noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analytical method/techniques/approach/skills
▪ During the course, students will develop their analytical skills.
assessment methods/techniques
▪ We recommend using a variety of assessment methods.
employ a method/technique/tactic etc
▪ The report examines teaching methods employed in the classroom.
exam technique (=good ways to succeed in exams)
▪ Mr Frasier gave us some useful tips on exam technique.
instructional programmes/materials/techniques etc
▪ a free instructional video.
interview technique
▪ The book gives some useful advice on interview technique.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
analytical
▪ Since spectrometry forms the basis of most analytical techniques to be described it must first be defined.
▪ The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.
▪ In this year students apply higher-level business, analytical and technological techniques to management within the hotel operations and tourism ventures.
▪ The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.
▪ An early investigation of Roman lead-rich glazes using this analytical technique was carried out by the late E.M.
▪ This analytical technique was time-consuming and destructive.
▪ Again differences in analytical techniques, patient selection, and other variables makes the interpretation of some of these studies difficult.
▪ The chapters on the various analytical techniques used in the detection and study of drugs of abuse are of more general interest.
basic
▪ Techniques Most people have cleaned something and have employed basic cleaning techniques.
▪ We will also review some basic techniques for editing tables.
▪ Here are some basic assertiveness techniques: Three-part messages: This formula can help you express messages that make you feel uncomfortable.
▪ Those same cooks forget from year to year the most basic techniques of getting the bird to the table.
▪ In this barbaric world, there were no polite procedures, just basic survival techniques.
▪ Getting my thoughts off myself and on to others was another basic technique that I learned in this business.
▪ Having outlined the basic techniques for evaluating securities, we may now remove the assumption of certainty.
▪ The grading curriculum consists of only the basic techniques that have been learned so far.
different
▪ Many groups have fabricated devices for diverse applications and using a variety of different techniques.
▪ It also resurfaces the skin, which is a whole different technique.
▪ In each of the four videos, Alwyn teaches about watercolour materials and different techniques.
▪ For them, a different technique is used, although it is considerably more expensive and somewhat riskier than the adult procedure.
▪ This project will estimate the benefits and costs of wildlife habitats and compare the results using different valuation techniques.
▪ If significant delay may result from this process, a different decision making technique should be used.
▪ McNeill Alexander adopted a different analytical technique, and came up with a much slower dinosaur than Bakker's.
▪ With detergents and other chemicals a different technique is used.
modern
▪ But the main culprit seems to be modern farming techniques.
▪ Abortion mortality was high.... Modern medical techniques have altered this situation.
▪ It may be that growing wealth meant that more people came to have access to modern contraceptive techniques.
▪ Such modern techniques take time away.
▪ This is a potentially lethal combination, but modern techniques help to safeguard us from those risks.
▪ Most significantly, Mirror papers introduced modern printing techniques, processed photos locally for immediate use and speeded up the presses.
▪ Thanks to the sophistication of modern mining techniques, little damage would have been caused to most other properties.
▪ In this way modern analytical techniques are providing the basis for greater appreciation of some of the world's greatest painters.
new
▪ The new technique came into its own by treating the infested garments for 72 hours in ten bubbles simultaneously.
▪ Gandhi showed a new technique....
▪ Progress was easier because many new techniques were available.
▪ The Stylus uses a new technique for putting ink on the paper.
▪ Not all patients, however, such as the elderly and high risk, are suitable for these new operative techniques.
▪ Soon, armed with both the desire and the understanding to change, she worked hard to learn new techniques for coaching.
▪ Another new technique which, according to Mr Botham, was likely to become more popular is tissue testing of plant material.
▪ The time and ease of work could be shortened by new techniques or advancing skills for old techniques.
other
▪ Dale now works freelance from home and plans to diversify to explore other subjects and techniques.
▪ It also determines the paper's resilience to scraping and other colour removal techniques.
▪ Mackenzie is also looking at other mathematical techniques for analysing and synthesising waveforms.
▪ They are flexible, however, and employ other techniques when appropriate.
▪ When cold, several primes of the throttle are required, but no other special technique is needed.
▪ There is evidence that verbal reprimands tend to be less effective in various disciplinary encounters than other techniques.
▪ As mentioned earlier, a paper's sizing also determines its resilience to scraping and other colour removal techniques.
simple
▪ A SIMPLE technique of rapid reading has just been announced.
▪ He describes the simple techniques used to counter a bewildering problem: I was a volunteer.
▪ It was decided to first try out the simplest possible computational technique.
▪ It can be done with air and water, using a simple technique I have devised.
