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Editors
Teresa K. Attwood Professor of Bioinformatics,
Faculty of Life Sciences & School of Computer Science,
University of Manchester
Richard Cammack (Managing Editor) Professor of
Biochemistry, King's ... constituent of the thin filaments of muscle and
of the microfilaments found in practically all eukaryotic cells – it
comprises 5–10% of the protein of such cells (see actin filament). In
solutions of ... a decade since the first edition of the OxfordDictionary of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It was a remarkable work
of scholarship, arising from the work of journal editors and
scientific...
... dictionary.
1 Introduction
The goal of the project is to enhance the database
of the
Oxford Dictionaryof English
(a forthcoming
new edition of the 1998
New OxfordDictionary of
English)
so that it contains ... Press,
Cambridge, Mass.
Judy Pearsall. 1998.
The NewOxfordDictionary of
English.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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matic analysis and grading of defmitions is proving
highly productive in ... richness of a large
natural-language dictionary in providing cues and
flagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a
dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of a
finite (albeit large) list of...
... PROCESSING.
adsorption Adhesion of a thin layer of molecules of
one substance to the surface of another without
absorption. An example is adsorption of water to
the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-
fused ... gravitational
field of the earth. Used for the precise determina-
tion of current of large dimension, or of the size of
the ampere.
ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The
quantity of electricity ... Abbreviation of airborne (or aircraft) early
warning.
aF Abbreviation of ATTOFARAD.
AF Abbreviation of AUDIO FREQUENCY.
AFC 1. Abbreviation of AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY
CONTROL. 2. Abbreviation of AUDIO-FRE-
QUENCY...
... determination of the direction
of a source of electromagnetic energy, on account
of the motion of the source and/or the detecting
apparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-
ent positions of the ... changes at the rate of 1 abampere per sec-
ond induces a potential of 1 abvolt.
ABL Abbreviation of Automated Biology Laboratory
(NASA).
abmho The obsolete unit of conductance and of
conductivity ... magnetic equator. An imag-
inary line drawn on a map of the world or of an
area that connects points of zero inclination (dip)
of the needle of a magnetic compass.
ACM Abbreviation for Association...
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and manages the Osborne Association and Friends of Island
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... orientation of for-
eign words. Identifying the semantic orienta-
tion ofwords has numerous applications in the
areas of text classification, analysis of prod-
uct review, analysis of responses ... 1966)
as a source of seed labeled words. The lexicon con-
tains 4206 words, 1915 of which are positive and
2291 are negative. For Arabic and Hindi we con-
structed a labeled set of 300 words for each ... labeled set of positive and neg-
ative words and has shown very promising re-
sults.
1 Introduction
A great body of research work has focused on iden-
tifying the semantic orientation of words. Word...
... bottles of
100
Tagamet 300 mg tablets and 1,600 packages of
10
unit-dose containers of 10 ml of Tagamet syrup at 5 mg/ml concentration,
then we would compute the total number of milligrams of ... literally the number of
patient-days of therapy being consumed, but rather the number of patient-days
of therapy which would be consumed if all
of
the sales were for treatment of
active duodenal ... from dozens of three-inch-thick monthly volumes of printed data,
or
their microfilm equivalents, in which the data of interest were contained on
just a page
or
three in the middle of each hefty...
... 75; Prof. of Mus., Oxford Univ. from 1975. Author of books on Monteverdi
and G. Gabrieli. Specialist on
16th- and 17th-cent. It. mus. Joint ed. Music and Letters 1976-
-
80. Ed., NewOxford ... those of Dom John Stéphan, of Buckfast Abbey, Devon, who in
1947 discussed a newly-discovered MS. of the tune in the handwriting of John Francis Wade, a Lat.
teacher and music copyist of Douai ... in Vienna of Mozart; host and friend in London of Mendelssohn;
org. St Paul's Cath., 1796 1838; composer of th. and church mus. One of first profs. at
RAM, 1823. Founder-member of Philharmonic...
... record of
its use. The reference usually consists of either (a) a book-title with its date of publication and a
reference to where the quotation occurs in the book; or (b) the title of a newspaper ... part of a quotation and want to know the rest of it, or who said it, you can
trace it by means of the index (1). The index lists the most significant words from each quotation.
These keywords ...
helpful than any other dictionaryof modern quotations.
TONY AUGARDE
(1) Discussions of the index features in this preface and in the “How to Use this Dictionary
section of this book refer to...
... moderation.
A rash of dermatologists, a hive of allergists, a
scrub of interns, a giggle of nurses, a flood of
urologists, a pile of proctologists, an eyeful of
ophthalmologists, a whiff of anesthesiologists, ... –
Professor of Clinical Gerontology, Oxford, England
The aging of an organism is a progressive loss of
adaptability as time passes.
Introduction to the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine
Oxford ... Medical Publications
Oxford Dictionary of
Medical Quotations
Peter McDonald
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Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers...
... of
a
number of
distinguished
composers who
have shuffled
off
their mortal coil in a variety
of
unusual
ways.
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contrasting aspect of ... near)
the bone Q (of
a
remark)
penetrating and accurate to the point of
causing
hurt
or discomfort. Q
(of
a
joke or
story)
likely to cause offence because near
the limit of decency.
cut
... the
title
of
1
Stella
Gibbons's
1933
parody of sentimental
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novels of rural
life,
Cold Comfort
Farm.
cold
feet
loss
of nerve or confidence.
in
the cold light of day when...