noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
allergic reaction
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an allergic reaction to nuts
chain reaction
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A sudden drop on Wall Street can set off a chain reaction in other financial markets.
chemical reaction
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the chemical reaction between ozone and chlorine
excite a reaction
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The figures are unlikely to excite any reaction on the money markets.
provoke a reaction/response
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The report provoked a furious reaction from staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adverse
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My physician has filed an adverse drug reaction report.
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He eventually received a stack of complaints about adverse reactions , including cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, and severe diarrhea.
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By May 1982 another thousand adverse reactions may have been reported.
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The second is not to use the medication with those who are at risk for a serious adverse reaction .
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Other adverse reactions due to systemic absorption, such as hypoglycaemia, rash, and acute renal failure, are rare.
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Spokesmen said they have gotten few, if any, reports of adverse reactions from consumers who used their products properly.
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However, Richard Gough has shown no adverse reaction to his comeback game against Brugge and will lead out Rangers today.
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The adverse reactions experienced by the patient reported on may therefore be attributable to the drug regimen and not solely to dexamethasone.
allergic
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Rod McCallum collapsed with a rare allergic reaction .
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Nor did any allergic reactions arise in those who ate the meat of animals who had been fed a gene-spliced soybean diet.
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I kept her in my bedroom for another three weeks, so that Mum wouldn't have an allergic reaction .
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I talk about a rash on my arm that looks like an allergic reaction but is in fact the heartbreak of psoriasis.
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Particles from diesel exhausts may also cause allergic reactions in their own right.
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Put briefly, there was a kind of allergic reaction between On Location and the brand-new edition of Microsoft Word.
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Philippa remembered Buerk's advice on severe allergic reactions and called an ambulance.
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As a result, more people became sensitized to latex and developed allergic reactions .
chemical
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Enzymes are protein molecules whose function is to speed up chemical reactions: that is, they are catalysts.
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Fuel cells, which provide electricity generated by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, constitute one part of that research.
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In other words, a chemical reaction could only proceed if the system lost energy.
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The total energy given off is thousands of times more than any conceivable chemical reaction could produce.
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Most chemists will tell you that, once chemical reactions become complex enough, the end result will be life.
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Commercially pure ethanol is produced using a variety of chemical reactions to eliminate the water.
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We therefore have to consider the kinetics of weathering by examining those factors which affect the late of chemical reactions .
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Enzymes increase the rate of a specific chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy needed for the reaction to proceed.
emotional
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An emotional reaction is what the caller wants.
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I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.
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He still showed little emotional reaction though he was evidently angry with himself for letting his natural arrogance be so easily quashed.
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The interactive nature of external events, and your emotional and physical reactions to them, can make work toxic.
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Selection will be based on our priorities, on explicit criteria and fundamentally on our emotional reactions .
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They go through similar identifiable stages of emotional reactions .
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I am not prone to emotional or temperamental reactions in victory or defeat.
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What is wanted is an immediate, largely emotional reaction .
immediate
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His immediate reaction was that there was an oil leak.
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The State Department had no immediate reaction .
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My immediate reaction , whether it be a man or a woman, is to think the worst of them.
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They got an immediate , positive reaction to their new gallery.
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They need time to digest radical change, otherwise their immediate reaction is negative.
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The Republican National Committee had no immediate reaction to the Democrats' changes.
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The children's immediate reaction was a sense of relief at having arrived somewhere.
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To keep everyone happy press officer David Begg, from Glasgow, recorded immediate reactions .
initial
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From a distance of two weeks, the initial reaction to defeat also seems unnecessarily despondent.
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Accordingly, the initial reaction of the equity markets was utterly perverse.
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As an initial reaction the girls' parents might have been shocked by what they got up to.
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The initial reaction of the community to the news of the dump was that it was only what could be expected.
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The initial setting reaction is photochemical polymerisation.
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My initial reaction was to punch some one....
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My initial reaction had been a prime, although mild, example of ageism in operation.
