Crossword clues for dissertation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissertation \Dis`ser*ta"tion\, n. [L. dissertatio: cf. F. dissertation.] A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "discussion, debate," from Latin dissertationem (nominative dissertatio) "discourse," noun of action from past participle stem of dissertare "debate, argue, examine, harangue," frequentative of disserere "discuss, examine," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + serere "to arrange words" (see series). Sense of "formal, written treatise" is 1650s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree; a thesis. 2 A lengthy lecture on a subject; a treatise; a discourse; a sermon.
WordNet
n. a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree [syn: thesis]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dissertation".
Deeply hurt, Adams had written an extraordinary reply, a dissertation on the subject of vanity set forth in his clearest, plainest hand, as if intended for posterity as much as for Gerry.
Elaine is the kind of person who can write a dissertation while simultaneously finding the antiderivative of a polynomial expression.
There are times when a well-informed dissertation on aphagia in the reptiles of South America can be of real benefit, and Christmas Eve in the year 1911 seemed to be one of them.
Her published dissertation on the family Bromeliaceae was backed up by years of fieldwork and countless hard-won miles trekking through the tropical forests of South America, and like all the naturalists who had gone before her, every mile had yielded a story of hardship and close calls.
In this way he contrasted with Cathartes, who always wore his dissertation ribbon and his various insignia.
Buried within the pages of a dissertation on the Culdees of Ireland I found a single quote attributed to James the Just, first Bishop of Jerusalem and brother of Our Lord.
He pounded Pitts for his continuing failure to deliver his dissertation, and for shirking his responsibilities to MIT and the Guggenheim Foundation to complete his protracted doctoral program.
Taylor pursued his love for science into graduate school at UT and wrote his dissertation on psychoacoustics, a field from which some people were making a leap into computing.
Haller--My Stay at Lausanne--Lord Rosebury--The Young Saconai-- Dissertation on Beauty--The Young Theologian M.
James Cozzano had spent most of the spring and summer following the primary campaigns as part of a research project for his doctoral dissertation.
If a century and a half ago the world had submitted its problems of transport to the economists, they would have put aside, with as little wasted breath and ink as possible, all talk about railways, motorcars, steamships, and aeroplanes, and, with a fine sense of extravagance rebuked, set themselves to long neuralgic dissertations, disputations, and treatises upon highroads and the methods of connecting them, turnpike gates, canals, influence of lock fees on bargemen, tidal landing places, anchorages, surplus carrying capacity, carriers, caravans, hand-barrows, and the pedestrianariat.
Woods Hole or Scripps or any of the other marine institutes around the country, but he was still a dissertation shy of his doctorate, and he had no confidence that anyone would hire him to be anything more than a drone.
As you know, dissertation topics must he preapproved by both the assigned faculty advisor, as well as this Board.
Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity.
Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the rightminded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity.