(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
(a.) Dependent in form; conventional.
(a.) Sound; normal.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(2) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(3) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(4) Eleven per cent of the courses that responded provided no formal substance misuse training.
(5) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(6) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
(7) This formalism allows resolution of the intrinsic protein folding-unfolding parameters (enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity changes) as well as the ligand interaction parameters (binding stoichiometry, enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity changes).
(8) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(9) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(10) Britain and France formally announced this week they would abstain, along with Portugal and Bosnia.
(11) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(12) Instituut voor Sociale Geneeskunde, Vrije Universiteit (The process of directing self-care, informal and formal assistance).
(13) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(14) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.
(15) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
(16) His central focus was on the neutrality of government rules – or what he called (on p117), "the Rule of Law, in the sense of the rule of formal law, the absence of legal privileges of particular people designated by authority" – not the elimination of government rules: "The liberal argument is in favor of making the best possible use of the forces of competition as a means of coordinating human efforts, not an argument for leaving things just as they are."
(17) The Washington Post report is the latest in a flurry of unattributed articles suggesting that the Justice Department is unlikely to take up formal charges against Assange.
(18) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(19) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
(20) The formal results of the analysis show that when psychological considerations are incorporated into a state-dependent utility model, the normative results customarily obtained concerning value-of-life need to be qualified.
Illiterate
Definition:
(a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of children came from low socio-economic homes (61%) with mostly illiterate or semi-literate mothers.
(2) Visual acuity results in patients able to provide verbal responses to the illiterate E, Allen card, or Snellen line chart testing showed improvement in most cases.
(3) Every head of household – even illiterate – has at least one.
(4) The [commission] has done work on a massive scale to educate voters, especially the vulnerable ones – illiterate, poor, marginalised – as well as women and youth,” HS Brahma, an election commissioner, told reporters.
(5) The most important aspect of reaching people at the grassroots level is to ensure their understanding by using the most appropriate language, and by ensuring that the largely illiterate population will, nevertheless, be well served by print and electronic mass media.
(6) Subjects were chosen from illiterate and below matriculate level; matriculate to graduate level; and graduate and above.
(7) Illiterate women, however, cannot benefit from such remainders.
(8) Mean differences between groups with very high and very low psychoticism scores on tests of general intelligence and Persian language are larger than those between groups with college-educated versus illiterate or semiliterate fathers.
(9) A study of 28 midwives from different regions in Kenya in 1980 found that most were illiterate women between 24 and 68 years olds received no monetary gain, had a variety of occupational backgrounds, and provided varying amounts of advice but little pre- or postnatal care.
(10) The attitude of illiterate smokers was encouraging, as 83.6% were willing to quit smoking.
(11) @SciDevNet_SA Don't be discouraged by illiteracy: Curiously, it is illiterate Indians who are making the best use of the digital technology on mobile phones equipped with cameras.
(12) 15% of the educated women, but 25% of the illiterates were less than 1.53 m tall.
(13) Ninety-one patients were studied (25 illiterate and 66 literate).
(14) As she was illiterate and unable to record her own history, little is definitively known about many details of Tubman’s life, Larson said.
(15) She could not write her story because, as she revealed during the trial, she was more or less illiterate.
(16) Illiterate Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) were trained to diagnose pneumonia in children using their visual judgement of tachypnoea.
(17) A revised version of an illiterate antenatal card has been developed from 1987-89 in Mali.
(18) There were 173 (63.6%) females and 99 (36.4%) males, among whom 66 (M53 + F13) were smokers; 36.4% of males and 63% of females were illiterate.
(19) He claimed an earlier investigation revealed these groups had received up to $100m from abroad, with the money deposited in different Egyptian banks using names of illiterate Egyptians for fake accounts.
(20) College accused of 'luring vulnerable students' with free laptops Read more The ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, told Guardian Australia: “We are making allegations that have got to be tested in court but, that said, this sort of behaviour is about as concerning as we run across.” Last month the ACCC initiated a case against the Sydney-based Unique International College, accusing it of “unconscionable conduct” including targeting vulnerable and illiterate people with offers of free laptop computers if they signed up to diploma courses.