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Usage examples of define.

Jefferson remained at Monticello, Adams at his farm, which he had lately taken to calling Stoneyfield, instead of Peacefield, perhaps feeling the new name was more in keeping with New England candor, or that it better defined the look of the political landscape at the moment.

LIFE--indeed, Adams himself--could be defined by what was left to him that he loved, there was still a great deal to the life and to the man, and he was extremely grateful.

The aerogel container returned, its internal boundaries defined by pale rose liquid topped off with pink foam which popped and crackled musically.

For Benjamin, aestheticizing the political is a defining feature of fascism.

I discussed earlier in Chapter 1, such an aestheticizing of the political is a defining feature of fascism.

For example, if a polyalphabetic cipher provides 26 cipher alphabets, a keyword might define the half dozen or so that are to be used in a particular message.

Practically nothing was defined save what had already been taken up in the Augsburg Confession or in the writings of Calvin, of Zwingli and of the Anabaptists.

The smallest duration of time such that all notes in a tune can be placed on regular beats separated by that duration defines the finest division of time that occurs within that tune, and in most cases is equal to the shortest note length occurring in the tune.

Nazi culture, if the group be understood as a common commitment to shared cultural ends and to the biomedical ideology defining the Jew as bacillus.

It was a far cry from the faded lines on concrete that had defined the school court on which they used to play, and she was impressed that Bonita Vista had such a professional, state-of-the-art facility.

The place was ugly as a brickyard and cold as a tomb, and it had a character, too, which Sir Turnour was conscious of but could not define.

He was handsome, Ponter supposed, with wide shoulders, a wonderfully prominent browridge, a sharply defined nose, and deep purple eyes.

As we approach the seacoast, the well-known cities of Bugia and Tangier define the more certain limits of the Saracen victories.

Bruchard says that this phrase defines and summarizes the Byronic Don Juan.

He believed that only stupid people could define the failings and opportunities of this complex world by means of trite catchall mottos.