5.(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed tosubstantive). [1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latinadjectīvum,neuter ofadjectīvus= Latinadject(us),past participle ofad(j)icereto attach, add (ad-ad- +-(j)icere,comb. form ofjacereto throw) +...
5.(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed tosubstantive). [1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latinadjectīvum,neuter ofadjectīvus= Latinadject(us),past participle ofad(j)icereto attach, add (ad-ad- +-(j)icere,comb. form ofjacereto throw) +...
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. noun The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est...
We argue that similarities in the structures in the heritage and dominant language allow HL speakers to maintain properties of monolingual grammars; dissimilarities, on the other hand, may lead to reanalysis in the HL grammar. However, the newly-built representations in the HL do not match those...
fmerton Dec-26-2010 6 votes Permalink Report Abuse Hi there,I think the word friendly is so confusing and controversial.for example in Webster dictionary it's mentioned as adj and adv both but in other dictionaries it's just adjMorover comparative form of friendly is so mysterious in some ...
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. -phone combining form 1. (forming nouns) indicating voice, sound, or a device ...
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2. judged by comparison; relative: a comparative loss of prestige. 3. (Grammar) grammar denoting the form of an adjective that indicates that the quality denoted is possessed to a greater extent. In English the comparative form of an adjective is usually marked by the suffix -er or the ...
Adj.1.ergodic- positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions statistics- a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability th...
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