In the grammar of certain inflected languages, such as Latin, the ablative case is the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective used to indicate the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb. Research Ablative
Something that is absolute is freed from relation, limitation or dependence. As an adjective, it is therefore applied to the essence of a thing apart from its relations or appearances, and to the complete or perfect state of being. Hence comes its substantial meaning of 'The Absolute' as the self-existent, self-sufficient Being, that which is free from all limitation, the all-inclusive Reality. The absolute in one form or another forms a central feature in the philosophical systems of Baruch De Spinoza, Schelling and Georg Hegel.
In grammar, an adjective is a word used to denote some quality in the noun or substantive to which it is accessory. The adjective is indeclinable in English (but has degrees of comparison), and generally precedes the noun, while in most other European languages it follows the inflections of the substantive, and is more commonly placed after it, though in German it precedes it, as in English. Research Adjective
An adverb is one of the parts of speech used to limit or qualify the signification of an adjective, verb, or other adverb; as, very cold, naturally brave, much more clearly, readily agreed. Adverbs may be classified as follows: 1) adverbs of time, as, now, then, never, etc; 2) of place, as, here, there, where, etc; 3) of degree, as, very, much, nearly, almost, etc; 4) of affirmation, negation, or doubt, as, yes, no, certainly, perhaps, etc. 5) of manner, as, well, badly, clearly, etc. Research Adverb
Bravo is an Italian adjective used as an exclamation of praise (meaning well done or excellent). Originally it was used only within the theatre, but now it is used in all walks of life. The word bravo should be used for a man, brava for a woman and bravi to several persons. Research Bravo
In grammar, a subordinate clause is a clause serving as an adjective, adverb, or noun in a main sentence because of its position or a preceding conjunction. That is a subordinate clause is a part of a sentence which adds more information to the sentence, but is in itself not a stand alone sentence. An example of a subordinate clause might be: 'Because he had not eaten for a week', the full complex sentence being 'Because he had not eaten for a week the boy ate his cabbage.' Or 'Fed up with waiting, the woman left the restaurant'. A clause can be made into a subordinate clause by adding a conjunction (when, if, because, whenever) at the start of a clause. Subordinate clauses at the start of a sentence make the sentence more interesting, and encourage the reader to read on to find out what happens and to build emotion: for example: 'Red with rage, his bloodboiling, Grant felt the cold steel of the water pipe in his hand'. Research Subordinate Clause
The Finns (in their own language called Suomalainen), are a race of people inhabiting Finland and the north-west of European Russia . In a wider sense the term Finns, with its adjective Finnic or Finnish, is applied to one of the chief branches of the northern or Uralo-Altaic division of the Turanian family of peoples and languages. The Uralo-Finnic family has been divided into four groups or branches: 1, the Ugric, to which the Ostiaks, Voguls, and Magyars belong; 2, the Bulgaric or Volgaic, consisting of the Tcheremisses and the Mordvins; 3, the Permic, composed of the Permians, Sirianes, and Votiaks; and 4, the Chudic or Baltic group. To the last belong, besides the Finns proper, the Esths of Esthonia and the Lives or Livonians, the Chudes, and the Lapps.
The typical Finns are physically of low stature but of strong build; with round head, forehead low and arched, features flat with prominent cheek-bones, and oblique eyes. Their language belongs to the northern division of the Turanian or Uralo - Altaic family of languages, and is most nearly allied to the languages of the Esths, Lapps, Mordvins, Voguls, and Hungarians. It is agreeable to the ear, rich in vowels and diphthongs, copious, and uncommonly flexible.
The language is remarkably rich in declensional forms, there being as many as fifteen different cases, expressing such relations as are expressed in English by near, to, by, on, in, with, without, along, etc. There is no distinction of gender in nouns. The verb resembles the noun in its capability for expressing shades of meaning by corresponding inflections. Finnish literature is valuable chiefly for its rich stores of national poetry. These poems, which had been preserved by oral tradition from the times of heathendom, were gradually dying out, until 1835, when Lonnrot grouped together in one whole all the fragments he could lay his hands on and published them, under the title of Kalevala, as the national epic of the Finnish people, A second edition, increased almost by one-half, was published by him in 1849. He also published a collection of 592 ancient lyric poems and 50 old ballads, and collections of proverbs and riddles. A great impulse was given to the cultivation of the Finnic language in the 19th century and it was recognised as an official language side by side with Swedish, and became more and more the vehicle for imparting instruction - at the time the Finns were being ruled by Russia, having previously been ruled by Sweden and had not been an independent people for some considerable time. Research Finns
In psychology, conation is a term used by Sir William Hamilton to designate one of the three great divisions of the mind, the other two being cognition and feeling. As used by him it included the mental states of desire and volition alone; but modern writers make the term broad enough to include every state of mental change, so that we find conation wherever consciousness, of itself, drifts from one state to another. Although akin to feeling and attention, it is distinct from both. The word is occasionally applied to those sensations, whether painful or pleasant, which accompany muscular activity. The adjective 'conative' was first used by Cudworth in 1688. Research Conation
A is an abbreviation for Acting
A is an abbreviation for effective aperture area of antenna
A is an abbreviation for Academician
A is an abbreviation for Academy
A is an abbreviation for Accepted
A is an abbreviation for Active
A is an abbreviation for Adjective
A is an abbreviation for Adult
A is an abbreviation for Aftermath
A is an abbreviation for Advanced
A is an abbreviation for Ampere
A is an abbreviation for Analog
A is an abbreviation for Ante
A is an abbreviation for Angstrom
A is an abbreviation for Area
A is an abbreviation for Argon
A is an abbreviation for Associate
A is an abbreviation for Atomic
A is an abbreviation for Acre
A is an abbreviation for America
A is an abbreviation for Amateur
A is an abbreviation for Answer
A was formerly an abbreviation for Argon
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