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  • 41life — /luyf/, n., pl. lives /luyvz/, adj. n. 1. the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through… …

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  • 42life — noun 1 living things ADJECTIVE ▪ intelligent ▪ Is there intelligent life on other planets? ▪ animal, bird, human, insect, plant …

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  • 43social attitudes —    Although Spanish society is not fundamentally different from other western European societies it does have certain distinctive characteristics. One of the most obvious is the Spaniards love of nightlife. This is not simply a matter of climate …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 44Social information processing — According to the introductory set of slides [AAAI, [http://www.isi.edu/ lerman/sss07/ Social Information Processing] , AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, March 2008] for the AAAI Social Information Processing symposium, Social… …

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  • 45social formation — A Marxist concept, largely synonymous with ‘society’, which refers to the institutional context which provides the conditions of existence of the mode of production . The term was devised by the structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser as a… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 46social control — noun control exerted (actively or passively) by group action (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑group action • Hyponyms: ↑auto limitation, ↑sanction, ↑population control, ↑government, ↑ …

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  • 47Social Darwinism —    An ideological trend widespread at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries advocating laws of human social and political development based on crude association with the laws of biological evolution theorized by… …

    Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

  • 48social — so|cial1 W1S2 [ˈsəuʃəl US ˈsou ] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(society)¦ 2¦(rank)¦ 3¦(meeting people)¦ 4 5¦(animals)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: socialis, from socius someone you spend time with ] 1.) ¦(SOCIETY)¦ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 49social networking fatigue — n. Mental exhaustion and stress caused by creating and maintaining an excessive number of accounts on social networking sites. Also: social network fatigue. Example Citations: Since, ostensibly, it s you who has been providing all this content… …

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  • 50social — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin socialis, from socius companion, ally, associate; akin to Old English secg man, companion, Latin sequi to follow more at sue Date: 14th century 1. involving allies or confederates < the Social&#8230; …

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