▪ For the most part it consists of a series of simple techniques combined with a new way of looking at the subject.
▪ In consequence, simple statistical techniques are used to characterize the grain size distribution data.
▪ It is amazing what a difference these simple techniques can make.
▪ A simple technique is to lower the water level to the height of the parents.
standard
▪ Many experiments have used purpose-built probes rather than one of the standard techniques.
▪ Agarose gel electrophoresis, ribonucleic acid transfer, and hybridisation of blots were performed by standard techniques.
▪ One of the oldest tricks in the book and he had completely overlooked it. Standard night-fighting technique in group tactics.
▪ In the future it may complement or even replace standard techniques such as phage typing.
▪ The team also found that 57 per cent of the eggs were able to be successfully fertilised using a standard technique.
▪ The standard technique is to use a Stern-Gerlach experiment.
▪ We can test this theory by using matrix isolation and then employing standard techniques such as in the study of stable molecules.
▪ Using standard laboratory techniques, the virus itself is very difficult and expensive to detect.
statistical
▪ It is tempting always to produce all the information that can be extracted by a particular statistical technique.
▪ The methods used are similar to the statistical techniques that have been arrived at independently in this project. 2.2.
▪ This led to the incorporation of statistical techniques of inference into empirical social science.
▪ In consequence, simple statistical techniques are used to characterize the grain size distribution data.
▪ The use of statistical techniques is not new to computational linguistics.
▪ The first calls for psephological analysis, using modern statistical techniques, of the 1931 general election.
▪ The main method of study involves a range of statistical techniques.
▪ Conclusions drawn from applying statistical techniques to incomplete data may be very misleading.
traditional
▪ So will the way in which he championed the traditional principles of technique.
▪ But traditional drilling techniques could tap the oil in only a small number of these cracks.
▪ Comments expressed in the survey revealed that a return to traditional manufacturing techniques and management styles would not be welcomed.
▪ Not only does it discredit traditional replication techniques, it also steers the organization toward less costly ways of achieving its ends.
▪ Textiles were in full decline; the old metal trades had vanished to the point where no artisan could explain the traditional techniques.
▪ A final problem with applying traditional measurement techniques to white-collar professional groups was that traditional measurement focused primarily on efficiency.
▪ Only traditional cultivation techniques are used.
▪ Such errors were studied, along with traditional error correction techniques.
various
▪ Subsequent chapters are devoted to mastering various techniques and manoeuvres.
▪ The various techniques within the holistic orientation bear witness that the bodymind is a balanced system of energy.
▪ Management reform Chapter 4 briefly reviewed various management techniques that have been tried and then abandoned by government.
▪ Become familiar with these various techniques, even the more sophisticated ones, if they fit your business and product mix.
▪ As this is the case, part of the research will examine various experimental techniques used previously in studies on word recognition.
▪ That program features not only various process improvement techniques but also a fundamental change in the way Boeing is organized.
▪ Selection Patients were assessed in a special gallstone clinic to determine their suitability for the various treatment techniques available in our unit.
▪ But in his search he could find only pieces of various techniques to improve quality and productivity.
■ VERB
apply
▪ Plans are under way to apply the technique to other types of cancer as well.
▪ Gandhi applied a technique of combat which turned the traditional docility of the gentle Hindu into heroism.
▪ This issue comprises an extensive effort to apply economic modelling techniques and other analytical approaches to policy issues in a specific sector.
▪ A final problem with applying traditional measurement techniques to white-collar professional groups was that traditional measurement focused primarily on efficiency.
▪ Public awareness of the value of applying these techniques to archaeology has increased in consequence.
▪ Texas Instruments, for example, is finding good success with applying data compression techniques to the training sets.
▪ However, a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease.
▪ As if to compensate for this, he applied military techniques in the colony.
describe
▪ We have described the technique employed in detail.
▪ He describes the simple techniques used to counter a bewildering problem: I was a volunteer.
▪ This chapter therefore describes the techniques you will need to follow to obtain perfect pressed flowers.
▪ It describes a number of techniques that the teacher can use to involve students in active viewing.
▪ This paper describes how these techniques helped the author to reuse parts of an existing book to write a new one.
▪ Off-balance sheet financing is a term used to describe techniques designed to obscure a company's true financial obligations.
▪ Can you describe the best technique to use?
▪ For example, Katy Simmonds of the Oxford Polytechnic has described a technique she used with 12-year-old children with specific reading difficulties.
develop
▪ Experiments are now being conducted near Reading to determine yields and to develop a suitable threshing technique.
▪ Distillers scrambled to develop processing techniques that would allow them to carve out their own niches.
