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  • Around us, cause and effect join hands, and synthesis and division maintain their equilibrium.†   (source)
  • The synthesis of complex organic materials.†   (source)
  • He had settled not for a synthesis between observing and acting, but for doctoring and public health work that would be partly guided by anthropology.†   (source)
  • No baby pictures, no kid pictures, and no emo-alternative-gothy-screamo-punk synthesis pictures...' four-poster queen-size bed jutted up against the wall opposite the bulletin hoard.†   (source)
  • The first synthesis tried to resolve differences between the Heraclitans and the followers of Parmenides.†   (source)
  • I used the result for random synthesis and that came out.†   (source)
  • It may well be considered as that miracle which was thought impossible in history-the dream of the ages-the final synthesis of science and love!†   (source)
  • And Caller Ill and voice recognition and automatic voice synthesis and phone trees and ... What the seventy people did was mostly let the computers handle it.†   (source)
  • ... [lofty spirituality] is a synthesis of all qualities attributed to the "merely moral" man, after they have been acquired singly through long training and practice...   (source)
    synthesis = the combination of components into a complex whole
  • Before the synthesis of a protein begins, the corresponding RNA molecule is produced by RNA transcription.
    synthesis = the construction of complex chemical compounds from simpler ones
  • For many Romantics, philosophy, nature study, and poetry formed a synthesis.†   (source)
  • Kant's synthesis now becomes the point of departure for another chain of reflections, or 'triad.'†   (source)
  • He also called these three stages of knowledge thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.†   (source)
  • Because a synthesis will also be contradicted by a new antithesis.†   (source)
  • We say that he created the great synthesis between faith and knowledge.†   (source)
  • It was subordinate only to Truth itself, in a synthesis of all that had gone before.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus saw Plato's philosophy as a result of two syntheses.†   (source)
  • While I was playing, the Conan the Barbarian score ended and the jambox clicked over and began to play the opposite side of the tape, treating me to the synthesizer-laden score for Ladyhawke.†   (source)
  • He learned by heart the fantastic legends of the crumbling books, the synthesis of the studies of Hermann the Cripple, the notes on the science of demonology, the keys to the philosopher's stone, theCenturies of Nostradamus and his research concerning the plague, so that he reached adolescence without knowing a thing about his own time but with the basic knowledge of a medieval man.†   (source)
  • I never moved the food synthesizer from the dining dome to my apartments, preferring instead to eat in the echoing silence under that cracked duotoo like some addled Eloi fattening himself up for the inevitable Morlock.†   (source)
  • When she was seven, she decided that the migrant workers staying in their run-down houses on the south end of town lacked a nutritious diet, so she emptied the house's pantries, cold boxes, freezers, and synthesizer banks, talked three friends into accompanying her, and distributed several hundred marks" worth of the family's monthly food budget.†   (source)
  • To direct a war, or even to plan a single battle and mount the operation, you have to have theory of games, operational analysis, symbolic logic, pessimistic synthesis, and a dozen other skull subjects.†   (source)
  • In several articles and in separate books about each country, he attempts a synthesis not just of the events that led up to catastrophic violence, but also of the political, social, and economic forces at work.†   (source)
  • Impaired protein synthesis.†   (source)
  • Plato's second synthesis is the incorporation of the Sophists' areté into this dichotomy of Ideas and Appearance.†   (source)
  • He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith.†   (source)
  • What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.†   (source)
  • It's all just parts and relationships and analyses and syntheses and figuring things out and it isn't really here.†   (source)
  • His book—the work of an American professor —of religion—is brief in length but wise and far-seeing in its final dimensions (the.subtitle "Mass Death and the American Future" may give an idea of its ambitious—and chilling—attempt both at prophecy and a historical synthesis), and there is no room here to do justice to its full power and complexity, or to the moral and religious resonances it manages to convey; it will surely remain one of the essential handbooks of the Nazi era, a terrifyingly accurate necropsy and an urgent consideration of our own uncertain tomorrows.†   (source)
  • How could poor backward Poland (Sophie often heard him say), losing its identity with clockwork regularity to oppressor after oppressor—especially the barbarous Russians, who were now also in the grip of the Communist antichrist—find salvation and cultural grace except through the intercession of Germany, which had so magnificently fused a historic tradition of mythic radiance and the supertechnology of the twentieth century, creating a prophetic synthesis for lesser nations to turn to?†   (source)
  • Furthermore his synthesis of sun-god and storm-god is familiar.†   (source)
  • In other words, the synthesis of immediate perception is followed by the analysis of apprehension.†   (source)
  • I suppose you're cleaning up some things on the synthesis of antibodies.†   (source)
  • When you have apprehended that basket as one thing and have then analysed it according to its form and apprehended it as a thing you make the only synthesis which is logically and esthetically permissible.†   (source)
  • That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could not doubt, nor even admit the possibility of doubt.†   (source)
  • It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province.†   (source)
  • And so they went about inventing transitional and intermediate stages, assuming the existence of organisms lower than any known form, but which themselves were the result of even more primal attempts by nature to create life—attempts that no one would ever see, that were submicroscopic in size, and whose hypothesized formation presupposed a previous synthesis of protein.†   (source)
  • Himself, he had worked for years on the synthesis of antibodies; he was at present in a blind alley, and at Mohalis there was no one who was interested, no one to stir him, but he was having an agreeable time massacring the opsonin theory, and that cheered him.†   (source)
  • While the moon followed its prescribed path across the high mountain valley glistening like crystal below, he would read, pursue his study of organized matter, of the characteristics of protoplasm, that self-sustaining, delicate substance that hovers intriguingly between synthesis and dissolution and whose basic forms have remained the same as when it first assumed rudimentary shape.†   (source)
