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tendency
(mass) | tendency
- tendencia |
tendency
(encz) | tendency,sklon n: Zdeněk Brož |
tendency
(encz) | tendency,tendence n: Zdeněk Brož |
Tendency
(gcide) | Tendency \Tend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Tendencies. [L. tendents,
-entis, p. pr. of tendere: cf. F. tendance. See Tend to
move.]
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or
result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about
an effect or result.
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Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a
more particular tendency to the good of their country.
--Addison.
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In every experimental science, there is a tendency
toward perfection. --Macaulay.
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Syn: Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope; aim.
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tendency
(wn) | tendency
n 1: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one
alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up
too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn:
inclination, disposition, tendency]
2: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward
frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency]
3: a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward
a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline
inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to
shrink" [syn: tendency, inclination]
4: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the
shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock
market" [syn: tendency, trend] |
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superintendency
(encz) | superintendency,funkce vedoucího Zdeněk Brož |
Superintendency
(gcide) | Superintendency \Su`per*in*tend"en*cy\, n.; pl. -cies.
The act of superintending; superintendence. --Boyle.
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Tendency
(gcide) | Tendency \Tend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Tendencies. [L. tendents,
-entis, p. pr. of tendere: cf. F. tendance. See Tend to
move.]
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or
result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about
an effect or result.
[1913 Webster]
Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a
more particular tendency to the good of their country.
--Addison.
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In every experimental science, there is a tendency
toward perfection. --Macaulay.
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Syn: Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope; aim.
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militant tendency
(wn) | Militant Tendency
n 1: a Trotskyist political organization in Great Britain set up
in 1964 inside the Labour Party |
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