(n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
(n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
(n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.
(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
(v. i.) To make an argument; to argue.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(2) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(3) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(4) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(5) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(6) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(7) The legs of that argument were cut off by the financial crisis.
(8) These changes in the isozyme pattern of PK in aggressive fibromatosis may act as another argument to place them in the category of malignant fibroblastic tumors.
(9) This provides a compelling argument that the protein kinase function of p37mos is an intrinsic property of the protein.
(10) He always had a logical approach to his arguments and I would have described him as fair at the time.
(11) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(12) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(13) In support of this argument, a case of erosive arthritis is reported in a skeleton from Kulubnarti, Republic of the Sudan (c. 700-1450 A.D.).
(14) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.
(15) Since the four determining coefficients may change over evolutionary time-scales, the mathematical results together with a natural selection argument proves that virulence gamma 2 attenuates.
(16) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(17) The IFS gave this argument an airing today, and produced figures to show that – on such a basis – the VAT rise was a fair tax after all.
(18) Questions are raised as to the validity of arguments that crossover positions have been demonstrated to be normally established only during pachytene (after synapsis is maximal).
(19) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
(20) However, to insist that those who advise an IUD with the motive of contraception cannot herefore object to, say, intrauterine saline aimed at the destruction of a moving 27-week fetus is, in my view, stretching his argument.
Bookmark
Definition:
(n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
Example Sentences:
(1) When searching for an adjective to describe our comprehensively surveilled networked world – the one bookmarked by the NSA at one end and by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and co at the other – "Orwellian" is the word that people generally reach for.
(2) Samsung also says that Apple infringed three other patents: the use of email in a camera-equipped phone; bookmarking a photo in a camera-equipped phone's image gallery; multitasking on a mobile device so you can listen to music in the background.
(3) And it's through the live experience – something that can't be shared or bookmarked for later listening, that you have to be present for in real-time – that EDM has really achieved lift-off.
(4) Interaction of the dodecamer in duplex form with a tryptophan-containing peptide, KGWGK, has also been investigated to test the "bookmark" hypothesis (Gabbay et al., 1976) under the uniform structural constraint of the oligonucleotide of defined sequence.
(5) London still has several which have held out against the endlessly rising rents – the SWP's Bookmarks , Gay's the Word in Bloomsbury, the pacifist Housmans , and the anarchist Freedom Books.
(6) Updated at 12.43am GMT 9.57pm GMT There's a couple of other issues I need to bookmark but swimming with the news cycle for now, the Liberal senator Zed Seselja is on Sky News on a panel.
(7) However, the new system is opt-in, meaning that Facebook users will have to actively choose to download, add, or bookmark the new button onto their homepage.
(8) I would then have to sit down at my laptop and navigate my way to the (bookmarked) UKBA homepage to check that no new rules had been announced without my noticing, which would require me to pack my bags and leave.
(9) But perhaps the web can provide better metrics for scientists in the future, such as download numbers, bookmarks in social bookmarking services or even tweets and Facebook likes.
(10) Specifically, Samsung says Apple infringed: • '941 and '515 - essential for implementing 3G mobile communications • '460 - covers the use of email in a camera-equipped phone • '892 - bookmarking a photo in the image gallery of a camera-equipped phone • '711 - multitasking on a mobile device and allowing users to listen to music in the background What's at stake?
(11) He joined the BBC in 1983 went on to work as a producer and director in music and arts, on shows including Omnibus, Bookmark and Arena, and was a founding producer on BBC2's The Late Show.
(12) I never know what happens to them afterwards, but I still hear their voices.” Sign up to our Bookmarks newsletter Read more The book, published in France as Elle va nue la liberté , is in the process of translation into English and it is one of the great recent collections of war poetry.
(13) It’s that it has such universal power over its users that it’s kind of important that we not allow that power to fall into the hands of monsters,” said Maciej Ceglowski, a developer and the owner of Pinboard, a social bookmarking site.
(14) In both cases the parallel groups making bookmarks received particularly low scores.
(15) Has Samsung proven that Apple has infringed its utility patents '516 and '941 (3G standard); '711 (multitasking on a mobile device); '893 (bookmarking a photo on a camera-equipped phone); '460 (use of email in a camera-equipped phone)?
(16) Either way, Hugh's stunning photography and Sara's personable writing style make it one to bookmark.
(17) The author will be in discussion with Dean Peacock of Sonke Gender Justice at an event at Bookmarks bookshop , London, at 7pm on Thursday 2 October
(18) Four groups (two with a parallel structure and two with a project structure) participated in a bookmark-making activity.
(19) The tool provides bookmarks, annotations, quotations, and other utilities across our entire HyperCard courseware collection.
(20) These folders of foreign newspaper and magazine clippings – with bookmarks in red for negative coverage of Russia, yellow for neutral and green for positive – were a major source of anxiety for Putin’s office in mid-2000s.