noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a personality trait formal (= a part of your personality )
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She shares many of her mother’s personality traits.
endearing qualities/traits etc
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Shyness is one of her most endearing qualities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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In these, the modifier is the selector, and hence presupposes certain traits of the head.
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Also, the subjects found that certain traits which they felt strongly about were important to whether they were likeable or not.
genetic
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Nocturnal enuresis alone, particularly if primary, is both a disorder of maturation and a genetic trait .
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Cultural practices, like genetic traits , are transmitted from individual to individual.
human
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Unfortunately, the ability to listen to the problems of another person is not a universal human trait .
other
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Of course, as for any other trait , it may be impossible for any one homozygous genotype to achieve the optimum.
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Among other traits of character, Xerxes was an aesthete.
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Powell shares other traits with Brown as well.
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In this section, I discuss other traits for which this difficulty arises.
particular
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Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
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Is it the specific disorder, a particular personality trait associated with the disorder, or a general vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance?
personal
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Third, one can identify those personal traits of the individual that are related to activism.
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Important personal traits for funeral directors are composure, tact, and the ability to communicate easily with the public.
physical
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Cetaceans today still carry in their bodies some of the physical traits of their land-dwelling ancestors.
■ NOUN
character
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The inviolable Gedge formed character traits as a child that give a fascinating insight into his later life.
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The character trait here is over-dependence, lack of autonomy. 2.
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But your greatest character trait is your honesty.
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It was an innate character trait .
personality
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Initially, they defined the personality traits of those with this syndrome: Authoritarians are extremely conventional in their attitudes and morality.
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Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions.
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Richard Lugar, for instance, briefly sought the presidency themselves but died of inhibited personality traits on the campaign trail.
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What are the personality traits of Chemical Dependency?
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For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.
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Downs argues that bureaucrats do exhibit personality traits but these may differ.
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As a result, they are unable ever to get beyond the personality traits they find irritating.
■ VERB
inherit
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In reality, a well-endowed man is likely to have inherited the trait .
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The structural changes that are seen in hemoglobin 5 and C disorders are inherited as autosomal recessive traits . 216.
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There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent.
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At the same time, though, inherited psychological and physiological traits had their dangerous downsides.
share
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The Roosevelts and Robinsons shared many of these traits , and added some of their own.
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All the witnesses share one trait .
show
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She shows both traits assigned to the men, immorality and dishonesty.
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The citizens who stepped out of the crowd and ran for office Tuesday showed they had that trait .
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Haemoglobin electrophoresis showed sickle cell trait .
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She also showed obsessional traits , including rituals concerned with dressing, washing, and general checking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a genetic trait
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Certain personality traits make people more likely to become victims of violent crime.
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Does Bryce have any bad traits?
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It's a human trait to joke about subjects that make us uncomfortable.
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Pride seems to be one of our family traits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His most noticeable trait was his charm, which he could seemingly turn on at will.
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Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations.
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Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait , a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
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One should select the essential trait and reproduce it-or, even better, produce it.
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Our entrepreneurial drive has long been our distinguishing trait .
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She shows both traits assigned to the men, immorality and dishonesty.
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The mutation has no functional significance and controls no traits, researchers say.