adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a partial eclipse (= one in which the Sun or Moon is not completely hidden )
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A partial eclipse of the Sun will occur on August 28th.
partial compensation (= partly covering your loss, damage etc )
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The woman received partial compensation of £5,000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
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It's only partial , fortunately, but that may change.
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Since the obstruction may sometimes be only partial and not complete, then this description would be somewhat altered.
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The failure may be only partial .
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But his relatedness was only partial .
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To obtain such information is costly and there are people or groups with an incentive to provide only partial or distorted information.
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The comparison was only partial , since we considered only a selection of possible stylistic variants.
very
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The centrepiece of the programme - Denazification - was, however, only a very partial success.
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The problem is that, as with any morality tale, this is a very partial truth.
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A child's view of the older generation is clearly very partial .
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The inclusion of the subordinate classes in the political sphere is very partial .
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Yet this is of course only a very partial view of what these sociologists were attempting.
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Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast, luxuriating high up in their hives, must take a very partial view.
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answer
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Let me give you a partial answer for the moment.
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Chronology could deliver only a partial answer .
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But partial answers can be defended.
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We have explored a number of approaches which each give a partial answer to that question.
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There are, however, some general questions to which at least a partial answer can be given.
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I do not think we can answer that question adequately yet, though partial answers can be proffered.
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Scoring the soil film thereby allowing cleaning agent to penetrate to the substance and work from underneath is a partial answer .
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A partial answer can be found in the biblical tale of Joseph.
ban
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These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban , and a total ban.
birth
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When President Clinton vetoes partial birth abortion, then Sen.
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Clinton on April 10 vetoed a bill that would have banned so-called partial birth abortions.
closure
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In addition there are two cross-overs in mid-Channel to allow partial closure of the tunnel for maintenance purposes.
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Most corporate headquarters and bank branches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were open Tuesday after partial closures yesterday.
equilibrium
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This account has so far been in partial equilibrium terms.
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Partial Equilibrium Analysis Let us first return to the partial equilibrium model of section 5.
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Originally presented in terms of partial equilibrium analysis, it has been extended in two principal directions.
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In this case the home country exports good 1, just as in the partial equilibrium model discussed in the previous section.
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In other words, we may continue with a partial equilibrium framework.
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From the standpoint of the partial equilibrium analysis of the employment impact, the role of foreign trade emerged as especially important.
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The implications for less partial equilibrium behaviour are less clear.
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As the partial equilibrium analysis suggested, a procompetitive effect, with monopolistic industries expanding, is expected from trade.
explanation
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But corruption is only a partial explanation of some of the key strategic decisions taken by the governments.
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But all of them are at best partial explanations .
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A partial explanation for this may again be found in the 1925 precedent.
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Is not a partial explanation the effectiveness of government?
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However, this is only a partial explanation .
government
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Scores of economic reports have been delayed in recent weeks because of the partial government shutdown.
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Gramm suggested recently that the partial government shutdown was evidence that furloughed federal workers were unnecessary.
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That could lead to a third partial government shutdown, if a compromise on spending limits can not be reached.
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Failure to reach compromises on spending in 1995 and 1996 triggered two partial government shutdowns.
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The House voted against a measure, approved by the Senate, to end the 19-day partial government shutdown.
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The partial government shutdown derived from the budget stalemate will reach three weeks this Friday.
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Newt Gingrich broke a vital trust when he forced the partial government shutdown for three weeks over Christmas of 1995.
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Breakdowns in negotiations led to two partial government shutdowns.
information
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Another group received partial information about the events described in the passage.
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Larger lexicons also result in more than 100 words matching the partial information more often.
list
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And those represent merely a partial list .
loss
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A literal translation is given of the Arabic themes to highlight the partial loss of orientation through discontinuity of theme.
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His partial loss had lessened his enjoyment of music, which was one of his greatest pleasures.
offer
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A partial offer document is, therefore, a more time-consuming document to prepare.
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A partial offer is an offer made to all shareholders to buy a proportion of their shares.
