Crossword clues for avoidance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avoidance \A*void"ance\, n.
The act of annulling; annulment.
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The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him.
--Fuller. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. ``The avoidance of pain.''
--Beattie.-
The courts by which anything is carried off.
Avoidances and drainings of water.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "action of emptying," from avoid + -ance. Sense of "action of dodging or shunning" is recorded from early 15c.; it also meant "action of making legally invalid," 1620s; "becoming vacant" (of an office, etc.), mid-15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of annulling; annulment. 2 The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; – specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. 3 A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal. 4 The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. 5 Any thing that is to be avoided 6 The courts by which anything is carried off.
WordNet
n. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: turning away, shunning, dodging]
Wikipedia
Avoidance is a 2002 novel by Michael Lowenthal. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2003.
Avoidance explores the topics of child sexual abuse, hebephilia and pederasty. It is also about social conventions and mores, and ways in which they depend on environment and upbringing.
Avoidance may refer to:
- Avoidance coping, a kind of generally maladaptive coping
- Avoidant personality disorder, a personality disorder recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Conflict avoidance, a controversial method of dealing with conflict
- Australian Aboriginal avoidance practices, relationships in traditional Aboriginal society where certain people were required to avoid others in their family or clan
- Avoidance (novel), a 2002 novel by Michael Lowenthal
Usage examples of "avoidance".
The auriferous tooth, the sedentary disposition, the Sunday afternoon wanderlust, the draught upon the delicatessen store for home-made comforts, the furor for department store marked-down sales, the feeling of superiority to the lady in the third-floor front who wore genuine ostrich tips and had two names over her bell, the mucilaginous hours during which she remained glued to the window sill, the vigilant avoidance of the instalment man, the tireless patronage of the acoustics of the dumb-waiter shaft - all the attributes of the Gotham flat-dweller were hers.
Bullock, S, Rose, S P R, and Zamani, R Characterisation and regional localisation of pre- and postsynaptic glycoproteins of the chick forebrain showing changed fucose incorporation following passive avoidance training.
Rose, S P R, and Csillag, A Passive avoidance training results in lasting changes in deoxyglucose metabolism in left hemispheric regions of chick brain.
Patterson, T A, Gilbert, D B, and Rose, S P R Pre- and posttraining lesions of the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale and passive avoidance learning in the chick.
Court appeared to have been presented with issues, the disposition of which would preclude further avoidance of a decision as to whether the double jeopardy provision of the Fifth Amendment had become operable as a restraint upon the States by reason of its incorporation into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
An analytic logic of identity and difference presents the only relationship between the two series as mutual avoidance or, upon contact and the impairment of purity, mutual annihilation.
Ali, S M, Bullock, S, and Rose, S P R Phosphorylation of synaptic proteins in chick forebrain: changes with development and passive avoidance training.
But the strict observance of position is in effect the strict avoidance of unclassical collocations of syllables: it is almost wholly negative.
His avoidance had gone from being the pure gesture of the objective observer, to the unhealthily vicarious role of the voyeur.
All who have consciously practised the art of writing know what endless and painful vigilance is needed for the avoidance of the unfit or untuneful phrase, how the meaning must be tossed from expression to expression, mutilated and deceived, ere it can find rest in words.
Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk The bees sustained flight, its powerful sting, its intimacy with flowers and avoidance of all unwholesome things, the attachment of the workers to the queen - regarded throughout antiquity as the king - its singular swarming habits and its astonishing industry in collecting and storing honey and skill in making wax.
Why did she not behave in accordance with a behaviorist model of pain avoidance?
Bullock, S, Rose, S P R, and Zamani, R Characterisation and regional localisation of pre- and postsynaptic glycoproteins of the chick forebrain showing changed fucose incorporation following passive avoidance training.
Mason, R, and Rose, S P R Lasting changes in spontaneous multiunit activity in the chick forebrain following passive avoidance training.
LPO when it learns the avoidance, maybe the trace is reorganized in some other way?