(n.) An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
(n.) Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
(n.) The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(3) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(4) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
(5) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(6) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(7) The fact that IL-3, GM-CSF, and IL-5 regulate basophil function and viability in vitro demonstrates possible mechanisms for the regulation of basophil function and viability in IgE-mediated reactions (especially in late-phase reactions) in vivo by these factors.
(8) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(9) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
(10) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
(11) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
(12) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(13) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(14) This fact suggested that TCTFP may be metabolized intensively by glutathione (GSH) conjugation and therefore, like hexachlorobutadiene, would be expected to be nephrotoxic.
(15) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(16) These differences point to the fact that the mechanisms that regulate satellite cell mitotic and fusion behavior are also not the same in all muscles.
(17) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(18) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(19) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(20) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
Realism
Definition:
(n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
(n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
(n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) The program emphasizes clinical realism by providing many clinical options at each decision point, and by audiovisually depicting combat clinical care in very realistic ways.
(2) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
(3) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(4) Careful long-term, follow-up studies and continued scientific scrutiny always temper the intoxicating promise of innovation with the sobriety of scientific realism.
(5) After ruling out other explanations, we concluded that a one-compartment model does not possess sufficient realism for adequately describing the movement of labeled water in brain.
(6) He said the need for realism, insisted on by censors, left "only the ancient Chinese stories to be produced".
(7) Updated at 11.14am GMT 10.45am GMT Kenny : There is a new sense of realism in Europe.
(8) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(9) It may however, serve as an example of how idealistic principles might be combined with realism derived directly from clinical practice, and may thus serve to inspire others along similar paths.
(10) It adds a savage realism that even Caravaggio never thought of – it would take two women to kill this brute.
(11) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
(12) Elections should be between real options, not between leaders who disguise their fear of radicalism with waffle about transformative authenticity, realism and delivering change.
(13) The new realism on pensions was ditched in favour of measures that addressed part of the problem and hurt fewer people.
(14) And the result is, unarguably, a significant advance, in terms of realism, on its celebrated public information predecessor : Women, Know your Limits!, in which the woman character's principal contribution to a political debate is the highly unlikely – given not a single cat is in evidence – "I do love little kittens."
(15) And as Burnley won only seven games in their last season in the Premier League and came straight back down , the feelgood factor surrounding the club comes firmly tethered to realism.
(16) Aware always of what he called "the desperately thin ice" we walked on, he surveyed the world and our place in it with a pensive realism, striking no heroic postures.
(17) It presents an infected realism, one where the everyday facts of life are unhinged by an intervention from elsewhere.
(18) In its citation, the jury said Mo "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
(19) Darling tried to be blunt about the coming years of sacrifice, promising "tough but necessary choices", "realism", "cuts to some budgets as programmes come to an end" and "programmes stopping".
(20) The good agreement of the ab initio and empirical tables, the best available for testing the theory, demonstrates the basic realism of the wearout equation.