standard usage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstandardandusage
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standard
adjective
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
usual rather than special, especially when thought of as being correct ...
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usage
noun
uk/ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/us/ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/
the way a particular word in a language, or a language in general, ...
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(Definition ofstandardandusagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In principle, this applies to all specialist terms, including those which become de-terminologized by being used metaphorically or less precisely instandardusage.
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First, the emergence of new varieties is very likely going to increase the pace of change in what counts asstandardusage.
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In neither case, however, does the generalization about women'sstandardusageapply universally to women in the groups studied.
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However, de factostandardusageis already emerging within and across certain segments of the community.
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Thestandardusageof the term register is for a special set of lexical items used by some group within a particular linguistic community.
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Concepts must resonate withstandardusagepatterns within natural language and within the language region of interest in order to be useful in social science research.
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For such an argument to have substance, it would have to be shown that it actually applies givenstandardusageof the term, which seems unlikely.
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The term ' convergence ', of course, implies that each person has astandardusageof his or her own and departs from that usage under certain circumstances.
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The usage of the term force field in chemistry and computational biology differs from thestandardusagein physics.
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However,standardusageamong lunar scientists is to ignore that distinction.
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It was predominantly pronounced until the latter half of the 20th century, since whenstandardusagehas become.
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Unlike with nouns, this liaison is common and even obligatory instandardusage.
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Thestandardusage, however, is to classify carbohydrates chemically: simple if they are sugars (monosaccharides and disaccharides) and complex if they are polysaccharides (or oligosaccharides).
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Note thatstandardusageis to have matrices for the variances and covariances of vector random variables.
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