recreated.
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He had news ... news which would doubtless upset Georgi Kirov, and he feared the man's negative reaction .
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This relative freedom from negative reaction is what I imagine most people mean when they say they are happy in their work.
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Packford summed up a lot of the negative reaction to left-wing journalism.
relationship
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He found only a weak negative relationship between the two variables.
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This figure can be redrawn with the maturity on the horizontal axis to show the negative relationship between volatility and maturity.
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The division of the stimuli into right and left turns demonstrated separate positive and negative relationships between risk and recognition sensitivity.
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Therefore, it is likely that subsequent empirical studies will confirm this negative relationship for index futures.
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It is also possible to construct an independent argument for a negative relationship between volume and maturity.
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If the prediction is correct then a negative relationship should be observed.
response
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Where there is a definite negative response put 0 percent.
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Some Quakers began to denounce slavery beyond their circle in society at large, and they drew negative response for doing so.
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This negative response created great distress to Mrs X as she has her heart set on becoming an embalmer.
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But Dole countered with a heavily negative response .
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Few things can be more guaranteed to create a negative response than the sight of husband and wife sparring in public.
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The intended result of such treatment is to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption by producing a negative response to alcohol.
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This negative and careless attitude on the part of the teacher can only help to stimulate a negative response among his students.
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Behavior eliciting a negative response decreased in frequency.
result
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Comparison with and without adjustment for smoking gave similarly negative results .
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So no real number, positive or negative , squares to produce a negative result .
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Gram staining and culture gave negative results .
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The investigation, he concluded without surprise, yielded negative results .
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However, it allows only about one third of patients to be diagnosed and therefore a negative result has little value.
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Even failures to replicate are not very interesting to the journals; experiments with negative results therefore rarely get reported.
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The boy was screened for inborn errors, with negative results .
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The other two women had negative results at baseline and acquired infections that had persisted for 36 months at time of biopsy.
side
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There is a positive and negative side to these terms.
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Tests in mice and rats showed no signs of negative side effects.
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The pad which is already joined to the metal insert case is the negative side .
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I learned a lot from heron both the positive and negative sides .
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Naturally, Amnesty International has its own image, reputation and integrity to protect, and sponsorship can have its negative side .
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The negative side of reputation is stigma.
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Liking your negative qualities Learn to accept your positive and negative sides .
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There is also a negative side-sports injuries.
test
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The sperm is stored and frozen until the second negative test result is confirmed.
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Most people with negative tests will get a recorded message.
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There are also negative tests of its impact.
thought
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She also played in the Curtis Cup for a second time - but that was where the negative thoughts began to rear.
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Replace any negative thoughts or statements with positive ones.
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Because some one told you something and your imagination got to work, generating negative thoughts and images that gripped you.
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Such a positive attitude will override any negative thoughts .
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Failure to think positively means that negative thoughts have come into his mind.
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The practitioner will be aiming to dispel any negative thoughts about marathon running from your mind.
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Perhaps you have not processed all your negative thoughts and beliefs?
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Clear your mind of all negative thoughts and believe.
value
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Class Status derives from the tendency of people to accord positive and negative values to human attributes and to distribute respect accordingly.
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The negative values correspond to the spin pointing mainly in the opposite direction to that being measured.
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As in the case of calls, puts can never have a negative value , hence:.
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A negative value was assigned to pollution, and stripping the forests and poisoning farmlands.
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However, for normal fixed-point binary arithmetic, we wish to have a range of positive and negative values .
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Nor can one conclude that the world was understood to be totally evil and, therefore, assigned a negative value .
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In fact it is possible, particularly on inner-city sites, for land to have a negative value .
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Similarly, a negative value for v t will suggest a fall in expected income but no accompanying fall in consumption expenditure.
view
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Once again, childhood loss is seen as the origin of this negative view .
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He presents a very negative view of Tombstone and the people here.
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Social workers and their managers generally held negative views about care.
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At the end of his first six months in office, 45 percent of Texans surveyed held a negative view of Clinton.
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Other factors contributing to a negative view of Britain were the royal family, violence in Northern Ireland and racial intolerance.
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Most people have been conditioned from earliest childhood to fear and have extremely negative views about homosexuals and homosexuality.
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The case for markets However, not all socialists take a negative view of the market.
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I had a negative view of the publisher, and I transferred that perception to her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
positive/negative reinforcement
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However, because reinforcement is derived from the termination of noxious events, it is referred to as negative reinforcement.
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So positive reinforcement is anything that happens soon after the behaviour in question that is welcomed by the recipient.
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Sometimes positive reinforcement does not require words.
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Teachers are not the only ones who may give positive reinforcement .
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The general principle on which response-cost is based, is referred to by psychologists as negative reinforcement .
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This is known as positive reinforcement .
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This, however, would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement , ie it was nice when the pressure stopped.
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What are the sources of negative and positive reinforcement people might expect from organizational arrangements? 4.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Negative publicity has harmed the group's ability to get things done.
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a negative pregnancy test
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All the athletes' drugs tests were negative .
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Anne's pregnancy test was negative .
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Critics said the article portrayed Latinos in negative way.
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Do you know how to multiply negative numbers?
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Doctors have a duty to inform patients of the possible negative side-effects of the drug.
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I wish you'd stop being so negative all the time!
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My bank statement shows a negative balance.
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Our request received a negative reply.
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Tanya has a really negative self-image.
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The agreement has had a negative impact on jobs.
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The first brain scan proved negative .
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The portrayal of working women in the media tends to be very negative .
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The Red Cross said it had virtually no stocks of type O negative blood available.
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The school environment can be a negative force as well as a positive one.
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There has been a negative return on our investment.
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You shouldn't let his negative comments get you down - he doesn't know what he's talking about.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A negative belonging, if you like.
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Concavity and negative forms are associated with elastic orifices, suction, closure and decline.
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Each executive selected an episode that he wished to redesign so that it would not have negative consequences.
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It slopes downward and to the right because the relationship it portrays between price and quantity demanded is negative or inverse.
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Police kept her locked up in a cell until she gave a negative breath test and was deemed fit to leave.
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Starks was taken to a local hospital for X-rays, which came back negative .
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This does not mean that boys never hear negative stories about themselves.
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You can always interpret things in a more positive light or a more negative light.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
false
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Thus for every 80 correctly predicted we will have 20 false negatives and 200 false positives.
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The percentage of false negatives generated by a cancer test was therefore of great concern.
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In contrast to filtering the single-copy hybridisation data, false negatives have a higher effect on the correct determination of patterns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Another negative was the increase in unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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FoxTrax had a few built-in negatives in its debut.
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I've stolen photos and negatives from the photographic laboratory.
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It helped her not to dwell on negatives and improved her role as a provider.
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The search is now on for more negatives to eliminate.
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The third negative applies in the high-technology sectors.
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Thus for every 80 correctly predicted we will have 20 false negatives and 200 false positives.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived.
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It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments.