... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal ofthe project is to enhance the database of the Oxford DictionaryofEnglish (a forthcomingnew edition ofthe 1998 New OxfordDictionary of English) so that it ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other wayround. There has been no attempt to alter the origi-nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced ... for their typicality,125 Oxford Dictionaryof English: Current DevelopmentsJames McCracken Oxford University Pressmccrackj@oup.co.ukAbstractThis research note describes the early stages of...
... determina-tion of current of large dimension, or ofthe size of the ampere.ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir-cuit in one hour when the rate of ... substance to the surface of another withoutabsorption. An example is adsorption of water to the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-fused with ABSORPTION because the spellings of the two ... type of radar, the sync delay introduced between trans-mission ofthe pulse and start ofthe trace on the indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in the display.ALU Abbreviation of...
... energy, on account of the motion ofthe source and/or the detectingapparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-ent positions ofthe stars from month to month onaccount ofthe earth’s orbital ... modifyingonly the address part of an instruction.address field In a computer, the part ofthe in-struction that gives the address of a bit of data (ora word) in the memory.address generation The programmed ... electricalaction ofthe cell, as distinguished from the sup-porting material ofthe plates themselves. 2. A ra-dioactive substance. 3. The phosphor coating of acathode-ray tube screen. 4. The material...
... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of whatis known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of asyllable consisting ofthe initial consonant ofthe ... forms ofEnglish that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at whichthey...
... from either the rate of appearance of the product ofthe reaction or the rate of disappearance ofthe sub-strate. The centrifugation may be performed on impure enzymepreparations and at the very ... polymer ofthe protein actin.Actin filaments form the thin filaments of muscle and also the mi-crofilaments ofthe cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. Hence they are amajor component ofthe contractile ... edition oftheOxfordDictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It was a remarkable work of scholarship, arising from the work of journal editors andscientific writers. Since then the landscape...
... tradition of our own These are not parsed as a result ofthe rigid assumptions about the ordering of arguments and modifiers built into the grammar. These need to be relaxed on the basis of some theory ... (modulo the inclusion of coordination and exclusion of formulae and foreign phrases) because they are based entirely on the literal form ofthe tags in the LOB treebank. The next stage of our ... from the treebank. Of the 10,150 NPs in this sample ofthe treebank, 17 were rejected because they were incorrectly analysed and either were not, in fact, NPs or else the boundaries of the...
... the utility of the Longman Dictionaryof Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework ofthe Alvey Programme of ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal ofthe toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition ofthe ... source of lexical information. Therefore, rather than batch process the MRD source, the lexicon development software is based around the concept of semi-automatic and rapid construction of entries,...
... andperception is at the core ofthe present formulation ofthe embodiment hypothesis. The analogy between the form ofthe argument for the embodiment hypothesis and the form ofthe foregoing argument ... soothe the infant the parent could say, ‘‘There, there,there ,’’ giving more stress and amplitude on the first part ofthe word andtrailing off towards the end ofthe word. Alternatively, the ... in the ‘‘meta-phorical definition’’ of more complex concepts. In short, they argued that thesethree natural kinds of experience—experience ofthe body, ofthe physical envi-ronment, and of the...
... indicated by the use of bold lines:they ‘‘profile’’ aspects ofthe object of conceptualization, but none at the level of the subjects of conceptualization or ofthe relation between the two levels. ... details.In each of these cases, the landmark with respect to which the trajector is located ispart ofthe ground ofthe utterance. The position ofthe ballroom in (3) is calcu-lated from the common ... relevant for the speech participants (i.e., part ofthe common ground), then the location of the address is calculated from the position of sentence (4) in this document. So, in each of these cases,...
... which thus constitutes the matrix domain that is the antecedent of the anaphoric pronoun she. The theory of Ruiz de Mendoza and his coauthors has the advantage of accounting for the difference between ... (unmarked)interpretation is that John, the referent ofthe main clause object, is supposed toleave—that is, the object ofthe main clause ‘‘controls’’ the reference ofthe un-derstood subject in the infinitive clause; ... perceptfor cause metonymy: the question What’s that noise is about the cause of the noise and the subsequent noun phrase identifies the source ofthe noise, that is, the cause, here a natural force....