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91Irregularity of recurrence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irregularity of recurrence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irregularity irregularity uncertainty unpunctuality Sgm: N 1 fitfulness fitfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 capriciousness capriciousness ecrhythmus|… …
92fit — fit1 adjective (fitter, fittest) 1》 of a suitable quality, standard, or type. ↘having the requisite qualities or skills to do something competently. ↘socially acceptable: a fit subject on which to correspond. 2》 in good health, especially …
93fit — I [[t]fɪt[/t]] adj. fit•ter, fit•test, 1) adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn t fit for drinking[/ex] 2) proper or becoming: fit behavior[/ex] 3) prepared or ready 4) in good physical condition; in good health 5) bio Biol. being… …
94Culture-bound syndrome — In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture bound syndrome, culture specific syndrome or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or… …
95fit — See: by fits and starts, give fits, have a fit or have fits, if the shoe fits, wear it, see fit also think fit, survival of the fittest …
96fit — n Fit, attack, access, accession, paroxysm, spasm, convulsion are comparable when they denote a sudden seizure or spell resulting from an abnormal condition of body or mind. The last three are too specific in their technical medical senses to be… …
97Laurence Sterne — Infobox Writer name = Laurence Sterne imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthname = Laurence Sterne birthdate = November 24, 1713 birthplace = deathdate = March 18, 1768 (tuberculosis) deathplace = occupation = novelist, clergyman nationality =… …
98Company rule in India — For usage, see British Empire in India Company rule in India Colony of the East India Company ↓ …
99Psychiatric history — A psychiatric history is the result of a medical process where a clinician working in the field of mental health (usually a psychiatrist) systematically records the content of an interview with a patient. This is then combined with the mental… …
100Futurology — Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the science, art and practice of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. Futures studies (colloquially called Futures by many of the… …
