Crossword clues for characterisation
characterisation
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of characterization; for spelling, see -ize.
Wiktionary
n. (context British spelling English) (alternative form of characterization English)
WordNet
n. a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization]
the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd" [syn: characterization]
Wikipedia
In conflict of laws, characterisation is the second stage in the procedure to resolve a lawsuit involving a foreign law element. This process is described in English law as classification and as qualification in French law. In those cases where a different result would be achieved depending on which of several possibly relevant laws is applied, this stage of the process reveals the relevant rule for the choice of law but it is not necessarily a simple process (see the incidental question). The first stage is for the court to determine whether it has jurisdiction, where appropriate confronting the problem of forum shopping.
Usage examples of "characterisation".
The star has decided to be serioushe wants more characterisation and less action.
Despite De Palma's indifference to characterisation, there are remarkably few bad performances in his films.
His problem was that he'd been basing his characterisation on second-hand views and a brief meeting with a man who was clearly very ill.
While today's feminists might find reason enough to fault her characterisation of the female, it was a long step ahead of what other writers were doing in the early 1930's.
But again, there is a playfulness that endows the characterisations with a `camp' quality.
Such an approach has nothing to do with the method of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, who always gave a clear and honest characterisation of the ideas of their opponents, in order to answer them.
Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, for providing such vivid characterisations of the Doctor and Ace, for allowing us to use their faces on our book covers, for supporting Doctor Who in general and The New Adventures in particular, and thanks especially to Sophie for her generosity in writing a foreword for this novel.
It was as though all the people, all the characterisations, all the parts the man had played in his life had leaked out of him in his coma and taken their own little share of his real self with them, leaving him empty, wiped clean.
His characterisation was pointed with such wide-eyed and unsullied innocence, such eager and open-mouthed receptivity, such a succulently plastic amenability to suggestion, such rich response to flatteryin a word, with such a sublime absorptiveness to the old oilthat men such as Mr Quarterstone, on becoming conscious of him for the first time, ha been known to wipe away a furtive tear as they dug down into their pockets for first mortgages on the Tower of London and formul for extracting radium from old toothpaste tubes.
From the very first page, it's a pure adrenalin rush of slick, hard-hitting prose, superb characterisation and a plot that grabs you and just won't let go.
Bullock, S, Rose, S P R, and Zamani, R Characterisation and regional localisation of pre and postsynaptic glycoproteins of the chick forebrain showing changed fucose incorporation following passive avoidance training.