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subjective
English
Etymology
subject +? -ive
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?b?d??kt?v/, /s?b?d??kt?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
- Hyphenation: sub?ject?ive
Adjective
subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
- The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
Antonyms
- objective
Derived terms
- subjectiveness
- subjectivity
Translations
Further reading
- "subjective" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 308.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syb.??k.tiv/
Adjective
subjective
- feminine singular of subjectif
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random
English
Etymology
From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long walk, hike”)), from Frankish *rant, *rand (“run”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *randij?, from *rinnan? (“run”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r?-nw- (“to flow, move, run”). See run.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?n'd?m, IPA(key): /??ænd?m/
Noun
random (countable and uncountable, plural randoms)
- A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
- (obsolete) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force. [14th-17thc.]
- Synonyms: force, momentum, speed, velocity
- (obsolete) The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range. [16th-19thc.]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 144:
- Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 144:
- (figuratively, colloquial) An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence. [from 20thc.]
- Synonyms: rando, nobody, nonentity
- (mining) The direction of a rake-vein.
- (printing, historical) A frame for composing type.
- 1935, Newspaper World (issues 1930-1955, page 41)
- Utilization of all floor space underneath case racks and randoms is another feature of the modern composing room; […]
- 2002, Republic of Korea (issue 2, page 502)
- Printers' frames and randoms
- 1935, Newspaper World (issues 1930-1955, page 41)
Derived terms
- randy
Translations
Adjective
random (comparative more random, superlative most random)
- Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
- Synonym: aleatory
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to probability distribution.
- Synonym: stochastic
- (computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
- Synonym: pseudorandom
- (somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
- Synonyms: average, typical
- (somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause, or reason.
- Synonyms: arbitrary, unexpected, unplanned
- (colloquial) Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? German: random
- ? Hungarian: random
Translations
Further reading
- randomness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Damron, Dorman, Mardon, Rodman, mandor, modRNA, ram-don, rodman
German
Etymology
English random
Pronunciation
Adjective
random (not comparable)
- (colloquial) random
- Synonyms: beliebig, durcheinander, zufällig
Further reading
- “random” in Duden online
Hungarian
Etymology
From English random.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r?ndom]
- Hyphenation: ran?dom
- Rhymes: -om
Adjective
random (comparative randomabb, superlative legrandomabb)
- random
- Synonyms: véletlen, véletlenszer?
- (informal) undistinguished, average, arbitrary, whichever, any
- Synonyms: tetsz?leges, akármelyik, akármilyen, bármelyik, bármilyen
Declension
References
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