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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entity
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
▪ Finally, the divisions are grouped into the total corporate entity.
▪ Excessive reliance on corporate entities managing only the costs creates suffering and hardship for patients and their families.
▪ Individuals and corporate entities who use inside information do so to make money.
▪ The correct position is thus that the corporate entity is a vehicle for benefiting the interests of a specified group or groups.
different
▪ Before that there were many generations of cumulative selection, based upon some quite different replicating entities.
▪ By extension, bodies and souls can exist independently since they are different sorts of entities.
▪ And in order to achieve this end, the spirit has to dwell within a number of different entities.
▪ People had thought that electricity and magnetism, too, were entirely different entities.
▪ Are we seeking to create a totally different entity?
▪ Different forms of thought about such different entities are posited.
discrete
▪ This is quite different to a group portrait, which is a well-defined, discrete entity that we can adopt unilaterally.
▪ They are an extension of his nuclear family but also a discrete entity.
distinct
▪ Worse, it attributes moral agency and responsibility to this distinct entity.
▪ Most are sole proprietorships, but about 5 million are distinct business entities employing more than 60 million employees.
▪ Freight and parcels had always been seen as distinct entities, and these naturally formed two of the new sectors.
governmental
▪ Leal theorizes it might be possible to eliminate the $ 60-million annual electrical bill local governmental entities must pay.
▪ Perhaps the biggest reason was the de facto revenue raid on the treasuries of other governmental entities the project would entail.
human
▪ In the human entity it manifests as consciousness reaching in its highest expression towards wisdom and enlightenment.
▪ Essence remains in its infantile state, whilst the human entity grows.
▪ These cavities correspond to the seven chakras or energy centres in the human entity.
▪ In laboratory experiments he has shown that the electrical field of the human entity can affect the contents of the vapour.
▪ The nature of both universal and human expression is identical, the universal being mirrored in the human entity.
independent
▪ Cities are not independent entities - they reflect national and regional considerations.
▪ Corporate power is not merely a matter of the resources and market share of formally independent entities.
legal
▪ At first, Iveco dealt with the different companies as separate legal entities.
▪ It is a legal entity that lives separately from its owners.
▪ The development of auditing accompanied the growth of the company as a separate legal entity.
▪ A publicly held business is typically composed of two or more separate legal entities which constitute a single overall economic unit.
▪ A company is a legal entity whose affairs are mainly regulated by the Companies Act 1985.
▪ The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity, but the family unit has remained highly influential.
▪ This means that it is a separate legal entity from the particular person who is the trustee.
▪ The latter, as separate legal entities, are also required to have boards of their own.
national
▪ Sectoral policy can also lead to unexpected problems as protected national entities themselves attempt to compete in international markets.
new
▪ Anticommunism and the constitutional order provided the principal sources of political cohesion in the new political entity.
▪ Establishing venture capital pools to enable potential leaders to start new entities 2.
▪ Genes from wholly unrelated species are being swapped and recombined, creating new entities that would never have evolved on their own.
▪ In the end, the State system of our own times scarcely permits the fashioning of new territorial entities.
▪ A specific entity loses its identity as it emerges into a new entity or a new configuration of entities.
▪ Like its parent, the new entity will be run from Wiltshire.
other
▪ Headings may be subdivided by the name of a country or other political entity, a region or a geographic feature.
▪ For convenience company accounts are examined but similar considerations would apply to other business entities.
▪ It does not address accounting for investments in capital instruments issued by other entities. 18.
▪ However, in practice this exception has been interpreted as applying to similar contracts issued by other entities.
physical
▪ Blocks may represent physical entities, topics, concepts, decisions, actions or processes.
▪ Thus, systems are hierarchical and at each level the unit is considered as a functional rather than a physical entity.
political
▪ Anticommunism and the constitutional order provided the principal sources of political cohesion in the new political entity.
▪ It is not condemning Gorbachev to point out the confusion surrounding the dismantling of the Soviet Union as a political entity.
▪ Headings may be subdivided by the name of a country or other political entity, a region or a geographic feature.
▪ Though their fiscal powers are less, they have gone a very long way in recreating a Catalan political entity.
▪ As a political entity feminism had less clout than the merest lobby.
