(a.) Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
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.
Standard
Definition:
(n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
(n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
(n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
(n.) The sheth of a plow.
(n.) A large drinking cup.
(a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
(a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(4) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(8) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(9) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(12) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(13) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(14) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(15) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(16) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(17) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(18) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(19) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
(20) A number of variables which could influence the test has been evaluated and standardized in a way suitable for the routinary use of the technique described.