... in Oxford in November 1864 i the British statesman Benjamin Disraeli i alluded to the controversy over the origins of ! ! humankind then raging in the wake ofthe j publication of ... number of distinguished composers who have shuffled off their mortal coil in a variety of unusual ways. coin the other side ofthe coin the opposite or contrasting aspect of a matter. ... Smollett'sPereg/7neP/dr/e(1751)as'thefiend i j that presides over all the evil spirits ofthe i deep', buttheorigin of the name is uncertain. I dawn the crack of dawn: see CRACK. a...
... from either the rate of appearance of the product ofthe reaction or the rate of disappearance ofthe sub-strate. The centrifugation may be performed on impure enzymepreparations and at the very ... polymer ofthe protein actin.Actin filaments form the thin filaments of muscle and also the mi-crofilaments ofthe cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. Hence they are amajor component ofthe contractile ... edition oftheOxfordDictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It was a remarkable work of scholarship, arising from the work of journal editors andscientific writers. Since then the landscape...
... determina-tion of current of large dimension, or ofthe size of the ampere.ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir-cuit in one hour when the rate of ... substance to the surface of another withoutabsorption. An example is adsorption of water to the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-fused with ABSORPTION because the spellings of the two ... type of radar, the sync delay introduced between trans-mission ofthe pulse and start ofthe trace on the indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in the display.ALU Abbreviation of...
... energy, on account of the motion ofthe source and/or the detectingapparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-ent positions ofthe stars from month to month onaccount ofthe earth’s orbital ... modifyingonly the address part of an instruction.address field In a computer, the part ofthe in-struction that gives the address of a bit of data (ora word) in the memory.address generation The programmed ... electricalaction ofthe cell, as distinguished from the sup-porting material ofthe plates themselves. 2. A ra-dioactive substance. 3. The phosphor coating of acathode-ray tube screen. 4. The material...
... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal ofthe project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionaryof English (a forthcomingnew edition ofthe 1998 New OxfordDictionary of English) so that ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other wayround. There has been no attempt to alter the origi-nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced ... Nevertheless, the process demonstrates the richness of a largenatural-language dictionary in providing cues andflagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration...
... noun the sale of small quan-tities of goods to the general public ˽ the goods in stock have a retail value of £1m the value ofthe goods if sold to the public is£1m, before discounts and other ... method of calculating the depreciation of assets, by which the asset isdepreciated by the difference in its value at the end ofthe year over its value at the beginning ofthe yearrevaluation ... paυə/noun the quantity of goods which can bebought by a particular group of people orwith a particular sum of money ć the pur-chasing power ofthe school market ć The purchasing power ofthe pound...
... andperception is at the core ofthe present formulation ofthe embodiment hypothesis. The analogy between the form ofthe argument for the embodiment hypothesis and the form ofthe foregoing argument ... soothe the infant the parent could say, ‘‘There, there,there ,’’ giving more stress and amplitude on the first part ofthe word andtrailing off towards the end ofthe word. Alternatively, the ... in the ‘‘meta-phorical definition’’ of more complex concepts. In short, they argued that thesethree natural kinds of experience—experience ofthe body, ofthe physical envi-ronment, and of the...
... indicated by the use of bold lines:they ‘‘profile’’ aspects ofthe object of conceptualization, but none at the level of the subjects of conceptualization or ofthe relation between the two levels. ... details.In each of these cases, the landmark with respect to which the trajector is located ispart ofthe ground ofthe utterance. The position ofthe ballroom in (3) is calcu-lated from the common ... relevant for the speech participants (i.e., part ofthe common ground), then the location of the address is calculated from the position of sentence (4) in this document. So, in each of these cases,...
... is, the object ofthe main clause ‘‘controls’’ the reference ofthe un-derstood subject in the infinitive clause; whereas in Johnny asked the teacher to go to the bathroom, the referent ofthe ... which thus constitutes the matrix domain that is the antecedent of the anaphoric pronoun she. The theory of Ruiz de Mendoza and his coauthors has the advantage of accounting for the difference between ... perceptfor cause metonymy: the question What’s that noise is about the cause of the noise and the subsequent noun phrase identifies the source ofthe noise, that is, the cause, here a natural force....
... (7) The plug’s staying loose let the water drain from the tank.(8) The fan’s being broken let the smoke hang still in the chamber.In fact, these patterns can be seen as the negation ofthe ... because the intention ofthe agentto make something happen initiates a sequence of causally related events, from the volitional act ofthe agent via the moving parts of his or her body and other ... However, the further application of extra heavy stress (factor Db1)to the verb, as in (32c), now undoes the backgrounding effects ofthe four convergentfactors. It overrides them and forces the foregrounding...
... despite the fact that in both cases the ‘‘origin’’ (O) ofthe frame is the speaker.(6) a. He is in front ofthe bush. (FoR: Relative, O: Speaker)b. He is in front ofthe bush from John’s point of ... acquisition studies. By studying the way second-languagelearners master the structures of their L2 and the mistakes they make,inferences can be drawn about the nature of their L1 categories (Frissonet ... on the basis of this viewpoint (e.g., in front of the wall)c. Absolute FoR: The system is anchored in fixed geo-cardinal positions(e.g., North ofthe border)Spatial expressions defined on the...