Monday, July 18, 2011

Week 6 Vocabuly Definitions & Examples

1. Domestic (adj) - Ex. She wanted a domestic animal for her birthday but her dad bought her a polar bear instead.

1.
of or pertaining to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
2.
devoted to home life or household affairs.
3.
tame; domesticated.
4.
of or pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries: domestic trade.
5.
indigenous to or produced or made within one's own country; not foreign; native: domestic goods.


2. Despite (preposition) - Ex. Despite the loss of her driver's license, she could still get to school on time with her bus pass.
–preposition
1.
in spite of; notwithstanding.
–noun
2.
contemptuous treatment; insult.
3.
malice, hatred, or spite.
–verb (used with object)
4.
Obsolete . to anger or annoy (someone) out of spite.
5.
in despite of, in spite of; notwithstanding: He was tolerant in despite of his background and education.

3. Dimension (n) - Ex. When we bought new carpet, we determined the dimensions of the room were 14x18 feet.
1.
Mathematics .
a.
a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions.
b.
the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere.
c.
the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space.
d.
the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers.
e.
extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
2.
Usually, dimensions.
a.
measurement in length, width, and thickness.
b.
scope; importance: the dimensions of a problem.
3.
unit ( def. 6 ) .
4.
magnitude; size: Matter has dimension.
5.
Topology .
a.
a magnitude that, independently or in conjunction with other such magnitudes, serves to define the location of an element within a given set, as of a point on a line, an object in a space, or an event in space-time.
b.
the number of elements in a finite basis of a given vector space.
6.
Physics . any of a set of basic kinds of quantity, as mass, length, and time, in terms of which all other kinds of quantity can be expressed; usually denoted by capital letters, with appropriate exponents, placed in brackets: The dimensions of velocity are [LT −1 ]. Compare dimensional analysis.
7.
dimensions, Informal . the measurements of a woman's bust, waist, and hips, in that order: The chorus girl's dimensions were 38-24-36.
8.
dimension lumber.
–verb (used with object)
9.
to shape or fashion to the desired dimensions: Dimension the shelves so that they fit securely into the cabinet.
10.
to indicate the dimensions of an item, area, etc., on (a sketch or drawing).

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