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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
naturally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
occurring
▪ The increase in world demand for refined gallium, which has no naturally occurring ore, is reflected in the market.
▪ Water vapour is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas but the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is affected by human activities.
▪ The relationship of information so obtained to processes in naturally occurring transition is sometimes debated.
▪ It was closely related to a naturally occurring substance.
▪ The use of computers makes possible the analysis of relatively of naturally occurring conversation.
▪ Furthermore, many studies have shown that the naturally occurring relapse rate of duodenal ulcers is considerably reduced after eradication.
▪ Science exists so that we can improve our understanding of naturally occurring phenomena.
▪ Carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes, that is, atoms of the same atomic number but different atomic weights.
■ VERB
arise
▪ They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery.
▪ The question then naturally arises how this capacity may have originated and evolved in the species.
▪ This loss did not arise naturally - in the usual course of business.
▪ But parents should resist the feelings of anxiety that arise naturally from being called on the carpet by the teacher.
▪ Moreover, management issues do arise naturally when clinicians work together in teams, perhaps with nurses and other professional staff.
▪ Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties.
assume
▪ They naturally assume coherence, and interpret the text in the light of that assumption.
▪ After all these ages, one would naturally assume that it was inert.
▪ Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards towards the brain.
▪ The intellectual naturally assumes his authority on these matters.
▪ Notice that all the men aboard the Pequod assume naturally that they will search the waters for the lost boat.
▪ This was actually a kinsman of the Gordon of Gettysburg but Barlow naturally assumed it was the same man.
come
▪ Dole has several missions Thursday night, none of which come naturally to the laconic Kansan.
▪ She could put it on, like a posh accent, but it didn't come naturally to her.
▪ That energy barometer naturally comes down at this stage of life.
▪ If the training starts at a young enough age, when the animal is still a puppy, it all comes naturally.
▪ The role doesn't come naturally to either Bush or Gore.
▪ You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be.
▪ The beauty that results comes naturally from the awe humans feel contemplating the heavens.
fall
▪ Once they had settled into this stepped-down layout, the site fell naturally into three components.
follow
▪ Science follows naturally from questions and observations.
▪ But he is not the leader of any faction or group of lawmakers who would naturally follow his lead, lawmakers said.
▪ The closely associated demands for precision and clarity of expression both follow naturally from the falsificationist's account of science.
▪ These sections naturally follow one from the other, and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns.
▪ But there are those who have persuaded them that if they have the vote, all else will naturally follow.
▪ Plans for staff development will naturally follow and these will be costed.
grow
▪ These grow naturally as a single, vertical stem and need absolutely no pruning.
▪ The exotic flowers we crossbred on the farm never lasted as long as the wild ones which grew naturally.
▪ The plants grow naturally in impoverished peat bogs, and they devour insects as a source of protein.
▪ To put the tissue behind the breastbone, where it grows naturally, would have meant breaking bone.
▪ If they are left to grow naturally, most top fruits can become large trees, eventually outgrowing most gardens.
▪ Many legends naturally grew around this barren and ancient land and were passed down through generations.
▪ The lily will eventually grow naturally.
lead
▪ This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed.
▪ This naturally leads to another issue - that of the independence of children within their families.
▪ This naturally leads to a lessening of tension in the body.
▪ These later issues will lead naturally into the examination of the implementation process in the next chapter.
▪ Whatever the colour chosen, make sure it leads naturally into the rooms leading off it.
▪ The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries.
▪ A love of gardening easily combines with the craft of flower pressing, as one leads naturally into the other.
▪ These differences in motivation would naturally lead to differences in formulations of objectives by the various groups.
occur
▪ We have to rely on the occasional incident of this kind occurring naturally, and study that.
▪ Tryptophan is a naturally occurring amino acid.
▪ It is far better to use a naturally occurring resource-sunlight.
▪ Experts believe the contamination is the result of a vein of naturally occurring uranium.
▪ Radon comes from the uranium that occurs naturally in the ground.
▪ They occur naturally, forming part of the membranes of cells.
▪ In naturally occurring decision environments, interactions between situational demands and self-referent factors can exert a powerful influence on the decision-making process.
produce
▪ This naturally produces very large degrees of freedom meaning that even relatively small correlations may be significantly different from zero.
▪ Antibiotics are chemicals produced naturally by fungi to kill their rivals: bacteria.
▪ Does this point lose its edge if we think of the differences as socially rather than naturally produced?
▪ Tritium can be produced naturally from cosmic rays reacting with the atmosphere.
▪ I have since discovered that this colour is not produced naturally, but by injecting the fish with dyes.
tend
▪ The rubble of solid chilled material overlying the hot core naturally tends to insulate it, and it does so very efficiently.
▪ Translators naturally tend to read and interpret the Bible from the framework in which they have lived and thought.
▪ All that is required is a little local clustering, of a sort that will naturally tend to arise in natural populations.
▪ People naturally tend to believe what they see.
turn
▪ The public naturally turn to books of fiction, or televised versions of them, rather than to serious books.
▪ With the number of environmental regulations escalating, companies have naturally turned to outside services for help and advice.
▪ In this environment, the true scientist's heart naturally turns to thoughts of revenge.
▪ A community which feels that no-one cares naturally turns into itself for reassurance.
▪ Certain other arrangements which I must make naturally turn upon this.
▪ Then began the now familiar notion of artists quite naturally turning to the various modernist languages for their stylistic starting points.
want
▪ The creature naturally wants a soul-mate.
▪ Businesses naturally want to attract the most qualified and motivated young people.
▪ Parents naturally want the best for their children.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come easily/naturally (to sb)
▪ Acting has always come naturally to her.
▪ Change doesn't always come easily.
▪ For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
▪ For many students, the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests.
▪ Realism, though humanly exacting, is technically what comes naturally.
▪ Swimming comes naturally to a fish.
▪ The role doesn't come naturally to either Bush or Gore.
▪ Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
▪ Whether you are graced appears to be at least partly a matter of temperament, Fowers notes: It comes naturally.
▪ You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Naturally, Mike claims his barbecue is the best in the world.
▪ Are you guys naturally weird, or do you have to work at it?
▪ Dot had short, naturally blond hair.
▪ My thoughts naturally centered on the difficult task at hand.
▪ She embraced Kenny and me as naturally as if we were family.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although over the moon with it generally, I am disappointed with the lack of power in the naturally aspirated diesel engine.
▪ Although we restrict the name mineral to inorganic substances, there are many naturally occurring organic components of rocks.
▪ I find it surprising that Professor Rudi Nussbaum fails to mention that the Earth is naturally radioactive.
▪ The lid is naturally oily and doesn't need extra lubrication.
▪ The small nucleus of ex-service officers naturally guarded their job closely.
▪ This naturally takes a toll on intellectual honesty.
▪ Vowels move towards a neutral form when used in naturally flowing sentences.
▪ You can do it so naturally they don't even realise it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Naturally

