英语词汇“dimension”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINdimension

Origin:

1300-1400 Old French, Latin dimetiri ‘to measure out’

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

a revival of interest in the spiritual and moral dimensions of life
The arrival of the South African team has brought a new dimension to the competition.
The new art gallery is impressive, but I felt the human dimension had been lost.
The plant closure could have an impact of unknown dimension on the local economy.
The political dimensions of the incident are clear.
The use of perspective allows us to represent three dimensions on a flat page.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A further dimension is added to our understanding.
All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life.
Bissett's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device.
But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found, with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension.
Chinatown was like its host city -- small and compressed in physical dimensions, boundless and ephemeral in spirit.
Practically nothing is known about the race dimension to ageing with a disability.
Suppose that in general, the ball is seen at a random angle in three dimensions, rather than two.
The general dimensions of the issue had not changed much from those noted during the 1980s.

Longman Language Activatorpart of a situation/subject/someone's character► aspect

one of the many parts of a situation or subject, which can each be considered separately: · The inspectors will examine health and safety aspects at the plant.aspect of: · Chris is dealing with the commercial aspects of this ambitious project.· The country was on the brink of war, and fear and uncertainty permeated every aspect of daily life.

► side

one part of a situation or someone's character - use this especially when you are comparing one part with another: · Weiskopf was a talented and successful man, but he did have a cruel side.side of: · I'd like to move away from the theory now, to concentrate on the practical side of engineering.the negative/positive/lighter/funny side: · You are enthusiastic, but on the negative side, you can be impatient and critical.· Try to see the funny side of the situation.· the lighter side of the conference, as seen by our political cartoonist

► dimension

a part of a situation that makes you look at the situation in a particular way: · The arrival of the South African team has brought a new dimension to the competition.dimension of: · The political dimensions of the incident are clear.· a revival of interest in the spiritual and moral dimensions of lifethe human dimension (=making you think of people's feelings, rather than things): · The new art gallery is impressive, but I felt the human dimension had been lost.

► factor

one of the parts or features of a situation, each of which has a different effect or importance: · There are one or two factors we haven't considered yet.· The issue of abortion rights is obviously not the only factor affecting the female vote.· Traders said several factors contributed to Nasdaq's weakness.factor in: · The most important factor in professional sport is psychology.· His formal education was a less significant factor in his upbringing than practical experience.

► element

one of the separate parts of something such as a person's character, a system or process, or a piece of writing: · The planning proposals have three main elements.element of: · There's always been an element of competition between me and my brother.element in: · Instead of a single plot, there are several elements in the story.· We've reached the stage where public image is the most important element in the Presidency.key element (=most important element): · I see helping the community as one of the key elements of my work.

► feature

a part of something that is different in some way from the rest of it: · Are there any special features about the way Ireland trains its teachers?feature of: · Federalism remains a very important feature of American politics.· One of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they are often genetically similar.

WORD SETS► Maths

abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► add/give/bring a new etc dimension to something

· Digital cameras have added a new dimension to photography.

► have a new/social etc dimension

· Learning a language has an important cultural dimension.

► take on a new/extra etc dimension

(=develop in a way that is new or different)· Since I met her, my life has taken on a completely different dimension.

adjectives► a new/different dimension

· The size of the bombs gave a new dimension to the terrorists’ campaign.

► an extra/added/additional/further dimension

· Movies soon had the added dimension of sound.

► a social/political/cultural dimension

· His writing has a strong political dimension.

► a moral/ethical dimension

· The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering.

► a spiritual dimension

· He was interested in the spiritual dimension to art.

► the human dimension

· What the figures cannot show us is the human dimension of the disaster.

► an international dimension

· The foreign players bring an international dimension to the English Premier League.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► added

· International investment involves the added dimension of dealing in foreign currencies, providing the opportunity for additional profits.· Recently, of course, there has been an added dimension - part media-and-politician inflated, part real: drugs.· Others find that amplified vibration opens a whole new field of perception, an added dimension from which information can be gathered.· To me there is an added dimension if that new country is of a similar type to my own habitat - islands.· In the public sector there is also the added dimension of the politician-official relationship.· Below: Satin or embroidered ribbons, brocades, bows and tassels can all give added dimension and interest to pictures.

