(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.
Tmesis
Definition:
(n.) The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of traumatic hemisomato-tmesis is presented.