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My initial reaction was relief: We had averted another financial crisis.
instinctive
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Our instinctive reactions seem to be rooted in the past and they are not always appropriate to twentieth-century living.
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This instinctive reaction is independent of our intellect; the reaction does not depend on knowledge or intellectual assessment of risk.
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But pure, instinctive reaction moves his body out of harm's way.
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It is difficult to prevent this sort of instinctive reaction .
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It was an instinctive reaction in defence of my guest, but I felt uncomfortable about it afterwards.
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As a practising novelist, my instinctive reaction is to repudiate the deconstructionist position.
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The crying baby is being expressive, although her cries are not really language at all, but instinctive reactions to the environment.
natural
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Linda's natural reaction was to go round and shout at Alma.
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That is a very natural human reaction , and I understand it.
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Nate Cocello allowed a knowing smile to cross his face at what he knew would be the natural reactions of line managers.
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Sir Roy's depression could have been a natural reaction to being told that he suffers from Parkinson's disease.
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This natural protective reaction needs to be discouraged after surgery to avoid the complications of immobility.
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In part, McKenna sees this as a natural reaction to the ecological crisis brought on by the modern era.
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Tunnel vision and mutual incomprehension were natural reactions .
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Some are scarcely affected, whereas others need longer training to overcome their natural reactions .
negative
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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.
nuclear
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Eventually the temperature rose sufficiently to trigger the sort of nuclear reactions that power every star.
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This is the famous nuclear chain reaction .
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Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine.
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Eventually, however, the hydrogen in the core runs out and so nuclear reactions involving heavier elements take over.
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This is the first stage of a nuclear reaction which can lead to an explosion.
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Soon the density becomes great enough for the spheres of gas and dust to collapse and start individual nuclear reactions .
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Stars will remain stable like this for a long time, with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction.
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In 1942, the world's first nuclear chain reaction took place in Chicago.
positive
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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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From every event we received enthusiastic, positive reaction , and requests you come back for a repeat engagement.
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A positive reaction was seen in the bowel wall, both in patients with Crohn's disease and in controls.
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They got an immediate, positive reaction to their new gallery.
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I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs.
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He said he got a positive reaction from council members to his remarks about Western aid but declined to elaborate.
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Naipaul learns that the only positive reaction is acceptance; but in a whole year he doesn't achieve it.
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Many substances, particularly food extracts, often give false positive reactions in allergy skin testing.
public
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After nearly 8,000 reported attacks on foreigners since the start of 1992, it was the first big, violent public reaction .
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Those original Contract polls were not thorough enough to anticipate public reaction to really stupid political behavior.
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But the public reaction seemed one of amused appreciation rather than of apprehension.
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In all candor, my colleagues will be interested in what the public reaction is.
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The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide.
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Challenged by such public reaction , inmates in college programs are often willing to evaluate their experience.
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The importance of both the media and the related public reaction to patterns of crime and deviance is, therefore, well-established.
quick
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To deal with the signals produced by these sense organs they have considerable brains and very quick reactions .
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The report also brought quick reaction from the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.
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Underlying everything, therefore, is a need for quick reaction , coupled with clarity and consistently about strategic aims.
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He may well be a skilled driver with quick reactions , but he will deliberately take risks.
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We will never know how many lives could have been saved by a quicker reaction .
rapid
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The latest addition is International Blue Shield, aiming to provide rapid reaction teams when an unexpected threat emerges.
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Conditions like these would likely trigger a rapid reaction .
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The system efficiently delivered the rapid reaction force it was designed to produce.
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Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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Developed countries speak of rapid reaction forces as the future of their military strategies.
severe
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Philippa remembered Buerk's advice on severe allergic reactions and called an ambulance.
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And nearly every year, a few of them have severe reactions to the drug.
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The most severe allergic reaction , anaphylactic shock, can kill through suffocation.
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He said he suspects it was a small amount because Reitan would have had a more severe reaction otherwise.
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Its main cause in adults is severe drug reaction .
strong
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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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New research reveals that, as children age, working fathers continue to have strong reactions about the care of their children.
