falsifying
present participle offalsify
| 单词 | falsifying |
| 释义 | falsifying present participle offalsify falsify verb[T] disapprovinguk/ˈfɒl.sɪ.faɪ/us/ˈfɑːl.sə.faɪ/tochangesomething, such as adocument, inordertodeceivepeople: Thecertificatehadclearlybeen falsified. Faking & pretending
Examplesoffalsifyingfalsifying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. People would not want to jeopardise their livelihood byfalsifyingtheir reports or by fiddling with the coupons, or so the logic went. From theCambridge English Corpus The former, after seeing the outcome, seek a reinterpretation of what constitutes an appropriate test; the latter seek newfalsifyingoutcomes. From theCambridge English Corpus Sources and communications transmitting negative ("falsifying") information may be doubted, rejected, or simply ignored. From theCambridge English Corpus But to take this to the extreme byfalsifyingthe truth to please oppressors was the obverse of decency. From theCambridge English Corpus The same logic applies if afalsifyingoutcome is rejected because the subjects were insufficiently sophisticated. From theCambridge English Corpus Consequently, allfalsifyingoutcomes can be dismissed by arguing that it is the auxiliary hypotheses, not the theory, that must be rejected. From theCambridge English Corpus Obviously testing only parts of a complex theory increases the chances of 'falsifying' it. From theCambridge English Corpus Past knowledge is continually tested through practice,falsifyingwhat does not work and sustaining what does. From theCambridge English Corpus The authors focus not onfalsifyinghypotheses, but instead, on finding consistency with hypotheses, and they advocate flexible hypotheses that can be adjusted to accommodate results. From theCambridge English Corpus In some cases they contradicted statements that they had made to the police and in other cases it was obvious that they werefalsifyingwritten records. From theCambridge English Corpus Taking seriously the last, most ubiquitous objection tofalsifyingevidence, there are only two interpretations: (1) the theory cannot be falsified; (2) the theory has no predictive content. From theCambridge English Corpus More emphatically, there is no evidence presentedfalsifyingthe confirming evidence that might lead to the theory being modified, or perhaps abandoned for an entirely new theory. From theCambridge English Corpus How can one save daylight byfalsifyingthe clocks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 She claims that they includedfalsifyingrecords and criminal malicious intent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They should be seen as a way of avoiding fraud with respect to banana origin, and the risks offalsifyingthe repetition of import quantities. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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