Considerable vs Observation - What's the difference?
considerable | observation |
Significant; worth considering.
Large in amount.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 The act of observing, and the fact of being observed.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
A remark or comment.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
A judgement based on observing.
Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
* Jeremy Taylor
As an adjective considerable
is considerable.As a noun observation is
the act of observing, and the fact of being observed.considerable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
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Statistics
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English
Noun
(en noun)A Palette of Particles, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
- That's a foolish observation .
- To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
- We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.