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Managing Change
Managing Change Recently, one of the concepts discussed, written about, and analyzed most frequently has been organizational change and the related concepts of resistance to change and management of change. Change has been variously defined as making a material difference in something compared to... Read more |
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Alteration of Instruments
ALTERATION OF INSTRUMENTS A change in the meaning or language of a legal document, such as a contract, deed, lease, or commercial paper, that is made by one party to the document without the consent of the other after it has been signed or completed. If such a change is made by a third party... Read more |
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punctuation
punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and pauses, that are equally... Read more |
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etymology
etymology , branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the Indo-European languages (as described in Grimm's law ) and led to the historical investigation of language in the 19th... Read more |
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phonology
phonology study of the sound systems of languages. It is distinguished from phonetics , which is the study of the production, perception, and physical properties of speech sounds; phonology attempts to account for how they are combined, organized, and convey meaning in particular languages. Only a... Read more |
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Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman 1939– Attorney, administrator, social activist Became Civil Rights Attorney Pursued Broader Goals in D.C. Founded the Children’s Defense Fund Focused on Child Care and Pregnancy Prevention Continued Crusade in Speech and Print Struggled With Presidential... Read more |
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liquefaction
liquefaction change of a substance from the solid or the gaseous state to the liquid state. Since the different states of matter correspond to different amounts of energy of the molecules making up the substance, energy in the form of heat must either be supplied to a substance or be removed... Read more |
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American Language
Language, American. The meaning and significance of the term “American Language” has changed considerably since Roger Williams published A Key into the Language of America in 1643. For Williams, the term referred exclusively to Native American speech. While this usage persisted into... Read more |
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Aves
Aves Eggs and poultry make up a significant part of peoples' diets. Similarly, products made from feathers such as pillows, comforters, or down-lined coats are widely used. There is an increasing awareness and heightened passion for our feathered friends sweeping the nation.... Read more |
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Chemical reactions
CHEMICAL REACTIONS CONCEPT If chemistry were compared to a sport, then the study of atomic and molecular properties, along with learning about the elements and how they relate on the periodic table, would be like going to practice. Learning about chemical reactions, which includes observing them and... Read more |
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COMPOUND WORD
...and are stressed on the first word (TEApot, BLACKbird) or primary...stressed syllable of the first word (eMERgency plan, RePUBlican...town in England). Compound words, and phrases containing...with strikes in a factory that makes cars’. The compound ... |
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FOUR-LETTER WORD
...1923 and four-letter word in 1934. There are, in...honorary’ four-letter words, such as the five...excrement. Linguistic taboo makes four-letter words candidates for semantic extension...typical ‘four-letter words’. The meaning of the...Work ... |
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PLAYING WITH WORDS
...other effect. Whereas a play on words is a PUN, playing with words is verbal wit or dexterity at...and many other aspects of words: (1) Sound. ‘Oh why can they not be made to...copywrongers ... copywriters who make mistakes in grammar on purpose...See BLEND, ... |
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STUNT WORD
STUNT WORD. An informal term for a WORD created and used to produce...stunt man or a conjuror. Stunt words used to exhibit and practise spelling...and yuckie (a yuppie who makes you sick). Compare BUZZ WORD, NEOLOGISM, NONCE ... |
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Last Word, The
Last Word, The (1890), a comedy by Augustin Daly. [Daly's...the Baron is treacherous and her brother worthwhile, she makes Harry realize that he loves her. Together they make the elder Rutherwell see things their way. Based on Shoenthan... |
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STRESS
...associated with each accent. Word stress A property which makes some syllables in a word stand out. In writing and...in many older works). The word ˈforeign is stressed on the...deˈscribe on the second. Longer words may have two or more ... |
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EFFECTIVE WRITING
...cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb which carries...golden rule is to pick those words that convey to the reader the...construct awkward adverbs. 13. Make sure the ... |
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BASIC ENGLISH
...other system, will be able to make headway by himself with the...Radio, and Newspaper. ... Words which are now come across only in the works of early writers and words which are the stamp of the old...apparatus of the expert than the words of some branch of ... |
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SLANG
...everchanging set of COLLOQUIAL words and phrases generally considered...occurrences in the 18c, the word slang referred to the specialized...ARGOT.Defining slang The word is widely used without precision...captured in slang vocabulary make the term difficult ... |
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DERIVATION
...process by which more complex words are formed from less complex words: purification from purify from...information about the history of words may help in analysing their...no necessary link between a word's ETYMOLOGY and its current...ancestor, Latin purus, ... |
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word salad
...language. Rather than select words which make communication possible, schizophrenics may combine words in idiosyncratic ways, or...or, in extreme cases, a word salad in which the combination of words is unintelligible to the listener and so ... |
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post-structuralism
...more, in that even individual words always carry ‘traces’ of other words and texts (Derrida), provide evidence...not necessarily Foucault), words were no longer understood...underpins Saussure's decision to make langue (language as an established...if that ... |
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spell
...spell. ∎ (of letters) make up or form (a word): the letters spell the word “how.” ∎ be recognizable...speak the letters that form a word in sequence. ∎ explain something...spell2 • n. a form of words used as a magical charm or incantation... |
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field
...number of characters, bytes, words, or codes that are treated...address. A number of fields make a record and the fields may...of designating a portion of a word that has a specific significance or function within that word, e.g. an address field in an ... |
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form
...any of the ways in which a word may be spelled, pronounced...form. ∎ the structure of a word, phrase, sentence, or discourse...precedent. ∎ a set order of words; a formula. ∎ a formality...formed into a militia. ∎ go to make up or constitute: the ... |
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slur
...another: he was slurring his words like a drunk. ∎ [intr.] (of words or speech) be spoken in this...notes) with a slur. 3. make damaging or insulting insinuations...indistinctly so that sounds or words run into one another or a tendency... |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig J. J.