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A comparison of partial offers and tender offers is contained in para 4.8 below.
pressure
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This is known as Dalton's law of partial pressures .
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The partial pressure of a component gas can be calculated if the masses of the component gases in a container are known.
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Arterial partial pressure of oxygen was 10.8 kPa.
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State Dalton's law of partial pressures and show how it may be derived from the ideal gas equation.
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Accordingly, we tested the hypothesis that postoperative pain decreases subcutaneous oxygen partial pressure .
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When temperature is increased, the partial pressures of both components and the total vapour pressure of the mixture increase.
response
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Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons.
seizure
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The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.
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The control of the partial seizures was significantly better with carbamazepine than with phenobarbital, phenytoin, or primidone.
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The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.
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Carbamazepine is the drug of first choice in partial seizures and partial seizures secondarily generalized.
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Lindsay etal reported that 36% of children with complex partial seizures had interictal rage attacks.
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About 30% of patients with complex partial seizures have a family history of epilepsy.
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A brief period of loss of contact as in complex partial seizures . 5.
shutdown
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The 21-day partial shutdown of government that ended last week delayed jobless claims and payroll reports.
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The budget clash resulted in a partial shutdown at the passport agency.
solution
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One partial solution to the problem is to exploit polarisation.
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This is where foreigners come into the cafeteria and provide a partial solution .
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Fundholding only a partial solution Early experience with the fundholding scheme has shown that general practitioners can be effective purchasers of care.
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As a partial solution , Combined Fleet decided to resort to a special stratagem that had already worked successfully once before.
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Both systems were faced with a combinatorial explosion of partial solutions since the input data matched very many rules or partial descriptions.
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Backwards Pruning One way to define a sub-tree is to reduce the depth to a partial solution .
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They are, however, only a partial solution to the problem.
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The more constrained the grammar the greater the reduction in the number of incorrect partial solutions .
success
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The centrepiece of the programme - Denazification - was, however, only a very partial success .
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Anticonvulsants such as carbamazepine and phenytoin have been tried with partial success .
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Whatever may have prompted Caesar to carry out his expeditions, their partial success was accepted in Rome as a definite conquest.
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The best Clinton can hope for is partial success .
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The following study of Owen may perhaps be regarded as only a partial success .
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Students received a certificate only if they successfully completed the whole course: partial success was not formally certificated.
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On this test, Thatcherism has achieved a partial success .
theory
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On the other hand, the other partial theories depend on quantum mechanics in an essential way.
view
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The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality.
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One is that each theory represents only a partial view of the 183 whole.
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However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view .
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All but a few seats have a partial view .
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But we have had two partial views .
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This leads him to offer a somewhat partial view of Foucault's important work.
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Yet this is of course only a very partial view of what these sociologists were attempting.
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Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast, luxuriating high up in their hives, must take a very partial view .
water
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Once the tank is up and running water quality should be maintained by regular partial water changes of 20-30% each week.
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Once a week a partial water change is carried out - with care not to remove any fry.
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Syphon out any excess as a partial water change, before restarting the filter.
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It died suddenly in the morning after a careful partial water change.
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Salt does not break down or decompose in the pond - it is diluted by partial water changes.
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From this point, partial water changes.
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A quick partial water change will often effect an improvement in a matter of hours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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partial disability
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a partial solution to the problem
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At best, the mission was a partial success.
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From where I was standing, I had a partial view of the house.
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This is only a partial solution to the problem.
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Wade received only partial compensation for her injuries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After its partial recovery in the middle 1920s, the Edinburgh printing trade was hit by the depression.
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But what is constituted by consciousness is the at least partial discernment of limitation.
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Just imagine the hippocampus playing back a partial spatiotemporal pattern to the cortex-maybe a fragment of something from the previous week.
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Let me give you a partial answer for the moment.
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The ruling entitled objectors to a partial refund, based on the percentage of the overall fee that supported such activities.
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The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality.
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Their own spontaneously appointed stewards kept the demonstration orderly and on arrival at their destination they won a partial victory.
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This low pressure made a partial vacuum above the liquid.