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单词 characteristic
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characteristic
(kærɪktərɪstɪk )
Word forms: characteristics
1. countable noun [usually plural] B2
The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing. [+ of]
...their physical characteristics.
Synonyms: feature, mark, quality, property  
2. adjective
A quality or feature that is characteristic of someone or something is one which is often seen in them and seems typical of them.
...the absence of strife between the generations that was so characteristic of such societies.
Windmills are a characteristic feature of the Mallorcan landscape.
Nehru responded with characteristic generosity.
Synonyms: typical, special, individual, specific  
characteristically (kærɪktərɪstɪkli ) adverb [usually ADVERB adjective, oft ADVERB with verb]
He replied in characteristically robust style.
MacMillan's music characteristically makes a dramatic impact.
Characteristically, he worked hard at the assignment.
Collocations:
characteristic colour
That should be enough for the characteristic colour of this eclipse to become obvious.
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This species has a characteristic colour and pattern of the upperside of the thorax and forewing.
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Apparently, the walls of the original hermitage were coated in crushed tiles, which produced the characteristic colour.
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characteristic fashion
If the outfit was unfamiliar, their football started off in characteristic fashion with plenty of passing back and forth and little end product.
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In characteristic fashion, the chancellor attempted to lighten the mood, not only refusing to increase his austerity package but also reducing the severity of the near-term cuts.
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Finally, after all the messages have been sent, the station will sign off in some characteristic fashion.
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characteristic feature
Successive mensural canons were a characteristic feature of late 14th and early 15th century isorhythmic motets.
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Each lake carries a name associated with its most characteristic feature.
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The quantity of duration completely recedes behind the characteristic feature that enters with time or advances in it.
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Large oval oeil-de-boeuf windows, surrounded by relief petals, above the main doors are a characteristic feature.
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The design often depicts a particularly characteristic feature of the village or a scene from its history, heritage, or culture.
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characteristic flavour
Baking soda and salt of hartshorn are used as rising agent in svele, which give this cake its characteristic flavour.
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The water contains a significant level of dissolved mineral salts, with iron and manganese contributing to its characteristic flavour.
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The artificial flavours isoamyl acetate and ethyl acetate are responsible for the characteristic flavour of pear drops: the former confers a banana flavour, the latter a pear flavour.
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characteristic pattern
They break apart, releasing energy in a characteristic pattern - the process in a nuclear explosion.
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Computer simulations of this cosmic collision suggest that the dark matter fell towards the centre of the cluster and then rippled back out, creating the characteristic pattern.
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Each piece on the game moves in a characteristic pattern.
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The minerals in the rock have a characteristic pattern, using a method known as petrography.
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Damage to upper motor neuron axons in the spinal cord results in a characteristic pattern of ipsilateral deficits.
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characteristic shape
I also became aware of the prevalence of the turbulence's characteristic shape - the spiral or whorl - in literary history.
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The pieces are then moulded by hand into their characteristic shape.
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Although very long, the building has a characteristic shape of a ship.
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This means the notes that harmonize the melody follow its characteristic shape and rhythm.
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These new defenses became known as star forts, after their characteristic shape.
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characteristic sound
The report details 'unpleasant and highly vivid visual recollections of active military service... triggered by specific stimuli, including the smell of singed hair and the characteristic sound of dripping water'.
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The ball takes its name after its characteristic sound.
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As they all are trained as classical and not as jazz flutists they soon developed a characteristic sound.
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The erhu produces a characteristic sound due to the python skin covering its resonator.
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Despite many changes in the band's line-up it has created a characteristic sound.
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characteristic style
These were written and illustrated in his highly characteristic style, packed with immensely detailed paintings (normally gouaches) of original artefacts and reconstructions of life and action.
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And yet he won in characteristic style.
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His characteristic style remained consistent from the 1560s until the end of his life.
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After an early, essentially realistic creative period from around 1959, he developed his characteristic style.
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Each of these centers of early civilization developed a unique and characteristic style in its art.
