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nounPlural invalids ˈɪnvəlɪdˈɪnvələd A person made weak or disabled by illness or injury. she spent the rest of her life as an invalid as modifier her invalid husband Example sentencesExamples - The dates for this year's Lourdes pilgrimage are June 21-26 and the cost is €480 for invalids and €580 for all others.
- Our three invalids, though, in spite of languishing in the shade and in one of the few airless parts of the front garden, produce plenty of blooms that are simply too beautiful to destroy.
- Their white colour and delicate texture have conspired to give them a reputation as a food for invalids or convalescents.
- His job had been to carry invalids up the mountains from St. Louis to Cilaos for until the building of the road in 1935 it had been impossible for carriages or cars to make it up.
- Every year, Maria goes out to Lourdes to help invalids on the Limerick pilgrimage.
- It did not make any mention of the fact that many of the people who have come off the unemployment benefit have casually moved over to the invalids benefit or the sickness benefit.
- This fund was established in 1975 and each year between 30-40 invalids are taken to Lourdes.
- There are places for both invalids and pilgrims.
- A nurse in Sudan and Nigeria, Catherine now spends her days in St John's Rest and Care looking after invalids and sick pilgrims who come to Knock.
- A sum of over 800 was raised, which means that the committee will be able to send two invalids from the parish on the diocesan pilgrimage in May.
- A benefit of living in a one-stoplight town is that the county clerk makes house calls, delivering ballots to invalids.
- Safe journey to all our invalids, helpers and pilgrims from the parish who travelled on Sunday to participate in the Annual Armagh Pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- The resort, 1,500m above sea level, with a lake and exquisite views of the snowy mountains, has been a center for invalids and well-off hypochondriacs since the 1860s.
- This annual event costs €580 with special concessions for invalids.
- Looking after all the invalids was a team of doctors, nurses and other helpers.
- She was an excellent woman who loved her family and cared for her parents who were both invalids.
- He made many firm friends during that time and was tireless an unselfish in his commitment to the invalids and lending assistance to all who sought his help and advice.
- Most of the invalids are in their 30s or 40s, securing life-time pensions worth 70 per cent of the final retirement-age salaries.
- He served as a steward at Knock Shrine for 15 years and willingly gave of his time to assist the invalids and pilgrims throughout the pilgrimage season.
- It caters for invalids as well as hedonists, its waters famed for their efficacy with eye and bladder problems, and the menu is a gastronome's delight.
Synonyms sick person, case, sufferer, victim ill person, infirm person, sick person, valetudinarian, sufferer, patient, convalescent ill, sick, ailing, unwell, infirm, valetudinarian, valetudinary, in poor health
verbinvalids, invaliding, invalided ˈɪnvəlɪdˈɪnvələd [with object]1Remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness. he was badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry Example sentencesExamples - The second covers the period from 1917 onwards when he was invalided out with shell-shock and eventually went back to the front, only to get a head-wound and be hospitalised again.
- Medical science still couldn't create an artificial limb that could be controlled like a natural one and Alex's father had been invalided out of the service.
- After the war he was invalided out of the Army because of back injuries suffered through beatings by German soldiers.
- Annand was invalided out of the army in 1948 and thereafter did much work for disabled people, especially the deaf, and was involved in local affairs in the north, and above all in army affairs.
- But he was invalided out in 1991 with knee problems which doctors blamed climbing ships' ladders.
- He was invalided out of the army with a badly arthritic knee, exacerbated by his injuries.
- By the time he reached the safety of a dressing station his wound had become infected and he was invalided out of the war and away to a convalescent hospital in Ireland.
- Sir Frederick served in the Royal Ulster Rifles until 1941 when he was invalided out following an accident.
- He was invalided out before he was posted to overseas service.
- The war years were marred only by Warnie's absence on active service until he was invalided out as a hopeless alcoholic.
- During the First World War he served as an intelligence officer in the navy but was invalided out in 1917, and spent a year working on dazzle camouflage for ships in Liverpool and Bristol.
- He was invalided out of the Army, his marriage broke up and he commuted some of his pension entitlement for a cash sum to settle his divorce.