► cultural

· But little attention was paid to the cultural and communication dimensions related to this process.· By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.· This realisation of the cultural dimension to landscape history has implications for modern nature conservation.· Not surprisingly, therefore, most approaches have been based on the cultural dimension with the addition of ecological and occupational factors.· We must also focus on the cultural dimensions of the problem.· Altogether it will encompass 64 talks, workshops and open studios by artists looking at the subject from their own cultural dimension.· The aim of the present project is to follow up the earlier research through concentration upon the cultural dimension.

► different

· The affair had a different dimension now.· The richer empirical studies, however, have indicated that there are different dimensions of political participation.· We need the models to make sense of structure, but we also need to examine how different dimensions of inequality interrelate.· He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.· Spirituality is a genuinely different dimension to reality.· A pointedly different dimension in the development of a new manager emerged from the research described in these chapters.· I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss.· Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.

► economic

· Sylvopastoralism could also add a new practical and economic dimension to the debate on alternative systems for laying hens.· It also has an economic dimension.· His/her specific interests may lie in the political, social, cultural, strategic or economic dimensions of the subject.· The participating States stress that the Economic Forum remains the main venue for discussion of economic dimension issues.· This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers.· There is something about adult society which hates young people because of the economic dimension.

► ethical

· Secondly, the ethical dimension of reason is apparent in the communicative process of a discipline.· They are not sensitive to the ethical and moral dimensions of quality. 4.· A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.· Both these statements have important ethical dimensions, and they require separate analysis.

► extra

· In the Bible, the sea represents all these, and an extra dimension as well.· Other similar psalms add one extra dimension, the cry for vengeance on those who have put him there!· But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found, with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension.· Let it give an extra colour spice dimension to everything you do.· To deal with this extra dimension, we add Chapter 9 on conversation, and Chapter 10 on speech and thought presentation.· Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension.· Like the secret of Stradivari's varnish, this extra dimension defies analysis.· Jim had been good with relatives, but Jack had some extra dimension to add to it.

► further

· A further dimension is added to our understanding.· But there are further dimensions of that call for which union schemes have not yet come up with adequate solutions. 1.· A further dimension concerns the implications of acceptance and of market potential for supply industries.· They begin, after all, as caricatures who only take on further dimensions as the tale develops.· There is a further dimension to the scandal.· Building up from the surface of a board or canvas adds further dimension and vigour.· To add a further dimension to the diversification, Fujitsu recently introduced a very fast supercomputer for scientific use.

► human

· Anecdotes of legal excess reflect the world we see around us and add a human dimension to an otherwise arcane issue.· Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.· The scenery may have been a bit more impressive there, but the human dimension was all but lost.· Concrete actions and new initiatives are recommended to restore the human dimension to its central position in development policy-making and planning.· During the discussion, it was noted that major progress had been made in compliance with human dimension commitments.· I was reflecting my engineering background and was insufficiently appreciative of the human dimension.· The number of large-scale human dimension seminars will as a rule be reduced to two per year.

► important

· For this reason, we need a wise awareness of the important dimensions of life.· The problem with the analog method is that scale is an important dimension of an ecosystem.· The other important dimension of parent-child support is gender, and there are several dimensions to this.· This is one reason why standards and routines represent an important dimension of housework behaviour.· Bureaucracy for them will have two important dimensions.· Ethnicity represents another important dimension of money transfers, but this is not visible in most specialist studies of family relationships.· One very important dimension of the information specialists' life-world was their interaction with the computer.· Gender is an important dimension in personal care.

► international

· For a time it even had an international dimension.· Of more urgent concern is the international dimension.· The changes I have suggested as national and internal actually have a very strong international dimension.· This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers.· But this is only one kind of international dimension, only one way of understanding the geography of the international economy.

► large

· Sagittal and transverse scans of the gall bladder at its largest dimensions were obtained.· Men must define and defend the larger dimensions of their sexuality by external activity.· A box of larger dimensions could be ordered.· All that is needed is a pool-liner that is larger in one dimension than necessary for the pool envisaged.· Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation.