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characteristic symptom
Visual extinction has the characteristic symptom of difficulty to perceive contralesional stimuli when presented simultaneously with an ipsilesional stimulus, but the ability to correctly identify them when not presented simultaneously.
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It was triggered by three characteristic symptoms of hubris: excessive self-confidence, restlessness and inattention to detail.
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Physical examination reveals characteristic symptoms of the condition especially the abnormalities in the skin surface of newborns.
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Characteristic symptoms include rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of muscle fibers and subsequent release of myoglobin), myoglobinuria, recurrent myalgia (muscle pain) and weakness.
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Characteristic symptoms include jaundice, fever, abdominal pain, and in severe cases, low blood pressure and confusion.
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characteristic trait
A characteristic trait of the movement was its defensive nature.
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Playing on original instruments, supported by study of period sources and aesthetics, has become indispensable and at the same time a characteristic trait of the ensemble.
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Its large eyes and uniformly dark coloration are characteristic traits of a mesopelagic fish.
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All of these clues established that the individual fell within these characteristic traits, which assisted in an accurate identification of the remains.
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Characteristic traits are his hackney-like action, fearless animation, complete self-possession, and his spirited presence.
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characteristics include
The socioeconomic characteristics include poverty rate, public assistance income, labor force participation rate, language ability and year of entry for noncitizens.
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Typical characteristics include higher than average intelligence, an obsession with routine, a fanatical interest or hobby and difficulty in social settings.
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Landscape characteristics include, unconsolidated sand, gravel, lakes, marshland, sand dunes, and wide tidal flats.
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Favorable characteristics include corrosion resistance and precipitation hardening.
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Other distinguishing characteristics include the top of the head, the metasoma and propodeum, being covered by shallow puncture marks.
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common characteristic
The accounting entries in question have a common characteristic.
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Many of the disappearing funds share a common characteristic - they were thematic funds launched on the back of a particular investment story.
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That's a common characteristic of the syndrome.
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Confident people have another common characteristic: they keep it simple.
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Other ideas have also been explored with the common characteristic of using declarative languages for the representation of hypotheses.
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core characteristics
Defiance, change, nonchalance, diffidence, rebellion, attitude and fearlessness became the core characteristics.
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These core characteristics are volatility, mutability, accessibility, and addressibility.
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The scientists stated the six core values are the broadest category and are, core characteristics valued by moral philosophers and religious thinkers (p. 13).
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The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.
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There are three other distinctive, core characteristics: mottled skin, striped hooves, and eyes with a white sclera.
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cultural characteristics
This organisation suggested that the crimes on their patch 'had cultural characteristics, which are locally sensitive'.
The Sun
Yes, its component countries have ancient histories and distinct cultural characteristics.
Times, Sunday Times
Cultural characteristics dissociate magnitude and ordinal information processing.
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Some of the people who live in the mountains today retain distinct cultural characteristics.
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Some theories on poverty in the developing world focus on cultural characteristics as a retardant of further development.
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defining characteristic
I wish that he held out any hope for conversation, or suggested ways to counter the solipsism that seems the modern world's defining characteristic.
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For them, accordingly, cuteness remains his defining characteristic.
Times, Sunday Times
Politics are important, but politics aren't our defining characteristic, nor should they be.
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Indeed, if this age had a defining characteristic, it was probably curiosity.
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But it was a defining characteristic of what we did at the time and it became our signature sound.
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demographic characteristics
If the samples are not comparable, the changes between samples may be due to demographic characteristics rather than time.
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Major determinants of employee absence are employee affect, demographic characteristics, organizational absence culture, and organization absence policies.
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The demographic characteristics of this group has changed little since the 1980s and 1990s.
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A writer who perceives an audience as real tends to conceive of readers as living persons with specific attitudes and demographic characteristics.
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This variation will be dependent largely on the genetic structure and demographic characteristics of individuals.
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desirable characteristic
They often have 'crackpot' theories, refreshingly evidence-free about desirable characteristics in candidates.
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He draws the line at the idea of inserting desirable characteristics such as intelligence into embryos.
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These measures describe the desirable characteristics of a solution.
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None of the agents currently in use are ideal, although many have some of the desirable characteristics.
