(n.) The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
(n.) That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
(n.) The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
(n.) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
(n.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(3) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(4) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(7) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(8) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(9) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(10) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(11) Therefore, a comprehensive study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 report forms was conducted from state-licensed testing laboratories in California.
(12) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(13) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(14) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(15) Understanding pathophysiology, educating patients, and performing comprehensive nursing assessments will be of great importance to this at-risk population.
(16) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(17) In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and online."
(18) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(19) The functional basis of this complex is a block controlling the information input, and it is described comprehensively.
(20) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
Rote
Definition:
(n.) A root.
(n.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
(n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
(n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
(v. t.) To learn or repeat by rote.
(v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their three Rs are rigour, rightwing history and rote learning.
(2) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(3) Materials-based occupation, imagery-based occupation, and rote exercise have been examined individually by several researchers.
(4) Four different tasks were employed (serial learning, paired learning, rote learning, and visuolinguistic transfer), some requiring a single trial learning modality others a multitrial learning modality.
(5) The report says incursions were becoming more regular: “In anticipation of the entry of Australian warships (foreign war vessels) into Indonesian territorial waters, already occurring more and more often, it is necessary to increase Indonesian sovereignty in carrying out more patrols in and around the waters of Rote Ndao and Dana Island, so that foreign warships do not enter Indonesian territorial waters again,” it says.
(6) They found 17 cases in which dorsal vertebral hyperostosis was indiscutable and in which there was acquired stenosis of the cervical canal related to the bony proliferations that had developed on the anterior face of the cervical canal and to the type of cells described by Forestier and Rotes-Querol on the anterior and lateral faces of the vertebral column.
(7) (1) Vigilance and reaction time test were the most useful in evaluation of effects of various doses of the medication; the memory tasks showed similar, but less definite, trends; and rote calculation and block design were of no particular value in this study.
(8) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(9) The important thing is to stop the boats and and the Australian people are extremely pleased that’s what's happened Tony Abbott The Indonesian police chief on Rote, Hidayat, was quoted by Fairfax as saying the cash “was in $100 bank notes” and wrapped in six black plastic bags.
(10) The values regarding maximum doses published in the German Pharmacopeia ("Rote Liste") can be defined as being more or less the product of the volume of distribution and the toxic concentration in the plasma.
(11) The present study examines the hypothesis that motor responses added into rote tasks would modulate the sensation-seeking activity and impulsive errors of hyperactive (ADD-H) children.
(12) The real problem is that GCSE language courses provide no proper preparation for language work, concentrating as they do on rote learning and minimal understanding of grammar.
(13) The ABC this week broadcast footage of asylum seekers receiving treatment for burns they claim they suffered when navy personnel forced them to hold hot engine pipes as they were towed back to Indonesia's Rote Island.
(14) The three experiments described aimed to establish whether the achievements of idiot savant calendrical calculators were based solely on rote memory and arithmetical procedures, or whether these subjects also used rule-based strategies.
(15) A cohort of 40 children was assessed for their abilities on 44 variables which involved reading, spelling, vocabulary, short-term memory (STM), visual skills, auditory-visual integration, language knowledge, rote knowledge and ordering ability as they developed from five to eight years old.
(16) It was Dec who, on Saturday night, almost rugby-tackled the defeated Boyle away from the audience and the cameras when he noticed that she seemed intent on flashing her underwear: a sign – along with her the fact that her congratulations to the winners sounded slow and learned by rote – that she was dangerously on edge.
(17) It is suggested that if change in the biomedical system is a goal of a critical clinical anthropology, the impact will be greater where objective and broad causal connections can be demonstrated with minimal use of rote or polemic arguments.
(18) Meg Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, which contains Grillo’s school, the Bridge Academy, makes the point that his success is particularly exciting because “it shows that Hackney schools are not just about exam results and rote learning, they’re about teaching wider life skills.
(19) Under our experimental conditions, rote associative learning either remains intact or recovers satisfactorily with 1 month of abstinence in alcoholics.
(20) While most drug interactions can be avoided by thinking in terms of groups, pharmacokinetics and probabilities, some learning by rote is required, e.g.