adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conventional war (=not nuclear)
▪ A conventional war would still cause unacceptable devastation.
conventional warfare (=not nuclear)
▪ They had a stronger conventional warfare capability.
conventional weapons (=not nuclear)
▪ With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic.
conventional/orthodox medicine (=ordinary modern medicine)
▪ Some sufferers reject conventional medicine.
conventional/traditional morality
▪ a lack of concern for conventional morality
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ There are, however, more conventional definitions of the Ocean's limits.
▪ Paquita and I had always liked each other, but I knew she would have preferred me to be more conventional.
▪ Eveleigh L.J. was more conventional in the form of his approach.
▪ To catch up, Smith designed drill bits featuring synthetic diamonds with curved surfaces, rather than more conventional flat versions.
▪ He reached for a more conventional musical palette, strings and woodwinds.
▪ Would it be wiser to use a more conventional vehicle for a down payment?
▪ The third development, the Lanterns, built to a more conventional design, was being completed during the survey period.
▪ The principal directed her to stop discussing school politics, to teach economics, and to use more conventional teaching methods.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ But after World War 11 scholars with new ideas began to challenge conventional approaches.
▪ Managers found themselves wondering whether a conventional approach could replace the neural network.
▪ The conventional approach to such questions is to use ordinary least squares regression methods, which are often unsatisfactory.
▪ They offer several advantages over conventional approaches.
▪ Most advocates of the conventional approach to systems development would accept that there is a need for at least this level of participation.
▪ The conventional approach to nature was about to undergo a change, and that change was already making itself felt.
▪ There are a number of points in favour of the conventional approach.
computer
▪ There are fundamental limits to how fast a conventional computer can go.
▪ Neural networks and conventional computers could be combined in a number of ways.
▪ Computers and the Brain A conventional computer is typically a single processor acting on explicitly programmed instructions.
▪ Database management systems are currently host-resident on conventional computers.
▪ There is no question of making conventional computers obsolete.
▪ In general, the examples exhibit behaviors that are more characteristic of people than of conventional computers.
forces
▪ Prior to Sandys the orthodox military priesthood had seen nuclear weapons as being in support of conventional forces.
▪ Meanwhile, its conventional forces are plenty good enough to banish the nuclear option to the realm of the theoretical.
▪ Urging restraint in the development of conventional forces, the statement said that otherwise these could exacerbate political tensions.
▪ Yet our conventional forces have not made an equivalent leap into the future.
▪ Before 1957 was out, world events were sowing the seeds of a conventional forces counter-reformation.
▪ First, he said, the treaty on conventional forces would likely be thrown overboard.
▪ That would be much more likely if Mr Gorbachev could reduce his conventional forces and weaponry in the Warsaw Pact.
▪ Throughout the alliance the will was lacking to create conventional forces on the scale needed to balance those of the Eastern bloc.
form
▪ A main reason for their conversion from companies in the conventional form has been the maintenance of employment.
▪ Despite worries to the contrary, pressed flowers photograph well and make a refreshing change from more conventional forms of artwork.
▪ I would often rather read it than more conventional forms of literary scholarship.
▪ Any conventional form of understanding must appropriate the other, in an act of violence and reduction.
means
▪ Once nasty enough, this virus would start spreading by more conventional means.
▪ They can not be driven from their burrows by conventional means.
▪ They became less willing to transfer capital to the most troubled borrowers by the conventional means of foreign direct investment.
▪ I hadn't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter.
medicine
▪ This tremendous progress of conventional medicine in the present century has confirmed belief in the treatment by opposites.
▪ Currently, the problems people go online with the most are the problems that conventional medicine helps the least.
▪ Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.
▪ Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it.
▪ Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.
▪ It works in a totally different way from conventional medicine, which is known to Homoeopathic practitioners as Allopathy.
method
▪ Why use these techniques when to many conventional methods such as culture and serology are available?
▪ Earlier studies on the deposit indicated the copper ore can be treated using conventional methods.
▪ In theory, all these tasks could be done by conventional methods, i.e. paste-up, longhand correction, etc.
▪ The company says it should make sanding three or four times faster than conventional methods.
▪ Freeing glued joints I have tried to dismantle an old chair using conventional methods but the glued joints won't budge.
▪ If these were built by conventional methods, they would need hundreds, rather than dozens, of layers.
▪ A combinatory method loses some of the prestigious closeness to scientific rigour which a feminist psychology with a conventional method retains.
▪ The combination of these methods provides optimum cooking quality and shorter cooking times of up to five times less than conventional methods.
morality
▪ Individual response to the altered conditions was, as might be expected, conditioned by conventional morality.
▪ Freed from the trappings of conventional morality, Van Ness is at liberty to invent his own.
▪ This feeling has nothing to do with conventional views about conduct, or conventional morality, or ethics.