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By writing down our desirable characteristics before a threat, we are less biased when we see threatening health messages.
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different characteristics
He said that within the office market there were buildings with different characteristics.
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Tyres have different characteristics and fitting different types on either end of an axle can cause a vehicle to wander.
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Different circumstances would trigger the need for different types of investigation with different characteristics.
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I like the fact that it has thrown up so many different winners with different characteristics in their game.
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Using an algorithm, the computer groups together similar fragments to reduce the 'search space', and then locates pieces that join up by matching the different characteristics.
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display a characteristic
Plus ça change, and the subsequent instructions display her characteristic 'clarity and economy' of expression.
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For some systems that display a characteristic scale, a global optimization term could potentially be added that would then yield power law behavior.
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Even when constructed to accurately display the characteristics of their data, graphs can be subject to different interpretation.
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None of them displayed the characteristics of the brimstone sulfur found in the vicinity of the cities of the plain.
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The lower, flat part of the glacier displays a characteristic fishbone or lobster tail pattern.
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distinct characteristic
The octopus brain has folded lobes (a distinct characteristic of complexity), visual and tactile memory centers.
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These ribs are a distinct characteristic of the species.
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Over the years, the town centre has developed distinct characteristics on either side of the railway line.
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Despite growing the same grapes, each region has their own distinct characteristics.
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While each had its own distinct characteristics, there certainly must have still been a high degree of mutual intelligibility between these dialects.
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distinctive characteristic
Word has it that underneath her most distinctive characteristic lies a short red bob.
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While the pinched sides of the sope are its most distinctive characteristic, there are also flat sopes resembling a thick tortilla or a tostada.
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The most distinctive characteristic of these teeth was their lack of serrations.
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The stems are partly covered by sheaths, and have the most distinctive characteristic of the plant on them: clusters or cymes at the top.
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Specifically, they are most interested in choosing a target who shares some distinctive characteristic with themselves.
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dominant characteristic
Writers of so-called serious fiction shared one dominant characteristic - their fiction was first and foremost about themselves.
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Some audiences or readers may project themselves into this character, if no dominant characteristic of the everyman prevents them from doing so.
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It embeds the single most dominant characteristic of a city; its networked character perpetuated by information technology.
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As a dominant characteristic in the soil, the permafrost also influences the degree to which water percolates into the soil.
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Especially in the early years of the breed's history, some inbreeding occurred, both by accident and design, which served to reinforce the dominant characteristics of the breed.
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essential characteristic
Yet in a decade-long saga with the essential characteristic of obfuscation, any hint of non-cooperation will be seized upon.
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An essential characteristic of the seminar was that there should be parity between participants and eminent speakers from oil-producing and oil-consuming countries.
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It gets the essential characteristic of to-day's world: its interdependence.
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It must be some essential characteristic of the bearer, otherwise we could use the name to deny the bearer had such a characteristic.
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The high coercivity means the materials are very resistant to becoming demagnetized, an essential characteristic for a permanent magnet.
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exhibit a characteristic
The fruit are 7 to 9 inches in length and exhibit a characteristic silvery blue color when unripe.
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They do not exhibit the characteristic spiking behavior of action potential generating neurons.
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Examples of machines that exhibit this characteristic are digital watches, automatic telephone switches, pacemakers, and computer programs.
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As the signal takes multiple paths through the ionosphere, the different time delays cause the signal to exhibit the characteristic phasing sound.
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Individuals with trisomy 8 mosaicism are more likely to survive into childhood and adulthood, and exhibit a characteristic and recognizable pattern of developmental abnormalities.
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fundamental characteristic
That's a fundamental characteristic of the work.
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The publication got its name from the word ethos, the fundamental characteristic of a spirit, people or culture.
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So far there do not appear to have been large mutations that have dramatically changed its fundamental characteristics.
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The fundamental characteristics were, the elaboration of the wood in artistic form, for the construction of dwellings.
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The discipline requires the simultaneous blending of these fundamental characteristics, utilizing time and space to display both technical merit and artistic expression.