...representation of the world, and that words function primarily or exclusively...Generally, the meaning of a word or sentence is its use in such...itself. To give the meaning of a word is to describe the practices...circumstances misuse of the word can be ... |
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FORTH
...of FORTH is that a symbol (a WORD) can be associated with any...and such a user-defined word can then be used in expressions on equal terms with the system words (operators). This makes FORTH a flexible extensible...containing the system-defined ... |
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compound
...of hydrogen and oxygen. ∎ a word made up of two or more existing words, such as steamship. • adj...in particular: ∎ (of a word) made up of two or more existing words or elements: a compound noun...1. (often be compounded) make up (a ... |
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Yün-men Wen-yen
...known for his careful use of word structures in dialogue, leading...answer for the student, or make the answer a question. He is...renowned for introducing ‘one-word barriers’, single-word, challenging answers (though...thus: ‘What are the ... |
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chaste
...however, a bias pervades the word's usual applications so that it...person who is celibate (in the word's original sense and still...celibacy that Catholic priests make (i.e., a promise not to marry...25, 2002.) And while many word extensions result in the ... |
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heart
...heartsynonyms: from memory, down pat, by rote, word for word, verbatim, word-perfect. do one's heart good it does my heart...alongsynonyms: cheer one (up), please one, gladden one, make one happy, delight one, hearten one, gratify one... |
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line
...couldn't remember his lines synonyms: words, part, script, speech. 15. my line...brand, kind, sort, type, variety, make. 17. a noble line synonyms: ancestry...missive, memorandum; correspondence, word; informal memo; formal epistle...punches, be blunt, not mince one's ... |
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say
...4. I can't conjure up the words to say how I feel synonyms: express, put into words, phrase, articulate, communicate, make known, put/get across, convey...and well.synonyms: in other words, to put it another way; i.e... |
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attack
...storm There is no shortage of “fighting words.” Attack is the most general verb, meaning...someone physically. Molest is another word meaning to attack and is used today almost...Charge and storm are primarily military words, both suggesting a forceful assault on a fixed ... |
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clarify
...clarified the situation synonyms: make clear, shed/throw light on...in the class got wrong—a word that means to make an earlier...Elucidate is a more formal word meaning to clarify, but where...an explication, the correct word is interpret ... |
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express
...feelings in a speechsynonyms: put into words, state, voice, give voice to, enunciate...articulate, verbalize, give vent to, word, proclaim, assert, point out, speak...denote, exhibit, illustrate, manifest, make manifest, reveal, evince, evidence...opinions/views, put ... |
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pin
...you must pin him downsynonyms: force, compel, make, pressure, put pressure on, pressurize, constrain...downsynonyms: define, put one's finger on, put into words, put words to, express in words, express, designate, name, specify, identify... |
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sanitary
...workplaces that are hygienic—in other words, that adhere to the rules or standards...germs entirely. Most Americans want to make their environment healthful, which means...interested in making it antiseptic, a word that is similar in meaning to sterile...move to a more ... |
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courage
...resolution, tenacity Courage is what makes someone capable of facing extreme danger...loss). Someone who has guts, a slang word indicating an admirable display of courage...Fortitude is the most formal of any of these words; it suggests firmness or strength of...bulldog). ... |
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WORD WALLS THAT WORK.(Brief Article)
...be treated as such! 2 Make Them Useful The more you use the Word Walls to spell high-frequency words during modeled writing...or to decode a masked word in text, the more your...breakfast. It fits here and makes sense!") take only...to ... |
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Word-of-mouth: Ready to grow from whisper to shout?(word of mouth marketing...
...DuPont Co. "You need to make sure you don't abuse...is on the board of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association...in May 2004 to promote word-of-mouth marketing...harnessing that channel. "Word-of-mouth marketing...and the fastest way to make ... |
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Word Ramble
...or highly disapproved-of words, by all means, do so. That...than claiming that they are not words all. And since clarity and...purpose of those who disapprove of words such as irregardless, let's skip the non-word stuff. Putting a word into ... |
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Word up.
...it; I love the sounds of words, and this word is about the sounds that words make. The late Dame Barbara Cartland...are the most beautiful words in the language. Tony Robinson...favourite, although it's not a word you can ... |
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Word recognition.(literacy instruction)(Column)
...Phonemes: Speech units that make a difference to meaning...to hear and create rhyming words and alliterations, segment speech into separate words (concept of word), hear syllables as chunks of spoken words, separate spoken ... |
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Winning ways with Word Walls.(Classroom Idea-Sparkers)
...students. Have students nominate words that they think should be a part...creating and illustrating the word cards. Make the Word Wall a teaching-learning tool...teach, or review concepts about words and word families. ... |
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On word-length and dictionary size.
...dictionaries) The table on the next page gives the number of words of various lengths taken from these word lists. The Word Builder's and Longman lists stop with 15-letter words; to make them consonant with the others, estimated numbers of ... |
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Word detective; After working for more than a decade, a University of...
...will be more complicated - but make more sense, he said - than...words, especially interesting words, studied in detail. Then comes a volume of "orphan" words - that is, words that have no established relatives...promises that the ... |
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Graphical word processors: Macintosh. (Microsoft Corp.'s Word 4.0, Claris...
Early word processing systems were hard...who does nothing but process words all day. This is not a job...use large numbers of Macs. Word's Style Sheets (if users would only learn how to use them) make it possibel to standardize the...throughout an ... |
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WORD-OF-MOUTH MARKETING: Spread the word.
...suicidegirls.com, a pioneering word-of-mouth hub where women post...the most attractive aspects of word of mouth is that it can make a smaller marketing budget go a...it safe when it comes to online word of mouth in the UK. One is our... |
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