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121make an example of someone — phrase to punish someone severely as a way of warning other people not to do the same thing Thesaurus: to punish someonesynonym punishment of being legally killedhyponym Main entry: example …
122List of linguistic example sentences — This is a list of linguistic example sentences. They illustrate various linguistic phenomena.Independence*Independence of syntax: *:Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Noam Chomsky)Ambiguity*Lexical ambiguity: *:Time flies like an arrow...… …
123Proof of Stein's example — Stein s example is an important result in decision theory which can be stated as: The ordinary decision rule for estimating the mean of a multivariate Gaussian distribution is inadmissible under mean squared error risk in dimesion at least 3 .The …
124Query By Example — L interface QBE de Kexi Query By Example (abr. QBE, en français interrogation par l exemple), est un type d interface utilisateur servant à effectuer des recherches dans des bases de données relationnelles. Le principe d une interface QBE est que …
125make an example of — verb To punish someone so as to be a warning to others. He made an example of the drunken sailor with twenty lashes, to show that he must have a sober crew …
126ball of wax example — The example Descartes uses in the second Meditation to show what is essential to bodies. The ball of wax brought near to the fire changes in its sensible properties, but remains the same substance. The only property abiding through all the other… …
127speckled hen example — An example used to cause problems for theories analysing perception in terms of sense data . If perception is thought of as producing an internal mental ‘picture’ of the external world, then an internal image of a speckled hen should contain a… …
128authoritative example — index authority (documentation), precedent, stare decisis Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
