quirk Význam & definícia

Príklady quirk

• He rails against formalists who suppose that autonomous grammar emerged as an abrupt genetic quirk.

• Priming the dictionary in this way provides the corrector with information about the quirks.

• Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox of quirk and creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible, structural explanation.

• Historians have begun to notice, without needing to dismiss it as an embarrassingly sentimental anachronistic quirk, that religion was a vital issue for early socialists.

• However, this deviation was argued to be attributable to a quirk in the noun set rather than in the adjective set.

• Representation of distal affairs as needed to guide the organism's activity is the norm for nearly all perception, not a special quirk of human perception.

• One quirk of the tortoises' circuitry was that, as the batteries became exhausted, the gain of the amplifiers decreased.

• Our fascination with human quirks may have created cultural spandrels for the survival and propagation of individuals who survived less well without such cultural supports.