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Although they produce the strongest reactions , owls are not the only animals to provoke mobbing reactions.
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The more you get bitten, the stronger the allergic reaction .
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He had very strong associated reactions in the arm whenever he moved at all.
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Mesmeric and hypnotic, his prodigious output evokes strong reactions .
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At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts.
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Their strongest reaction is to sour tastes; next comes bitter, then salt and finally sweet.
■ NOUN
chain
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Alu polymerase chain reaction is enormously valuable.
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The demise of Woosung could have a chain reaction on other subcontractors relying on a government helping hand, analysts said.
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That sets off a chain reaction of difficulties.
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In a chain reaction on a world scale, prices on innumerable commodities skyrocketed within weeks.
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Products of the chain reaction were fractionated by size in agarose gels to detect the presence of insertions or deletions.
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Devices that are designed to produce stable chain reactions are called nuclear reactors.
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When this was applied to tissue sections, however, most samples were found to inhibit the polymerase chain reaction .
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This continuing process is called a chain reaction .
force
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The system efficiently delivered the rapid reaction force it was designed to produce.
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The sirens went off, and we were loaded into trucks and told we were going out there as a reaction force .
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Developed countries speak of rapid reaction forces as the future of their military strategies.
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Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
gut
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Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
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But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
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Dalziel's bullet-riddled gut reaction was right from the start.
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For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
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It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers.
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Perhaps he didn't have gut reactions any more.
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I've got this gut reaction .
time
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Simple reaction time is a fraction of the time required to react even when having to choose between only two possibilities.
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But yes, that does indeed slow down reaction times .
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Also, by separating the simple reaction time we see that reaction time increases steadily as the amount of discrimination required increases.
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The benefits included higher bone density, faster reaction times , greater muscle strength and better balance.
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So there may be some difference in the reaction time .
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From this graph it can be seen that, generally, as the level of processing increases reaction time increases.
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Both simulations and real driving experiments have shown that such calls slow reaction times by a half-second or more.
■ VERB
cause
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Particles from diesel exhausts may also cause allergic reactions in their own right.
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Researchers are not sure why Melanotan-2 caused such a reaction .
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What on earth, she was wondering, had caused that un-Jake-like reaction ?
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Indeed, stressors do cause physiological reactions .
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Residues in meat may also cause allergic reactions in sensitive people.
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In a small piece of U-235, the neutrons given off by decay generally escape without causing further reactions .
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Protein molecules called enzymes are machines in the sense that each one causes a particular chemical reaction to take place.
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Pernicious anemia is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction against gastric parietal cells resulting in impaired secretion of intrinsic factor.
mix
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In every case two chemicals are mixed to produce the reaction .
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When Gore was the Democratic front-runner for the presidential election, his satellite drew a sharply mixed reaction .
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The very individual-some have called it idiosyncratic-styling met with a mixed reaction .
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Some couples are ecstatic, while others have mixed reactions .
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Other audiences are likely to be mixed in reaction to this odd mixture of thriller and twisted romance.
occur
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Whether a particular chemical reaction is likely to occur is related to the change in free energy involved.
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How is it possible for endothermic processes to occur spontaneously, and will a given reaction occur spontaneously?
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Phenytoin should be stopped immediately when any of these idiosyncratic reactions occur .
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I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place.
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A lot of that reaction occurs simply because we are human.
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Thus, energy or enthalpy change alone can not help us to predict whether a reaction will occur or not.
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Thus chemical reactions occur in the vapor phase.
produce
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The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity.
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Devices that are designed to produce stable chain reactions are called nuclear reactors.
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Methylated bile acids were produced by reaction at room temperature for one hour and subsequently evaporated to dryness under nitrogen.
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Communication that demonstrates empathy for the listener will produce highly favorable reactions .
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Often, therefore, relativism produces , through reaction to it, precisely what it sets out to destroy: increased dogmatism.
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How was it possible for Kant to produce such very different reactions ?
