Idiomsless and less, to a decreasing extent or degree:I see less and less of my sister these days. -less,suffix. -lessis attached to nouns to form adjectives with the meaning "without, not having (the thing or quality named by the noun)'':care+-less → careless; ...
A Hebrew word meaning gathering, used to mean a collective agricultural community in Israel. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus ...
To help with that read it in steps if you like, and I’ve tried to link as many of the difficult and technical words as possible to their definitions, where you can learn their meaning, if need be. The big picture So let’s get on with it. The first part in this series described...
It’s hard to actually define creativity, but in my opinion it centres around playfulness. A quick check on Google offers “frivolity”, “silliness” and even “monkey business” as possible synonyms. But I mean playful in terms of toying with or manipulating something, pulling it apart and...
This is why Merton used “unintended” instead of “unanticipated consequences”—to accentuate the crux of latent function explanation. Merton’s use of the two concepts as synonyms then became standard usage, living on long after functionalism’s fall into obsolescence. Numerous critiques have ...
This diversity – both in structure and semantic meaning – complicates efforts to find datasets between sources. Thus, analyzing the prevalence is helpful to inform the creation of our own schema by highlighting commonly used properties and resolving ambiguities for selecting between two semantically-...
We all know that; so that I do not need to dwell upon it. ‘Careful’ here means neither more nor less than ‘anxious.’But I may just remind you how harm has been done, and good has been lost and missed, by people reading that modern meaning into the word. It is the same word...
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Given a query, the disease and gene fields were expanded using all the synonyms for the identified concepts. Then, different tuning strategies were applied to the expanded queries with the objective of diversifying the importance of the terms coming from different sources. Building on the work by...