(a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The borderline group scored significantly higher on the following scales: Disclosure (X), Debasement (Z), Passive-Aggressive (8A), Self-Defeating (8B), Borderline (C), and Major Depression (CC).
(2) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
(3) Inevitably, they are not to everyone's taste: educated Mexicans are scandalised by what they see as the debasement of a noble folk tradition, the Catholic Church has denounced corridistas for glorifying the drugs trade, and at least five Mexican states have banned radios from airing the music.
(4) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue.’” Browne added: “The public, whether it’s the NHS or housebuilding, detect that gap, and you will see it now at constituency level with quite debased leaflet-based campaigning about what the parties are going to stop at local level, which is almost completely at odds with the macro-level speeches that the leaders are making up in Westminster.
(5) The impact reaches far beyond the figures inscribed on a Test-match scorebook and debases the credibility of the entire sport.
(6) If the system is to be effective, however, every temptation must be resisted by all involved parties to debase it by using it for self-serving purposes.
(7) But the most debased and vulgar abuse is directed at women, particularly liberal and secular women, and especially women who are not Hindu,” Guha said.
(8) In a society that values women on the basis of their sexuality, a woman who views herself as "debased" may see prostitution as a viable alternative--perhaps the only alternative.
(9) Failing all the above, do they have any worth in the rapidly debasing currency of iconicity?
(10) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
(11) A possible cause of these complications may be the debasement of coagulation factors and opsonins in plasma after hepatectomy.
(12) They could not simultaneously debase the currency and back it with gold at a fixed rate.
(13) It's debased and stupefied, really, but that's daily politics."
(14) The progress in prenatal diagnosis and the possibility of replacing risk with security is about to debase the rationale of genetic counseling.
(15) Yet on this issue there appears to be a licence to reject our best scientists both here and abroad and rely instead on much less reliable views.” He has railed against the “dumbing down” of Australian debate in general and the debasing of smart policy for political gain.
(16) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
(17) A third factor is that currencies are being debased in the developed world, where sovereign debt is at record levels and bearish commentators fear the dollar could slump 20% in the next two years.
(18) Social cohesion is repeatedly challenged by the knowing use of debasing and divisive language, a politics where voters are encouraged to imagine all benefits claimants are scroungers and every migrant as potentially illegal.
(19) For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain’s political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
(20) The purpose of these developments however is clear: to debase and disempower Republican Political Prisoners.” The republican prisoners warned: “Those overseeing and implementing these policies would do well to use history as their guide to see where their actions will lead.” In 2012 dissident republicans shot dead a Maghaberry prison officer, David Black , while he drove along a motorway on his way to work at the prison.
Debug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(2) I'm hoping that the debugging code within the iOS core is partly to blame here, and once it reaches release the core's footprint will shrink and things will run as smoothly as iOS 4.
(3) 8-yr.-olds who learned Logo in school were found to use both debugging techniques and procedurality in their computer programming.
(4) Using the simulator in the development and debugging of control programs has several advantages over using the real pump: it provides detailed pump status information and it can stimulate various error and alarm conditions to comprehensively test the error recovery procedures of the control program.
(5) The assessment of growth changes was based on the method of superimposition described by Björk and Skieller (1983) supplemented by a new computerized debugging procedure.
(6) But it seems many parents will be surprised when their children come home from school talking about algorithms, debugging and Boolean logic.
(7) House has a PhD in electrical engineering and is an expert in user interfaces – now she's applying that skill with systems to a workforce, - she is effectively debugging the development team.
(8) In this paper we show a program written in BASIC and debugged on a Sharp MZ-700 personal computer, equipped with the Sharp MZ-1P01 plotter.
(9) Boys, but not girls, trained in Logo showed an improvement in debugging skills relative to the control children.
(10) Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds): Slightly older primary-school children will be creating and debugging more complicated programs with specific goals and getting to grips with concepts including variables and “sequence, selection, and repetition in programs”.
(11) They and a group of control children of the same age were pre- and posttested on a game requiring debugging skills (Mastermind) and another game requiring procedural skills (Tower of Hanoi).
(12) But they will also be creating and debugging simple programs of their own, developing logical reasoning skills and taking their first steps in using devices to “create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content”.
(13) Use of the preprocessor does not interfere with the capability to debug programs interactively which is one of the most helpful characteristics of interpretive implementations of BASIC.
(14) Two 2-D graphic display tools are developed to help the debugging of a given geometric model.
(15) The authors debugged and launched into routine operation an automated monitoring system using computer techniques.
(16) And it also turned out that Obama's advisers were so paranoid about Republican attacks that they refused to allow the beta testing essential to debug any high-traffic site.
(17) The common theme of the successful places I’d seen seemed to be a handful of hardy young entrepreneurs, the sort who can make their own clothes, granola and business plans at the same time as snowboarding the local mountains or debugging a laptop: the cool tycoons.
(18) Software development for the front-end is performed on the host with program down-load for interactive debugging.
(19) For ease in debugging and verifying adherence to the standard, all information in the file is encoded in printable ASCII characters.
(20) In addition, it has features which aid in debugging associated programs.