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Inhibition is the debut studio album by alternative rock band Dot Hacker . The album was released on May 1, 2012 on ORG Music label. The recording of Inhibition was completed in 2009, however the release was delayed until 2012 due to band members' other ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "formal prohibition; interdiction of legal proceedings by authority;" also, the document setting forth such a prohibition, from Old French inibicion and directly from Latin inhibitionem (nominative inhibitio ) "a restraining," from past participle ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cast aside your inhibitions/doubts etc ▪ Cast aside your fears. shed your inhibitions (= stop worrying about what other people will think of your behaviour ) ▪ As the party went on, people began to shed their inhibitions. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhibition \In`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. inhibitio: cf. F. inhibition.] The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo. (Physiol.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of inhibiting. 2 (context psychology English) a personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally. 3 (context chemistry English) the process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: suppression ] the quality of being inhibited (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart ...
Usage examples of inhibition.
She had appallingly violent impulses, and a complete lack of inhibitions when it came to following them.
Then, panting hard, he broke free, rushed back to the armature and began sculpting without inhibition.
Planet might have decided that somehow Earth had discovered the cause of the Inhibition Death, and was deliberately fostering it among the alien peoples of the Galaxy, with the intention, perhaps, of becoming supreme among the stars.
The Coris maintained that the hexokinase reaction was under continual inhibition under ordinary circumstances and that the action of insulin was to counteract this inhibition and to allow the reaction to proceed.
If he had not had some of his inhibitions washed away in the liquorish flood, he might have been overwhelmingly repulsed.
Inhibition of the enzyme allows cortisol to act as the major endogenous mineralocorticoid producing a marked elevation in mineralocorticoid activity, resulting in hypertension, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis.
Berkthgar had better overcome soon, Drizzt thought, for if the dark elves were indeed marching to Mithril Hall, there would be little room for such inhibitions.
You know, you can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH?
Vithig showed no such inhibitions, swaging it down as if it were water.
Jan and Vithig showed no such inhibitions, swaging it down as if it were water.
English hats for rigid solar topees, casting off a few of its inhibitions along with the woollens.
He said she died of vagal inhibition, which means the vagus nerve stops working, which it apparently can do fairly easily.
World War broke down many of the inhibitions of violence and bloodshed that had been built up during the progressive years of the nineteenth century and an accumulating number of intelligent, restless unemployed men, in a new world of motor-cars, telephones, plate-glass shop windows, unbarred country houses and trustful social habits, found themselves faced with illegal opportunities far more attractive than any legal behaviour-system now afforded them.
Both maps represent pitch modulo octaves, both have an activation of neurons that persists after the occurrence of the relevant pitch, and both have mutual reinforcement between consonantly related notes and mutual inhibition between notes not consonantly related.
Notwithstanding this strict inhibition, the zeal of one Damport moved him to present a bill to the commons for remedying spiritual grievances, and for restraining the tyranny of the ecclesiastical commission, which were certainly great: but when Mr.