Word Finder - appropriate

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To make suitable; to suit.

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To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

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Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

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A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.

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To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

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Suitable or fit; proper.

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The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

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Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

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I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.

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Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

I didn't think it appropriate to tell you who I was.

He couldn't have chosen a more appropriate song.

If I want to sunbathe, I should buy appropriate clothing.

I wasn't sure what would be appropriate attire for the restaurant.

The search for appropriate luggage was tedious.

I've passed out a list of the appropriate states.

He couldn't think of an appropriate comeback and found himself staring down at her drink.

I will talk to him/her at the appropriate time.

Fred made appropriate notes, then asked, "Who was in the room when the knife disappeared?"

Great Britain followed suit, but under a political arrangement between the powers no single power was to appropriate the islands.

Well, it may be appropriate the publisher chose a rainbow of mostly grays to incase the effort.

The conversation drifted to clothing—Cynthia's search for an appropriate wedding dress for the mother of the groom, and Jennifer's west coast dress shop.

To ensure realism, the decoys utilize appropriate paintwork to define important features thereby improving the overall fidelity.

The table below is designed to give guidance on what level of training is appropriate for staff involved in various jobs.

I'll try to locate an appropriate doctor if you wish.

Apologies where appropriate, I think I went off a little half-cocked.

In many vibrating systems this does not hold, and then Fourier's theorem is no longer an appropriate resolution.

Rather than permit the government to appropriate the money from the Bank he supplied two million from his own pocket for the arrears of the imperial troops after Waterloo.

Women graduates and women members of the academic staff wear the appropriate headgear whenever the hood is worn.

It seemed appropriate, however, to say yes.

Written like a dictionary, each word is arranged alphabetically with all the appropriate parts of speech included under a single headword.

The appropriate symbol was at first indifferently a pile of bricks or two male children, always Cancer.

When Clerk Maxwell pointed out the way to the common origin of optical and electrical phenomena, these equations naturally came to repose on an electric basis, the connexion having been first definitely exhibited by FitzGerald in 1878; and according as the independent variable was one or other of the vectors which represent electric force, magnetic force or electric polarity, they took the form appropriate to one or other of the elastic theories above mentioned.

Sickly animals should be at once isolated, and their cages and enclosures disinfected, whilst as a matter of routine the enclosure in which any animal has died should be cleansed, and according to the results of post-mortem examination, which should be made in every case, appropriate measures of disinfection employed.

In any region of velocity where it is possible to represent p with sufficient accuracy by an empirical formula composed of a single power of v, say v m, the integration can be effected which replaces the summation in (to), (16), and (24); and from an analysis of the Krupp experiments Colonel Zabudski found the most appropriate index m in a region of velocity as given in the following table, and the corresponding value of gp, denoted by f (v)or v m lk or its equivalent Cr, where r is the retardation.

Any town upon application, and by contracting to appropriate annually a certain fixed sum for its maintenance, may receive state aid for establishing a library, and in 1904 libraries had been established by this means in 146 towns.

Thus adapted from the first to individual requirements, this religion also showed itself able to appropriate from time to time foreign elements.

It is appropriate to issue certain caveats here.

My Department decided that it was appropriate to determine the application by way of a notice of opinion to approve.

There is also a woeful lack of appropriate condiment.

The choice of a simple building form, which has echoes of the standard nissen hut, makes an appropriate and admirable space.

You must then find and change the appropriate configuration parameter to permit instant power on.

If on-call pharmacist use increases, we will assess the stock levels and increase them if appropriate.

It was concluded that the specialist oncology pharmacist was an appropriate person to take over the review of these patients in a follow-up clinic.

Humans now appropriate 40 per cent of the planet's organic matter produced by photosynthesis.

In no case did he make an appropriate NHS referral.

To develop referral pathways to ensure more appropriate referral pathways to ensure more appropriate referral of severe cases to specialist services.

This can also mean making an appropriate rejoinder, asking a supplementary question, or simply looking interested while remaining mainly silent.

We do not consider it appropriate to broaden the remit of the GAAC.

Notes 1. This form should be accompanied by a remittance for the appropriate fee.

The bankrupt must pay for these himself and no arrangements should be made until the appropriate remittance has been received.

The management committee shall appoint and fix the remuneration of all such other staff as may in their opinion be appropriate.

After a long delay to gain planning permission and the appropriate licenses, the Ace finally reopened fully in 2001.

Being gases these are difficult to control and often require the use of appropriate respirators and ventilation of the area where the spillage occurred.

These may readily be seen after appropriate staining.

But where it is appropriate, the disturbance sent out into the air contains the same harmonic series as the source.

But if a tuning-fork of appropriate frequency be set vibrating with its stalk in contact with the holder of the pipe from which the jet issues, the jet appears to go over in one continuous thread.

Though it is perhaps needlessly long, the thread of the story is never lost amid a crowd of details; every incident is made subordinate to the general idea, appears in its appropriate place, and contributes its share to the perfection of the whole.

The Russians then poured into eastern Poland; the Prussians, at the beginning of 1793, alarmed lest Catherine should appropriate the whole Republic, occupied Great Poland; and a diminutive, debased and helpless assembly met at Grodno in order, in the midst of a Russian army corps,"to come to an amicable understanding" with the partitioning powers.

In spite of the formal differences of these four assemblies and the real distinction springing from the fact that patricians were not members of the plebeian bodies, the view which is appropriate to the developed Roman constitution is that the people expressed its will equally through all, although the mode of expression varied with the channel.