▪ These urban comedies portrayed a new moral code in opposition to conventional morality.
sense
▪ In the conventional sense of the word, which conveys some sort of harmony with the natural world, it certainly was.
▪ Being able to work with others does not necessarily mean fitting in in a conventional sense.
▪ It is not, however, an organising school in the conventional sense.
▪ In its view, there is not the time, the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense.
system
▪ How does it compare with integrated or conventional systems?
▪ The technology is showing a great deal of promise in areas that have posed problems for conventional systems.
▪ In Section 1.2 some critical comments were made of conventional systems analysis.
▪ A language is often defined as a conventional system for communication, a system for conveying messages.
▪ Where data analysis differs from conventional systems analysis is that it separates the data structures from the applications which use them.
treatment
▪ The conventional treatment for large tumours, deep within the body, is to bombard them with powerful doses of gamma radiation.
▪ A photograph showed a little girl with a twisted hip and shortened leg after more than a year of conventional treatment.
▪ She had some ketoacidosis and responded to conventional treatment.
▪ Such a possibility should be considered in all patients with unstable asthma that is difficult to control with conventional treatment.
▪ He had suffered severe migraine which did not respond to conventional treatment.
view
▪ The conventional view would be that our patient had asymptomatic coeliac disease and developed a lymphoma, which precipitated the initial presentation.
▪ Our view of the future of elite workers differs radically from the conventional view.
▪ The conventional view, then as now, was that Lanfranc had carried all before him in asserting the rights of Canterbury.
▪ This feeling has nothing to do with conventional views about conduct, or conventional morality, or ethics.
▪ This conventional view is summed up by the dominant reactions to the 1981 Brixton disorders.
▪ But the conventional view may be too narrow.
▪ Those who rejected the conventional view and took up the cause of Czechoslovakian children were largely outside the mainstream of refugee aid.
▪ The conventional view is that some polysymptomatic patients have a psychologically based disability.These patients are extremely suggestible.
way
▪ He does care about his own looks, but not in the conventional way.
▪ The faculty at Thayer have decided to challenge the conventional ways of thinking about preparing students for the world after school.
▪ The conventional way of looking at adolescence does, at any rate, emphasise some such division.
▪ Does this mean that conventional ways are mistaken and should be abandoned?
▪ But the challenge is also being met in more conventional ways, and many chemicals look promising as potential anti-viral agents.
▪ Women found him charming and attractive, though not in the most conventional way.
▪ Pareto analysis is a conventional way of establishing this.
weapon
▪ With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic, far more controlled, and more accurate and economical.
▪ It was battle scarred, but mountains are not vulnerable to conventional weapons.
▪ Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms.
▪ Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.
▪ Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.
▪ Development studies During the last decade, the international trade in conventional weapons has almost doubled in volume every five years.
wisdom
▪ Great leaders are seldom anticipated or understood by the conventional wisdom of their own time.
▪ The past 12 months have seen developments that have thrown out the window much conventional wisdom about the business.
▪ This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
▪ There will be many a swing in both conventional wisdom and political fortunes between now and November.
▪ He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
▪ These attitudes have persisted in the conventional wisdom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom
▪ Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
▪ Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
▪ He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
▪ Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
▪ That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom.
▪ This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
▪ Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
▪ We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.
nuclear/conventional forces
▪ Before 1957 was out, world events were sowing the seeds of a conventional forces counter-reformation.
▪ It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces.
▪ It was also important to demonstrate the ability of nuclear forces to ride out a surprise attack.
▪ Meanwhile, its conventional forces are plenty good enough to banish the nuclear option to the realm of the theoretical.
▪ Prior to Sandys the orthodox military priesthood had seen nuclear weapons as being in support of conventional forces.
▪ Urging restraint in the development of conventional forces, the statement said that otherwise these could exacerbate political tensions.
▪ Yet our conventional forces have not made an equivalent leap into the future.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Conventional wisdom holds that more money for education means better schools for children.
▪ A microwave cooks food much faster than a conventional oven.
▪ a new proposal to limit conventional weapons in Europe
▪ a young man with conventional tastes in clothes and music
▪ Acupuncture may work, but I still believe in a more conventional approach to medicine.
▪ Although expensive, it lasts longer and uses less energy than a conventional light bulb.
▪ Her outrageous stage act is seen as a challenge to conventional morality.
▪ My mother was very conventional - she didn't approve of my hippie lifestyle.
▪ Rosemary led a quiet, conventional life until she went to college.
▪ She ended her letter with a conventional "Yours Sincerely."
▪ The hospital provides both conventional and alternative medical treatments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In conventional data processing, on the other hand, files are seen as a department or single application resource.
▪ It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.
▪ That was the conventional wisdom in conventional Western business circles, in cautious places like New York and Frankfurt.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.
▪ This feeling has nothing to do with conventional views about conduct, or conventional morality, or ethics.
▪ Urging restraint in the development of conventional forces, the statement said that otherwise these could exacerbate political tensions.