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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