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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
artificial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
artificial additives
▪ Our products are free from artificial additives.
artificial barriers
▪ They were committed to breaking down the artificial barriers to women’s achievement.
artificial insemination
artificial intelligence
artificial light (=light produced by lamps)
▪ The office was windowless, lit only by artificial light.
artificial preservatives
▪ food that contains no artificial preservatives
artificial respiration
artificial
▪ a basket of artificial flowers
artificial
▪ Nowadays much of what we eat contains artificial ingredients.
artificial/natural lighting
imitation/fake/artificial etc fur
▪ a pair of gloves trimmed with fake fur
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
▪ Many of the phrases that have conventionally been offered as examples seem rather artificial.
▪ I had to accept that was right, although at first it seemed rather artificial to me.
▪ These rather artificial news items were very much the product of the final election campaign.
▪ They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation.
▪ It must be confessed that this test is a rather artificial one.
■ NOUN
additive
▪ But that's all - no artificial additives, colourings or preservatives.
▪ There are no artificial additives at all.
barrier
▪ We will reinforce the rights of the individual in the world of work, and break down artificial barriers to advancement.
▪ Such action breaks down the artificial barriers of opposition between male and female.
▪ We are also committed to breaking down artificial barriers to women's advancement based on prejudice or lack of imagination.
▪ The aquifer has no shield of impermeable clay and the proposed artificial barriers would not guarantee success.
environment
▪ Platelets are studied in an artificial environment and the very process of preparing the platelet sample for study may affect their behaviour.
▪ The reason we create artificial environments instead Of accepting natural ones is that we like our environments to be constant and predictable.
▪ In the second case money was the prime factor, both its getting and spending; it created an artificial environment.
▪ Do you really think the uneducated people they leave behind will be able to keep the artificial environments stable?
▪ Which is really easy to do in artificial environments.
fertilizer
▪ Paradoxically the ecological problems deriving from the application of artificial fertilizers are often equally complex and extensive.
▪ Controversy has also surrounded the long-term effects of artificial fertilizer on the soil structure.
▪ All the soil does is hold the plants upright, while the crop is fed with artificial fertilizers.
▪ They have thus become the animal equivalents of the plants which are force-fed with artificial fertilizers and sprayed with herbicides and pesticides.
▪ The largest industrial concerns were electronics, computer assembly, artificial fertilizers, machinery, metalworking and textiles.
flower
▪ A basket of artificial flowers is then placed inside.
▪ You can use it for real or artificial flowers.
▪ The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
▪ If artificial flowers are used they must be dusted. 4.
▪ But instead of finding it overgrown with weeds, a pretty posy of artificial flowers stood on the well-groomed plot.
grass
▪ No doubt the laying of the artificial grass pitch at Newry played a major part in getting their fixtures cleared up early.
▪ Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper.
▪ None of this would have been possible without the development of a woven artificial grass.
▪ They are manufactured from artificial grass that is sand based so that they are more receptive to well- hit shots.
▪ There will always be a market for artificial grass courts in this country.
heart
▪ Only one person has survived an operation to implant an artificial heart.
▪ The prospect of artificial hearts replacing reliance on cadaver hearts is already in sight.
▪ So, as an alternative to the implantation of alien or artificial hearts, Daedalus is devising a new auxiliary blood-pump.
hip
▪ It is the excellent wear characteristics of alumina which are the principal advantage in artificial hip systems.
▪ It is exactly this problem which causes a percentage of artificial hip joint failures.
insemination
▪ There are lesbian couples with children, and increasing numbers of children born as a result of artificial insemination.
▪ Only first conceptions as a result of artificial insemination were used for the analysis.
▪ Subjects - Of 542 women attending the clinic for artificial insemination for the first time, 500 women were eligible for study.
▪ Tiny producers, for example, have little incentive to invest large sums in artificial insemination in order to breed better cattle.
▪ Lesbians who wished to become parents by artificial insemination found themselves pilloried by the media.
▪ It was to do with artificial insemination, but everything about Spake just screams turkey and chicken-choker.
intelligence
▪ A lot of people had a lot riding on artificial intelligence.
▪ The game play and artificial intelligence are unmatched in sports video gaming.
▪ In the 1980s, we thought we'd found salvation to our problems in artificial intelligence and expert systems.
▪ We shall need some idea of the status of artificial intelligence.
▪ The trick now is to remove the human element altogether and let artificial intelligence take care of the rest.
▪ Many researchers are suggesting that the real power of artificial intelligence lies in the blending of expert systems with neural networks.
▪ In the past two decades, work on theoretical and practical aspects of artificial intelligence has stimulated our concepts of mind.
▪ Danny Hillis, an artificial intelligence expert, sees a similar story in the human thumb as a platform for human intelligence.
lake
▪ A £16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir.
▪ In Texas and Oklahoma, between 1940 and 1975, some-thing like eight million acres of land were submerged by artificial lakes.
▪ The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat, but by a deep artificial lake.
language
▪ Esperanto See under language: artificial language.
▪ Yet artificial languages never have caught on.
▪ Natural languages arise unconsciously, haphazardly, while artificial languages lack expressiveness.
leg
▪ When he discovered that I, with two artificial legs, had succeeded he became somewhat uneasy.
▪ At work, she wears artificial legs and walks stiffly with a cane.
▪ I was struck on one of my artificial legs, damaging the calliper.
