BOUND AND FREE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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BOUND AND FREE. Contrasting terms in
LINGUISTICS, used to describe elements in WORDS. A
bound form is part of a word and cannot stand alone:
un- and
-ly in
unhappily,
bash- in
bashful,
tang- in
tangible. Affixes are bound, but sometimes break free as words:
ex,
ism. A
BASE that cannot stand alone is a
bound base:
vis- in
visible.
A free form or
free word can stand alone:
happy. All such forms are known in linguistics as
bound and
free MORPHEMES.
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Fed: Canberra bushfires destroy Mount Stromlo Observatory
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/19/2003; 511 words
; ...Canberra bushfires destroy Mount Stromlo Observatory By Sandra O'Malley CANBERRA...The damage bill at the Mount Stromlo Observatory is expected to top...the fires. The loss of Mount Stromlo is a devastating blow to Australian...
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Fed: Fires destroy historic Mount Stromlo Observatory
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/19/2003; 478 words
; ...Fed: Fires destroy historic Mount Stromlo Observatory By Sandra O'Malley CANBERRA...bushfires ravaged the historic Mount Stromlo Observatory. Research officer...evacuate as a fire storm on Mount Stromlo caught authorities by surprise...
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Fed: Fires devastates historic Mount Stromlo Observatory
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/19/2003; 289 words
; ...Fed: Fires devastates historic Mount Stromlo Observatory The Canberra bushfires have destroyed...irreplaceable equipment at historic Mount Stromlo Observatory. Research officer...evacuate as a fire storm on Mount Stromlo caught authorities by surprise...
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Fed: Losses at the Mount Stromlo Observatory
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/19/2003; 160 words
; 00-00-0000 Fed: Losses at the Mount Stromlo Observatory Losses at the Mount Stromlo Observatory * Damage bill estimated at $20 million...communications AAP RTV so/dl KEYWORD: BUSHFIRES ACT STROMLO (CANBERRA)
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Mt Stromlo observatory will be rebuilt bigger and better.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 1/29/2003; 427 words
; ...COMTEX) The director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra, Penny Sackett...again within three years. The observatory was destroyed in the recent...be incorporated in the new observatory's design, to the benefit...
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Sky not the limit for Mt Stromlo observatory funds.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 5/16/2003; 429 words
; ...the Budget funding for the Mount Stromlo observatory in Canberra is under half that...aid is needed to rebuild the observatory, destroyed in the Canberra...payments are unknown. Much of the observatory's former work on deep space...
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Fed: ANU inundated with support for Stromlo observatory
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/22/2003; 249 words
; ...rallying to help the Stromlo observatory, destroyed...world-renowned observatory was overrun by...rural houses. Stromlo's five telescopes...for international observatories. Professor CHUBB says Mount Stromlo is an icon of Australian...
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Fed: Mount Stromlo wins $4 million international telescope deal
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/19/2000; 372 words
; ...Australia) 12-19-2000 Fed: Mount Stromlo wins $4 million international...CANBERRA, Dec 19 AAP - The Mount Stromlo Observatory outside Canberra has won a...observatory. Under the deal, Mount Stromlo - run by the Australian National...
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Fed: Opposition says more funds needed to rebuild Mount Stromlo
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 8/11/2003; 297 words
; ...more funds needed to rebuild Mount Stromlo PARLY 030 CANBERRA, Aug 11 AAP...rebuild the fire- gutted Mount Stromlo Observatory, Labor warned today. The world...has earned through the Mount Stromlo Observatory, she told parliament...
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ANU staff return to Mount Stromlo.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 2/20/2003; 398 words
; ...ABIX via COMTEX) The academic buildings of the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra have been reopened to staff and students...Astronomy Branch Library, workshops and seven houses on Mount Stromlo were lost in the fire. Professor Penny Sackett...
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Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories ( MSSSO ) Two observatories owned and operated by...University, Canberra. Mount Stromlo Observatory, founded in 1924 as...2007 to conduct the Stromlo Southern Sky Survey...
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Mount Stromlo Observatory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mount Stromlo Observatory astronomical observatory located on Mt. Stromlo, near Canberra, Australia. Established in 1924 (14 years after the first telescope was erected there), it has been operated by the Australian National Univ. since...
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Siding Spring Observatory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Siding Spring Observatory An observatory at an altitude of...founded in 1962 as an outstation of Mount Stromlo Observatory , its largest telescope...m Schmidt to Siding Spring from Mount Stromlo. The 2.3-m Advanced Technology...
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Canberra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Burley Griffin. In 2003 parts of Canberra were ravaged by drought-intensified wildfires; the facilities of Mount Stromlo Observatory were among the buildings destroyed. Canberra is the seat of the Duntroon Royal Military College, Australian...
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MSSSO
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
MSSSO Abbr. for Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories .
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