(n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
(n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
(n.) An assay. See Assay, n.
(n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
(n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(2) The rationale for pursuing the development and use of germ-line selection and modification techniques is examined in this essay.
(3) This essay reviews research on interhemispheric transfer time derived from simple unimanual reaction time to hemitachistoscopically presented visual stimuli.
(4) What is correct in a tweet might not be in an essay; no single register of English is right for every occasion.
(5) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(6) The present essay gives a brief review of the findings on sex differences in the human brain.
(7) Evidence exists in the literature to suggest that the reliability of short (c. 10 minutes) essay questions may be higher.
(8) This pictorial essay should assist the radiologist in recognizing esophageal abnormalities on chest films and in recognizing their place in the spectrum of chest film abnormalities.
(9) This two-part essay identified major characteristics of War Surgery and explores the essential training and education required to prepare civilian and military surgeons for the practice of war surgery.
(10) They then wrote essays justifying their ideas for the new classroom; provided a budget, using a variety of maths skills; created an inventory of furniture, lighting and other items; producing a 3D scale model of their classroom and a 2D computer-generated picture.
(11) In the last part of the essay he discusses the characteristics of traditional Chinese medical ethics.
(12) Upon further consideration, we concluded the essay did not include some key facts and its overall tone was not consistent with what we seek to publish.
(13) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
(14) Over the past 40 years her voice has been marked, first and foremost, by a supreme intellectual confidence, a tone evident from the first line of the first essay (Notes on Camp) that made her name in 1964: "Many things in the world have not been named.
(15) The life of Oliver Wendell Holmes was selected as the subject for a lecture in the 1974 History of Medicine series at Yale University School of Medicine because, as the Latin subtitle of the essay suggests, he represents a fortunate and uncommon, but by no means unique, synthesis of the practical and aesthetic, of science and the humanities.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In an essay for the Hollywood Reporter, Camille Paglia writes that Swift promotes a ‘silly, regressive public image’.
(17) In a 2010 essay, Berman wrote of visiting the Bronx again, with trepidation, fearing that the borough's notorious self-immolation would have left nothing of the world he remembered.
(18) Batoor is a talented photojournalist who worked on the PR team at the US Embassy in Kabul before he was targeted for a bold and confronting photo essay on the exploitation of Afghanistan’s "dancing boys" in the Washington Post.
(19) Today we are starting a new series called ‘Facing my fear’, launching with an essay from a young widow who had to return to the city where she first met her late husband .
(20) As Geoff Dyer notes in his essay for Dewe Mathews's book, her images may "bear a conceptual resemblance to Sternfeld's, but they are taken within the already charged zone of memory that is the Western Front.
Thesis
Definition:
(n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
(n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
(n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
(n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.
(n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
(n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(2) Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.
(3) The data favor the thesis that neutralization of BVD virus occurs by a multi-hit mechanism and requires combination of at least two molecules of antibody with each virus.
(4) Clinical material is used to illustrate this thesis.
(5) I went to work at Carville at the invitation of Dr. Kirchheimer, who had seen my Ph.D. thesis.
(6) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(7) The thesis considered was that angiotensin II may have a greater role in the fetus than in the adult since the autonomic nervous system does not develop fully until late in gestation.
(8) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(9) Doctors who were general practitioners in the period 1973-88 and had written a successful MD or PhD thesis were identified.
(10) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(11) The present thesis focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, progression and prevention of dentoalveolar ankylosis.
(12) As previously observed the fraction that escapes depends on the solvent viscosity [Marden, M. C. (1983) Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois-Urbana].
(13) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(14) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
(15) These data support the thesis that cell transport of calcium is accomplished by the attachment of calcium atoms to the cell surface and transport through the plasma membrane bound to either specific carriers or to membrane constituents.
(16) To illustrate his thesis he presents the case history of a man who was fatally affected by the family myth and mystification process.
(17) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
(18) We describe an approach that is based on the thesis that dermatologists can and often should treat such patients.
(19) For that reason the electron microscope method with an optically higher resolution was chosen for this thesis.
(20) Both polyribosomes and 70S ribosomes that were isolated on sucrose density gra dients and tested separately in cell-free systems were capable of protein syn thesis; however, polyribosomes formed more protein per unit of RNA than monosomes did.