defining feature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdefiningandfeature
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defining
adjective
uk/dɪˈfaɪ.nɪŋ/us/dɪˈfaɪ.nɪŋ/
A defining moment, feature, etc. is so important that it is or becomes part of the basic meaning or description of ...
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feature
noun
uk/ˈfiː.tʃər/us/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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Examplesofdefining feature
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A seconddefiningfeatureof co-operatives is that their members are entitled to an equal share of profits.
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Adefiningfeatureof axons is the presence of highly phosphorylated neurofilaments within their cytoskeleton.
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Although calls for independent procedures have been adefiningfeatureof complaints reform, it is suggested here that this is symptomatic of a deeper problem.
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In all three texts studied, dialect is not just a matter of "local color," it is adefiningfeature.
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We have identified cognitive plasticity as one of the defining features of human cognition, and others have identified language as adefiningfeature.
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Yet she views the morphological process of compounding in itself, especially if revealed by a metaphorical derivation, already as adefiningfeatureof noun-incorporation.
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Rather, the gravity chronometer's known regularity - which ensures accurate time measurement by calibrating other time measuring devices - is itsdefiningfeature.
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His insistence that the subject be grounded in an open-ended world of meaning was adefiningfeatureof all his mathematical and logical work.
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Thedefiningfeatureof mystery in this sense is that its mysterious character is not undercut by being made known.
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It is a central,definingfeatureof life in the industrialized world in postmodernity.
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Pure state constraints, with their attendant analytical difficulties, appear to be adefiningfeatureof strong sustainment.
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Such an artefact, therefore, is the absolute inverse of the coin, whosedefiningfeatureis its substitutability.
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Thedefiningfeatureof the notation is that each syllable is expressed using exactly four symbols.
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The use of dialect is adefiningfeatureof all three texts.
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For much of the country's first hundred years, diversity, not uniformity, was adefiningfeatureof the congressional election schedule.
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They postulate control as adefiningfeature, metalanguage as a concomitant process, and familiarity with writing and written language as a condition of linguistic literacy.
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It seems unlikely that any one aspect of cognition and executive functioning alone will be the criticaldefiningfeatureof resilience.
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Language is a tricky area in autism research, given that communication deficits (verbal and nonverbal) are adefiningfeatureof the syndrome.
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Consider now the thirddefiningfeatureof the universal interest.
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Beyond situation of use, some authors highlight the circumscribed use of a particular set of linguistic forms as adefiningfeatureof a given register.
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