Collocations withcharacter
These are words often used in combination withcharacter.
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alphanumeric character
Labels are typically alphanumeric characters attached to a shape.
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animated character
The details of the posture an animated character must take in each key-frame is resolved with a process called inverse kinematics.
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central character
The basic conflict and resolution are generally simple: an obstacle comes between the central character and desired object.
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character customization
Tokens can be used in the in-game store to unlock additional songs, stages, and outfits for character customization.
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character development
Popular melodramas, by definition, play off of viewers' expectations and innate hunches about plot and character development, problem, and denouement.
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character encoding
Such documents are guaranteed to use proper nesting of elements, escape sequences and character encoding.
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character flaw
The belief that depression was a character flaw was greater at baseline the longer the physician worked in the clinic (r= x0.24, p<0.03).
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character trait
When applied to persons, they mean the disposition or tendency or character trait of manifesting attitudes and acts of tolerance or toleration.
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character witness
I shall be prepared to attend court as a character witness for him.
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colourful character
He was obviously a very colourful character, who said a great many things which could mean different things to different people.
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composite character
Architects, painters and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and its separate parts.
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costumed character
The fans believed that this costumed character was acting as an official member of the cheerleading squad and responded accordingly.
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disreputable character
They are seriously concerned as to the number of cases, of a disreputable character occasionally, and the difficulty of dealing with them adequately.
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distinctive character
Twenty-three contracts have been advertised for stations of a new and distinctive character.
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dubious character
This dubious character put himself at the centre of a consensus designed to intimidate the colonial authorities, which he had earlier served, into conceding home rule.
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eccentric character
He fails to examine the latter's absence or eccentric character in wide sectors of the population, probably constituting a majority at the time.
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endearing character
Although he was not a wholly sympathetic or endearing character in the manner of most traditional heroes or protagonists, he did invite some reader identification.
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eponymous character
What draws the eponymous character out of his self-imposed isolation is a pastoral play staged for his benefit.
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female character
The lyric places the female character in a position subordinate to the male by suggesting that she's somewhat younger than he and that he is her guide in things romantic.
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fictional character
The interpretative difficulties of these reversions are heightened as soon as we acknowledge that there was more than a fictional character at stake.
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heroic character
Like epics in the classical literary sense it is often focused on a heroic character.
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iconic character
Commemorations reflect and accommodate the iconic character of war in the twentieth century, and that is what gives them their audiences and footing.
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impeccable character
In a case there may be little corroboration where the defendant is a man of hitherto impeccable character.
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interesting character
Post was a very interesting character.
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kanji character
She has short lime color hair and a headdress covering her whole face with a written kanji character on it.
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lead character
During this period, we learn about the personality of each lead character and some history.
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literary character
There is no reason whatever for supposing that secondary education of a practical character is in any way of a lower grade than that of a literary character.
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main character
The main character continues to be the only character in the story, and hence remains in the foreground.
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male character
There is no natural selection directly on the male character or the female preference.
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memorable character
He is intellectual, charming, sometimes argumentative, three times married and a memorable character.
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minor character
The major character appears in the foreground while the minor character moves to the background.
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moral character
The reliability of a proposition as true may involve assessing the moral character of the person who is its source.
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morphological character
Another important morphological character is the number of tarsal segments of apterous viviparous females.
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mythical character
We went over this ground the other night, when he was gracious enough to retract that phrase about the mythical character.
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mythological character
The novels are at least in part a vehicle to represent mythological character archetypes.
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named character
In the final plate, neither character was engaged in the target activity, but the named character held a novel posture.
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optical character recognition
His current work is developing speech and language front-ends to operational neural network systems for optical character recognition and vehicle tracking.
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peculiar character
For it does not take into account the peculiar character of the first instant of the world, that is of creation properly understood.
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peripheral character
Thus, quantitative genetic variation for peripheral characters is lost in small populations.
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playable character
As a result, he was made him the last playable character from the game following characters that stood out thanks to different traits.
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principal character
Out of this dialogue comes the experience which is the principal character of practical knowledge.
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punctuation character
This meant using no more than a single punctuation character or a pair of delimiting characters to express the few supported assertions.
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questionable character
But younger men of apparently questionable character were using the founders' constitutional system to attain elected positions of power.
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quirky characters
The book's extensive cast of quirky characters was singled out by several reviewers.
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realistic character
Local authorities have found it very difficult to make financial contributions of any realistic character towards the development of national parks.
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recurring character
However, she was brought back in the fifth season and became a recurring character thereafter.
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secondary character
Thus, the secondary character of the ecosystems studied might in some cases have been the most important determinant of ant community composition.
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shady character
As a shady character, he has an exceptionally heavy "chiaroscuro" on his face.
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strength of character
His extraordinary ability and strength of character were indicated in abundance from the early years of his youth, together with rare scholarship and keen intellect.
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supporting character
He is a supporting character in the series.
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suspicious character
Davenant was a suspicious character operating at the border of legality.
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sympathetic character
If such people were in charge of homes, the children in them would have a naturally sympathetic character to whom to turn.
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titular character
The series' titular character is a detective who has humorous adventures inspired by "film noir" and stereotypical 1950s lounge culture.
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unique character
Even the latter however are fairly keen to clarify the unique character of psychoanalysis, if not always to its advantage. ii.
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unsavoury character
Also, persons of an unsavoury character frequented the opera.
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villainous character
Spritz is considered somewhat of a villainous character, as she is pessimistic and enjoys causing arguments.
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virtuous character
Through observation and practical interaction, a student would pick up the habits of a virtuous character and mind to improve his own.
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