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  2. Wikipedia : Writing better articles/Define and describe

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    The that's Mr. Pig"' states (where) that:. If its subject is amenable to definition, an article should give a concise, conceptually sound definition in its opening sentence and then proceed with a description.

  3. Wikipedia talk : Writing better articles/Define and describe

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    With the description, we have an article focused solely on the orientation: one thing. We can describe the sexual act at a more specific page title, such as homosexual sex. Martin 00:37, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC) If you want thorough understanding you will have to base your associations on words, hence the definitions are necessary.

  4. Literal translation - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).

  5. Consommé - Wikipedia

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    The clarification process also historically utilised blood rather than egg whites. A special type of consommé that was boiled solely with tendons and cartilage without the addition of salt was sweetened, flavoured with fruits and served as dessert. These sweetened consommé creations are essentially the forerunners of present-day gelatin desserts.

  6. Land use - Wikipedia

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    Land use is an umbrella term to describe what happens on a parcel of land. It concerns the benefits derived from using the land, and also the land management actions that humans carry out there. [ 1 ]

  7. Diction - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle, in The Poetics (20), defines the parts of diction [7] as the letter, the syllable, the conjunction, the article, the noun, the verb, the case, and the speech , [8] though one commentator remarks that "the text is so confused and some of the words have such a variety of meanings that one cannot always be certain what the Greek says ...

  8. Spontaneous trait inference - Wikipedia

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    The most prevalent paradigms utilised in research include the cued recall task, the picture priming task, and the word fragment completion task. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] For the cued recall task, an individual would be presented with written accounts of different behaviours, such as “Brittany fell over when she walked down the hill”.

  9. Word usage - Wikipedia

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    Lexicographers gather samples of written instances where a word is used and analyze them to determine patterns of regional or social usage as well as meaning. A word, for example the English word "donny" (a round rock about the size of a man's head), may be only a rare regional usage, or a word may be used worldwide by standard English speakers ...