► moral

· But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.· They are not sensitive to the ethical and moral dimensions of quality. 4.· The moral dimension of the ambivalence surrounding regulatory control is most clearly exposed by regulatory rule-breaking.· The third is rather more significant and relates to the moral dimension of change.· Thus, we have two arguments with a moral dimension but with contradictory implications for policy and for international order.· In particular, regulatory control is characterized by an ambivalence which has both political and moral dimensions.

► new

· New dimensions Adding diagonal ribbons creates a new dimension.· Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.· Add a new dimension to carefree cruising.· Lately, my wife has added a new and terrifying dimension to the Air-Conditioning Wars: night maneuvers.· This delight of no thought is an authentic world of a new dimension.· Objects and space literally take on a new dimension for the child.

► other

· Nevertheless, the excavations at Mallia may provide evidence that Minoan society had other dimensions.· What we may expect, know or not know about our audience can present other dimensions of difficulty and challenge.· Why did one time and three space dimensions flatten out, while the other dimensions remain tightly curled.· But, you see, there is the other dimension too.· The other important dimension of parent-child support is gender, and there are several dimensions to this.· In addition to the main distinction based on participant roles, the person system may be organized along a variety of other dimensions.· There are many other aspects and dimensions of vision for it is one of the authentic senses of men.· Our other dimension concerns the contrast between explaining and understanding.

► political

· Yet, inevitably it has a political dimension.· The protection of individual privacy, in the sense of anonymity, has an obvious political dimension.· Amalgamations were part of cooperative rationalisation in a drive to improve trading, but for Barnes this one had a distinct political dimension.· Social history Studies of the Miners' Strike have in general focused on their national political dimensions.· This political dimension may make the massive civil engineering work even more hazardous.· The political dimension makes any long-term transport project hard to carry out.· The Elf case has a political dimension that makes it an affair of state.· Needless to say, the material failure has had its political dimension.

► single

· Another dimension, or at least our world as a single dimension among many, he wrote.· A list of names is a single dimension array.· The information available is primarily on a single dimension and it is evaluated in sign language terms.

► social

· Three questions about the social dimension should be addressed to the Government.· The social dimensions go much deeper and involve a psychological division of labor as well.· It completely lacks the social dimension that Pugin and Disraeli both intended.· They ended by challenging many of the assumptions of scientific management and establishing that work had both social and psychological dimensions.· Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.· I commend his appreciation of the need for a social dimension in any reforms that may take place.· I need no lectures from the right hon. Gentleman about the social dimension.· ASWs are, by their training, the best equipped to examine social dimensions of section assessments.

► spatial

· Writers in this tradition do touch on some spatial dimensions but they are not central.· Therefore the spatial dimensions of accessibility and mobility have complex but very important social overtones.

► spiritual

· The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.· The same may be said of the renewed attention to the spiritual dimension of life.· The links between the spiritual dimension and religion are in fact close.· The spiritual dimension in creative effort comes from that honest pursuit.· What happens when the spiritual dimension is recognised in treatment and rehabilitation?· People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all.· Just as there is a material dimension there is a spiritual dimension.· I mean, what about the spiritual dimension?

► whole

· This is a collection of Sekers fabrics that will add a whole new dimension to the activities of the sales force.· It would give sports a whole new dimension.· It gave sight-seeing a whole new dimension.· It adds a whole new dimension to the story.· In the future, such systems will no doubt give a whole new dimension to videoconferencing.· Bringing a whole new dimension to the concept of in car entertainment.

VERB► add

· Such a policy adds an entirely new dimension to the primary school curriculum and its planning.· LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.· Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension.· Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.· Breeding your own fish can add a new dimension to your fishkeeping.· An added dimension to these approaches is the portfolio.· Increasingly, evidence-based questions are being used which add two new dimensions to your study of history: 1.· For four days and nights, communal frenzy added a tragic dimension to this hapless and beleaguered city.