- They married in 1918, after MacDiarmid was invalided out of the army with cerebral malaria.
- The war veteran this year won a landmark case against the Ministry of Defence because his pension had been wrongly taxed for 45 years after he was invalided out.
- When Anna returns from digging trenches on the Luga line, and her father is invalided out of the army, they all settle in together.
- After being invalided out of the army, he became an Official War Artist in 1943, concentrating on the everyday life of the troops.
- Smith had been invalided out of the army in 1949, and joined the family shipbreaking company.
- The letter claimed that 1,500 sailors had been invalided out of the Navy because proper treatment cannot be afforded and that the number of military doctors is less than half its required strength.
- Yet ultimately his war record in some ways echoes Longford's: both were invalided out, feeling that to some degree they had not fulfilled the call to arms.
- He first appeared in Wigtown in about 1943, after being invalided out of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he'd served as an officer on a sister ship of the Titanic.
- 1.1 Disable (someone) by injury or illness.
an officer invalided by a chest wound Example sentencesExamples - After concussion and trench-fever on the Somme he was invalided to hospital in Edinburgh, where he was greatly encouraged in his writing by Sassoon.
- A violent incident in which he appears to have come close to death brought on a nervous breakdown, and he was invalided home.
- The former Oldham Athletic defender was invalided out of the professional game shortly after making a dream move to Premiership giants Newcastle United.
- The First Minister's father suffered such an accident and was invalided out of the pit aged 50.
- It was composed one miserable, dreich November in a boarding house on the English south coast, where Hudson was invalided for weeks, dangerously sick.
- Originally from Fife, Smith was with the Metropolitan police for 10 years before being invalided out at the end of the 1980s.
- Two years later, he suffered a stroke on the job due to the heavy workload of planning the almost completed new warehouse in Coulthard Court and was invalided out of IGA.
- To give him his due, the chancellor is aware of the real situation and has provided £800m for a package designed to help those who have been invalided out of the labour market back to work.
- I'd been to Ascot in the 1930s and in 1944 I'd just been invalided out of the rescue service and answered an advert in the Sporting Life.
- Dallaglio tells a story about the day he was invalided out of the last Lions trek in 2001 and in a way it explains how hungry he must be for what lies ahead of him in New Zealand.
- He had a groin injury at the 1982 World Cup, dislocated his shoulder at the 1986 World Cup and was invalided home from the 1990 World Cup with an Achilles tendon problem.
- My elderly passenger was invalided with Parkinson's Disease and had suffered a stroke.
- He had a helicopter accident and fell 30 metres to the ground, injuring his knee and invaliding him out of the service.
- He was invalided home with an intolerable rash, which was diagnosed as the then unusual mepacrine photosensitivity.
- She was invalided out of South Wales Police with a stress-related illness in 1992, after being traumatised by discovering a man who had killed himself with exhaust fumes in his car.
- He was invalided out of the agency after a violent incident, in which he should have died, and is reluctant to be drawn back in.
- My boy was invalided long ago, and carried in a litter God knows how far and how long.
Synonyms disable, incapacitate, indispose, hospitalize, put out of action, lay up, cripple, paralyse, lame, put on the sick list injure, wound, hurt, weaken, enfeeble
Derivatives noun Such was the milieu in which nineteenth-century gymnastics and calisthenics systems offered women palliatives for infirmities that were equated with consumptive female invalidism. Example sentencesExamples - It became where she was weakened to the point of almost invalidism.
- Throughout his period of invalidism, McEldowney became an erudite and self-taught reader and writer.
- This gave Carl a feeling of newly won security which sustained him through his father's irritable moods, his mother's depressive invalidism, and his alienation at school.
- Social programs cover old age, invalidism, death, sickness and maternity, work injury, unemployment, and allowances per child.
Origin Mid 17th century (as an adjective in the sense 'infirm or disabled'): a special sense of invalid2, with a change of pronunciation. adjective ɪnˈvalɪdɪnˈvæləd 1(of an official document or procedure) not legally recognized because it contravenes a regulation or law. the vote was declared invalid due to a technicality Example sentencesExamples - He claimed the proceedings were a sequel to the 1991 raid in which his home had also been ransacked but which had been illegal as an invalid warrant had been used.
