* Modality ( semiotics ), the channel by which signs are transmitted ( oral, gesture, written )

The test is accompanied by an inventory, The Relational Modality Evaluation Scale, a self-report measure that targets individuals ' particular ways of resolving conflict and ways of dealing with relational stress.

He gave lectures on the topic at the University of Oxford in 1955-6, and in 1957 published a book, Time and Modality, in which he introduced a propositional modal logic with two temporal connectives ( modal operators ), F and P, corresponding to " sometime in the future " and " sometime in the past ".

* Modality modifies propositions and modalities provide closure ( i. e.: propositions with modalities are still propositions ).

Modality turns into quantification (" Possibly there are blue swans if and only if, for some world W, at W there are blue swans "), and counterfactual conditionals turn into statements of fact about possible worlds (' If it were that A, then it would be that C ' is true if and only if C is true at the selected A-world.

( 1980 b ), " Reference and Modality ", pp. 139 – 159 in Quine ( 1980 a ), From a Logical Point of View.

Modality can be reduced in the Lewisian account, but in traditional systems modal quantifiers, such as " possibly ", are defined in terms of other modal quanitfiers or notions.

Modality may refer to:

Patient ID and Orders will be sent to Modality ( CT, MR, etc ) via DICOM protocol ( Worklist ).

Modality specificity can account for category specific impairments in semantic memory disorders.

Tone expresses the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the reader, or herself or himself.

The conflation expresses both of these ideas at the same time without making the speaker's intention entirely clear.

In Japanese the verb inflection-tai expresses the speaker's desire, e. g. watashi wa asoko ni ikitai " I want to go there ".

It expresses the speaker's doubt or uncertainty about the event denoted by the verb.

In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, " expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking.

One definition of a hymn is "... a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life.

Boober almost always expresses a negative attitude, and displays hypochondriac tendencies ( he is apparently allergic to dogs ) and he expresses deeply ingrained superstition.

It expresses a progressive attitude coupled with a will to conserve the achievements of tradition.

Paternalism can also imply that the behavior is against or regardless of the will of a person, or also that the behavior expresses an attitude of superiority

According to designer Francis Millet, " The head of Lincoln was selected because it is the only thing which can be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment now happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War, and the portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody, particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase which so tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war.

According to emotivism, such a sentence merely expresses an attitude of the speaker ; it only means something like " Boo on murder!

He expresses his attitude towards sound changes, when talking about the gradual merge of and initials in Cantonese:

She reminds him he promised her a screen test and expresses concern about his excessive drinking and flippant attitude, but he tells her not to worry.

Gary, on the other hand, is frustrated by Brooke ’ s controlling, perfectionist attitude and expresses his desire to have more space, particularly after coming home from work.

Yoh attempts to defeat him before he can succeed, but is overwhelmed and his soul is consumed after Hao expresses disgust with Yoh's attitude that " everything will work out ".

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and composers all vary between regions and periods.

Definition is fluid, but assigning the title " little " typically relates to a person who expresses kindness, compassion, empathy, and a certain level of optimism and joy toward life and other people.

He bails both Jaye and Yvette out of jail in " Crime Dog ," telling her when she apologizes for making him compromise his political beliefs that family comes first, and even expresses gratitude toward Jaye for hitting him with her car ( because it's discovered that he had a potentially-fatal blood clot in his leg ).

Wolsey passes over the stage with his attendants, and expresses his own hostility toward Buckingham.

< li > expresses envy and resentment toward those apparently more fortunate

Gregory Baum, a German-born Catholic theologian and Professor Emeritus in Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, expresses the effect of this concept on Christian views toward conversion.

Although Lady Macbeth may not express violence toward her child with that same degree of grotesqueness, she certainly expresses a sense of brutality when she states that she would smash the babe's head.

Tahu then expresses his subtle rage toward the fact that that was the price to be paid for Mata Nui's awakening.

Evidence of this is seen in his patriotic canciones ( songs ) in which he expresses feelings toward contemporary military leaders and actions.

There are several actions in poker called declaration, in which a player formally expresses his intent to take some action ( which he may perform at a later point ).

* Continuous and progressive aspects, a grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action

Aspect expresses how the action or state occurs through time.

The voice of a verb expresses whether the subject of the verb is performing the action of the verb or whether the action is being performed on the subject.

In much the same way that imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands to take action, imperative programs define sequences of commands for the computer to perform.

NAMBI ( Not Against My Business or Industry ) is used as a label for any business concern that expresses umbrage with actions or policy that threaten that business, whereby they are believed to be complaining about the principle of the action or policy only for their interests alone and not for all similar business concerns who would equally suffer from the actions or policies.

A diplomatic dinner is held in Moscow to celebrate the operation, at which U. S. President James Marshall expresses his remorse that action had not been taken sooner to prevent the suffering that Radek caused and vows that the his administration will take a firmer stance against despotism and refuse to negotiate with terrorists.

Conventionally, the English language expresses fine distinctions as to the beginning, duration, completion, or repetition, of an action in the form of compound verbs, using auxiliaries or other lexical mechanisms.

Rockefeller noted that the comment expresses his personal opinion, and that he was not privy to any confidential information that such action was planned.

The prophage expresses gene ( s ) that repress the phage's lytic action, until this suppression is disrupted ( see lytic cycle ).

The Spanish conditional — although semantically it expresses the dependency of one action or proposition upon another — is generally considered a " tense " of the indicative mood, because, syntactically, it can appear in an independent clause.

* Subjunctive mood: The subjunctive mood expresses an imagined or desired action in the past, present or future.

In grammar, the voice of a verb describes the relationship between the action ( or state ) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments ( subject, object, etc.

The essive-modal case is a case in the Hungarian language that expresses either the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has ( Essive case, e. g. " as a reward ", " for example "), or the manner in which an action is carried out, an event happens, or the language which somebody knows ( Modal case, e. g. " sloppily ", " unexpectedly ", " speak German ").

Concerned about the damage to the LNP's reputation in the electorate, in March 2011 a motion was moved at the party's Federal Divisional Council " that this Council notes the actions of the Member for Fisher in accepting nomination by the Labor Party for the position of Deputy Speaker and competing for this position in opposition to Mr Bruce Scott MP nominated for this position by the coalition parties and expresses its concern over the ongoing negative publicity directed at the Member for Fisher and the resulting damage to the Liberal National Party and requests the Applicant Review Committee to take note and take action as deemed appropriate.

The progressive aspect expresses the dynamic quality of actions that are in progress while the continuous aspect expresses the state of the subject that is continuing the action.

" Imperfect " comes from the Latin " unfinished ", because the imperfect expresses an ongoing, uncompleted action.

It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action.

Because of the action of outer wheel as the steering force, this can lead to the climbing of wheel according to the Nadal formula, which expresses the relation between the lateral forces on the wheel and the vertical downforce of the wheel on the rail.

It expresses that the statute creates a cause of action for liability and does not create a property right, and holds that as Chamberlain had alleged that Skylink was in violation of the anti-trafficking provision, it had the burden to prove and failed to show that access was unauthorized and its rights were infringed under the Copyright Act.

Any event, state, process, or action which a verb expresses — collectively, any eventuality — may also be said to have the same lexical aspect.

Throughout the lifetime of an animal, those lymphocytes that can react against the antigens an animal actually encounters, will be selected for action, directed against anything that expresses that antigen.