Standpoint
['stæn(d)pɒɪnt] or ['stændpɔɪnt]
Definition
(n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A very important feature in record-making, from a commercial standpoint, is in means for cheaply duplicating records. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- How about method from the standpoint of an individual who is dealing with subject matter? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He must try to find a standpoint which includes the experience of others as well as his own. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These are such as in my experience have aroused the greatest interest and initiative, and such as have at the same time given the maximum benefit from the informational standpoint. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Thomson and his school were studying the constitution of the atom from another standpoint but with somewhat similar results. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Other inventors had tried to make a machine that would carry the voice, but they had all worked from the standpoint of the telegraph. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- From the standpoint of science, this material is accidental, while the features which are widely shared are essential. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From the standpoint of the educator, in other words, the various studies represent working resources, available capital. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Practically, from the standpoint of universal history, all these peoples were the same people, waves of one Nordic stock. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Edison's standpoint to-day is that an evil to be dreaded in manufacture is that of over-standardization, and that as soon as an article is perfect that is the time to begin improving it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This, compared with other crop reports, may appear very small, but when considered from the standpoint of the enormous amount of bee labor represented, it is stupendous. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The latter's description of it as H20 is superior from the standpoint of place and use in inquiry. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From the standpoint of the learner scientific form is an ideal to be achieved, not a starting point from which to set out. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They are standpoints and methods for dealing with situations of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Lucy