- This time, with the women there, the soldiers let him through, but he was afraid to go with the invalid permit.
- He's been detained in Japan since mid-July, when he was nabbed for traveling with an invalid passport.
- Therefore the threats will be justified unless the patents are invalid.
- In simple words this means they do not have licences at all because an invalid document is not a licence to drive.
- He produced an invalid passport and failed to inform the officer that it was not valid.
- This would have affected his decision to issue the warrant and results in a finding that the warrant was invalid and should not have been issued.
- Mr Shipley's argument is that the defendants entered into the settlement on the basis that the patents were invalid.
- Traffic officials would conduct random roadblocks, cracking down on offences such as vehicle overloading, drunken driving and invalid licences.
- Cases 635, the Court held invalid the second marriage of a Muslim when the first marriage had not been dissolved, although pursuant to Islamic law the second marriage was valid.
- Looking at the Margo Lake warrant, any information as to the location of the vehicle by monitoring the tracking device should be excised as having been obtained by an invalid warrant.
- To the extent that Part 14 of the regulations falls within the zone of exclusive federal legislative power, the State regulation must be invalid.
- He's absolutely right that these arrest warrants and these search warrants were invalid.
- They just gave up half a billion for invalid patents on an obvious idea, after the company that might not own those patents had to pay off another company to license them.
- Chanyut and Santsak also said the students disqualified as being invalid an unusually high number of ballots that had been marked for the Chart Thai candidate.
- For the second time in recent US history, voters have had their ballot papers discarded as invalid.
- He is being held on suspicion of traveling with an invalid passport, but Bosnitch said Fischer was never notified by the U.S. government that his passport was revoked.
- We believe the Rambus patents are invalid, not infringed and unenforceable.
- But in truth, they are not purporting to tell the American public, say, that one of their patents is invalid or that the scope of its claims is not what it might appear to be.
- The Tralee-based judge was acquitted of being in possession of child pornography earlier this year after the trial judge ruled that a search warrant was invalid.
Synonyms void, legally void, null, null and void, unenforceable, not binding, inoperative, worthless illegitimate, incorrect, improper, unacceptable, inapplicable annulled, nullified, cancelled, revoked, rescinded, abolished, repealed - 1.1 (especially of an argument, statement, or theory) not true because based on erroneous information or unsound reasoning.
a comparison is invalid if we are not comparing like with like Example sentencesExamples - No need to be surprised - a theory is invalid if shown to be so beyond reasonable doubt.
- Second, we can try to show that the conclusion does not follow from the premises, and thus the argument is invalid, proving nothing.
- The argument is manifestly invalid as there is no way that can be derived from (a).
- So the knowledge argument is invalid because it involves a fallacy of equivocation: ‘know’ means something different in the two premises.
- Improper induction and therefore invalid argument, cried a geeky voice in Jocelyn's head.
- Eighty years after Wallace's book, our universe could not be more radically different, yet human hope continues to impose the same invalid argument upon it.
- Mills says that this argument is invalid, because a physical event can have features not explained by the event which is its sufficient cause.
- But this objection is invalid because there is a universal test of true knowledge, and this test
- Any philosopher can tell you this is an invalid argument.
- Thus, recourse to tradition in abstract, speculative argument is invalid.
- This argument is invalid, and all invalid arguments are unsound.
- Or maybe they just know enough thermodynamics to understand why Sewell's arguments are totally invalid.
- This argument for fatalism does not commit the same fallacy (that is, use the same invalid argument) as the first one that I gave.
- But the fact that such arguments are deductively invalid does not mean that they are not sometimes inductively strong.
- He glared at him daring him to pursue this as an invalid argument.
- This is not to say that a scientifically unproven theory is invalid.
- Not that the arguments are invalid; but they cannot prove the conclusion, if they cannot prove it except to someone who already accepts it.
- If an argument is invalid, there is no deduction for it in the system.
- If it is the latter then the protests are invalid simply because pen to paper would restore the balance.
