(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) This is understandable: marital rape has not been a part of India’s discourse.
(4) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(5) Derived patterns of discourse between female adults and preschool children confirmed expectations that most discourse is based upon three fundamental speech act pairings: question--answer, statement--reply, and directive--acknowledgement.
(6) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.
(7) He might begin with a call for an end to all foreign wars, segue to demand the legalisation of drugs, throw in a defence of WikiLeaks and end with a detailed economic discourse on why the Federal Reserve must be abolished and replaced by the gold standard.
(8) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
(9) I support the boycott discourse, but in order to develop this discourse, we need highly developed political consciousness.
(10) Other significant differences in discourse occurred between the two groups, but these varied from task to task.
(11) He was not in the mood for elaboration, with abundant short answers and uptight reactions to the topics that were suggested for discourse.
(12) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(13) That’s the danger of replacing the political discourse with a purely moralistic approach: politics allow for nuances and mistakes; morality doesn’t.
(14) Discourse passages and consonant nonsense syllables, presented in quiet and in noise, were used as the test conditions.
(15) And the discourse of those that are committing these crimes – they are not hiding these crimes, they are saying it very openly, very publicly, very systematically … and it’s not just rhetoric – the action they take is to implement the rhetoric.
(16) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
(17) Manic patients produced thought disorders that revealed both prominent combinatory thinking and intrusions of irrelevant ideas into the stream of discourse, usually with flippancy and humor.
(18) There are rationalisations but very little actual discourse on the subject of banning assault weapons.
(19) Each lesson focuses on a different viseme which is practiced using the 'discourse tracking' method.
(20) Preliminary data from our single-case studies suggest discourse patterns similar to those reported for adults with frontal lobe injuries.
Exposition
Definition:
(n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
(n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
(n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
(n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
(2) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(3) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(4) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
(5) Reference is made to De Gaetano's exposition of Walsh's views concerning the rôle of platelets in clotting.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) The influence of the electric field of commerical frequency on metabolism and interorgan distribution of copper, molybdenum, iron and manganese was studied in the 4-month experiment on animals with their daily 30-minute exposition.
(8) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(9) The differential diagnosis of unclear carcinoma-suspicious renal findings often finishes with the test-exposition and nephrectomy.
(10) It is assumed that the neutral point of the spatial frame of reference for coding spatial position is at the position where attention is focussed immediately before exposition of the stimulus pattern.
(11) The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, "What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?"
(12) Its simplest exposition is called the "Monty Hall" problem, from the US TV show Let's Make a Deal.
(13) In the absence of any coronary disorders--after a long CO exposition--necrosis of the papillary muscles have been revealed.
(14) It is shown that the formation of p-TA under these conditions depends on the period of the micro-discharge effect on the system, it is maximal at exposition of 30 s for I = 4.2 mA.
(15) Peculiarities of aggregation in the samples of high density serum lipoproteins LHD2 and LHD3 obtained from healthy donors and patients with ishaemic heart disease were studied under isothermal exposition.
(16) However, transanal exposition bears the risk of worsening the incontinence.
(17) Moreover, exposition to simultaneous hypoxia and hypercapnia increased the epinephrine stock of the adrenal glands.
(18) Those effects depend on time of cell exposition to this compound.
(19) Such a reaction may also be expected during a natural exposition to pollens.
(20) The technique of collection was the usual one with the exposition of the Petri dishes containing Sabouraud Agar distributed 72 hours before.