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Defining   /dɪfˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Defining

noun
1.
Any process serving to define the shape of something.  Synonym: shaping.


Define

verb
(past & past part. defined; pres. part. defining)
1.
Determine the essential quality of.  Synonyms: delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify.
2.
Give a definition for the meaning of a word.
3.
Determine the nature of.
4.
Show the form or outline of.  Synonym: delineate.  "The camera could define the smallest object"
5.
Decide upon or fix definitely.  Synonyms: determine, fix, limit, set, specify.  "Specify the parameters"



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"Defining" Quotes from Famous Books



... clash of freedoms that may otherwise arise. The Utopian State will effectually interfere with and prescribe conditions for all sorts of contract, and for this sort of contract in particular it will be in agreement with almost every earthly State, in defining in the completest fashion what things a man or woman may be bound to do, and what they cannot be bound to do. From the point of view of a statesman, marriage is the union of a man and woman in a manner so ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
... to our little rods — defined as unit lengths — the marble slab is no longer a Euclidean continuum, and we are also no longer in the position of defining Cartesian co-ordinates directly with their aid, since the above construction can no longer be carried out. But since there are other things which are not influenced in a similar manner to the little rods (or perhaps not at all) by the temperature ...
— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein
... complicating influence is the current emphasis on the lay ministry. The general stress on the priesthood of all believers had made both clergy and laity less sure about the role of the clergy, even to the point, figuratively speaking, of seeming to unordain the ordained, and without clearly defining the ministry of the ...
— Herein is Love • Reuel L. Howe
... themselves wrong, cannot lead to anything but evil."[7] Thus he defines the absolute pacifist as one who accepts the ends and means argument of Huxley, which is really an argument based upon expediency, rather than defining him correctly as one who insists that violence and the taking of human life are the greatest evils, under any conditions, and therefore cannot be justified, even if they could be used for the ...
— Introduction to Non-Violence • Theodore Paullin
... Socrates, that you and Laches are not defining courage in the right way; for you have forgotten an excellent saying which I have heard from ...
— Laches • Plato


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