Collocations withdescription
These are words often used in combination withdescription.
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above description
We will use the above description as the definition of path-width.
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accurate description
What this study does demonstrate is that gender differences are salient and therefore should be included in any accurate description of interlanguage.
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adequate description
For many purposes it is a completely adequate description of the system.
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apt description
This is not an apt description of our condition.
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audio description
The provision of subtitling, signing and audio description greatly enhances their opportunities, and allows them to benefit from the advances being made in television.
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brief description
In this section we will present a brief description of its architecture and implementation aspects.
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broad description
Table 2 gives a broad description of the -thalassaemia phenotypes and genotypes.
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complete description
To all intents and purposes an outcome should be conceived of as a complete description of the state of affairs in that particular possible world.
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comprehensive description
However, when considered with the qualitative data, it combines to present a comprehensive description of therapists, and their backgrounds.
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detailed description
A more detailed description of the clinical findings for each country follows.
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elaborate description
An elaborate description follows of a domestic setting, where the wife serves the food she has cooked personally to their guests.
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exact description
There is no exact description of how these attributes are related to each other or of how the cognitive map leads to the agent's actions.
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excellent description
Wright follows this with an excellent description of trade, and the importance it played in the region.
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exhaustive description
Yet, even if knowledge concerning abnormal behaviour is available, exhaustive description may be sometimes too cumbersome compared with a model of normal behaviour.
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explicit description
For example, it is annoying that there has to be an explicit description for each memory element that is not affected by an operation.
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extensive description
Several of these deserve more extensive description before presenting our regressions.
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factual description
For the purpose of policy analysis, and for interpreting facts within a scientific model, it is necessary to move beyond factual description to construct counterfactuals.
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fair description
This may be a fair description of many experiments, but it is far from being universal.
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following description
We get the following description of the non-wandering set near the heterodimensional cycle.
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formal description
Given the title of the book, a more formal description of the tree would not have been out of place.
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general description
Our aim is to extend and reassess their analysis for a more general description of preferences.
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generic description
A grammar provides the finite generic description of this language.
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geographical description
Category (b) gives a geographical description of a network that is to be exempted from the need for a licence.
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graphic description
The repository contains not only a traditional database storing functional attributes, economic attributes, graphic description, structural description, and psychological attributes, but also methods, rule-based knowledge, and pattern-type knowledge.
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inadequate description
Four were about inadequate description of hotel facilities; the others gave no precise details of the ground for complaint.
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initial description
The initial description of cooking was later modified and expanded, taking the food chosen into account.
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lengthy description
What follows is a lengthy description of the monument with some general remarks on its origin.
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linguistic description
At the same time, the need for careful linguistic description is as urgent as ever, for the dual purposes of scientific inquiry and clinical application.
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mathematical description
A function which represents a relation is really nothing more than a mathematical description of that relation.
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narrative description
This disposition cannot exist independent of those things, yet is not dependent upon any narrative description.
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precise description
Such a social history may be more attuned to the relationship between knowledge and power, yet this too is a truism that eludes precise description.
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product description
In this manner, the claims are an interpretation of the product description written with specific legal wording and phrasing.
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published description
No doubt some of these articles may be used in substitution for other articles, but this does not affect the substantial accuracy of the published description.
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quantitative description
Heterogeneous nature of the ingestion of bloodinhabiting parasites by their vectors : quantitative description and interpretation.
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rich description
This literature provides us with a rich description of the central phenomena that characterize reasoning about living things.
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scientific description
In principle, one example is sufficient as a basisfor the scientific description of a type.
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summary description
This is a summary description of the document.
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technical description
In engineering configuration, the resulting functional specification is used as an input that is refined to a technical description of the system.
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textual description
This step aims at reducing the document to a textual description that contains nouns and associations between nouns that carry most of the document semantics.
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thick description
Theories of thick description straddle both types; or the types can intermix in one theory.
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thorough description
Another valuable aspect of this book is the thorough description of the diachronic development of infixation in chapter 5 and its relation to synchronic patterns.
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verbal description
However, an examination of the verbal description of this part of the model and its mathematical implementation reveals a number of problems with this approach.
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vivid description
The vivid description of the surrounding chaos makes the heroic efforts of these individuals who rescued the imperial documents even more compelling.
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written description
On the other hand, the obligation to furnish a detailed written description of the invention that was proposed for the patent.
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