▪ Much later, I learn that he had an artificial leg and limped, but I never find a trace of him.
▪ They were born joined at the hip and are learning to walk with artificial legs after being separated.
▪ The place gave him some strength and some color and some training in walking with an artificial leg.
▪ I reached for Blyth's artificial leg, lying smooth and pink by the small of his back and in his shadow.
▪ One of them actually had an artificial leg, and carried not only a loaded rifle but a cane.
life
▪ More recently, however, the field of artificial life has concentrated on producing lifelike behaviours.
▪ The people on the ship have to create an artificial life form because their computer has failed.
▪ When they become smarter, of course, artificial life constructs will have to go out to work.
light
▪ Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades.
▪ It should be cultivated in moderately diffused or artificial light.
▪ Official sketches show a small warren of rooms, lit by artificial lights and stuffed with compact biological systems.
▪ Among these is James Casebere, who photographs miniature architectural constructions in artificial light.
▪ Their facial features are indistinguishable, brightly lit though they are by harsh artificial lights.
▪ The algae were cultivated under artificial light.
▪ The room is safe, enclosed, protected from the harsh glare of artificial light.
lighting
▪ He used a solid rich surface of paint and liked the simplified shapes produced by artificial lighting.
▪ Ceilings and walls are painted white and artificial lighting is provided by suspended fluorescent lights from Spectrum.
▪ Nearby was a 400-square-yard warehouse with more plants flourishing in conditions controlled by artificial lighting and automatic watering systems.
limb
▪ After the war he founded the Disabled Society, lobbying the government to improve the quality of artificial limbs.
▪ Some came on canes and artificial limbs.
▪ What has it been like climbing with artificial limbs?
▪ In much the same way computer simulation has been used in bioengineering in the design of prosthesis such as artificial limbs or hips.
▪ He explains how new technology can make some products, like artificial limbs, lighter.
▪ The main problem in Chechnya today is how to find artificial limbs for amputees.
▪ The only hospital unit that can fit artificial limbs is in Vladikavkaz, in northern Ossetia.
means
▪ Bonds probably felt the Giants owed him this consideration, keeping his streak alive for a couple games by artificial means.
▪ By the end of a decade, it requires artificial means of life support.
respiration
▪ Give the child artificial respiration if needed.
▪ They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever, for long after you've given up hope.
▪ If you can not detect even the shallowest of breaths, attempt artificial respiration making sure the chest starts to rise.
▪ Not only that, she administered artificial respiration and brought you round, and then came here to get help.
selection
▪ It is more than that, as artificial selection has made a splendid variety of sizes, shapes, colours and tastes.
▪ Our model, in other words, is strictly a model of artificial selection, not natural selection.
▪ Wallace had no interest in animal breeding and did not model his proposed mechanism on the process of artificial selection.
▪ When you first evolve a new creature by artificial selection in the computer model, it feels like a creative process.
sweetener
▪ Add the artificial sweetener to taste if required.
▪ For a number of years, artificial sweeteners were mainly used by diabetics, who bought the products in drugstores.
▪ Taste and add a little sugar or artificial sweetener, if desired.
▪ Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?
▪ Sweeten to taste with the artificial sweetener.
▪ As with fat-free products and artificial sweeteners, people will probably compensate for olestra by eating more calories elsewhere in their diets.
▪ Sprinkle a little artificial sweetener on the fruit if desired.
▪ One in five chose decaffeinated tea and coffee while 14% used artificial sweeteners.
turf
▪ By day the artificial turf in the Miami stadium looks an unnatural green.
▪ They are 38-12 on artificial turf surfaces.
▪ Zeke's big hands cradle the ball on the artificial turf, the laces facing away from the kicker.
▪ Or, on that minuscule patch of the planet covered by artificial turf.
▪ On the artificial turf of the Superdome, Smith raced around him as if he were a lamp post on Bourbon Street.
▪ Jenkins' deteriorating knees are not a good match for the artificial turf at the Kingdome.
▪ For Young to wish death on some one, even the creator of the evil artificial turf, is notable.
ventilation
▪ Hypoglycaemia was corrected and artificial ventilation started, and he was brought to our clinic.
▪ Resuscitation restored the circulation, but the patient required artificial ventilation and inotropic support thereafter.
▪ She had well established adult respiratory distress syndrome, requiring artificial ventilation with 90% fractional inspired oxygen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
artificial Christmas trees
artificial sweeteners for coffee
▪ Carter was saying all the right things, but his smile was artificial, and I knew I couldn't trust him.
▪ Glen wears an artificial leg.
▪ High import taxes give their goods an artificial advantage in the market.
▪ I usually use artificial sweetener in my coffee instead of sugar.
▪ It took Frank a while to learn to walk with the artificial leg.
▪ On the surface she seems quite a pleasant woman, but there's something very artificial about her.
▪ On the table was a vase filled with artificial flowers.
▪ Our ice cream contains no artificial colors or flavors.
▪ The juice contains no artificial coloring or flavors.
▪ The plants can grow just as well in artificial light.
▪ We have one of those electric heaters with artificial logs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A wreath of artificial poppies has been held down by a brick.
▪ An example, perhaps slightly artificial, would be found in a family photograph.
▪ Constraint-based programming is an artificial intelligence technique which finds the optimum way to allocate means and resources.
▪ In front of the grate was a tall electric fire with artificial coals, a high curved back and a triple set of burners.
▪ Paradoxically the ecological problems deriving from the application of artificial fertilizers are often equally complex and extensive.
▪ The natural and artificial characterizing ingredients must be named on the labels.
▪ Through binoculars I had noted the breakwaters of what appeared to be a small artificial harbour just a mile along the coast.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artificial

