A trapezium in Proclus ' sense is a quadrilateral having one pair of its opposite sides parallel.

A trapezium as any quadrilateral more general than a parallelogram is the sense of the term in Euclid.

This sense is the one that is sometimes quoted in the US, but in practice quadrilateral is used rather than trapezium.

The blind form of the Mexican tetra is different from the surface-dwelling form in a number of ways, including having unpigmented skin, having a better olfactory sense by having taste buds all over its head, and by being able to store four times more energy as fat allowing it to deal with irregular food supplies more effectively.

In a more obvious sense, the title also alludes to the ideal of nature as a rustic paradise, with the landscaping of the estate to give a less stylised, irregular form as a major theme in the play.

The French épée bâtarde as well as the English bastard sword originates in the 15th or 16th century, originally in the general sense of " irregular sword, sword of uncertain origin ", but by the mid-16th century could refer to exceptionally large swords.

The music of the United States can be characterized by the use of syncopation and asymmetrical rhythms, long, irregular melodies, which are said to " reflect the wide open geography of ( the American landscape )" and the " sense of personal freedom characteristic of American life ".

Doggerel has been deliberately used for comic or satiric effect, as exemplified by John Skelton ( giving rise to a variety of verse known as " skeltonics ", defined as " short rhyming lines of irregular length, which build up a spasmodic energy from a rumble-tumble of rhymes in a melange of different languages, in which dog Latin and dog English fight out the sense between them ".

* Depending on the context Man and its irregular Germanic plural Men may be used irrespective of age, or as an opposite to boy ( in its normal sense restricted to male minors ) only for adult men.

Loss of orientation and sense of direction is also a common experience in older cities with cul-de-sac streets ( Medina of Arab cities or Mediterranean hill towns ) as well as in cities with highly irregular block geometries and sizes and corresponding street alignments that produce a labyrinthine effect.

Interlingua is notable in the sense that unlike most auxiliary languages, that seek to minimise or eliminate any irregular aspects, Interlingua takes a flexible approach.

The French épée bâtarde as well as the English bastard sword originates in the 15th or 16th century, originally as having the general sense of " irregular sword or sword of uncertain origin ".

The irregular shapes of the lakes provide different views around each corner and give a sense of " progressive revelation ‟ to visitors.

We may be “ irregular ” in the sense that funds are not forthcoming to maintain us, but we were always like that and it is no disgrace to be called “ irregulars ” in that sense.

The uniform fiscal year ensures conformance with another common sense rule, that of having cash in the bank before checks are drawn.

To raise the added objection that men require certainty on psychological grounds, answers to ultimate questions having an irrational rather than scientific basis, is in a real sense to undermine the objection itself.

On the one hand, there is a sense of not having moved beyond the ambiance of their high school.

Erikson has noted that, unless this trust developed early, the time ambivalence experienced, in varying degree and temporarily, by all adolescents ( as a result of their remembering the more immediate gratification of wants during childhood, while not yet having fully accepted the long-range planning required by adulthood ) may develop into a more permanent sense of time diffusion.

The developmental process involves the individual's progressively experiencing a sense of dignity and achievement resulting from having completed tasks, having kept commitments, and having created something ( however small or simple -- even a doll dress of one's own design rather than in the design `` it ought to be '' ).

( It follows that the mean is also the best single predictor in the sense of having the lowest root mean squared error.

As well as having good business sense, Carnegie possessed charm and literary knowledge.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

Steven Zhang of the Cornell Daily Sun has described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the Ivy League, of having a " smug sense of success " because they believe " gaining entrance into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself.

`` Ain't no sense you eating our dust '', Rod protested.

Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.

Others call it `` alienation '', and mean by that no simple economic experience ( as Marx does ) but a deep spiritual sense of dislocation.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

But a powerful sense of community, even with little or no machinery, means a great deal.

Last, it makes no sense to deliver Katanga, the one reasonably solid territory, into the existing chaos.

There's no sense in being reminded of times that were.

It made no sense to him.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

There would be no conceivable sense in going to the opposite extreme of selecting items whose forms are the most unstable.

But there is no positive and consistently demonstrable relationship in the strictest sense.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

The authors insist, however, that these abnormalities in the sense of touch were due absolutely to no organic disorders in that sense faculty but rather to the injuries which the patient had sustained to the sense of sight.

And so the authors conclude: `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work, even more than the foregoing facts ( mentioned above under 1 ), leave positively no room for doubt that the sense of touch, in the ordinary sense of the word, was unaffected ; ;

no sort of pricing at all for any goods or services, and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term.

There is no longer any sense of continuing development of the sort that can be traced from Baudelaire to Eluard, or for that matter, from Hawthorne through Henry James to Gertrude Stein.

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

But dominant in the sense that every other objective, no matter how worthy intrinsically, must defer to it.

These affairs temporarily relieved the monotony of school or work activities containing no anticipation of achievement and joy of craftsmanship, no sense of dignity derived from a job well done.