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theorist
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) [syn: theoretician , theorizer , theoriser ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a conspiracy theorist (= someone who believes in a particular conspiracy ) ▪ Conspiracy theorists believe that Princess Diana’s death was not an accident. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE classical ▪ Active citizenship ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one given to theory and speculation," 1590s; see theory + -ist .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theorist \The"o*rist\, n. [Cf. F. th['e]oriste.] One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist. --Cowper. The greatest theoretists have given the preference to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom. --Addison. ...
Usage examples of theorist.
We certainly agree with those contemporary theorists, such as David Harvey and Fredric Jameson, who see postmodernity as a new phase of capitalist accumulation and commodification that accompanies the contemporary realization of the world market.
Along with the novel of plot and the novel of character, certain old-fashioned theorists of the novel would sometimes speak of the novel of ideas, implying that it was a special taste, and that there is something distinct, if not antithetical, about ideas and the kind of narrative pleasure one derives from less abstract and more simply suspenseful stones: what will happen next?
Instead, string theorists have cast these calculations into a perturbative framework based on the expectation that a reasonable ballpark estimate is given by the zero-loop processes, with the loop diagrams resulting in refinements that get smaller as the number of loops increases.
It is a detailed analysis of the films, first proclaimed in 1915, and never challenged or overthrown, and, for the most part, accepted intact by the photoplay people, and the critics and the theorists, as well.
Germyn was too busy to grieve, so he lived on, no theorist, not very cerebral, but glorying in a full gut, in taking a strong woman, in waking and lying extra minutes idly on a bed of polyurethane foam raped from its cushioning job in a stamping mill.
Even the theorists differed as to the manner of germ transmission, the sporule, tick, and ship fever being the leading theories, and each having its advocates.
Flaubert was an artist, the theorist of the doctrine of art for art, such as Theophile Gautier, the Goncourt brothers and the Parnassians comprehended it, at about the same epoch.
Leon Battista Alberti, the illegitimate offspring of a powerful and wealthy Florentine family, who would soon become the greatest theorist and popularizer of the new art.
On the one hand, marketing practices and consumer consumption are prime terrain for developing postmodernist thinking: certain postmodernist theorists, for example, see perpetual shopping and the consumption of commodities and commodified images as the paradigmatic and defining activities of postmodern experience, our collective journeys through hyperreality.
Barring luck, Hokan would never catch them, not with droids and these young academy theorists.
I discussed in Chapter 4, the raw material for modelers and theorists of memory ever since his book appeared.
This view has become conventional wisdom in Washington, resonating not only with the neocons but also with the modernization theorists who have long dominated American campuses.
Late-nineteenth-century sexual theorists appropriated the concept of religious fetishism to describe the condition in which a person achieves sexual gratification from an inanimate object or a nonsexual body part rather than from another person.
This presents a wonderful challenge and opportunity for string theorists: Can calculations in string theory improve on this mismatch and explain why the cosmological constant is zero, or if experiments do ultimately establish that its value is small but nonzero, can string theory provide an explanation?
We are very apt to regard the combat in theory as an abstract trial of strength, without any participation on the part of the feelings, and that is one of the thousand errors which theorists deliberately commit, because they do not see its consequences.