- Keynes also makes an invalid argument, claiming that a fall in the nominal wage rate may not decrease the real wage rate but would rather increase the rate of unemployment.
Synonyms false, untrue, inaccurate, faulty, fallacious, spurious, inadequate, unconvincing, unsound, weak, wrong, wrongly inferred, wide of the mark, off target unjustified, unsubstantiated, unwarranted, untenable, baseless, ill-founded, unfounded, groundless illogical, irrational, unscientific, absurd, preposterous, inconsistent informal off beam, out, way out, full of holes, bogus - 1.2 (of computer instructions, data, etc.) not conforming to the correct format or specifications.
Example sentencesExamples - Automatically lock accounts or access paths after a preset number of consecutive invalid password attempts.
- I can't get signed into the internet it keeps saying invalid username and password.
- A better strategy would be for the recipient to bounce the e-mail back to the sender, creating the illusion that the e-mail address was invalid.
- If any invalid entries are detected, flashing arrows appear next to the input fields and a popup dialog box describes the specific problems.
- This incents gaming at the company level, contribute invalid data for erstwhile competitors while using your real graph for search.
- The Corporation announced that an invalid SSL certificate that web sites use is required to be installed on the user computer to use the https protocol.
- He notices the password is invalid and went back and informed the customer that he just needed to reset the login password.
- Over time, programs installed onto your computer can bloat the System Registry with invalid entries.
- It seems to default to either redrawing the menu or logging out if you select an invalid menu option, which again can be confusing if you're not in a harmless text editor.
- On the new browsers, invalid CSS may break your page just as invalid HTML will.
- If some of the HTML markup is invalid, some authors may become discouraged from providing valid HTML code.
- As a result, the search engine attempts to retrieve an invalid URL and fails to index any of the content served by that script.
- Not all of the techniques will work cross-browser, so sometimes your code will be invalid.
- If the command-line options are invalid or the configuration file has an error, Synergy writes an error message to the shell and quits.
- Systems bound to the old version of the service suddenly find their message formats invalid.
- Users who try to pass an invalid e-mail address are shown an error message that tells them what to change.
- An invalid entry is merely erased and the cursor is returned to the beginning.
- When I attempt to boot the program, I receive a message stating there is an invalid system disk.
- Now anything I put in the CD drive or floppy drive comes up with an invalid system disk error.
- It's possible for an invalid and very long file name to pass the include safety check, resulting in a file name bigger than its intended buffer, and obviously a buffer overflow.
Origin Mid 16th century (earlier than valid): from Latin invalidus, from in- 'not' + validus 'strong' (see valid). nounˈinvələdˈɪnvələd A person made weak or disabled by illness or injury. as modifier an invalid husband Example sentencesExamples - Every year, Maria goes out to Lourdes to help invalids on the Limerick pilgrimage.
- His job had been to carry invalids up the mountains from St. Louis to Cilaos for until the building of the road in 1935 it had been impossible for carriages or cars to make it up.
- The dates for this year's Lourdes pilgrimage are June 21-26 and the cost is €480 for invalids and €580 for all others.
- A benefit of living in a one-stoplight town is that the county clerk makes house calls, delivering ballots to invalids.
- Looking after all the invalids was a team of doctors, nurses and other helpers.
- This annual event costs €580 with special concessions for invalids.
- A nurse in Sudan and Nigeria, Catherine now spends her days in St John's Rest and Care looking after invalids and sick pilgrims who come to Knock.
- The resort, 1,500m above sea level, with a lake and exquisite views of the snowy mountains, has been a center for invalids and well-off hypochondriacs since the 1860s.
- He made many firm friends during that time and was tireless an unselfish in his commitment to the invalids and lending assistance to all who sought his help and advice.
- This fund was established in 1975 and each year between 30-40 invalids are taken to Lourdes.
- He served as a steward at Knock Shrine for 15 years and willingly gave of his time to assist the invalids and pilgrims throughout the pilgrimage season.
- A sum of over 800 was raised, which means that the committee will be able to send two invalids from the parish on the diocesan pilgrimage in May.