▪ The imperial States, as political entities, seemed to dominate all economic matters.
▪ There is a difference between Ulster and the troubled political entity of Northern Ireland.
▪ The political entities of the twentieth century are the survivors of a ferocious rivalry.
public
▪ The latter are public entities, formulated in a public language, involving theories of various degrees of generality and sophistication.
▪ Police arrested Fotinos on suspicion of grand theft, possession of stolen property and embezzlement from a public entity, Beijen said.
reporting
▪ The terminology used in this statement will be appropriate for those reporting entities which are companies.
separate
▪ Although all separate entities, they do co-operate with each other as, naturally, they are all working towards the same ideal.
▪ Eleven of the twelve could not make it to the next century as Separate entities.
▪ Corporate divisions can incorporate more than one or, indeed, less than one separate economic entity.
▪ In 1992 the chamber created a separate, nonprofit entity to coordinate the apprenticeship program.
▪ At first, Iveco dealt with the different companies as separate legal entities.
▪ The development of auditing accompanied the growth of the company as a separate legal entity.
▪ The singles chart needs to be treated as a separate entity, and not as a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen.
▪ As far as they are concerned, these discs are five separate entities.
single
▪ They are not normally thought of as potassium nitrate molecules existing as single entities outside the solid lattice.
▪ His fundamental new idea was that space and time had to be considered together as a single entity: a four-dimensional spacetime.
▪ Furthermore, they would be viewed as a single entity from a collections point of view.
▪ In the public mind they're a single entity.
▪ Any combination of fixed and mobile telephony and data communications can operate as a single entity over the Ericsson Business Network.
▪ Good design brings house and garden together as a single entity.
▪ Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema, television and pop more or less as a single entity.
social
▪ A managerial perspective on organizations presents them as social entities with a collective purpose.
▪ With their dissolution the health and welfare functions would have to be distributed between the newer health and social services administrative entities.
spatial
▪ The second kind of data consists of the attributes or properties of the spatial entities shown on the maps.
▪ One type of query refers solely to the absolute or relative locational properties of the spatial entities.
■ NOUN
business
▪ The company was functioning well as a business entity and making inroads all the time creatively.
▪ Most are sole proprietorships, but about 5 million are distinct business entities employing more than 60 million employees.
▪ But it is also to channel changes, as with the types of business entities envisaged by the Company Act.
▪ For convenience company accounts are examined but similar considerations would apply to other business entities.
▪ Answer guide: The points being illustrated are the business entity.
government
▪ The Senate subcommittee, like too many government entities, asked the wrong questions and provided no answers.
■ VERB
apply
▪ For convenience company accounts are examined but similar considerations would apply to other business entities.
create
▪ Genes from wholly unrelated species are being swapped and recombined, creating new entities that would never have evolved on their own.
▪ That's where there is a complementary role for equity and senior bank debt to create a properly structured entity.
▪ Are we seeking to create a totally different entity?
define
▪ These commands are used to define geometric entities, that is points, lines and surfaces which may be given symbolic names.
▪ In many cases, things that can be defined as entities could also be defined as attributes, and viceversa.
exist
▪ The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity, but the family unit has remained highly influential.
▪ They each exist as an organic entity, with an internal dynamic.
identify
▪ The particular attribute or group of attributes that uniquely identifies an entity occurrence is known as the key attribute or attributes.
▪ The key attributes will uniquely identify any entity occurrence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The two school districts are separate legal entities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cities are not independent entities - they reflect national and regional considerations.
▪ In this environment, all evolution, including the evolution of manufactured entities, is coevolution.
▪ The Institute's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken.
▪ The Senate subcommittee, like too many government entities, asked the wrong questions and provided no answers.
▪ The separate documents will enable the specification of entities, attributes, relationships, events and Operations.
▪ Therefore, according to the Gurdjieff system, what we call ourselves is just an imaginary entity, or an illusion.
▪ Washington the home town and Washington the historic landmark are physically the same but logistically, legally and pragmatically separate entities.
▪ Weeping is as much a disease entity as any purulent discharge.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entity

