dual nature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdualandnature
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dual
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈdʒuː.əl/us/ˈduː.əl/
with two parts, or combining ...
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nature
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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(Definition ofdualandnaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Rather, theirdualnaturewas emphasized by all.
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Thisdualnatureof data sources indicates the two directions for future work.
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However, the immunological effects of heat shock proteins purified from tumour cells have adualnature.
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Recognizing thedualnatureof m-reflexives accounts for examples like (9)-(15).
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Perhaps the appeal of the puppet lies in itsdualnature.
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Thedualnatureof conditioned responses makes it possible to encompass all the available data within a mentalistic framework.
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Dealing with thisdualnatureof language is possibly the most important - and most challenging - problem facing the theorist.
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Given thedualnatureof my analysis - historical and philosophical - a few cautionary remarks are in order.
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When traditional societies engage in the process of industrialization and in market activities, they develop adualnature.
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The amendment is of adualnature.
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The nature of man is adualnature.
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He draws attention to thedualnatureof the funding.
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Context seems to possess adualnature: it is static or dynamic, discrete or continuous, form of knowledge or a process.
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The two propositions stating the constraints under which reason must be practical indicate that guidance is needed for beings of adualnature.
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They are important because they reveal thedualnatureof the operations defined by (4.17) and (4.19), and similarly between the operations defined by (4.18) and (4.19).
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Infant mortality would everywhere be more important due to thedualnatureof its effect on fertility and because the majority of children dying were invariably infants.
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On the other hand, culture has of course adualnature.
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Thedualnatureof the co-opted committee men is something to wonder at.
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The report said that the country's image of fraud as having adualnatureis correct.
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That's thedualnaturewe all have.
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The materials reflect light resembling the adjacent river's swirls, the towers fork like the nearby roadway, entries to the city side and riverfront work thedualnatureof the site.
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The civil service had made it clear that it understood the implications of thedualnatureof air traffic control.
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