(v. t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
(v. t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
(v. t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
(v. t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
(v. t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
(v. i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
(v. i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.
(n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
(n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
(n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
(n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
(n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
(n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
(11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
Fluency
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Teaching procedures then establish and build these key components to fluency.
(2) "I find fluency on TV and radio now something that is easy in a way that three or four years ago I found very hard.
(3) As predicted by the perceptual fluency hypothesis, and as has been found in previous research, the recognition judgments were more positive for identified words than for unidentified words.
(4) Two experiments evaluated the hypothesis that perceptual fluency is used to infer prior occurrence.
(5) For fluency (from the Western Aphasia Battery), subcortical structural damage had direct and indirect (through frontal lobe) effects on the behavior.
(6) Sixteen normally performing and 16 children with learning disabilities were administered this task and a control task of verbal fluency.
(7) On a verbal fluency test (FAS) requiring the subject to retrieve items from different categories, Wilson's patients with neurologic disease generated significantly fewer words than control subjects (p less than .01).
(8) Further, word-completion priming, but not perceptual priming, was correlated with verbal fluency performance in AD.
(9) First, to examine the extent to which fluency measures are affected by conditions of speech production.
(10) Tests of memory and verbal fluency were administered to 19 neurologically impaired Wilson's patients, 12 non-neurologically impaired Wilson's patients and 15 normal control subjects.
(11) However, their errors on the latter were not typical of patients with frontal lesions, and they performed normally on a letter fluency task and exhibited normal release from proactive interference.
(12) A multivariate factorial analysis of variance indicated that the mentally retarded deaf adolescents differed significantly from hearing adolescents on Fluency and Originality.
(13) Neuropsychological tests employed where the color slide test, digit symbol test, digit span test, logical memory test, word fluency test, and the Mini-Mental State Examination.
(14) The pattern of cognitive decline was not uniform: MS patients were more frequently impaired on measures of recent memory, sustained attention, verbal fluency, conceptual reasoning, and visuospatial perception, and less frequently impaired on measures of language and immediate and remote memory.
(15) They were defensively more secure than they had been, but lacked the fluidity and fluency of movement that characterised them even in the quarter-final against Colombia.
(16) It started with her surprise appearance onstage at last year's party conference, and the winning fluency and warmth with which she introduced her husband.
(17) Arsenal had not even led against Chelsea since October 2011 but they passed the ball with the greater incision and fluency in the opening 45 minutes and it was a wonderful finish from Oxlade-Chamberlain.
(18) In children, the BNT relates more to word knowledge than to retrieval or fluency, and verbal memory appears to be relatively independent of these linguistic functions.
(19) If it can be assumed that reading fluency correlates with naming latency, then it can be argued that the better beginning reader is more phonologically analytic.
(20) The acquisition of information literacy and fluency will be mandatory techniques for the future practice of medicine and should be taught at the institutional level by faculty sophisticated in the use of information retrieval systems.