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In every case two chemicals are mixed to produce the reaction .
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But the diarrhoea produced by this reaction may, in turn, cause lactase deficiency.
provoke
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This call for help provokes a specific urgent reaction and interaction in the listener.
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To confront that reality some sorry, drunken night on the shore of an Arizona lake might provoke any of 100 reactions .
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They say some chief constables are unwilling to enforce the law, in case it provokes a violent reaction from the travellers.
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Nevertheless, the article provoked an avalanche of reaction .
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It immediately provoked a furious reaction from staff and unions.
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But critics say the police seem intent on provoking a violent reaction .
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Although they produce the strongest reactions , owls are not the only animals to provoke mobbing reactions.
show
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Only 10 percent of male students showed such reactions to a story about a student called John.
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Despite my general silence and hesitation, I must have shown enough of my reaction at certain times to make her wonder.
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Napoleon showed no reaction to his mens' adulation.
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After the initial shock, Daley felt cornered and harassed, and it soon showed in his reaction to questioning.
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Viv Richards shows his reaction at Gower's exit as the ritual dance begins.
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In this time of change, the average man was simply showing the commonplace reaction to the insecurity of the competitive system.
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He still showed little emotional reaction though he was evidently angry with himself for letting his natural arrogance be so easily quashed.
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However, Richard Gough has shown no adverse reaction to his comeback game against Brugge and will lead out Rangers today.
suffer
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These people suffer the same reactions as they did when diagnosed the first time, but with deeper levels of distress.
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The Labour Party in parliament did not immediately suffer from the reaction against the General Strike.
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Unfortunately, we have no way of predicting who may suffer an allergic reaction to a particular drug.
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Tony Norman, the Sunderland keeper, also withdrew after suffering a reaction to a hand operation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow your instincts/feelings/gut reaction etc
gut reaction/feeling/instinct
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But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
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For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
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I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.
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It is more a gut feeling-a visceral distrust of foreigners.
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It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
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Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
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Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
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We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
immune response/reaction
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Because histoplasmosis can mount an immune response, skin tests are often done.
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Discussion Coeliac disease probably represents an aberrant immune response by antigen specific T cells of the small intestine to certain cereal peptides.
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It is known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit, so we have proceeded cautiously.
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Many patients have a strong family history of allergies, which are genetic and involve excessive immune reaction.
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Other molecules, the happens, also generate an immune response.
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Significant numbers of larvae reach the lungs and migrate to the bronchioles where they are killed by the animal's immune response.
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The reason: The vitamin is involved in raising a healthy immune response.
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This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
mixed reaction/response/reviews etc
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As its image as an independent search for truth has changed, scientists have had mixed reactions.
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Carrick's captaincy received mixed reviews.
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Central Florida school leaders gave the proposed passing scores mixed reviews Wednesday.
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Math Blaster 1 and 2 from Davidson got mixed reviews.
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The campaign received mixed reviews inside and outside Hollywood, with some accusing Jackson of bad timing.
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The seventeenth edition met with mixed reactions.
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When asked how beneficial the training had been there was a somewhat mixed response.
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When Gore was the Democratic front-runner for the presidential election, his satellite drew a sharply mixed reaction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an allergic reaction
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Can you tell us about your first reactions to this news?
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Environmentalists have a knee-jerk reaction against any sort of development, however "green" it might be.
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I wanted to write something thoughtful, not just leap in with my gut reaction .
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I was stunned by the news, and my initial reaction was anger.
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Maria's reaction to the birth of her sister was to demand more attention from her mother.
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My father was so surprised by this violent reaction that he fell silent.
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The revolution was defeated by the forces of reaction .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A reaction to these difficulties may be withdrawal, apathy, or acting out behaviour.
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Carter was merely stunned by the reaction from the East; he was blown over backward by the reaction from the West.
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Culture often determines our reaction to events.
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Imagine the reaction if David Owen had appeared at Labour's 1989 conference.
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There are three aspects of the reaction to the epidemic in Britain that make me terribly uneasy.