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representative | paradigm |

As an adjective representative

is .

As a noun paradigm is

an example serving as a model or pattern; a template.

representative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
    • Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?
    If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore. — Texas State Senator Carl Parker.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.
    • I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.
  • A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.
    • She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.
  • One that is taken as typical of its class.
  • (US, politics) A member of the .
    • All representatives face re-election every two years.
  • Company agent who visits potential purchasers, salesman.

    • Synonyms

    * rep * See also

    Related terms

    * House of Representatives * represent * representative body * Member of Parliament

    paradigm

    English

    Alternative forms

    * paradigma (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An example serving as a model or pattern; a template.
  • * 2000 , "":
    • According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
  • * 2003 , Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 65058 5, page 46:
    • DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory,
  • (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
    • The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."
  • A system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
  • A conceptual framework—an established thought process.
  • A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verified by affirmative results/predictions.
  • A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom’ ideas (namely biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias’).

    • Synonyms

    * (example) exemplar * (way of viewing reality) model, worldview * See also

    Derived terms

    * paradigmatic * paradigm shift * paradigmaticism

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