Examples of definite

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I, for one, would not enter such a debate with a clear-cut and definite idea of my own position on it.
A similar case can be made for the presence vs absence of the definite article preceding the alterity word.
As pointed out above, more than the other two gerund types, definite nominal gerunds tend to co-occur with prepositions other than the most frequent six.
A certain degree of functional differentiation is also apparent in combinations of definite nominal gerunds with the prepositions of, by and in.
More marginally, definite nominal gerunds can also be used to specify a (typically undesirable) result, which is then presented as an accessible fact.
In such uses, definite nominal gerunds draw on accessible knowledge on the part of the speaker for the identification of the event they refer to.
A few final words are in place concerning combinations of definite nominal gerunds with to.
With other prepositions, definite nominal gerunds remain relatively marginal throughout the period examined.
By adolescence, however, performance on receptive vocabulary tests is a definite strength.
Furthermore, idiomatic usage may distinguish between the zero article and the definite article in such contexts.
However, the extremely limited grid resolution did not permit the existence of any definite subrange in the numerical model.
However, the prohibitive amount of calculations necessary make any definite statements on the range of validity impossible.
A definite mathematical answer to this matter would require a higher-order approximation.
Here aeis positive definite, the smooth contact-angle variation further modifying the 'viscous dissipation'.
In that case, we call the radial basis function 'positive definite' as well.
The functions (2.1) are all conditionally positive n definite of order k sub ject to a possibly needed sign change.
Section 9), the positive definite preconditioner clearly represents the superior strategy.
However, definite conclusions about the efficiency of the approach are yet to be obtained.
The power of anticommunism to unify antagonists had definite and rather constricted limits.
In his inability to force this nameless woman to marry him, he faced a definite curtailment of his former power.
Nevertheless, certain definite patterns of significance are apparent from the data and these should not be overlooked.
There seems to be a definite relation between increased intrauterine mortality and reproductive ageing.
A more definite judgment would require a special analysis of the inter-relations between the ethnic factor, the other sociocultural identification variables and the contraceptive data.
Agreement was complete in 95% of instances and in only 3% of instances were there any definite disagreements.
The different results on the use of indefinite and definite articles may result from different levels of analysis.
Here, the telephone is a unique and familiar object (and hence it is marked with the definite determiner), but it is not specific.
There are diverging results on age of onset of gender marking and on erroneous gender marking of indefinite and definite articles.
Table 1 presents the forms of the definite and indefinite articles.
Any deductive discipline based on such a system is a definite discipline or, in the pregnant sense, one which is mathematical.
We say a matrix is positive if it is symmetric and positive definite, and nonnegative if it is symmetric and positive semidefinite.
Quantificational notions are instead expressed by nominals, which exhibit systematic ambiguities between weak (indefinite), strong (definite), and predicative interpretations.
The par ty's 1948 second congress gave more definite shape to the factions.
Naivety is important at an early stage - in life or in an undertaking - but a definite impediment later on.
Indeed, there is a definite path (with probability 1) corresponding to the edge e(1, 2).
The two definitions coincide either for definite programs or for general programs whose negative literals have only input positions.
Our extended definition and the classical one coincide either for definite programs or for general programs whose negative literals have only input positions.
When establishing tentative provability, we proceed in exactly the same way as with definite provability, except that we restrict attention to defeasible rules.
What they express is not ratio and proportion of abstract quantities but specific relation in definite geometrical context.
Whatever the reason for ambiguity, ecologists face the problem of providing a definite classification of species.
Finally, they use definite and possible sharing analysis to improve instantiation information.
The first stratum which defines the cp/3 predicate is a definite logic program.
The class of definite aggregate programs is an extension of the class of definite logic programs and has a monotone immediate consequence operator.
We present proof methods for correctness and completeness for definite programs and generalize them to normal programs.
We discuss a known method of proving correctness of definite programs and introduce a method for proving completeness.
Thus, we start by restricting the class of programs considered to definite logic programs.
In the classical way of looking at things, the kinetic energy metric is a symmetric positive-definite matrix-valued function of configuration.
They are engaged within definite forms of discourse having the character of investigation, diagnosis, inquisition, confession, or judgment.
In other words, more than a third of the sample can be grouped into definite family and residential clusters.