Naturally \Nat"u*ral*ly\, adv. In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
naturally

late 13c., "inherently, intrinsically, characteristically," from natural + -ly (2). From late 14c. as "in accord with natural law;" also "normally; usually, expectedly; as a matter of course, consequently, understandably." The notion is "as a natural result." From early 15c. as "without artificial assistance, by a natural process."

Wiktionary
naturally

adv. 1 In a natural manner. 2 inherently or by nature. 3 surely or without any doubt.

WordNet
naturally

  1. adv. as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [syn: of course, course] [ant: unnaturally]

  2. through inherent nature; "he was naturally lazy" [syn: by nature]

  3. according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help; "naturally grown flowers" [ant: artificially]

  4. in a natural or normal manner; "speak naturally and easily" [ant: unnaturally]

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Wikipedia
Naturally (Three Dog Night album)

Naturally is the fifth album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1970. It produced two top ten hits: " Joy to the World" (#1 in February) and " Liar" (#7). " One Man Band" reached the top 20 (#19). The only original by the band is the instrumental "Fire Eater".

Naturally

Naturally may refer to:

Albums
  • Naturally!, an album by Nat Adderley
  • Naturally (J. J. Cale album)
  • Naturally (John Pizzarelli album)
  • Naturally (Sharon Jones album)
  • Naturally (Three Dog Night album)
Songs
  • "Naturally" (Deborah Gibson song)
  • "Naturally" (Kalapana song)
  • "Naturally" (Selena Gomez & the Scene song)
  • "Naturally", a song by Ayumi Hamasaki from I Am...
  • "Naturally", a song by Heatwave from Current
  • "Naturally", a song by Huey Lewis and the News from Fore!
  • "Naturally", a song by Raffi from Bananaphone
  • "Naturally", a song by Fat Mattress
  • "Naturally", a song by Katy Hudson (better known by her current stage name Katy Perry) from her debut album Katy Hudson
Naturally (J. J. Cale album)

Naturally is the debut album by JJ Cale. First released in 1972, it includes his song " After Midnight", which had been recorded first by Eric Clapton in 1970.

