Every time a movement is thought of, in preference to a sound or a sight which is also available, the habit of giving the attention to the muscular equivalents of things becomes more firmly fixed.
It is interesting to observe the child getting his Equivalents day by day.
He can not perform a new movement simply by wishing to do so; he has no Equivalents in his mind to proceed upon.
Thus the words house and home in large measure overlap in meaning, but emotionally they are not equivalents at all.
Condense the editorial (Appendix 1) by eliminating unnecessary words and finding briefer equivalents for roundabout expressions.
An immense debt is due William James for the mere title of his essay: The Moral Equivalents of War.
The use of the words instinct and impulse as practical equivalents is intentional, even though it may grieve critical readers.
The last great war has not, it must be confessed, made the problem of finding social equivalents simpler and easier.
In this condition of affairs, Commissioner Ould was notified that "exchanges will be confined to such equivalents as are held in confinement on either side.
The statement of these equivalents is a puzzling exercise which no doubt accounts for the prominence given it by Aristotle and the Schoolmen.
And if the Moods of the First Figure hold, their equivalents in the other Figures must hold too.
As no two words are precise equivalents (just as no two leaves of the forest are exactly similar), it is a mistaken attempt at precision always to translate the same Greek word by the same English word.
Equivalents may be occasionally drawn from Shakspere, who is the common property of us all; but they must be used sparingly.
Equivalents in Form] It is the spirit, after all, that is the important thing to preserve, in decorative design, however widely we may depart from the letter sometimes.
Illustration (f057): Sketches to Show Use of Counterbalance, Quantity, and Equivalentsin Designing.
Dionysius does not actually use Greek equivalents for the adjectives labial, dental, and guttural; but he clearly knows the physiological facts in which those terms have their origin.
Money equivalents are to be the rule, territorial equivalents to be given only by special permission.
Akerblad, a Swedish orientalist attached to the embassy in Paris, identified the proper names of persons which occurred in the demotic text, being guided to them by the position of theirequivalents in the Greek.
But their German equivalents would be ever so nice to sing the children to sleep with, or else my awe-inspiring ears were made for display and not for superior usefulness in analyzing sounds.
Our descriptive words of this character have such a deep, strong, resonant sound, while their German equivalents do seem so thin and mild and energyless.
Though I have seen no specimen of their language, I have little doubt as to the Rawat of Kumaon being the equivalents to the Chepang of Nepal.
It is merely a simple arithmetical operation to change the indications of any one of these scales into the equivalents on the others.
The result gives in gallons the quantity equal to four equivalents (46 × 4).
Amylsulphate of barytes, crystallized with twoequivalents of water, contains, according to the analysis of Cahours and Kekule, 45.
A second exposure to a red heat with sulphuric acid converts the whole residue into sulphate of soda, and from the increase of weight, by a comparison of the equivalents of NaCl and NaO, SO{3} the quantity of the former may be decided.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equivalents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
