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Stipulative Defir EXERCISE 16.5 of a nings pris- iture pro- You can consult a historical, or etymological, dictionary, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, A Dictionary of American English, or A Dictionary of Americanisms, to trace changes in the use of a word over long periods of time or to survey different theories of a word's or phrase's origins. Online you can search the Phrase Finder, search the Urban Dictionary, or just Google the word or phrase plus definition. Look up the historical defini- tion of any one of the following words - or a word or phrase you're curious about - in one or more sources, and write several sentences on its roots and development. bedrock eye-opener lobbying rubberneck bogus filibuster lynching sashay bushwhack 23 skidoo gerrymander pep dugout head over heels podunk st ing two-bit Stipulative Definitions To stipulate means to seek or assert agreement on something. In a stipulative definition, the writer declares a certain meaning, generally not one found in the dictionary. hinwranby An American Childhood that appears in ho understood it Taxonomy, the science of classifying groups (taxa) of organisms in formal groups, vord to be defined: a brief, inserted word hierarchical. The actual exchange of gases takes place in small air sacs, the alveoll, which are clustered in branches like grapes around the ends of the smallest bronchioles. EXERCISE 16.1 Look up any three of the following words or phrases in a dictionary. Define each one ina sentence. Try to use a different sentence pattern for each of your definitions ecumenism samba bull market seasonal affective disorder carcinogen edema sonnet caricature harangue testosterone clinometer hyperhidrosis mnemonic zero-based budgeting ectomorph Stipulative Definitions se EXERCISE 16.5 You can consult a historical, or etymological, dictionary, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, A Dictionary of American English, or A Dictionary of Americanisms, to trace Word's or phrase's origins. Online you can search the Phrase Finder , search the Urban changes in the use of a word over long periods of time or to survey different theories of a Dictionary , or just Google the word or phrase plus definition. Look up the historical defini- tion of any one of the following words – or a word or phrase you're curious about – in one or more sources, and write several sentences on its roots and development. bedrock eye-opener lobbying filibuster bogus lynching sashay bushwhack gerrymander pep head over heels podunk dugout rubberneck 23 skidoo two-bit Stipulative Definitions To stipulate means to seek or assert agreement on something. In a stipulative definition, the writer declares a certain meaning, generally not one found in the dictionary. In the excerpt from her autobiography An American Childhood that appears in Chapter 2, Annie Dillard offers a stipulative definition of football as she understood it as a nine-year-old: Some boys taught me to play football. This was fine sport. You thought up a new Strategy for every play and whispered it to the others. You went out for a pass, fooling everyone. Best, you got to throw yourself mightily at someone's running legs. Either you fint out on your chin, with your arms empty yould miss and get hurt: ched in the face dragon, have dinosaur been called "relics of the dinosaur age," but this phrase is historically incorrect. No lizard ever evolved the birdlike characteristics peculiar to each and every dinosaur. A big lizard never resembled a small dinosaur except for a few inconse- quential details of the teeth. Lizards never walked with the erect, long-striding gait that distinguishes the dinosaur like ground birds today or the birdlike dinosaurs of the Mesozoic. ROBERT T. BAKKER, The Dinosaur Heresies EXERCISE 16.3 Choose one term that names some concept or feature of central importance in an activity or a subject you know well. For example, if you are studying biology, you have probably encountered terms like morphogenesis and ecosystem. Choose a word with a well-established definition. Write an extended definition of several sentences for this important term. Write for readers your own age who will be encountering the term for the first time when they read your definition. EXERCISE 16.4 In his essay in Chapter 4 "Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?," John Tierney presents an extended definition ading his essay, how would you define decision fatigue? Reread see tegies he uses to define the term. th Stipulative Defir EXERCISE 16.5 of a nings pris- iture pro- You can consult a historical, or etymological, dictionary, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, A Dictionary of American English, or A Dictionary of Americanisms, to trace changes in the use of a word over long periods of time or to survey different theories of a word's or phrase's origins. Online you can search the Phrase Finder, search the Urban Dictionary, or just Google the word or phrase plus definition. Look up the historical defini- tion of any one of the following words - or a word or phrase you're curious about - in one or more sources, and write several sentences on its roots and development. bedrock eye-opener lobbying rubberneck bogus filibuster lynching sashay bushwhack 23 skidoo gerrymander pep dugout head over heels podunk st ing two-bit Stipulative Definitions To stipulate means to seek or assert agreement on something. In a stipulative definition, the writer declares a certain meaning, generally not one found in the dictionary. hinwranby An American Childhood that appears in ho understood it dragon, have dinosaur been called "relics of the dinosaur age," but this phrase is historically incorrect. No lizard ever evolved the birdlike characteristics peculiar to each and every dinosaur. A big lizard never resembled a small dinosaur except for a few inconse- quential details of the teeth. Lizards never walked with the erect, long-striding gait that distinguishes the dinosaur like ground birds today or the birdlike dinosaurs of the Mesozoic. ROBERT T. BAKKER, The Dinosaur Heresies EXERCISE 16.3 Choose one term that names some concept or feature of central importance in an activity or a subject you know well. For example, if you are studying biology, you have probably encountered terms like morphogenesis and ecosystem. Choose a word with a well-established definition. Write an extended definition of several sentences for this important term. Write for readers your own age who will be encountering the term for the first time when they read your definition. EXERCISE 16.4 In his essay in Chapter 4 "Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?," John Tierney presents an extended definition ading his essay, how would you define decision fatigue? Reread see tegies he uses to define the term. th Taxonomy, the science of classifying groups (taxa) of organisms in formal groups, vord to be defined: a brief, inserted word hierarchical. The actual exchange of gases takes place in small air sacs, the alveoll, which are clustered in branches like grapes around the ends of the smallest bronchioles. EXERCISE 16.1 Look up any three of the following words or phrases in a dictionary. Define each one ina sentence. Try to use a different sentence pattern for each of your definitions ecumenism samba bull market seasonal affective disorder carcinogen edema sonnet caricature harangue testosterone clinometer hyperhidrosis mnemonic zero-based budgeting ectomorph
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