Naturally (Sharon Jones album)

Naturally is the second album by American funk band Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, released on January 25, 2005 on Daptone Records.

Naturally (Deborah Gibson song)

"Naturally" is the fourth and final single from Deborah Gibson's album Deborah, released in 1997. "Naturally" was released as a single exclusively in Japan in 1998.

Category:1997 singles Category:Debbie Gibson songs Category:Songs written by Debbie Gibson Category:1996 songs

Naturally (John Pizzarelli album)

Naturally is a studio album by jazz singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli accompanied by his trio of Martin Pizzarelli and Ray Kennedy. Also on the album is a large horn section which included Clark Terry, and his father on rhythm guitar, Bucky Pizzarelli.

Naturally (Selena Gomez & the Scene song)

"Naturally" is a song performed by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene, taken from their debut studio album Kiss & Tell (2010). It was released by Hollywood Records as the album's second single in the United States and select other countries. The song was produced by Antonina Armato and Tim James who wrote the song with Devrim Karaoglu. Musically, "Naturally" is an uptempo pop song which relies on electropop and dance-pop styles. The song's lyrics speak of a relationship in which feelings are not forced and the protagonist sings of their happiness. The song officially impacted US mainstream radio on January 19, 2010, and was released physically in numerous European countries thereafter.

"Naturally" received generally positive reviews, with critics complementing its electro and club feel. The song reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Hungary, and Ireland, and peaked in the top twenty in multiple other countries. As their first song to impact radio in the US, it reached number twenty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100, number twelve on the Pop Songs chart, and it topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. It was later certified Platinum in the United States by the RIAA and in Canada by the CRIA. The song's accompanying music video sees Gomez sporting several different outfits and styles before a backdrop. Gomez & the Scene performed the song numerous times including on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest among other televised events and live performances. The song was ranked number eighty-four on About.com's list of "Top 100 Pop Songs of 2010".

Usage examples of "naturally".

He carried out his self-imposed task as keeper of the flag-locker in a naturally elegant manner that was deeply incongruous aboard a privateer, a ship designed solely for war.

Beethoven adagios, of which we find the most beautiful specimens naturally among the orchestral pieces and in the chamber music, where he could depend upon the long phrases and sustained tones of the violins.

They naturally go together where there is adaptedness for them, mutually quickening and increasing each other.

I will here give only the case of a minute fly, naturally caught and still alive, which I found adhering by its delicate feet to the glands on the extreme left side of the central disc.

Now, in the case of a debilitated female patient, a physician naturally thinks first of chlorosis or the fluor albus or some other such adust ion of the womb.

These relics included an enclosure of coral blocks marking the outlines of a rectangular building which, Emory and Finney considered, showed similarities to some Tongan structures, and basalt adzes which must have come from a high volcanic island, since basalt does not occur naturally on low atolls.

Portugal and Holland were too small to cherish visions of European aggrandizement, and they naturally sought an outlet in Asia and Africa for their energies.

As soon, therefore, as the aggregating action altogether ceases, redissolution naturally commences in the less strongly aggregated matter in the lowest part of the tentacle, and is there first completed.

Holding these pronounced views, aggressively loyal in every thought and action, General Pope was naturally in antagonism with the policy of the President.

Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.

The fire was lighted, and Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.

And if the other dogmas of that system be contained in a sacred book, such as the Alcoran, or be determined by any visible authority, like that of the Roman pontiff, speculative reasoners naturally carry on their assent, and embrace a theory, which has been instilled into them by their earliest education, and which also possesses some degree of consistence and uniformity.

To strengthen it Lord Grimthorpe built buttresses, naturally following the division of the upper part of the walls, but thereby cutting across the arcading of the cloister walk in a most ugly fashion.

Alan Argyll is reasonable enough, but if he has faults, Jenny may naturally prefer not to be more aware of them than she is obliged to be.

You see, if you wanted to arrage things so that money flowed more naturally, so that it flowed naturally to every man, according to his needs, I think we could all soon agree.