Sentence examples for the affording from inspiring English sources
verb
To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
- I think we can afford the extra hour it will take. We can only afford to buy a small car at the moment.
This manipulation allowed us to assess whether the spatial alignment effect was due to unspecific attentional cues or to the actual reachability of the affording object.
To disentangle this question we ran a second experiment in which we interposed a near-transparent panel between the avatar and the affording object.
Crucially, no spatial alignment effect was observed when the affording object was far from the participants but close to a non corporeal object, such as a cylinder.
We found that the spatial alignment effect occurred only when the affording object was actually reachable by the avatar and not only faced by it, that is, when the object was literally ready-at-hand.
In this study we aimed to investigate whether and to what extent our perception of the affording features of an object may be related to and influenced by the presence of another individual.
In the present study we further expanded this result by showing that the spatial alignment effect might occur also when the affording object is located outside the reachable space of the participants, provided that it is located within the reachable space of another individual, such as an avatar.
The afforded ALA-conjugated UCNPs were also characterized morphologically.
The ratio of the afforded precursors depends on the specific environmental conditions.
Now he must improve the protection afforded the Liverpool goal.
That tax benefit helped the Perrys afford the Max Seas.
Can the patient afford the medication costs?
