Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- On or from the periphery or exterior surface; as regards the periphery: as, peripherally acting inhibitory nerves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
peripheral manner. - adverb At or towards a
periphery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in or at or near a periphery or according to a peripheral role or function or relationship
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Examples
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What most folks understand only peripherally is that the way we view children’s fairy tales, and the way that the world of the fey was considered in the past, are two very different animals.
Bros Grimm and Dueling in the buff deep_bluze 2005
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It was full of ideas that I'm still pondering in the context of my reading and I've sent for a book of her essays because though I know of Susan Sontag peripherally now I want more depth.
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It was full of ideas that I'm still pondering in the context of my reading and I've sent for a book of her essays because though I know of Susan Sontag peripherally now I want more depth.
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It was full of ideas that I'm still pondering in the context of my reading and I've sent for a book of her essays because though I know of Susan Sontag peripherally now I want more depth.
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The Queensland children had all been treated with what's known as a peripherally inserted central catheter, commonly called a PIC line, used to deliver drugs, including chemotherapy.
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The Queensland children had all been treated with what's known as a peripherally inserted central catheter, commonly called a PIC line, used to deliver drugs, including chemotherapy.
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The children have all been treated with what's known as a peripherally inserted central catheter, commonly called a PIC line, used to deliver drugs, including chemotherapy.
Australian Politics 2008
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2. I am working in the local arts community, if only peripherally, which is seventeen kinds of cool.
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But isn't -- should also using the Iraq question kind of peripherally or in a related way, saying look, Merkel, the Middle East has to be stabilized, we need Turkey inside the European Union.
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Unless one of those acquisitions that I kind of peripherally touched on earlier comes to fruition very quick, that would be correct.
bilby commented on the word peripherally
Must be really simple and useful, palooka.
July 7, 2008