the oxford dictionary of allusions 2001

... P. A. JUDD THE OXFORD BOOK OF 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence ... medica: the basis of the vast majority of the drugs and medi- cines that they would one day prescribe to their patients. Lowson’s Textbook of botany was the bible that linked their profession with the ... selection of the so-called health foods now available to the public. The link is not only in the text but in the superb illustrations, some of which take you back to the great herbal texts of the past,

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... other models, a portion of the data is often held out and used to select some of the overall parameters of the model, such as the number of layers in an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and the ... computed as the ratio of the number of cases in the upper approximation to the total number of cases in the database See Also: lower approximation, plausibility, Rough Set Theory Upper Envelope The upper ... dichotomies of the sample In other words, for a sample of size d, there are 2^d possible subsets of that sample If every subset can be made positive for some example of the concept, then the concept

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... 726–52 head of, 730–31, 738, 745n1 syntactic relation of governance among elements of, 730–33 themes for next decade regarding, 744–45 variation of, 729–33 Relational grams boundedness of, 730, ... NLT. See Neural Theory of Language Nominal classification, 676–96. See also Classifier(s) categorization, CL and, 690–92 central problems of, 686–90 systems of, 678–86 systems of, from world to ... about, 957 gestures and nature of, 947–48 lexical diffusion of, 952, 953t, 954 perceptually motivated, 955–56 specifying class of, 946–47 theoretical consequences of lexically and phonetically

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... effect on the relation of the event to the com- municative situation (‘past’). In other words, it is part of these speakers’ knowledge of the conventions of their language that the unit involved conveys ... distinctions also exist in the domain of time. The flow of time constitutes (part of) the base of the meaning of verbs. Different lexical verbs may profile different ‘‘slices’’ of time, backgrounding ... through the work of Talmy (1978). In visual perception, one element may be the focus of attention? ?the ‘‘Figure’’; it is perceived as a prominent coherent element and set off against the rest of what

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... indicated by the use of bold lines: they ‘‘profile’’ aspects of the object of conceptualization, but none at the level of the subjects of conceptualization or of the relation between the two levels. ... details. In each of these cases, the landmark with respect to which the trajector is located is part of the ground of the utterance. The position of the ballroom in (3) is calcu- lated from the common ... elements of the construal configuration, and the other some other, or more, elements). This is the way this representation will be used in the remainder of this chapter. The extreme case at the other

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... 73 at the end of section 3). But it may also consist in an increase of the role of the construal relation or the ground in the profile of an expression, or (what ultimately may be part of the same ... exhausts the function of these fragments of discourse. The analysis by Thompson actually provides the basis for an explanation of the correlation noted by Diessel and Tomasello (2001: 136) between the ... knowledge about the president’s re- election (for example, when the speaker is in charge of the election process and has just completed the count of the votes). The use of might relates to the epistemic

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... so on. They are in fact the theme of Oakley (this volume, chapter 9). But the commonality of these with all other direct abstractions is significant and worth discussing. 2.4. The Ubiquity of Schematicity ... concepts of Cognitive Grammar has been that of schemas. 1 The aim of this chapter will be to characterize this concept, relate it to some of the other concepts discussed in the surrounding chapters of ... None of these schemas can be expected to exist in all the world’s languages, much less among all the speakers of all those languages (though, of course, as the culture of chess spreads, they

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... determina- tion of current of large dimension, or of the 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 without absorption. 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 ... PRODUCT. alpha decay The decay of a substance in which the nuclei of the atoms emit alpha particles, resulting in a change of the atomic number and atomic weight of the substance over a period of time. alphanumeric...

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... bipolar transistor. 4. In the operation of an electron tube, the ratio of the derivative (instantaneous rate of change) of the plate voltage to the derivative of the grid volt- age, for zero ... type of radar, the sync delay introduced between trans- mission of the pulse and start of the trace on the indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in the display. ALU Abbreviation of ... PROCESSING. adsorption Adhesion of a thin layer of molecules of one substance to the surface of another without absorption. An example is adsorption of water to the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con- fused...

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... from either the rate of appearance of the product of the reaction or the rate of disappearance of the sub- strate. The centrifugation may be performed on impure enzyme preparations and at the very ... polymer of the protein actin. Actin filaments form the thin filaments of muscle and also the mi- crofilaments of the cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. Hence they are a major component of the contractile ... edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It was a remarkable work of scholarship, arising from the work of journal editors and scientific writers. Since then the landscape...

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