Corbel Arch vs True Arch A true arch has a continuous line from one end to the other, almost dome-like. There are no overlapping bricks or stones. … A corbel arch uses overlapping stones to create the arch-shape. What is corbel arch in architecture? A corbel arch consists of twoRead More →
An example of a general corpus is the British National Corpus. Some corpora contain texts that are sampled (chosen from) a particular variety of a language, for example, from a particular dialect or from a particular subject area. These corpora are sometimes called ‘Sublanguage Corpora’. What can corpus linguistics beRead More →
1 : the process of depolarizing something or the state of being depolarized. 2 physiology : loss of the difference in charge between the inside and outside of the plasma membrane of a muscle or nerve cell due to a change in permeability and migration of sodium ions to theRead More →
What is considered sexually active? In medical terms, sexually active is defined as engaging in any form of sexual activity with someone. Be sure to tell your gynecologist about your most recent sexual activity, even if it was several months before. What does it mean to act passively? When youRead More →
Top 10 most densely populated countries and territories in the world, 2020: Macau (SAR of China)- 19,737/km² Monaco – 19,361/km² Singapore – 8,019/km² Hong Kong (SAR of China) – 7,126/km² Gibraltar (CD of UK) – 3,369/km² Bahrain – 2,182/km² Maldives – 1,802/km² Malta – 1,642/km² What word describes an areaRead More →
The illocutionary force lies in your intent to make a promise; the perlocutionary force lies in the teacher’s acceptance that a promise was made. In a sentence, you have said “I promise to do my homework” (locution), you want your teacher to believe you (illocution), and she does (perlocution). WhatRead More →
Meaning of amortizable in English used to describe a business cost or an asset (= something of value bought for a business), when the amount of money spent can gradually be taken away from tax paid by the business over a period of time: Amortizable business costs include advertising, wagesRead More →
The phrase originates from the Book of Daniel in the Bible. In it, Daniel interprets a dream of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. In that dream, a magnificent statue is seen with a head of gold, but weaker and less valuable metals beneath, until finally having feet of clay mixed withRead More →
Unimodal distributions aren’t necessarily symmetric like the normal distribution. They can be asymmetric, or they could be a skewed distribution. What does it mean when a distribution is negatively skewed? In statistics, a negatively skewed (also known as left-skewed) distribution is a type of distribution in which more values areRead More →
Colonization is the act of setting up a colony away from one’s place of origin. … With humans, colonization is sometimes seen as a negative act because it tends to involve an invading culture establishing political control over an indigenous population (the people living there before the arrival of theRead More →