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genetic characteristic
In fruit flies, genetic characteristics that are typical of southern, warm-climate insects are becoming more common in northern latitudes.
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Human dignity can not be equated with either the biological development or genetic characteristics as this contradicts the human person as subject of freedom.
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Distinctive genetic characteristics have arisen, however, primarily as the result of small groups of people moving into new environmental circumstances.
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In addition, individual genetic characteristics can also contribute to these injection-site sarcomas.
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Evidence that the discrete population segment differs markedly from other populations of the species in its genetic characteristics.
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human characteristic
Snobbery can be a funny human characteristic.
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These orishas each represent a natural element (such as the ocean or leaves) and exhibit a human characteristic (such as motherhood or love).
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A better understanding of the combination of genes that determine key human characteristics and the ability to create genomes that match these features.
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Once we had that baseline of authenticity, we overlaid the human characteristics.
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The results are the first scientific proof that upright walking was one of the first human characteristics to emerge after the split from chimps.
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identify a characteristic
Using it, they were able to identify the characteristic spectra of sodium, lithium, and potassium.
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The diagnosis can be made prenatally; routine obstetric ultrasound can identify the characteristic hypoechoic lesion inferior and medial to the globe.
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One should, however, try, without drafting a definition, to identify the characteristics which such exceptional cases would ordinarily have.
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Those who have studied successful entrepreneurs have tried to identify the characteristics that mark them out.
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These kinds of algorithms are used to identify the characteristics of specific objects.
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important characteristic
It turned out to be an important characteristic, for flexibility has been the key to the success of the couple's peripatetic relationship.
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In these employments he developed an interest in science which became an important characteristic of his poetry.
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They possess an important characteristic for the construction of cell membranes; they can come together to form a bilayer membrane.
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An important characteristic of the leader follower-relationship are the manifestations of narcissism by both the leader and follower of a group.
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Asymptotic freedom was believed to be an important characteristic of strong interactions.
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individual characteristic
By analyzing each identity marker as an individual characteristic, we ignore the effect of the interconnection of these markers.
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Some argued that, even though the outline and instructions were mass-produced, each painting had individual characteristics, depending on how the paint was applied.
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By the 5th century, individual characteristics can easily be discerned.
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Then the researchers construct personalised footwear using rapid manufacturing technologies to match individual characteristics.
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Sometimes this variance seems to be a result of individual characteristics (for instance, sometimes increases with learning).
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key characteristic
After all, isn't 'discretion' a key characteristic of successful lawyers?
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Key characteristic of the vases the high quality of the pottery.
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The key characteristic shared among these genres are an emphasis on basslines, groove and rhythm.
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The key characteristic and design goal was for a file format that was very compact for fast download over the internet.
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The transparency of the justice system, one of its key characteristics in a democratic society, should not be sacrificed to pay for their failings.
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main characteristic
All my life, the main characteristic of my holidays has been shocking disorganisation leading to fairly disastrous trips - although they have all turned into a good adventure.
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Despite occasional bouts of frenzied and life-threatening activity, waiting seems to be the main characteristic of the job.
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The main characteristic was the hardness of tone.
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Their main characteristic was a rectangular or oval top with folding or drop leaves on each side.
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He also produced stereoscopic pictures whose main characteristic was that exposures were very short.
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negative characteristics
During the study referees were asked to compare themselves with others of a similar level using a range of positive and negative characteristics.
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Although you can say some positive things about this employee, there are also negative characteristics that you would have to be honest about.
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He was neither interested in games nor displayed negative characteristics.
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Instead, he suggested that positive should be interpreted as being perfect, or purely good, without negative characteristics.
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The positive and negative characteristics and effects of video games are the subject of scientific study.
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personal characteristic
Homelessness, it was said, was not a personal characteristic.
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He could not link that treatment to any claimant's personal characteristic which could meaningfully be described as status.
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They must possess all the qualities of the claimant except for the personal characteristic at issue.
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There are three important personal characteristics - self-belief, resilience and concentration - that need to be built.
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Overall, they were concerned that hiring was based on personal characteristics and preferences over skills and experience.
