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- verb chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
characterize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
- verb be characteristic of
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Examples
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Foreign Policy, Walter Russell Mead coined a phrase to characterise what he suggested was hampering President Obama's presidency: the Carter Syndrome.
The Guardian World News Carole Cadwalladr 2011
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His numerous and amusing errors are such as characterise the fanaticism that would refute
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.”
Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883
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However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.”
Fielding 1843
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However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.”
Fielding 1843
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‘Classified’: artists, like everyone else, enjoy messing around with the taxonomic systems of organisation that characterise post-Enlightenment knowledge.
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‘Classified’: artists, like everyone else, enjoy messing around with the taxonomic systems of organisation that characterise post-Enlightenment knowledge.
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What does characterise many African/Caribbean students is that they are mainly from working-class backgrounds.
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Our study explores the nature of software quality in the context of climate modelling: How do we characterise and assess the quality of climate modelling software?
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As a result of our analysis, we characterise common defect types found in climate model software and we identify the software quality factors that are relevant for climate scientists.
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