- She was an excellent woman who loved her family and cared for her parents who were both invalids.
- It did not make any mention of the fact that many of the people who have come off the unemployment benefit have casually moved over to the invalids benefit or the sickness benefit.
- Safe journey to all our invalids, helpers and pilgrims from the parish who travelled on Sunday to participate in the Annual Armagh Pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- It caters for invalids as well as hedonists, its waters famed for their efficacy with eye and bladder problems, and the menu is a gastronome's delight.
- Our three invalids, though, in spite of languishing in the shade and in one of the few airless parts of the front garden, produce plenty of blooms that are simply too beautiful to destroy.
- Their white colour and delicate texture have conspired to give them a reputation as a food for invalids or convalescents.
- There are places for both invalids and pilgrims.
- Most of the invalids are in their 30s or 40s, securing life-time pensions worth 70 per cent of the final retirement-age salaries.
Synonyms sick person, case, sufferer, victim ill, sick, ailing, unwell, infirm, valetudinarian, valetudinary, in poor health ill person, infirm person, sick person, valetudinarian, sufferer, patient, convalescent
verbˈinvələdˈɪnvələd [with object]1Remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness. he was badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry Example sentencesExamples - After being invalided out of the army, he became an Official War Artist in 1943, concentrating on the everyday life of the troops.
- He was invalided out of the army with a badly arthritic knee, exacerbated by his injuries.
- The war veteran this year won a landmark case against the Ministry of Defence because his pension had been wrongly taxed for 45 years after he was invalided out.
- They married in 1918, after MacDiarmid was invalided out of the army with cerebral malaria.
- Annand was invalided out of the army in 1948 and thereafter did much work for disabled people, especially the deaf, and was involved in local affairs in the north, and above all in army affairs.
- By the time he reached the safety of a dressing station his wound had become infected and he was invalided out of the war and away to a convalescent hospital in Ireland.
- Yet ultimately his war record in some ways echoes Longford's: both were invalided out, feeling that to some degree they had not fulfilled the call to arms.
- But he was invalided out in 1991 with knee problems which doctors blamed climbing ships' ladders.
- He was invalided out of the Army, his marriage broke up and he commuted some of his pension entitlement for a cash sum to settle his divorce.
- He was invalided out before he was posted to overseas service.
- The war years were marred only by Warnie's absence on active service until he was invalided out as a hopeless alcoholic.
- The letter claimed that 1,500 sailors had been invalided out of the Navy because proper treatment cannot be afforded and that the number of military doctors is less than half its required strength.
- After the war he was invalided out of the Army because of back injuries suffered through beatings by German soldiers.
- During the First World War he served as an intelligence officer in the navy but was invalided out in 1917, and spent a year working on dazzle camouflage for ships in Liverpool and Bristol.
- The second covers the period from 1917 onwards when he was invalided out with shell-shock and eventually went back to the front, only to get a head-wound and be hospitalised again.
- Sir Frederick served in the Royal Ulster Rifles until 1941 when he was invalided out following an accident.
- When Anna returns from digging trenches on the Luga line, and her father is invalided out of the army, they all settle in together.
- He first appeared in Wigtown in about 1943, after being invalided out of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he'd served as an officer on a sister ship of the Titanic.
- Smith had been invalided out of the army in 1949, and joined the family shipbreaking company.
- Medical science still couldn't create an artificial limb that could be controlled like a natural one and Alex's father had been invalided out of the service.
- 1.1 Disable (someone) by injury or illness.
Example sentencesExamples - He was invalided out of the agency after a violent incident, in which he should have died, and is reluctant to be drawn back in.
- She was invalided out of South Wales Police with a stress-related illness in 1992, after being traumatised by discovering a man who had killed himself with exhaust fumes in his car.
- Dallaglio tells a story about the day he was invalided out of the last Lions trek in 2001 and in a way it explains how hungry he must be for what lies ahead of him in New Zealand.
- The former Oldham Athletic defender was invalided out of the professional game shortly after making a dream move to Premiership giants Newcastle United.
- He had a helicopter accident and fell 30 metres to the ground, injuring his knee and invaliding him out of the service.
