Synonym: measure, standard, touchstone. Similar words: criteria, hypocrite, inferiority, writer, anterior, exterior, interior, ulterior. Meaning: [kraɪ'tɪərɪən] n. 1. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated 2. the ideal in terms of which something can be judged.
Random good picture Not show
(31) Remarks such as these indicate that Lakatos aimed to propose a universal criterion for judging research programmes in particular and scientific progress in general.
(32) Assertions that intention is the sole criterion of validity are few, suspect, and found only in post-classical texts.
(33) The second criterion, a bit more calculating, is the phonetic makeup of the word.
(34) Even reasonably just states claim more extensive authority than they are entitled to by that criterion.
(35) The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community. 39.
(36) In this respect, the basic criterion for normality is not actual occurrence but contextual plausibility.
(37) Landman's Criterion Calm; smoke rises vertically Direction of wind shown by smoke drift but not by wind vanes.
(38) Further experimentation might lead to the identification of other difficulty factors which could be incorporated into criterion statements.
(39) A criterion referenced marking schedule is used to assess the students at each clinical station.
(40) In real life, the criterion for selection is always short-term, either simple survival or, more generally, reproductive success.
(41) The merit of the project in relation to each criterion is assessed in terms of the five classes, ranging from very good to very poor.
(42) The usual criterion for skilled work is the serving of an apprenticeship.
(43) Their hope was that the statement could be used as the principal criterion for selecting an appropriate organization structure.
(44) Thus age should not be the sole criterion for withholding aggressive treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older patients.
(45) In 1 Cor 12: 2-3, Paul gives the Christological criterion for evaluating any alleged gift.
(46) Frequency rarely seems to be the criterion for adding special circumstances.
(47) Thomas made participation in chapel activities an important criterion for network strength.
(48) Different methods can influence the difficulty of test items and so the precision in the criterion statement may still prove illusory.
(49) So if one picks fourth-wall busting as the decisive criterion, the first big sitcom was also the first postmodern sitcom.
(50) Rather than base my lifestyle on magazine alerts and warnings, I choose to continue with my double-breasted blazer criterion.
(51) A gene has only one criterion by which posterity judges it: whether it becomes an ancestor of other genes.
(52) It is as if the only criterion used for calculating my car insurance premium was the type of car I am driving.
(53) From direct apprehension of truth as object we have gone to a criterion of truth that oscillates between subject and object.
(54) This third criterion is related to whether you feel this new person is friend or foe.
(55) Some criterion must then be devised for dividing these shares between the potentially more than 2 million investor applications.
(56) I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
(57) However, apposition is distinguished from co-ordination by criterion B, since the conjunction of co-referential elements is unacceptable.
(58) It would be better to fit a line which met some predetermined criterion.
(58) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
(59) Clearly the criterion for survival has little to do with narrative verve alone.
(60) Furthermore, the packets were too costly for the average people to buy, conflicting with the second criterion.
More similar words: criteria, hypocrite, inferiority, writer, anterior, exterior, interior, ulterior, deleterious, mysterious, deteriorate, austerity, dexterity, posterity, mysteriously, alliteration, reconstruction period, esterification, counterfeiter, critic, period, critical, alacrity, superior, priority, write, trite, criticize, criticism, serious.