Defined

Examples

• It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now sexual morality is pretty clearly defined for the Commission. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's? Plato. The Republic.
• Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Sound waves may be said to consist of a series of condensations and rarefactions, and the distance between two consecutive condensations and rarefactions may be defined as the wave length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A useful member was perhaps to be defined as one who would originate nothing, and always vote with Mr. Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Genius has been defined as 'the power of taking pains'; but hardly any one keeps up his interest in knowledge throughout a whole life. Plato. The Republic.
• Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Activity is defined or specialized in certain channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Justice is commonly defined to be a constant and perpetual will of giving every one his due. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A face of a transparent paleness; every feature in it clearly defined; one set expression on it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• My position is defined--my motives are acknowledged. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The double line a little above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• To a defined extent,' observed Mr Dorrit. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• An opinion, therefore, or belief may be most accurately defined, a lively idea related to or associated with a present impression. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The whole and sole conduct of the editors may be defined in one word, selfishness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The unit of work chosen and in use in practical affairs is the foot pound, and is defined as the work done when a force of 1 pound acts through a distance of 1 foot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Science has been defined in terms of method of inquiry and testing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The close observer will discover a well-defined division of labor, different groups of bees performing certain operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Emma listened, and looked, and soon perceived that Frank Churchill's state might be best defined by the expressive phrase of being out of humour. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Experience is here taken as previously defined: trying to do something and having the thing perceptibly do something to one in return. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Each one was a well-defined lead by itself, and without a spur. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To the one who is learned, subject matter is extensive, accurately defined, and logically interrelated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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