► bring

· The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.· Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.· The great range of taped music currently available adds today's modern sounds and brings another dimension to the class.· What could be done to bring the metanormal dimensions of athletes into the open and nurture them more fully?· He brings to football a dimension which hasn't been present since the days of the great wingers.· It will be interesting to see whether Mains can bring a new dimension to All Black play.

► consider

· In this and the following chapters we shall consider the affective dimension more directly.

► give

· It simply gave my study another dimension.· Little boys-and girls for that matter-give Christmas another dimension.· He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.· This analogy can be helpful, particularly if it gives a visual dimension to our thinking.· The Watching after Mass is given a corporate dimension which can guide later private prayer.· The discovery that Diodorvs V contained a paraphrase of the same basic text gave an altogether different dimension to Posidonius' work.· Below: Satin or embroidered ribbons, brocades, bows and tassels can all give added dimension and interest to pictures.

► introduce

· I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss.· Modern education introduces a new dimension and changes the authority relationship between a woman and her group.· In the present chapter we shall introduce the dimension of input affect with an analysis of attitudes toward communicating about politics.

► provide

· Moving away from the camera, Alvin posed beside Rose Garden tubeworms, providing unarguable proof of dimension.· It does seem that the inspection provided a dimension in the appraisal process which otherwise would have been lacking.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► dimensions

When decorating your house, you should consider the dimensions of each room.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the fourth dimension

"I think there's a fourth dimension, and taking drugs allows you to explore it," said Streminski.

