individual person or animal
111organism — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. person, organic structure, bion, morphon, physiological individual, morphological individual; see also animal 1 , body 1 , plant . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. life form, being, creature, animal, plant, cell …
112Phase response curve — A phase response curve (PRC) illustrates the transient change in the cycle period of an oscillation induced by a perturbation as a function of the phase at which it is received. PRCs are used in various fields; examples of biological oscillations …
113Milgram experiment — For Milgram s other well known experiment, see Small world experiment. The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the latter believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an… …
114Cuckoo clock — Cuckoo clock, a so called Jagdstück (Hunt piece), Black Forest, ca. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006 013 A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum regulated, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo s call and typically… …
115Ride the Tiger — Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul ( it. Cavalcare la Tigre) is a 1961 book by Italian Traditionalist philosopher and racial theorist Julius Evola. The first English translation (translated by Joscelyn Godwin and… …
116Structural anthropology — is based on Claude Levi Strauss s idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites …
117contact — 1. The touching or apposition of two bodies. 2. A person who has been exposed to a contagious disease. [L. con tingo, pp. tactus, to touch, seize, fr. tango, to touch] balancing c. 1. the contacts between upper and lower dentures on the balancing …
118full blood — noun descent from parents both of one pure breed • Hypernyms: ↑origin, ↑descent, ↑extraction * * * noun 1. : descent from parents both of one pure breed called also whole blood; compare blood 2g …
119soul — n. 1 the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being, often regarded as immortal. 2 the moral or emotional or intellectual nature of a person or animal. 3 the personification or pattern of something (the very soul of discretion). 4 an… …
120bag of bones — an extremely thin individual * * * bag of bones An emaciated living being • • • Main Entry: ↑bag * * * bag of bones, a very thin person or animal. * * * noun [singular] informal : a very thin person or animal I can t believe how thin he is. He s… …