- He had a groin injury at the 1982 World Cup, dislocated his shoulder at the 1986 World Cup and was invalided home from the 1990 World Cup with an Achilles tendon problem.
- Originally from Fife, Smith was with the Metropolitan police for 10 years before being invalided out at the end of the 1980s.
- Two years later, he suffered a stroke on the job due to the heavy workload of planning the almost completed new warehouse in Coulthard Court and was invalided out of IGA.
- A violent incident in which he appears to have come close to death brought on a nervous breakdown, and he was invalided home.
- My boy was invalided long ago, and carried in a litter God knows how far and how long.
- After concussion and trench-fever on the Somme he was invalided to hospital in Edinburgh, where he was greatly encouraged in his writing by Sassoon.
- My elderly passenger was invalided with Parkinson's Disease and had suffered a stroke.
- I'd been to Ascot in the 1930s and in 1944 I'd just been invalided out of the rescue service and answered an advert in the Sporting Life.
- To give him his due, the chancellor is aware of the real situation and has provided £800m for a package designed to help those who have been invalided out of the labour market back to work.
- It was composed one miserable, dreich November in a boarding house on the English south coast, where Hudson was invalided for weeks, dangerously sick.
- The First Minister's father suffered such an accident and was invalided out of the pit aged 50.
- He was invalided home with an intolerable rash, which was diagnosed as the then unusual mepacrine photosensitivity.
Synonyms disable, incapacitate, indispose, hospitalize, put out of action, lay up, cripple, paralyse, lame, put on the sick list
Origin Mid 17th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘infirm or disabled’): a special sense of invalid, with a change of pronunciation. adjectiveinˈvalədɪnˈvæləd 1(of an official document or procedure) not legally recognized and therefore void because contravening a regulation or law. the vote was declared invalid due to a technicality Example sentencesExamples - But in truth, they are not purporting to tell the American public, say, that one of their patents is invalid or that the scope of its claims is not what it might appear to be.
- To the extent that Part 14 of the regulations falls within the zone of exclusive federal legislative power, the State regulation must be invalid.
- Chanyut and Santsak also said the students disqualified as being invalid an unusually high number of ballots that had been marked for the Chart Thai candidate.
- For the second time in recent US history, voters have had their ballot papers discarded as invalid.
- Cases 635, the Court held invalid the second marriage of a Muslim when the first marriage had not been dissolved, although pursuant to Islamic law the second marriage was valid.
- They just gave up half a billion for invalid patents on an obvious idea, after the company that might not own those patents had to pay off another company to license them.
- Mr Shipley's argument is that the defendants entered into the settlement on the basis that the patents were invalid.
- The Tralee-based judge was acquitted of being in possession of child pornography earlier this year after the trial judge ruled that a search warrant was invalid.
- He claimed the proceedings were a sequel to the 1991 raid in which his home had also been ransacked but which had been illegal as an invalid warrant had been used.
- He's been detained in Japan since mid-July, when he was nabbed for traveling with an invalid passport.
- He's absolutely right that these arrest warrants and these search warrants were invalid.
- He produced an invalid passport and failed to inform the officer that it was not valid.
- This would have affected his decision to issue the warrant and results in a finding that the warrant was invalid and should not have been issued.
- He is being held on suspicion of traveling with an invalid passport, but Bosnitch said Fischer was never notified by the U.S. government that his passport was revoked.
- Looking at the Margo Lake warrant, any information as to the location of the vehicle by monitoring the tracking device should be excised as having been obtained by an invalid warrant.
- This time, with the women there, the soldiers let him through, but he was afraid to go with the invalid permit.
- In simple words this means they do not have licences at all because an invalid document is not a licence to drive.
- Traffic officials would conduct random roadblocks, cracking down on offences such as vehicle overloading, drunken driving and invalid licences.
- Therefore the threats will be justified unless the patents are invalid.
- We believe the Rambus patents are invalid, not infringed and unenforceable.
