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Classifiers and are
Classifiers are highly iconic.
Classifiers are used to describe things, and they transfer well across linguistic barriers.
Classifiers are sometimes used as count nouns preceding mass nouns, in order to redirect the speaker's focus away from the mass nature.
Classifiers are bound morphemes: they do not have any meaning by themselves and are always used in conjunction with a noun or another content word.
Classifiers are generally associated with certain groups of nouns related by meaning, such as " 條 / 条 tiáo " for long, thin objects or animals ( e. g. ropes, snakes or fish ), " 把 bǎ " for objects with handles ( e. g. knives, umbrellas ) " 張 / 张 zhāng " for flat objects that can be counted as sheets in English ( photographs, fur, etc .).
Classifiers are not used in English ( for instance, " people " is a countable noun, and to say " three people " no extra word needs to be added ), but are common in East Asian languages ( where the equivalent of " three people " is often " three classifier people ") and in sign languages.
Classifiers are a very typical feature of sign languages.

Classifiers and .
# R. Herbrich, " Learning Kernel Classifiers: Theory and Algorithms ," MIT Press, ( 2001 ).
Classifiers must also be trained in muscle testing and in the details of wheelchair rugby classification.
Simple approaches use the average values of the rated item vector while other sophisticated methods use machine learning techniques such as Bayesian Classifiers, cluster analysis, decision trees, and artificial neural networks in order to estimate the probability that the user is going to like the item.
* Beckwith ( 2007 ): Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction.
* Scholz, Martin and Klinkenberg, Ralf: Boosting Classifiers for Drifting Concepts.

are and very
`` You are very brave ''.
Families are very interesting.
We are very proud of it ''.
`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.
They are very small, and in the form of haystacks, without either chimney or windows.
I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??
The sand is fine and pleasant, the cabanas are clean, and the parasols, green, raspberry, and butter yellow, are very gay.
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
Many of our very best friends are reformers.
But most learn to color and paint as and when they are ready with only a very little demonstration.
The very rules and regulations in every city are the primary case of slum conditions.
The girls, very fetching in their uniforms, are shown firing rockets from a launcher mounted on a dump truck ; ;

are and iconic
The Poolbeg Towers are also iconic features of Dublin and are visible in many spots around the city.
Some of the letters are represented by iconic shapes, such as b, c, d, k, and, in British Sign Language and the BANZSL group of languages, the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, are represented by pointing to the fingertips.
Manual alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet, the Ethiopian syllabary and the Korean hangul syllabary-alphabet use handshapes that are more or less iconic representations of the characters in the writing system.
His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis ( the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release ) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic precursor to the film noir genre.
Other common iconic presences, especially of monarchs, are on coins, stamps and banknotes ; more discreet variations see them represented by a mention and / or signature.
Comparable images from Western Christianity are generally not described as " icons ", although " iconic " may be used to describe a static style of devotional image.
Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.
The figures ’ robes display a Byzantine conservatism, with their modeled three-dimensionality and allusion to a Classical style, yet the iconic hand gestures are reminiscent of a Romanesque energy and theatricality.
Polar bears are the iconic symbol of Svalbard, and one of the main tourist attractions.
However, partially because the traditional pieces are already iconic by size, with more powerful pieces being larger, most Western players soon learn to recognize them, and Westernized pieces have never become popular.
As these neurons fire, the available neurotransmitters in their store are depleted and this pattern of depletion is iconic, represents stimulus information and functions as a memory trace.
It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial arrangement on the page, which does not follow a sequential order like the letters that make up written English words.
In SignWriting, a combination of iconic symbols for handshapes, body locations, facial expressions, contacts, and movement are used to represent words in sign language.
These are iconic, but conventionalized, and so need to be learned individually.
Most of the iconic shots are replicated, beginning with the helicopter approach and close-up turn of McGarrett at the Ilikai Hotel penthouse, the jet engine intake, a hula dancer's hips, the quickly stepped zoom-in to the face of the Lady Columbia statue at Punchbowl, the close-up of the Kamehameha Statue's face, and the ending with a police motorcycle's flashing blue light.
The bonobo is endemic to the humid forests in the region, as are other iconic species like the Allen's swamp monkey, dryas monkey, aquatic genet, okapi and Congo Peafowl.
No less a virtuoso in oils, he executed Lesende junge Frau ( 1906 ), Blumengarten ( ohne Figur ) ( 1908 ) and Blumen und Wolken ( 1933 ) which are iconic works in their own right.
Miranda's enormous, fruit-laden hats are iconic visuals recognized around the world.
Three designers are widely considered the pioneers of that movement and of logo and corporate identity design: The first is Chermayeff & Geismar, which is the firm responsible for a large number of iconic logos, such as Chase Bank ( 1964 ), Mobil Oil ( 1965 ), PBS ( 1984 ), NBC ( 1986 ), National Geographic ( 2003 ) and others.
Jaffas have often been sold in cinemas and have gained iconic status because of the noise made when they are dropped ( accidentally or deliberately ) and rolled down sloping wooden floors.
These events are not specifically attributed to Moulin, but the parallels are no doubt intentional, given the film's celebration of the resistance, and Moulin's iconic status.

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