词汇 | notionally |
释义 | notionally adverb formaluk /ˈnəʊ.ʃən.əl.i/ us /ˈnoʊ.ʃən.əl.i/ in a way that exists only as an idea, not as something real: He is only notionally responsible for the project; in reality the technical director takes all the decisions. The new tax rate is notionally eight percent, but in practice very few people will pay that. The husband was, notionally, the head of the family; but really the wife made most of the family and household decisions. The agreement between the two countries is notionally still in force, but there have been several outbreaks of fighting. Notionally, there is an election next week to choose a new President, but everyone knows who is going to win. Ideas, concepts and theories abstract abstraction accepted wisdom afterthought anthropocentrism Darwinism Darwinist determinist Dianetics meat motif musings natalism non-dogmatic sacred cow social Darwinism straw man supersensible tenet the domino theory Related wordnotional Examples of notionallynotionally Much of the money notionally held by the overseer was in fact loaned out and payments in default were also recorded in the next year as 'income'. Paragraph 7 of this circular merely suggests a way of apportioning notionally the salaries of local authority staff engaged on approved housing improvements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such bills often affect elderly people in rural areas, who have notionally expensive properties, but little income, and who cannot afford the bills. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Local authorities may be notionally free to increase spending on education. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was organised in 'musters', notionally prepared to create 'islands of order' in their local area in the event of widespread social breakdown. Notionally, then, in the writer's mind, there is presumably only one thing present, hence the singular verb. The plural concord here may also be reinforced by notional concord, since board, as a collective noun, can be notionally plural. It is notionally distinct from general national accounts, but that is a fiction. Some key predictions involve situations where two notionally distinct processes produce overlapping sets of faithfulness violations. The set of categories expressed includes many which are in principle notionally based and which partake in syntactic regularities, particularly involving concord and rection. Notionally 80 per cent of the fee is returned to the contributing enterprise in some regions. The boundaries dividing the regions are therefore, notionally, discontinuities either in pressure or in pressure gradient. Notionally at least, g takes one argument, and returns a function that takes a second argument, and multiplies the two. While such pretty-printing is notionally quite simple, the inverse operation, parsing, is usually thought of as being much more involved. The processors are notionally separated by the dotted line, there is no physical separation as the processors use a shared heap. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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