Artificial \Ar`ti*fi"cial\, a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice.]

  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.

    Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
    --Shak.

  2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. ``Artificial tears.''
    --Shak.

  3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
    --Gibbon.

    Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
    --Johnson.

    Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, ``the artificial system'' in botany, which is the same as the Linn[ae]an system.

    Artificial horizon. See under Horizon.

    Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.

    Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.

    Artificial numbers, logarithms.

    Artificial person (Law). See under Person.

    Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural sines, tangents, etc.
    --Hutton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
artificial

late 14c., in the phrase artificial day "part of the day from sunrise to sunset," from Old French artificial, from Latin artificialis "of or belonging to art," from artificium (see artifice). Meaning "made by man" (opposite of natural) is from early 15c. Applied to things that are not natural, whether real (artificial light) or not (artificial flowers). Artificial insemination dates from 1897. Artificial intelligence "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines" was coined in 1956.

Wiktionary
artificial

a. man-made; of artifice.

WordNet
artificial
  1. adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: unreal] [ant: natural]

  2. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: contrived, hokey, stilted]

  3. not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

Wikipedia
Artificial (disambiguation)

The term artificial refers to something having the property of artificiality.

Artificial may also refer to:

  • Artificial (film), a 2012 Telugu short film
  • "Artificial", a 2008 song and EP by Kris Menace and Felix da Housecat
  • Artificial, a 1999 album by God Module
  • Artificial, a 2006 album by Frozen Plasma
  • Artificial, a 2010 album by Unitopia
Artificial (film)

'Artificial 'is a 2012 Telugu short film that was produced and directed by Vijay Vemuri. The film had its world debut on 27 April 2012 and revolves around the fantasies of a young couple.

Usage examples of "artificial".

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US National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make visual observations of large artificial satellites passing overhead.

The artificial feet of an airman unknown to her did not interest her very much.

Though watery, on account of the artificial drains from the arable fields, the spot is on much higher ground than the brook, and it is a little singular that while reeds flourish in this place they are not to be found by the brook.

Contains processed oleander leaves, saltpeter, oil of peppermint, N-Acetyl-p-aminophenol, zinc oxide, charcoal, cobalt chloride, caffeine, extract of digitalis, steroids in trace amounts, sodium citrate, ascorbic acid, artificial coloring and flavoring.

Making an appalling din and poisoning the air, this medley of heterogeneous vehicles surged past the half-asphyxiated Ave or thundered overhead on the crazy bridges between the massive artificial canyons of the buildings.

A time is reached, during the administration of barbiturates, when so much of a drug is needed to bring about artificial sleep that the side-effects are likely to cause death.

It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect, though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience.

The bowers and boskages stretched behind them, the artificial lakes and cockneyfied landscapes, making all the region bright with the sense of air and space, and raw natural tints, and vegetation too diminutive to overshadow.

On each side of the stage, near the centre, place small pedestals, one and a half feet square, covered with green cambric, and decorated with bouquets of artificial or painted flowers.

The harsh, angular contours of the metal had been visually softened by irregular areas of paint and the attachment of artificial foliage, Cha Thrat saw as she swam around it, no doubt to make it resemble the vegetation of the home world.

Furthermore, it distorts the economy: If berries can be grown more cheaply elsewhere, then providing artificial employment for our outmoded strawberry farmers hinders the economy from adapting to the new global reality of cheaper strawberries for everyone.

In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.

For grown-up people the modern books which are sent out in such numbers, often very cheap, have likewise an artificial cityfied air so obviously got up and theatrical, such a mark of machinery on them, all stamped and chucked out by the thousand, that they have no attraction for a people who live with nature, and even in old age retain a certain childlike faith in honesty and genuine work.

The Hungarian physicist Georg von Bekesy has conducted careful experiments with an artificial system designed to possess all the essentials of the cochlea and has found that sound waves passing through the fluid in the cochlea set up wavelike displacements in the basilar membrane itself.