form of expression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandexpression
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition offormandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The dominantformofexpression, clustered bacterial cells arranged in an abundant matrix, was recorded after 2 days of incubation without shaking.
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The language does not provide a syntacticformofexpressionfor constructor applications, or for anonymous lambdas; instead, they must be explicitly allocated using let.
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However, closer inspection of seemingly different scales reveals characteristics common to almost all scales, suggesting perhaps that music is a naturalformofexpression.
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They emphasise that musical play is aformofexpressionand argue that it should not be confined to educational settings.
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Already we see the drawing enshrined as the appropriateformofexpressionfor a debutante who has great aspirations but little practical experience.
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For example, is it appropriate that it can be applied without any preconditions, and that anyformofexpressioncan be interrupted?
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This raises the question as to whichformofexpressionhas the greatest physiological relevance.
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This custom has doubtless contributed to the development of an assertiveformofexpressionthat seeks clarity over verbosity.
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This study is important because it acknowledges that tolerance is affected by evaluations of theformofexpression.
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Favret accuses letter-writers of seeking "to 'socialize' what was a potentially volatileformofexpression," in other words, privileging decorum over content (24).
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Martyn's love for travel books found a newformofexpressionin reading the biographies of missionaries.
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Critics are increasingly at pains to explain operatic conventions, to distinguish oneformofexpressionfrom another, to define the categories that might afford the intellectual comfort of aesthetic principle.
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Being able to see the space in which he had to explain a concept in some way made it easier to find the rightformofexpression.
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Self-expression took many other forms, although for many individuals oneformofexpressionwas dominant and this differed from one individual to the next.
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In addition, the absence in a program of a rule for a particularformofexpressionindicates that the program will fail if provided with such argument.
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Whether empathy is expressed as adaptive concern or in a way that drains and demoralizes the self, its firstformofexpressionis affective in nature.
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Polanyi's justified claim of firsthand knowledge of scientific thinking, on which his writings of scientific discovery are based, takes theformofexpressionit does from this vantage point.
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It is also unusual and irritating in itsformofexpression.
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This issue lends itself to thatformofexpression.
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