  • There was nothing for her to say of him but that he was the very oldest; this rather meagre synthesis exhausted the facts.†   (source)
  • Amber is easily synthesized.   (source)
    synthesized = made by combining simpler substances
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • We could synthesize every morsel of food, if we wanted to.   (source)
    synthesize = create artificially
  • All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods.   (source)
    synthesize = create (by combining components)
  • And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.†   (source)
  • In photosynthesis, plants use the energy of the sun (photo means light) to synthesize (make) food.†   (source)
  • You disaggregate everything and tear it apart, but you are never able to synthesize the whole.†   (source)
  • Now what we do is synthesize an artificial Deja Eprouve for the patient.†   (source)
  • They did that because, despite being cancerous, HeLa still shared many basic characteristics with normal cells: They produced proteins and communicated with one another like normal cells, they divided and generated energy, they expressed genes and regulated them, and they were susceptible to infections, which made them an optimal tool for synthesizing and studying any number of things in culture, including bacteria, hormones, proteins, and especially viruses.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Weintraub's baby had ceased crying in favor of nursing on a soft bottle of synthesized mother's milk.†   (source)
  • People were so desperate for relief and protection from the disease they began widespread experimentation with makeshift folk remedies that were in themselves deadly, consuming concoctions of drugs assembled from common cold medications and synthesized into an extremely addictive and often fatal compound (please see "Folk Cures Through the Ages'... The discovery of the procedure to cure deliria is typically credited to Cormac T. Holmes, a neuroscientist who was a member of the initial Consortium of New Scientists and one of the first disciples of the New Religion, which teaches the Holy Trinity of God, Science, and Order.†   (source)
  • I've changed names and synthesized events and circumstances in keeping with the integrity of a literary, dramatic work, as an artist does in striving for that rare instance when, as a critic once said, "something of beauty collides with something of truth.†   (source)
  • Certainly by the afternoon, she would have taken in and synthesized the warmth of the millions who cared for her, and would be ready to properly thank Mae, to tell her how, now with the new perspective, she could put the crimes of her relatives in context, and could move forward, into the solvable future, and not backward, into the chaos of an unfixable past.†   (source)
  • The synthesized voice of the cab's computer told me the drive would take an estimated thirty-two minutes with the current traffic conditions.†   (source)
  • I also received requests for an audio clip of my avatar's voice, so I sent them a synthesized clip of a deep baritone that made me sound like one of those guys who did voice-overs for movie trailers.†   (source)
  • Once there, we could i:ount on real gravity underfoot, unfiltered air to breathe, and the chance to taste unsynthesized food.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsynthesized means not and reverses the meaning of synthesized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • When it became clear that she was occupied with the synthesized voice, I spoke to Babette in low tones.†   (source)
  • We had to remember, however, that this was speech not assembled from words previously recorded by a real person but synthesized from artificial components.†   (source)
  • Most E. coli bacteria help us digest food, synthesize vitamins, and guard against dangerous organisms.†   (source)
  • These awesome string players, synthesized and blended with various world beats, influenced by—" Then he said something else, which was drowned out by a sudden burst of rapid drumbeats.†   (source)
  • And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.†   (source)
  • It is obviously much harder to get machines to match the amazing human understanding of speech than it is to simulate or synthesize speech, as we saw in Cliff Nass's lab at Stanford.†   (source)
  • The invention of gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers — machines capable of detecting volatile gases at low levels — vastly increased the number of flavors that could be synthesized.†   (source)
  • All of the flavors being created through these methods — including the ones being synthesized by funguses — are considered natural flavors by the FDA.†   (source)
  • Oh Lord, how my balls hurt as I synthesized stormy lovemaking not only with Leslie but with two other enchantresses who had claimed my passion.†   (source)
  • The hero, who in his life represented the dual perspective, after his death is still a synthesizing image: like Charlemagne, he sleeps only and will arise in the hour of destiny, or he is among us under another form.†   (source)
  • Among other things, he spoke about Romanticism and the fascinating duality of this early nineteenth-century European movement, before which both reactionary and revolutionary ideas fell, that is, all those that were not synthesized to something higher still.†   (source)
  • But that week he read, as an announcement issued by the McGurk Institute of Biology of New York, that Dr. Max Gottlieb had synthesized antibodies in vitro.†   (source)
  • While Martin did the injections and observed the effect on the monkeys and lost himself in chemistry, Terry toiled (all night, all next day, then a drink and a frowsy nap and all night again) on new methods of synthesizing the quinine derivative.†   (source)
  • We'll patent your method of synthesizing antibodies and immediately put them on the market in large quantities, with a great big advertising campaign— you know—not circus it, of course—strictly high-class ethical advertising.†   (source)
  • But tonight, in detestation of such literary playboys as Brumfit, he exalted Gottlieb's long, lonely, failure-burdened effort to synthesize antitoxin, and his diabolic pleasure in disproving his own contentions as he would those of Ehrlich or Sir Almroth Wright.†   (source)
  • He patented the process of synthesizing his quinine derivative and retired to Birdies' Rest, to build a laboratory out of his small savings and spend a life of independent research supported by a restricted sale of sera and of his drug.†   (source)
  • Lastly, the Bishop of Rome, in regard of the Imperiall City, took upon him an Authority (partly by the wills of the Emperours themselves, and by the title of Pontifex Maximus, and at last when the Emperours were grown weak, by the priviledges of St. Peter) over all other Bishops of the Empire: Which was the third and last knot, and the whole Synthesis and Construction of the Pontificall Power.†   (source)
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