Words similar to usage
Example sentences for: usage
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The usage was similar to current usage: A knurd was someone who spent too much time studying and not enough time socializing.
Parametric approaches for detection of LGT include (but are not limited to) the analysis of nucleotide composition, dinucleotide frequencies and codon usage biases.
Visitors as well as locals who are faced with a barrage of acronyms in everyday usage will find many of them glossed in these pages.
Thus, although GC content only explains the variance in usage of some codons and some amino acids, we can accurately predict which codons and amino acids will show clear responses and, for those that do show clear responses, accurately predict their frequencies in particular genomes (for example, Figure 1shows an example of a codon for which 85% of the variance in usage is explained by genome GC content, and an amino acid for which 79% of the variance is explained).
Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.