▪ Socially useful designs of advanced systems would develop these techniques further.
▪ Eli Whitney, famous for the cotton gin, also developed mass production techniques for muskets.
▪ Before he developed his wrap around technique a full figure took 18 months to make.
▪ He recognized his limitations, but he made little attempt to develop another technique.
▪ In the course of their work the professional-managerial class develop techniques to control the working class.
▪ The narwhal has developed other techniques to capture its food, such as sucking or blowing.
employ
▪ To lure shoppers, some merchants have employed some unorthodox promotion techniques.
▪ Techniques Most people have cleaned something and have employed basic cleaning techniques.
▪ Children beg, cry, throw temper tantrums, flatter, and employ countless techniques to get what they want.
▪ It came originally from my father, who employed the technique with great relief on many occasions.
▪ Newhouse construction almost always employs these techniques.
▪ We will be employing an eye-tracking technique to study reading of complex sentences.
improve
▪ Only two patients had been prescribed aids or appliances to improve their technique.
▪ Such games are studied by chess players to improve their own techniques.
▪ It gives clear detailed instructions, answers queries and suggests ways to improve your technique.
▪ Teachers can improve their own demonstration techniques by observing methods shown in films.
▪ Sheldon compared the improved techniques to those used for environmental monitoring.
▪ Training after a main event should be much less dynamic and should concentrate on improving technique in preparation for the next competition.
learn
▪ The beginner normally learns combination techniques by performing them against thin air.
▪ They learn relaxation and energizing techniques.
▪ To do this, you will need to learn a technique called scribing.
▪ Soon, armed with both the desire and the understanding to change, she worked hard to learn new techniques for coaching.
▪ How do they learn of the detail and, indeed, where do they learn the specific techniques?
▪ Perhaps you work for a charitable organization that must learn sophisticated marketing techniques to survive financially.
▪ It does not follow that in owning a funboard you should only learn funboard techniques.
▪ Even so, Swilling expects his student to make a smooth transition to defensive end. Learn the techniques.
require
▪ In the manuscript assignment, candidates will be required to demonstrate display techniques.
▪ Determination of serum ferritin concentrations generally requires immunoassay techniques. 274.
▪ To approach this in a more formal sense would also require mathematical programming techniques.
▪ Computers are widely used because cost estimating may involve complex mathematical calculations and require advanced mathematical techniques.
▪ But longer distance homing must require other techniques.
▪ Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding.
▪ International mediation can require sophisticated processes and techniques.
▪ It will require improvements in oil-drilling techniques before they can be exploited.
teach
▪ Rita is a machine knitter of 20 years' standing who has taught many techniques of the craft.
▪ Can a teacher sue a principal for slander for making critical remarks about his or her teaching techniques?
▪ A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year.
▪ Everyone, including aides and orderlies, was taught techniques so that each patient was moved as much as possible.
▪ It may also be possible to promote rest by teaching some specific relaxation technique, e.g. deep breathing, yoga.
▪ However, in these settings, at their best, great strides were made in medical and teaching techniques.
▪ To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run.
▪ Promoting and teaching laboratory techniques appropriate for public health purposes are also critical.
use
▪ I use the pencils for techniques such as cross-hatching, contour and scribble drawing, shading and frottage.
▪ In this chapter, we will examine commonly used techniques for both short-term and long-term financial forecasting and budgeting.
▪ Compare this with the slide-back scooping block which uses the same technique but does not turn the body away.
▪ For this purpose the Gurdjieff system uses a technique known as Self-observation.
▪ Today around 80% of the prints I produce now use this technique.
▪ He used special low temperature techniques to freeze the intermediate in solid argon at -250°C.
▪ Woodpeckers use a similar hiding technique.
▪ Pressures and temperatures in the Jovian atmosphere have largely been determined by spacecraft, using a variety of techniques.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chapter 6 describes useful techniques for creating on screen filing systems that really work.
▪ Doctors are developing a painless technique to give shots.
▪ helpful tips on how to improve your exam technique
▪ More and more heart patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.
▪ the artist's impressive style and technique
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But techniques of reproducing graphic images - illustrations - were very slow to develop.
▪ I used this technique for areas of detail, or when I needed deeper areas in large washes.
▪ It is not only that the sophistication level with which the question or technique is framed must be appropriate to the patient.
▪ Karajan, it seems, always had a superb baton technique.
▪ Many find it very embarrassing to describe their expectations regarding actual physical technique.
▪ Such modern techniques take time away.
▪ The techniques developed will lead to a more versatile approach to landscape assessment than is presently possible.