Entity \En"ti*ty\, n.; pl. Entities. [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens, entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entit['e]. See Essence, Is.] A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
--Shairp.

Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.
--Bentley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entity

1590s, from Late Latin entitatem (nominative entitas), from ens (genitive entis) "a thing," proposed by Caesar as present participle of esse "be" (see is), to render Greek philosophical term to on "that which is" (from neuter of present participle of einai "to be;" see essence). Originally abstract; concrete sense in English is from 1620s.

Wiktionary
entity

n. 1 That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. 2 An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence. 3 (context computing English) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts. 4 The state or quality of being or existence.

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WordNet
entity

n. that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

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Wikipedia
Entity

An entity is something that exists as itself, as a subject or as an object, actually or potentially, concretely or abstractly, physically or not. It need not be of material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption that an entity is animate, or present.

The word is abstract in intention. It may refer, for example, to Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander; to a stone; to a cardinal number; to a language; or to ghosts or other spirits.

The word entitative is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is entitative is considered in its own right.

In philosophy, ontology is about the recognition of entities. The words ontic and entity are derived respectively from the ancient Greek and Latin present participles that mean 'being'.

Entity (short story)

"Entity" is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson and John Gergen that appeared in the June 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. "Entity" was the fifth story published by Anderson, and the only story published by Gergen, a friend of Anderson's from the Minneapolis Fantasy Society.

Entity (disambiguation)

Entity may refer to:

  • Entity, a unit
  • a part of an entity–relationship model or diagram
  • Character entity reference in HTML, XML or SGML
  • Entity (netlabel), a Belgian netlabel specialising in experimental electronic music
  • Entity class, in computer programming a class that represents a thing
Entity (album)

Entity is the fifth studio album by technical death metal band Origin. It was released through Nuclear Blast, on June 7, 2011.It was released on CD & Vinyl.

The album reached number 20 on the US Billboard Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers).

Entity (2012 film)

Entity is a 2012 British supernatural thriller film written and directed by Steve Stone. The film had its world premiere on 25 October 2012, at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival. It stars Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, and Branko Tomovic and centers upon a British reality show film crew that encounters a dark entity.

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Perhaps the alien invaders could transform their persons into a semblance of those they ambushed, and the entity who appeared to be Sergeant Aarhus was actually a loathsome jelly-thing waiting for a chance to implant me with its gibbering spawn.

I have found that teachings as diverse as the Advaita and the Kabbalah instruct us to transcend our limiting ideas of who we think we are - separate egos and entities - if we are to have freedom.

All the beach towns, plus Torrance, Hawthorne, and greater Walteria, were in on some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions, appropriate chunks of which were finding their way to antidrug entities up and down every level of governance.

But autocatalysis and homeostasis enabled simple structures to interact and spin off more complex structures still, until living things emerged, which combined into ever more complicated entities.

He rubbed the blister that was already rising and, dodging the martial display and the towering figure of retribution, he made his way toward the Bololo entity.

Now there was nothing in the Bololo Commons but a vast plain and a single entity.

He wafted away from something, toward something else, and then he was once more standing in his virtual flesh before the Bololo entity.

Morriel Prime, and after her, Selidie, had neither understanding nor experience to measure the broadscale threat posed by the entities the two princes had subdued at Ithamon.

Will of God is able to cope with the ceaseless flux and escape of body stuff by ceaselessly reintroducing the known forms in new substances, thus ensuring perpetuity not to the particular item but to the unity of idea: now, seeing that objects of this realm possess no more than duration of form, why should celestial objects, and the celestial system itself, be distinguished by duration of the particular entity?

The Matter of this realm is all things in turn, a new entity in every separate case, so that nothing is permanent and one thing ceaselessly pushes another out of being: Matter has no identity here.

The Will of God is able to cope with the ceaseless flux and escape of body stuff by ceaselessly reintroducing the known forms in new substances, thus ensuring perpetuity not to the particular item but to the unity of idea: now, seeing that objects of this realm possess no more than duration of form, why should celestial objects, and the celestial system itself, be distinguished by duration of the particular entity?

New Miranda as a patient witness for treating free converts as fully human entities.

Used primarily to purchase investments and assets that Enron wanted to sell, and to provide cash to off-books entities that were also doing deals with the company.

He had arrived early at Deseret Books, hoping to find a volume or two to give to Lauren so she could read up on blood atonement, at least as a historical entity, but came away from the store empty-handed and feeling slightly foolish.