(n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
(n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Historical reality suggests the concept of socially necessary risk determined through the dialectic process in democracy.
(2) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
(3) This study investigated whether Nonstandard English (NSE) dialect responses to an examiner-constructed sentence completion test were congruent with and predictive of use of NSE during spontaneous conversation.
(4) We conclude that no major dialect differences exist in peptic ulcer frequency amongst the Chinese in Singapore.
(5) The hypothesis is advanced that both phenomena represent inborn dialectical logical instruments of evolution-like human identity creation and maintenance.
(6) Discussion of a revised model of Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development illustrates the importance of formulating a dialectical developmental model that describes the interaction between attachment and separation and between product and process.
(7) Strong individual differences and learned local dialects are common.
(8) The Freudian conception of the process by which the subject is constituted is fundamentally dialectical in nature and involves the notion that the subject is created and sustained (and at the same time decentred from itself) through the dialectical interplay of consciousness and unconsciousness.
(9) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
(10) Chinese New Year is a public holiday and in Glodok, Mandarin and other dialects are spoken openly.
(11) For example such problems are discussed: the dialectic association of activity and inactivity of needing care old age people, the relation between energy and personality of old age people, change of relations between doctor-nurse-citizen or the higher responsibility of the doctor of the houses for old age people in connection with so-called "Triage".
(12) A dialectical model is proposed in which BSG utilization rates are seen as the product of an avoidance-avoidance conflict involving the choice between suffering emotional distress on one's own or the perceived stigma of joining a BSG.
(13) There were still quite a few Marxists at Oxford in those days – Terry Eagleton and his clique were seemingly bolted to the same table in the King’s Arms the entire time I was an undergraduate – but while I was silly and naive enough to believe in the purifying, energising effects of violent revolution, I wasn’t obtuse enough to think of dialectical materialism as anything more than a powerful heuristic.
(14) A cult of healing through meditation that was observed in Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 is described, and the cult is interpreted in terms of two axes, the cosmological and the performative, and the dialectical, reciprocal and complementary relations between them.
(15) Starting from these statements, the author considers the hereditary and the environmental factors as a dialectical unit, associates the implications of both groups of factors with typical forms of dysgnathias and draws conclusions as to the prognosis of "mainly genetically" and "mainly environmentally" induced dental and occlusal malpositions.
(16) Cantonese is the common Chinese dialect spoken by the citizens in Hong Kong.
(17) The name of these drugs, Chin-I, dialectal Kim-Iya, was Arabicized as Kimiya and transliterated Chemeia by the Copts.
(18) The data, failing to produce evidence for an "undershoot" mechanism, support the view that dialect-specific correlates of stress are actively safeguarded by means of articulatory reorganization.
(19) Postmortem findings will continue to be a valid basis on which medical specialists can train their own medical thinking and can learn about the dialectics of pathological processes.
(20) The clustering in the present song, however, may also be due to a tendency for a mid vowel to be realized as a higher-beginning diphthong, which is characteristic of the North-Estonian coastal dialect area where the singers come from.
Northumbrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hong-Kong-based businessman's UK Water group will take over Northumbrian, which owns and runs water services in the south of the country through subsidiary Essex and Suffolk Water as well as providing water in its north-east base.
(2) Chairman of Northumbrian, Sir Derek Wanless, said: "The directors believe that, whilst Northumbrian would have a strong future as an independent company, the consortium's offer to Northumbrian shareholders fairly values the current and future prospects of the company.
(3) The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which owns 26.8% of Northumbrian, is to vote in favour of the takeover and has ruled itself out of making a counter-offer.
(4) Group managing director of CKI, H L Kam, said: "We attach great importance to the skills and experience of the existing management and employees of Northumbrian and believe they will be an important factor in the continuing success of the Northumbrian group."
(5) Enter the rather improbable figure of Peter Millican, a shy Northumbrian property developer with Hockneyesque horn-rimmed spectacles and a burning ambition to build and run his own London concert hall.
(6) Asian tycoon Li Ka-Shing looked to have won the battle for Northumbrian Water on Tuesday, after the board of the utility recommended his £2.4bn offer .
(7) Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, has agreed terms to buy Northumbrian Water at an all-time high for the share price.
(8) The octogenarian Hong Kong tycoon’s UK portfolio includes the health and beauty chain Superdrug and Northumbrian Water.
(9) His Cheung Kong Group also owns Northumbrian Water, Wales and West Utilities and has a stake in Southern Water.
(10) Including Northumbrian's debt, the deal is worth £4.7bn.
(11) The directors also welcome the statements that the consortium has made with respect to Northumbrian's management and employees, its location of business and its support for the communities it serves."
(12) Northumbrian listed in 2003, and the deal is the biggest takeover of a listed company in the UK this year.
(13) Shareholders in Northumbrian, a FTSE 250 stock, will get 465p a share, and will also be entitled to receive the final dividend of 9.57p a share.
(14) The books tell the story of the bloody battles between the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons led by King Alfred, through fictional character Uhtred, a Northumbrian boy, heir to an earldom, who is captured and raised by the invaders.
(15) Northumbrian cereal grower Colin McGregor, who produces golden extra virgin rapeseed oil under the Olifeira brand, sells it at £6 for a 500ml bottle - the same sort of price tag you might expect on a classy bottle of Tuscan extra virgin olive oil.
(16) Alistair Baker, a spokesman for Northumbrian Water, said the ferocity of some storms was "well in excess of the design capabilities" of their defence schemes, completed last year at a cost of about £2.5m.
(17) Northumbrian shares rose 4.4% this morning to reach 469p, while shares in CKI, listed in Hong Kong, rose 1.5% to an all-time high.
(18) In Tony Parker 's Red Hill , a prose study of a pseudonymous Northumbrian pit village, the tone was of almost unbearable bleakness: a community visited and vitiated by the inscrutable workings of an alien destiny ("I don't see what I'm ever going to do with my life").
(19) Mr Blair had on that occasion eaten celeriac and Northumbrian smoked cheese followed by a fillet of Cowell Peninsula salmon.
(20) The takeover of Northumbrian Water for a proposed £2.4bn shows that, actually, well-run water firms can still make reliable returns – and, what is more, can expect to do so for years to come.