单词	dimension
释义	dimensiondi‧men‧sion /daɪˈmenʃən, də-/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdimension Origin: 1300-1400 Old French, Latin dimetiri ‘to measure out’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a revival of interest in the spiritual and moral dimensions of life The arrival of the South African team has brought a new dimension to the competition. The new art gallery is impressive, but I felt the human dimension had been lost. The plant closure could have an impact of unknown dimension on the local economy. The political dimensions of the incident are clear. The use of perspective allows us to represent three dimensions on a flat page. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A further dimension is added to our understanding. All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life. Bissett's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device. But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found, with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension. Chinatown was like its host city -- small and compressed in physical dimensions, boundless and ephemeral in spirit. Practically nothing is known about the race dimension to ageing with a disability. Suppose that in general, the ball is seen at a random angle in three dimensions, rather than two. The general dimensions of the issue had not changed much from those noted during the 1980s. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorpart of a situation/subject/someone's character► aspect one of the many parts of a situation or subject, which can each be considered separately: · The inspectors will examine health and safety aspects at the plant.aspect of: · Chris is dealing with the commercial aspects of this ambitious project.· The country was on the brink of war, and fear and uncertainty permeated every aspect of daily life. ► side one part of a situation or someone's character - use this especially when you are comparing one part with another: · Weiskopf was a talented and successful man, but he did have a cruel side.side of: · I'd like to move away from the theory now, to concentrate on the practical side of engineering.the negative/positive/lighter/funny side: · You are enthusiastic, but on the negative side, you can be impatient and critical.· Try to see the funny side of the situation.· the lighter side of the conference, as seen by our political cartoonist ► dimension a part of a situation that makes you look at the situation in a particular way: · The arrival of the South African team has brought a new dimension to the competition.dimension of: · The political dimensions of the incident are clear.· a revival of interest in the spiritual and moral dimensions of lifethe human dimension (=making you think of people's feelings, rather than things): · The new art gallery is impressive, but I felt the human dimension had been lost. ► factor one of the parts or features of a situation, each of which has a different effect or importance: · There are one or two factors we haven't considered yet.· The issue of abortion rights is obviously not the only factor affecting the female vote.· Traders said several factors contributed to Nasdaq's weakness.factor in: · The most important factor in professional sport is psychology.· His formal education was a less significant factor in his upbringing than practical experience. ► element one of the separate parts of something such as a person's character, a system or process, or a piece of writing: · The planning proposals have three main elements.element of: · There's always been an element of competition between me and my brother.element in: · Instead of a single plot, there are several elements in the story.· We've reached the stage where public image is the most important element in the Presidency.key element (=most important element): · I see helping the community as one of the key elements of my work. ► feature a part of something that is different in some way from the rest of it: · Are there any special features about the way Ireland trains its teachers?feature of: · Federalism remains a very important feature of American politics.· One of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they are often genetically similar. WORD SETS► Maths abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► add/give/bring a new etc dimension to something · Digital cameras have added a new dimension to photography. ► have a new/social etc dimension · Learning a language has an important cultural dimension. ► take on a new/extra etc dimension (=develop in a way that is new or different)· Since I met her, my life has taken on a completely different dimension. adjectives► a new/different dimension · The size of the bombs gave a new dimension to the terrorists’ campaign. ► an extra/added/additional/further dimension · Movies soon had the added dimension of sound. ► a social/political/cultural dimension · His writing has a strong political dimension. ► a moral/ethical dimension · The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering. ► a spiritual dimension · He was interested in the spiritual dimension to art. ► the human dimension · What the figures cannot show us is the human dimension of the disaster. ► an international dimension · The foreign players bring an international dimension to the English Premier League. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► added · International investment involves the added dimension of dealing in foreign currencies, providing the opportunity for additional profits.· Recently, of course, there has been an added dimension - part media-and-politician inflated, part real: drugs.· Others find that amplified vibration opens a whole new field of perception, an added dimension from which information can be gathered.· To me there is an added dimension if that new country is of a similar type to my own habitat - islands.· In the public sector there is also the added dimension of the politician-official relationship.· Below: Satin or embroidered ribbons, brocades, bows and tassels can all give added dimension and interest to pictures. ► cultural · But little attention was paid to the cultural and communication dimensions related to this process.· By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.· This realisation of the cultural dimension to landscape history has implications for modern nature conservation.· Not surprisingly, therefore, most approaches have been based on the cultural dimension with the addition of ecological and occupational factors.· We must also focus on the cultural dimensions of the problem.· Altogether it will encompass 64 talks, workshops and open studios by artists looking at the subject from their own cultural dimension.· The aim of the present project is to follow up the earlier research through concentration upon the cultural dimension. ► different · The affair had a different dimension now.· The richer empirical studies, however, have indicated that there are different dimensions of political participation.· We need the models to make sense of structure, but we also need to examine how different dimensions of inequality interrelate.· He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.