Technique
[tek'niːk] or [tɛk'nik]
Definition
(noun.) a practical method or art applied to some particular task.
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Definition
(n.) Same as Technic, n.
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Examples
- No amount of improvement in the personal technique of the instructor will wholly remedy this state of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The legs on the other side were too much for the artist's technique. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At most he learns simply to improve his existing technique; he does not get new points of view; he fails to experience any intellectual companionship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And it is true that our knowledge of those needs and the technique of their satisfaction is hazy, unorganized and blundering. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The whole drift towards industrial training in schools has the germs of disaster within it--a preoccupation with the technique of a career. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ability to use even in a masterly way an established technique gives no warranty of artistic work, for the latter also depends upon an animating idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Adults being the formulators of the symbolism are naturally the authors and controllers of the technique. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It made the elaboration of a technique of instruction relatively easy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It takes the technique for the thing itself; the apparatus and the terminology for reality, the method for its subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The effort has been made to avoid technique and abstruse phrases, but some degree of explanation has been absolutely necessary in regard to each group of inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The technique is acquired independently of the purposes of discovery and testing which alone give it meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Every artist must have a method, a technique, in doing his work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Getting command of technique and of methods of reaching and testing generalizations is at first secondary to getting appreciation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Those questions have developed a technique and an interest in them for their own sake. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When we have arranged these causes in order, we have a method of procedure or a technique. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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