Today, the search engine can understand 25 close synonyms for the word "student," including "freshmen" and "pupils," and another 25 slightly more distant words that suggest the same thing, including "academics".
We conducted the experiments of our proposed method using a limited vocabulary (100 words) distant isolated word recognition in a real environment.
He was a poor student, a distant son; in Lahr's words "an imagination in isolation trying to keep itself amused", who looked to the theatre as a means of escape.
> > -wrap-foot> > -wrap-foot> > -wrap-foot> > -wrap-foot> as a dependent variable, the differences between the mean scores obtained by each patient were used on each of the two levels of the three independent variables: semantic distance (distant close: i.e. subtracting accuracy on close from accuracy on distant arrays), word frequency (high low) and presentation rate (slow fast).
She was confused and distant, her words slurred.
But some of us who were children long ago have become puzzles with certain small, odd pieces: the names of distant railroads; words to songs; the memory of haircuts on a green lawn.
Ultimately, what happened to Mitchell is an extreme version of what happens to most writers: your powers decline, the vision of what you want to attain becomes more and more distant, the words dry up or don't come out the way you want.
When her father, a dissident Somali politician, promised her in marriage to a distant cousin, his word of honor was absolute.
In a passage that compares the "dim roar of London" to the "bourdon note of an organ," Wilde inserts the word "distant" before "organ," adding a twinge of far-off religious dread.
I want to use the word "distant" about the writer's sense of his world, to suggest not coldness, but exactitude, something of the "fine, cold" quality Anna finds in Eliot.