· Spirituality is a genuinely different dimension to reality.· A pointedly different dimension in the development of a new manager emerged from the research described in these chapters.· I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss.· Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game. ► economic · Sylvopastoralism could also add a new practical and economic dimension to the debate on alternative systems for laying hens.· It also has an economic dimension.· His/her specific interests may lie in the political, social, cultural, strategic or economic dimensions of the subject.· The participating States stress that the Economic Forum remains the main venue for discussion of economic dimension issues.· This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers.· There is something about adult society which hates young people because of the economic dimension. ► ethical · Secondly, the ethical dimension of reason is apparent in the communicative process of a discipline.· They are not sensitive to the ethical and moral dimensions of quality. 4.· A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.· Both these statements have important ethical dimensions, and they require separate analysis. ► extra · In the Bible, the sea represents all these, and an extra dimension as well.· Other similar psalms add one extra dimension, the cry for vengeance on those who have put him there!· But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found, with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension.· Let it give an extra colour spice dimension to everything you do.· To deal with this extra dimension, we add Chapter 9 on conversation, and Chapter 10 on speech and thought presentation.· Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension.· Like the secret of Stradivari's varnish, this extra dimension defies analysis.· Jim had been good with relatives, but Jack had some extra dimension to add to it. ► further · A further dimension is added to our understanding.· But there are further dimensions of that call for which union schemes have not yet come up with adequate solutions. 1.· A further dimension concerns the implications of acceptance and of market potential for supply industries.· They begin, after all, as caricatures who only take on further dimensions as the tale develops.· There is a further dimension to the scandal.· Building up from the surface of a board or canvas adds further dimension and vigour.· To add a further dimension to the diversification, Fujitsu recently introduced a very fast supercomputer for scientific use. ► human · Anecdotes of legal excess reflect the world we see around us and add a human dimension to an otherwise arcane issue.· Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.· The scenery may have been a bit more impressive there, but the human dimension was all but lost.· Concrete actions and new initiatives are recommended to restore the human dimension to its central position in development policy-making and planning.· During the discussion, it was noted that major progress had been made in compliance with human dimension commitments.· I was reflecting my engineering background and was insufficiently appreciative of the human dimension.· The number of large-scale human dimension seminars will as a rule be reduced to two per year. ► important · For this reason, we need a wise awareness of the important dimensions of life.· The problem with the analog method is that scale is an important dimension of an ecosystem.· The other important dimension of parent-child support is gender, and there are several dimensions to this.· This is one reason why standards and routines represent an important dimension of housework behaviour.· Bureaucracy for them will have two important dimensions.· Ethnicity represents another important dimension of money transfers, but this is not visible in most specialist studies of family relationships.· One very important dimension of the information specialists' life-world was their interaction with the computer.· Gender is an important dimension in personal care. ► international · For a time it even had an international dimension.· Of more urgent concern is the international dimension.· The changes I have suggested as national and internal actually have a very strong international dimension.· This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers.· But this is only one kind of international dimension, only one way of understanding the geography of the international economy. ► large · Sagittal and transverse scans of the gall bladder at its largest dimensions were obtained.· Men must define and defend the larger dimensions of their sexuality by external activity.· A box of larger dimensions could be ordered.· All that is needed is a pool-liner that is larger in one dimension than necessary for the pool envisaged.· Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation. ► moral · But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.· They are not sensitive to the ethical and moral dimensions of quality. 4.· The moral dimension of the ambivalence surrounding regulatory control is most clearly exposed by regulatory rule-breaking.· The third is rather more significant and relates to the moral dimension of change.· Thus, we have two arguments with a moral dimension but with contradictory implications for policy and for international order.· In particular, regulatory control is characterized by an ambivalence which has both political and moral dimensions. ► new · New dimensions Adding diagonal ribbons creates a new dimension.· Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.· Add a new dimension to carefree cruising.· Lately, my wife has added a new and terrifying dimension to the Air-Conditioning Wars: night maneuvers.· This delight of no thought is an authentic world of a new dimension.· Objects and space literally take on a new dimension for the child. ► other · Nevertheless, the excavations at Mallia may provide evidence that Minoan society had other dimensions.· What we may expect, know or not know about our audience can present other dimensions of difficulty and challenge.· Why did one time and three space dimensions flatten out, while the other dimensions remain tightly curled.· But, you see, there is the other dimension too.· The other important dimension of parent-child support is gender, and there are several dimensions to this.· In addition to the main distinction based on participant roles, the person system may be organized along a variety of other dimensions.· There are many other aspects and dimensions of vision for it is one of the authentic senses of men.· Our other dimension concerns the contrast between explaining and understanding. ► political · Yet, inevitably it has a political dimension.· The protection of individual privacy, in the sense of anonymity, has an obvious political dimension.· Amalgamations were part of cooperative rationalisation in a drive to improve trading, but for Barnes this one had a distinct political dimension.· Social history Studies of the Miners' Strike have in general focused on their national political dimensions.