(n.) The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
(2) Anomic aphasics produced the fewest phonemic errors and the most multiword circumlocutions; this pattern suggests minimal word-production difficulty in anomic aphasia relative to the other aphasia syndromes.
(3) On several occasions, when the patient failed to name a picture which happened to be lexicalized by a polysemous word, a residual covert word form could still operate as a link between different meanings of the target word; then, the patient produces a word or a circumlocution related to one meaning which was not the illustrated meaning.
(4) Semantically-related errors and circumlocutions characterized the naming of aphasic and demented patients, while phonemic errors were common only in aphasics.
(5) In addition, the relative distribution of the three most prominent naming errors-phonemic errors, semantic errors, and multiword circumlocutions-tended to distinguish the two anomic subgroups from the other aphasia subgroups.
(6) When subjects did not respond correctly to phonemic cueing, a significantly greater number of phonemic errors were produced, with a concurrent decline in related words and extended circumlocutions.
(7) With increasing age subjects produced more circumlocutions and fewer semantic errors.
(8) Behind these circumlocutions and evasions lie the unmistakable reality that this republican coronation puts an end to the hopes that were generated by the biggest upheaval of the Arab spring.
(9) Mr Micawber was a kindly man, albeit one given to circumlocution and financial mismanagement.
(10) He has mastered the art of never mentioning the treasurer's name in public, exhausting every possible circumlocution.
(11) Semantic errors (i.e., circumlocutions, semantically related associates, and nominalizations) and perceptual errors increase with age.
(12) Data for the parameter of semantics revealed a significantly greater occurrence of hesitations than circumlocutions, verbal paraphasias, or revisions.
Moose
Definition:
(n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hydrolysis of glucagon with moose elastase produced major cleavages at Thr-7-Ser-8, Ser-11-Lys-12, Val-23-Gln-24 and Leu-26-Met-27.
(2) The fecal streptococci isolated were identified as the species that were found primarily in the fecal material of the native rodent and moose populations.
(3) Moose elastase possessed 231 residues, based on alanine recoveries equal to 17.0 residues, with a molecular weight calculated as 24 201.
(4) Mean induction times for the moose were 17 minutes and for the deer, 14 and 10 minutes, respectively.
(5) From the roentegonological viewpoint for fair were considered the findings without persisting subluxation and dislocation with the spheric head (the asphercity on the Moose template did not exceed 2 mm) and without evident shape deformities of the proximal end of the femur (coxa vara, overgrowth of the greater trochanter).
(6) I’ll keep studying what’s left of the wolves, moose and vegetation on the island,” he says.
(7) According to official Swedish police statistics more than 400 car occupants are injured annually in crashes with a moose.
(8) The objectives were to determine the prevalence and intensity of infection in white-tailed deer, and to determine whether or not moose feces contained first stage larvae, signifying the completion of the life cycle of P. tenuis in this host.
(9) Peptides were isolated from the disulphide bridge and active-site regions of the A and B chymotrypsins of moose and elk by diagonal peptide-'mapping' techniques.
(10) Infested moose groomed extensively, apparently in response to feeding nymphal and adult ticks, and developed alopecia.
(11) Hair samples were collected from 100 moose at the MRC to correspond with the lactation period and serve as a metabolic indicator of mineral elements stored in tissue.
(12) The joke is that there are moose hiding on each page.
(13) Details of the isolation procedures of the moose and elk chymotrypsins A and B and the amino acid analyses of some peptides obtained by diagonal peptide 'mapping' have been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50064 (27 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, W. Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(14) Dictyocaulus viviparus was found in lungs of 14% of 50 moose, 14% of 118 mule deer, 12% of 41 wapiti, and 6% of 54 white-tailed deer.
(15) A relationship was demonstrated between the buffer properties of moose's milk and its lysozyme activity.
(16) Controlled priming based on phonological relatedness (JUICE-MOOSE) was equally effective in either visual field (VF).
(17) There were thirty-six secondary collisions: in eighteen, the vehicle hit other objects after avoiding the moose (group A), and in the other eighteen, the vehicle hit the moose and then hit other objects (group B).
(18) Fifteen percent of the mule deer and four percent of the moose were positive for adult arterial worms.
(19) Greater K:C, P:C and Ca:C ratios in east-end moose compared to west-end moose throughout winter I, and increases in these ratios and U:C in east-end moose from middle to late winter during the second year provided additional evidence of a greater deterioration in condition in east-end moose.
(20) Blood samples were collected from captive and free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), white-tailed deer, (Odocoileus virginianus), black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), moose (Alces alces), and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) for cultural evidence of Trypanosoma sp.