psychology |
1. n. The study of the human mind. | |
2. n. The study of human behavior. | |
3. n. The study of animal behavior. | |
4. n. The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity. | |
exhibiting |
1. v. present participle of exhibit | |
exhibit |
1. v. To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest. | |
He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards. | |
2. v. To demonstrate. | |
The players exhibited great skill. | |
3. v. (transitive, legal) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence. | |
I now exhibit this bloody hammer. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To put on a public display. | |
Will you be exhibiting this year? | |
5. v. (medicine) To administer as a remedy. | |
to exhibit calomel | |
6. n. An instance of exhibiting. | |
7. n. That which is exhibited. | |
8. n. A public showing; an exhibition. | |
The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd. | |
9. n. (legal) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court. | |
Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
conditioned |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of condition | |
2. adj. determined or dependent on some condition | |
3. adj. physically fit, especially as the result of exercise | |
4. adj. prepared for a specific use | |
5. adj. (psychology) exhibiting a conditioned reflex | |
condition |
1. n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false. | |
2. n. A requirement, term or requisite. | |
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability. What other planets might have the right conditions for life? The union had a dispute over sick time and other | |
3. n. (legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way. | |
4. n. The health status of a medical patient. | |
My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition. | |
5. n. The state or quality. | |
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized. | |
6. n. A particular state of being. | |
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system. Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery. Security is defined as the condition of not being threat | |
7. n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank. | |
A man of his condition has no place to make request. | |
8. v. To subject to the process of acclimation. | |
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego. | |
9. v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. | |
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class. | |
10. v. To place conditions or limitations upon. | |
11. v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. | |
12. v. To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner. | |
13. v. To contract; to stipulate; to agree. | |
14. v. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). | |
15. v. (US, colleges transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college. | |
to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study | |
16. v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. | |
reflex |
1. n. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. | |
2. n. (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language. | |
3. n. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. | |
5. adj. Bent, turned back or reflected. | |
6. adj. Produced automatically by a stimulus. | |
7. adj. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. | |
8. adj. (photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder. | |
9. adj. (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture. | |
10. v. To bend, turn back or reflect. | |
11. v. To respond to a stimulus. | |