· This political dimension may make the massive civil engineering work even more hazardous.· The political dimension makes any long-term transport project hard to carry out.· The Elf case has a political dimension that makes it an affair of state.· Needless to say, the material failure has had its political dimension. ► single · Another dimension, or at least our world as a single dimension among many, he wrote.· A list of names is a single dimension array.· The information available is primarily on a single dimension and it is evaluated in sign language terms. ► social · Three questions about the social dimension should be addressed to the Government.· The social dimensions go much deeper and involve a psychological division of labor as well.· It completely lacks the social dimension that Pugin and Disraeli both intended.· They ended by challenging many of the assumptions of scientific management and establishing that work had both social and psychological dimensions.· Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.· I commend his appreciation of the need for a social dimension in any reforms that may take place.· I need no lectures from the right hon. Gentleman about the social dimension.· ASWs are, by their training, the best equipped to examine social dimensions of section assessments. ► spatial · Writers in this tradition do touch on some spatial dimensions but they are not central.· Therefore the spatial dimensions of accessibility and mobility have complex but very important social overtones. ► spiritual · The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.· The same may be said of the renewed attention to the spiritual dimension of life.· The links between the spiritual dimension and religion are in fact close.· The spiritual dimension in creative effort comes from that honest pursuit.· What happens when the spiritual dimension is recognised in treatment and rehabilitation?· People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all.· Just as there is a material dimension there is a spiritual dimension.· I mean, what about the spiritual dimension? ► whole · This is a collection of Sekers fabrics that will add a whole new dimension to the activities of the sales force.· It would give sports a whole new dimension.· It gave sight-seeing a whole new dimension.· It adds a whole new dimension to the story.· In the future, such systems will no doubt give a whole new dimension to videoconferencing.· Bringing a whole new dimension to the concept of in car entertainment. VERB► add · Such a policy adds an entirely new dimension to the primary school curriculum and its planning.· LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.· Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension.· Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.· Breeding your own fish can add a new dimension to your fishkeeping.· An added dimension to these approaches is the portfolio.· Increasingly, evidence-based questions are being used which add two new dimensions to your study of history: 1.· For four days and nights, communal frenzy added a tragic dimension to this hapless and beleaguered city. ► bring · The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.· Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.· The great range of taped music currently available adds today's modern sounds and brings another dimension to the class.· What could be done to bring the metanormal dimensions of athletes into the open and nurture them more fully?· He brings to football a dimension which hasn't been present since the days of the great wingers.· It will be interesting to see whether Mains can bring a new dimension to All Black play. ► consider · In this and the following chapters we shall consider the affective dimension more directly. ► give · It simply gave my study another dimension.· Little boys-and girls for that matter-give Christmas another dimension.· He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.· This analogy can be helpful, particularly if it gives a visual dimension to our thinking.· The Watching after Mass is given a corporate dimension which can guide later private prayer.· The discovery that Diodorvs V contained a paraphrase of the same basic text gave an altogether different dimension to Posidonius' work.· Below: Satin or embroidered ribbons, brocades, bows and tassels can all give added dimension and interest to pictures. ► introduce · I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss.· Modern education introduces a new dimension and changes the authority relationship between a woman and her group.· In the present chapter we shall introduce the dimension of input affect with an analysis of attitudes toward communicating about politics. ► provide · Moving away from the camera, Alvin posed beside Rose Garden tubeworms, providing unarguable proof of dimension.· It does seem that the inspection provided a dimension in the appraisal process which otherwise would have been lacking. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► dimensions When decorating your house, you should consider the dimensions of each room. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the fourth dimension "I think there's a fourth dimension, and taking drugs allows you to explore it," said Streminski. 1a part of a situation or a quality involved in it SYN aspectdimension of the moral dimension of world politicsadd a new/an extra/another etc dimension (to something) His coaching has added another dimension to my game.political/social/economic etc dimension It is important to keep in mind the historical dimension to these issues. You can have a spiritual dimension to your life without being religious.2[usually plural] the length, height, width, depth, or diameter of something SYN measurement: a rectangle with the dimensions 5cm x 2cmdimension of We’ll need to know the exact dimensions of the room.3a direction in space that is at an angle of 90 degrees to two other directions: A diagram represents things in only two dimensions. → fourth dimension, three-dimensional(1), two-dimensional(1)4 dimensions [plural] how great or serious a problem is: a catastrophe of enormous dimensionsCOLLOCATIONSverbsadd/give/bring a new etc dimension to something· Digital cameras have added a new dimension to photography.have a new/social etc dimension· Learning a language has an important cultural dimension.take on a new/extra etc dimension (=develop in a way that is new or different)· Since I met her, my life has taken on a completely different dimension.adjectivesa new/different dimension· The size of the bombs gave a new dimension to the terrorists’ campaign.an extra/added/additional/further dimension· Movies soon had the added dimension of sound.a social/political/cultural dimension· His writing has a strong political dimension.a moral/ethical dimension· The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering.a spiritual dimension· He was interested in the spiritual dimension to art.the human dimension· What the figures cannot show us is the human dimension of the disaster.an international dimension· The foreign players bring an international dimension to the English Premier League.
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