They work to focus, cover flat, and define well, producing pictures equal to the most expensive.
They know enough arithmetic to know that prices have risen; the kind Levantine gentleman is always there to make them fully understand the meaning of an interest sum; and the landlord will define Rent as rigidly as Ricardo.
Let us then define rights, if we would not be for ever entoiled by these absurdities.
But we prefer to define it in the terms employed, as being more likely to be appreciated in the sense intended.
Define a dynamo with respect to its principle of operation.
This is a term employed to defineelectricity produced by friction.
This term is used to define current electricity to distinguish it from static electricity.
In truth, it is impossible for us to apprehend or define it, to tell where it dwells.
As soon as we try to analyze it, to define it, or to understand it, thoughts and expressions fail us, or create that which they are struggling to deny.
It would be premature to attempt to define the exact outline of the new forms of romantic love, or the precise lineaments of the beings who will most ardently evoke that love.
It has been said that eugenics is futile because it cannotdefine its end.
Personally, I do not consider that either Socialism or Eugenics can be regarded as coming within the legitimate sphere of religion, which I have elsewhere attempted to define (Conclusion to The New Spirit).
Husemann and Kobert are almost the only writers on poisons who have attempted, with more or less success, to definepoison by a generalisation, keeping in view the exclusion of the matters enumerated.
For I use these very categories to definethe course of experience by.
Of course Mr. Bradley has a right to define 'intellect' as the power by which we perceive separations but not unions--provided he give due notice to the reader.
Knowledge is a difficult thing to define briefly, and Mr. Joseph shows his own constructive hand here even less than in the rest of his article.
But the critics of humanism never define exactly what the word 'truth' signifies when they use it themselves.
Hence it is of prime importance todefine a lie clearly, and to distinguish it from allowable and proper concealments of truth.
He is not afraid to define a lie, and to stand by his definition in his argument.
Is it correct that you learned just then that one could define the Second Bureau as the world of spies, and that you were extremely struck by this, extremely surprised?
But while she tried to define the strange object her fingers touched, she felt the unknown thing was drawing back--was avoiding her caress!
Gentlemen, I wish I could define it in a single word, but it is here that I enter the region of enigmas.
He answered to this effect, that the Articles did notdefine it.
This was very hard, for it was one of Charles's puzzles what justification was in itself, for the Articles do not define it any more than faith.
But none have pointed out that the writer gives himself no trouble to define them, but seems more anxious to impress us with their consciousness of their moral relation to the Servant.
Both Numbers and Leviticus define it, butdefine it differently.
In the chapters to come we shall find this difficulty increase, unless we take some trouble now to define how much the word denotes in Isa.
To which objection an obvious answer is, that our prophet is not a systematic theologian, but a dramatic poet, who allows his characters to disclose themselves and their relation without himself intervening to define or relate them.
In our own prophecy, spirit is frequently used, not to define the nature of God, but to express His power and the effectiveness of His will.
Has He vindicated Himself to Israel, the Almighty and Righteous God, Who will give His people freedom and strength: He will now define to them the mission for which that strength and freedom are required.
If you ask me what is the use of them, I can hardly answer you, unless you define the term use.
Matter I define as that mysterious thing by which all this is accomplished.
These questions define a hypothesis not without its difficulties, but the dignity of which in relation to the world's knowledge was demonstrated by the nobleness of the men whom it sustained.
Having swept with the besom of Science various 'books' contemptuously away, he does not define the Sacred residue; much less give us the reasons why he deems them sacred.
Life, as we define it, was not possible for aeons subsequent to this separation.
Disregarding provisionally the cavalry, who play a special role in battle, we must define the proportion which artillery must bear to infantry.
These three main tendencies define the nature of this vigorous and talented school as the three dimensions define space; and each of them produced works of great and enduring value.
He loved to defineby the aid of numbers, measure, weight.
It is difficult to define her influence upon him as a writer; but it was inconsiderable.
Thus as they define virtue to be living according to Nature, so they imagine that Nature prompts all people on to seek after pleasure as the end of all they do.
Grecian friendship was indeed so ethereal, that it is difficult todefine its essential qualities.
When he tried to define in whom the power of government should repose, he was lost in a maze of phrases, and afforded his pupil not a single fact.
Define a quadratic equation; a pure quadratic; an affected (or complete) quadratic; an equation in the quadratic form.
Hence what thou canst alone contemplate, declare to be the infinite, and define as its essence, is merely the nature of feeling.
But it is a ludicrous and even culpable error to define as finite and limited what constitutes the essence of man, the nature of the species, which is the absolute nature of the individual.
To say that light is a mode of motion does not define it; we ask at once, What mode?
And though he may have been meek and gentle, there must have appeared in everything he did and was an assertion of superiority, all the more galling for its being difficult to define and as ready to blush as the innocent truth herself.
The difficulty comes when we attempt to define these two pairs of characters.
Few if any of the more primitive peoples seem to have attempted to define the part played by either parent in the formation of the offspring, or to have assigned peculiar powers of transmission to them, even in the vaguest way.
While, however, it is easy enough sharply to separate off all Haemosporidia from other Ectospora, it is a very difficult matter to define their limits on the former side.
There will be plenty of people to tell us that no one candefine waste of labour.
Art remains to us a painful mystery; most of us would define it, if we were honest, as that which human beings buy because they do not like it.
No one can define sin; but each man has his own conscience on that point and lives well or ill as he obeys it or disobeys it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "define" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