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personality characteristic
Another way involves correlating test scores with another established test that also measures the same personality characteristic.
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Although humor styles can vary slightly depending on the situation, they tend to be a relatively stable personality characteristic among individuals.
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It might be a cognitive ability, physical ability, skill, knowledge, attitude, personality characteristic, etc.
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Humor has been shown to be a personality characteristic that remains relatively stable over time.
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Individual personality characteristic conflicts can arise within personality role conflict where aspects of an individual's personality are in conflict with other aspects of that same individual's personality.
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physical characteristic
A good number of people are nameless, described by some physical characteristic instead.
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Horses must also, after reaching 23 months of age, be inspected to ensure that they meet the physical characteristic and gait requirements of the registry.
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The device scans the physical characteristic, extracts critical information, and then stores the result as a string of data.
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He then associates that image with a notable or memorable physical characteristic of that person.
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Similar considerations arise when taking repeated measurements of some physical characteristic such as the electrical conductivity of copper.
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possess a characteristic
Contiguous spaces would normally possess that characteristic, but unity was not simply a question of contiguity.
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Neither, however, was sufficiently complete to determine whether they possess the characteristic autapomorphy.
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Gaseous amines possess a characteristic ammonia smell, liquid amines have a distinctive fishy smell.
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The leaves are usually glaucous, yet still green, and possess a characteristic crimson hook at the tip.
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But the court understandably found that it did not 'possess any characteristics that distinguish it from other bottles available on the market'.
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share a characteristic
Identical twins were no more likely to share the characteristic than non-identical twins.
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The public areas share this characteristic.
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All share the characteristic of a confusing maze whose pathways actively shift and draw on or obstruct those who have entered.
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Normal pencils, chalk, and crayons all share the characteristic that they can not run out.
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Part of collective identity includes positioning oneself psychologically in a group to which you share some characteristic(s).
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shared characteristic
These are well-trained, well-oiled machines, but surely their shared characteristic must be bravery.
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Their final shared characteristic was to be soft targets for sporting organisations intent upon 'sending out a message'.
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However, still a number of typical shared characteristics distinguish services from goods-producing sectors.
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Those techniques with the fewest (or no) shared characteristics provide the strongest consilience and result in the strongest conclusions.
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While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographical areas rather than people with shared characteristics.
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similar characteristics
Your ground cover needs similar characteristics, which in turn means it can be too boisterous for smaller gardens.
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For me, accountability has similar characteristics: a soft edge and a hard edge.
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And similar characteristics are showing up in their age group in many cultures.
Christianity Today
Borrowers are classified into bundles of similar characteristics.
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Pity he didn't show similar characteristics when playing for his country.
The Sun
specific characteristic
Particular versions of genes may predispose one to a specific characteristic, but rarely do they make it a certainty.
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The paintings express an abstract meaning with no real reference to any specific characteristic of their homes.
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A specific characteristic pattern of symptoms has not been identified, and there are several hypotheses about the causality of these associations.
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Each type of transmission line has a specific characteristic impedance.
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The need for a specific characteristic or combination of characteristics, such as pulling strength, flexibility, or the lowest coefficient of friction, dictates the type of innerduct required.
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unique characteristic
This also applies to several other businesses, most obviously insurance, but banks have another unique characteristic.
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Its unique characteristic was that the door was located in the front of the car.
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This unique characteristic makes it uncommon to see this particular blowfly near forensic investigations.
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The village has the unique characteristic of being accessible only by boat or footpath.
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Their livers have a unique characteristic in that they are covered with blood vessels (striated).
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unusual characteristic
Calcite exhibits an unusual characteristic called retrograde solubility in which it becomes less soluble in water as the temperature increases.
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Vernation lines parallel to the midvein are often visible - a very unusual characteristic.
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In 1943, the main runway was extended and acquired an unusual characteristic in that it crossed an active railway line.
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This extremely unusual characteristic has inspired intensive study regarding the substance ever since.
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Our forebears feared and demonised groups with unusual characteristics — not just carrottops, but anyone who upset the status quo.
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Chinese: 特性
Japanese: 特徴
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