Synonyms void, legally void, null, null and void, unenforceable, not binding, inoperative, worthless - 1.1 (especially of an argument, statement, or theory) not true because based on erroneous information or unsound reasoning.
a comparison is invalid if we are not comparing like with like Example sentencesExamples - This is not to say that a scientifically unproven theory is invalid.
- But this objection is invalid because there is a universal test of true knowledge, and this test
- Not that the arguments are invalid; but they cannot prove the conclusion, if they cannot prove it except to someone who already accepts it.
- This argument for fatalism does not commit the same fallacy (that is, use the same invalid argument) as the first one that I gave.
- No need to be surprised - a theory is invalid if shown to be so beyond reasonable doubt.
- If an argument is invalid, there is no deduction for it in the system.
- Mills says that this argument is invalid, because a physical event can have features not explained by the event which is its sufficient cause.
- Keynes also makes an invalid argument, claiming that a fall in the nominal wage rate may not decrease the real wage rate but would rather increase the rate of unemployment.
- Any philosopher can tell you this is an invalid argument.
- Eighty years after Wallace's book, our universe could not be more radically different, yet human hope continues to impose the same invalid argument upon it.
- Second, we can try to show that the conclusion does not follow from the premises, and thus the argument is invalid, proving nothing.
- Thus, recourse to tradition in abstract, speculative argument is invalid.
- But the fact that such arguments are deductively invalid does not mean that they are not sometimes inductively strong.
- The argument is manifestly invalid as there is no way that can be derived from (a).
- This argument is invalid, and all invalid arguments are unsound.
- If it is the latter then the protests are invalid simply because pen to paper would restore the balance.
- He glared at him daring him to pursue this as an invalid argument.
- Improper induction and therefore invalid argument, cried a geeky voice in Jocelyn's head.
- Or maybe they just know enough thermodynamics to understand why Sewell's arguments are totally invalid.
- So the knowledge argument is invalid because it involves a fallacy of equivocation: ‘know’ means something different in the two premises.
Synonyms false, untrue, inaccurate, faulty, fallacious, spurious, inadequate, unconvincing, unsound, weak, wrong, wrongly inferred, wide of the mark, off target - 1.2 (of computer instructions, data, etc.) not conforming to the correct format or specifications.
Example sentencesExamples - If any invalid entries are detected, flashing arrows appear next to the input fields and a popup dialog box describes the specific problems.
- It seems to default to either redrawing the menu or logging out if you select an invalid menu option, which again can be confusing if you're not in a harmless text editor.
- Users who try to pass an invalid e-mail address are shown an error message that tells them what to change.
- It's possible for an invalid and very long file name to pass the include safety check, resulting in a file name bigger than its intended buffer, and obviously a buffer overflow.
- When I attempt to boot the program, I receive a message stating there is an invalid system disk.
- Systems bound to the old version of the service suddenly find their message formats invalid.
- A better strategy would be for the recipient to bounce the e-mail back to the sender, creating the illusion that the e-mail address was invalid.
- This incents gaming at the company level, contribute invalid data for erstwhile competitors while using your real graph for search.
- I can't get signed into the internet it keeps saying invalid username and password.
- Now anything I put in the CD drive or floppy drive comes up with an invalid system disk error.
- The Corporation announced that an invalid SSL certificate that web sites use is required to be installed on the user computer to use the https protocol.
- Over time, programs installed onto your computer can bloat the System Registry with invalid entries.
- As a result, the search engine attempts to retrieve an invalid URL and fails to index any of the content served by that script.
- On the new browsers, invalid CSS may break your page just as invalid HTML will.
- An invalid entry is merely erased and the cursor is returned to the beginning.
- Automatically lock accounts or access paths after a preset number of consecutive invalid password attempts.
- Not all of the techniques will work cross-browser, so sometimes your code will be invalid.
- He notices the password is invalid and went back and informed the customer that he just needed to reset the login password.
- If some of the HTML markup is invalid, some authors may become discouraged from providing valid HTML code.
- If the command-line options are invalid or the configuration file has an error, Synergy writes an error message to the shell and quits.
Origin Mid 16th century (earlier than valid): from Latin invalidus, from in- ‘not’ + validus ‘strong’ (see valid). |