The suggestions are not easy to turn into definite principles, or even into useful guidance for people faced with hard choices.
If all the literals in the body are positive, the clause is a definite clause.
The pseudovelocities are bounded by the physical velocities, so these subsequent iterations are also positive definite.
One of the heuristics incorporated in the new algorithm approximates resolution of definite anaphora.
Furthermore, which, what, and whose are formally wh-words, and the definite article and the demonstratives are formally characterized by being th-words.
Pre-antral follicles, defined in the present study as follicles without definite antrum formation, were dissected under a stereomicroscope using fine needles and collected with micropipettes.
Because latent variables are unobserved, they have no definite scales, making both the origin and the unit of measurement of such variables arbitrary.
Ontologies enhance the searching mechanisms, which may refer to a precise concept rather than a plain definite keyword.
A believable agent is one able to show (even, maybe, to feel?) emotions and one which has a definite personality.
In this paper we provide a principled account of the use of domain-specific expressions for representing structured values, propositions and definite descriptions.
Another study [12] made a clear distinction between definite and suspected cases on the basis of radiographic criteria.
With the tools that will be available in the near future there will be more definite searches specifically focusing on likely exo-planets.
The definite article appears as an epithet without quantificational or definite ' referential ' force.
The generic interpretation is possible only when the definite subject is kinddenoting.
Thus, proper names have the same type of structure as pronouns and definite descriptions.
The description-theoretic type of approach analyses the pronoun as a definite description - the donkey (that he owns).
The long form is the reflex of the definite adjective, formed from the adjective with the anaphoric pronoun j-.
From the point of view of a scholar practising in the same general field, my answer is a definite yes.
All these seem to indicate strongly an association between the clergy profession and a definite pattern of mortality.
According to innocent realism, there is one reality, the existence and definite character of which is largely mind-independent.
Though there are plausible arguments to be made concerning its value, we are aware of no very convincing arguments for any definite value.
There is a definite connection with a past, a present and a future.
In the present experiments it was difficult to make a definite conclusion on each factor which might affect the establishment of in vitro cloning.
There was also a definite but statistically non-significant increase in prescribing as a whole.
In the magnetically dominated regime, the eddy resistivity is found to be negative definite, leading to large-scale instabilities.
Most onsets and remissions were between definite case and non-case levels, rather than around the threshold.
In decreasing certainty they are: the definite level, the defeasible level and the supported level.
Subject pro-drop is locally identifiable by agreement morphology on the verb, but definite and indefinite null objects are not recoverable from clause level marking.
The agreement types de and het (the two forms of the definite article) distinguish between neuter and nonneuter nouns.
In definite words, the definiteness article h is treated as a manifestation of a morphological feature of the stem.
As a result, the use of the definite ar ticle with driver in (3) is felicitous, despite the referent being (strictly speaking) brand-new.
Thus, the prevalent definite form of beit-mispat ("house-(const.) book," school) is ha-beit-mispat rather than the normative beit-ha-mispat.
We cannot give a definite answer, since the value is not uniquely determined unless we specify which semiring we are thinking of.
Such an instruction has no definite meaning because it has infinite meanings.
Similarly, the local audience will have a definite interest in what is being said by the voices they hear.
However, these changes were small and no definite trends were discernable (values not shown).
On the contrary, there are definite conditions attached: faith, repentance and obedience.
The myth took longer to assume a definite shape.
There was a definite history of grief preceding the onset of the chief complaint.
They cannot give me a definite date yet.
There is a definite and discernable event cost for renal transplant versus the annual cost of managing someone who has had a renal transplant.
Statistics over five or ten years will provide definite evidence of increasing, stagnant or declining per capita incomes.
Fictional entities are constructed because the literary text indicates a definite denotatum through the use of definite forms of expression.
The dependence incorporated in quantum mechanics is objective - it is expressed by operators of definite mathematical form, human factors do not come in.
The evidence seems to me too fragmentary and insubstantial for any definite conclusion.
One is that there are definite rules for the combination of physical elements or processes, just as there are for the elements of a group.
War-making was due to definite motives 'and subject to prudential checks'.
Nouns appearing with definite articles were approximately the same frequency and length as nouns appearing with indefinite articles.
Given their extremely high frequency of occurrence in the language, definite and indefinite articles would be expected to play a major part in this process.
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