RADICAL


Meaning of RADICAL in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

dramatic/drastic/radical (= very big, especially in way that is surprising )

The Industrial Revolution was a period of dramatic change.

free radical

It is thought that free radicals can damage cells.

radical reform (= very big and important changes )

His government adopted a policy of radical reform.

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■ NOUN

group

Yet, the style of Samson is fundamentally different from those texts associated with the writing of popular radical groups .

Incidents such as this one were commonly reported by military intelligence as evidence of black ties with radical groups .

Buhle must point the finger at the other radical groups .

politics

She was untainted by the radical politics of earlier reformers and wisely avoided the tendentious macro-economics of the Neo-Malthusians.

His previous interests have been science fiction and drugs, and I suspect his present passion for radical politics will pass.

The radical interconnectedness of culture is redeemed for a radical politics , and via transgressive reinscription.

Despite his success, the senate objected both to practical training and to Stuart's radical politics .

More remarkably, George Stephen was virtually silent on the later antislavery commonly associated with aspects of radical politics and militant nonconformity.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Radical differences within the group began to appear.

a radical leftist group

He recommended a radical change in her diet.

It was an incredibly radical decision.

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But the combination, the combination of visionary stuff and radical politics: that troubled me.

Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?

It is instructive to recall that the cause of conservation was conservative before it was ever radical .

It was' 68, and we were both, you know, radical , and civil rights, and feminism.

She hunted stereotypes down as if they were sewer rats and stuck radical slogans to the fridge door.

The goals of this movement were to seek minimal economic improvements while preventing campesinos from looking for more radical solutions.

Within the living memory of the older inhabitants of Dornie, there have been radical changes affecting both these waterways.

You give too much publicity to radical oddballs....

II. noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

free

It's believed that pollution can form substances in our body known as free radicals which speed up ageing.

Two hot areas: products for dieters and antioxidants, which are thought to neutralize so-called free radicals that can damage cells.

The mechanism of the process is brought about by the initial ionisation of water and the subsequent production of free radicals .

Left to their own devices, these free radicals cause tissue damage.

Reduced glutathione is known as a major low molecular weight scavenger of free radicals in cytoplasm.

The ones of interest here are a highly reactive chemical species called free oxygen radicals .

However, the products obtained from reactions with halides can be rather surprising - ie the dithiadiazole can trap free radical intermediates.

So could malaria parasites be destroyed by assaulting them with free oxygen radicals ?

political

Millionaires are unlikely to be social or political radicals .

However, psychological, personality-based approaches have also been used to account for the behavior of political radicals .

young

By the early nineties a significant proportion of young radicals had adopted Marxist ideas.

This was particularly the case on college campuses, where the young radicals of the New Left dominated public debate.

From the early 1890s Marxism caught on among young radicals with remarkable speed.

Tom Hayden recalled the foment in Chicago 28 years ago that propelled him as a young radical into the national spotlight.

Lots of young radicals see Orwell as part of the cold-war anti-Communist gang.

■ NOUN

student

Much of the empirical research has examined student radicals .

As some one who has experience with other students , what do you hypothesize about the student radicals ?

Are student radicals of the left different from student radicals of the right?

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A final recommendation of the consultants was a radical attempt to forge a closer working relationship between the board and staff members.

Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists.

Millionaires are unlikely to be social or political radicals.

Prime Minister Stolypin was murdered by radicals in 1911.

Suddenly the confidence of the new radicals received a body blow.

The Duma, packed by radicals, was dissolved by the Tsar in 1906.

Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.

With no real power-base of his own, he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace.

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