(conj.) A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
(conj.) In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
(conj.) It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
(conj.) If; though. See An, conj.
Example Sentences:
Mand
Definition:
(n.) A demand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transfer from tact to mand contingencies was investigated in two adults with severe mental retardation.
(2) Results are discussed in terms of tacting and manding.
(3) Mands for two of three utensils emerged following tact intervention.
(4) The present study investigated procedures for developing mands and tacts in three learners with severe disabilities.
(5) It was found out that this method doesn't correspond in some details to the classic de-mands of the obstetrical mitigation.
(6) Previous research has shown that topographies taught as tacts frequently fail to appear as mands unless transfer between these two response classes is explicitly programmed.
(7) An important educational objective for many persons with developmental disabilities is the acquisition of verbal operants such as the mand (e.g., requesting) and tact (e.g., labeling).
(8) The clearest differences between classes I and II openbite were the mand.
(9) Substantial transfer to untrained objects and transfer across response classes were frequently noted after both tact and mand interventions had occurred for some items.
(10) Tassos Mandelis, a former socialist transport minister, admitted he had accepted a €100,000 payment from Siemens in 1998.
(11) Nevertheless, cluster analysis disclosed the same pattern in Diola, Toucouleur and Ouolof, while the Peul were intermediary between these and the Serere and the Mande.
(12) An important issue in teaching verbal behavior to persons with severe handicaps is the transfer of stimulus control from tact (e.g., naming) to mand (e.g., requesting) relationships.
(14) Results are discussed in terms of the training technique to establish manding and the functional analysis of the resulting verbal behavior.
(15) The results suggest that responses acquired as tacts do not readily occur as mands.
(16) Substitutes: Ousmane Diarrassouba, Kolo Toure, Mathis Bolly, Daniel Akpa Akpro, Salomon Kalou, Didier Drogba, Didier Ya Konan, Ismael Diomande, Sylvain Gbohouo, Constant Djakpa, Giovanni Sio, Sayouba Mande.
(17) Distressed hipsters: from hackneyhipsterhate.tumblr.com American comedian Joe Mande began his photo-blog, Look At This Fucking Hipster in April 2009.
(18) The results suggest transfer from tact variables to the conditioned establishing operation may be facilitated by the prior development of a minimal mand repertoire.
(19) Give me--" when nonrequested objects were offered, students responded differentially to requested and nonrequested objects, suggesting control of the "Give me--" response by the requested object, a characteristic of a mand.
(20) The major pathways of the peripheral facial taste system in the carp, Cyprinus carpio, are the maxillary (Max), mandibular (Mand), palatine (Pal) and recurrent nerve rami.