Dictionary and online info is either too wordy or vague or for just some reason I'm just not grasping it.  Any attempts to define this online seems to be useless babble with use of the word over and over like its only for scholars to understand.  Surely it isnt.  Then to make it worse, there was a commerical for a medicine called.... PARADIGM! AUGH!  There must be a very elementary way to explain what this word means.  The word is used generously in my computer science book.  Paradigm shift is not used in the book though I see that a lot on the internet.  It's more used to describe a type of computer language.  But I just need to grasp this word.  Thank you ahead of time for your patience in explaining this.  Comparative examples of the word in a sentence and then the same sentence without the word would really help as well.
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Whenever you read the word "paradigm", replace it in your mind with the words "point of view".\n\n**SECOND ATTEMPT**\n\nIn the first example you give ("Recursive structures provide an alternative to the loop paradigm from implementing the repetition of activites."), they're saying that a common computer science technique is to use "loops" in programming. This technique solved (solves) a variety of programming problems having to do with applying a sub-routine (or a set of sub-routines) many many times, while only having to write the subroutine(s) once.\n\nLoops were used, at first, because there was no alternative. But once recursive structures became available and well-understood, the Point of View that loops were the best answer shifted, so that a new Point of View -- that recursive routines are more useful in most situations -- became popular amongst programmers. The old "loops-can-solve-it" Point of View (paradigm) was often abandoned.\n\nThe second quote you use is similar. Different programming languages are used to solve different programming problems. The writers of any particular programming language tends to write a language which solves the problems s/he is familiar with. So from their Point of View (paradigm), the language they write is sufficient to tackle the problem they know exists.\n\nBut new programming problems constantly arise, and these present a challenge not addressed by existing programming languages. When this happens, either a new language has to be written, or an existing language has to evolve to include new tools. This requires approaching what exactly is needed in the language differently ... from a different Point of View ... a new paradigm.\n\nHope this helps.
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"nano" is  a word like "dance".  Aside from size, there are many different expressions of it. For instance, getting a string of DNA to bend on command is a recent accomplishment in nano-tech.  Does that have an immediate application to medicine? No. Does it tell us a little about the behavior of DNA? Yes. This world can change faster now than any other time in history, so I'm not about to make a hard decision on the future.\n\nYou get a great big quantum MAYBE from me on your question.
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To answer your question - yes, I do. But ya know... I might be able to understand this if you had done some research, but you were having trouble finding maybe one or two of these, but posting your entire list of vocabulary words without any indication that you've even TRIED to do this on your own? Come on. Get real.
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It apparently is not an actual dictionary word, but from references to it I see it as a tally or count. Most words are derived from latin, I could bet it would be and probably be right but i'm not saying its completely undoubtable.
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PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS?\nIn science a paradigm describes a set of techniques that have been found to be effective for a given problem domain (i.e somebody somewhere must believe in it). A paradigm can typically be expressed in terms of a single principle (even if this is in fact an over simplification). This principle must be supported by a set of techniques. In the context of programming languages we say that a paradigm induces a particular way of thinking about the programming task. We can identify four principal programming paradigms:\n\nImperative (e.g. Pascal, Ada, C). \nObject-oriented (e.g. Java). \nFunctional (e.g. Miranda, SML). \nLogic (e.g. Prolog). \nPROGRAMMING MODELS The 4 main programming paradigms aim at solving general programming problems, but sometimes there are additional aspects to a problem which require us to "tweak" a paradigm. The result is not a new paradigm but a programming model founded on a particular paradigm. •An example is parallel or distributed programming.\n\n\n3....processing environment:\nMACHINE, ASSEMBLER AND HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES\nBefore discussing this classification it is appropriate to remined ourselves of the operationb of a computer program. A computer program resides in the primary memory where it is represented as a set of machine instructions which in turn are represented as sequences of binary digits. At any point in time the computer is said to be in a particular state. A central feature of the state is the instruction pointer which points to the next machine instruction to be executed. The execution sequence of a group of machine instructions is known as the flow of control.\n\nMACHINE CODE Thus, a program running on a computer is simply a sequence of bits. A program in this format is said to be in machine code. We can write programs in machine code:\n\n23fc 0000 0001 0000 0040\n0cb9 0000 000a 0000 0040\n6e0c\n06b9 0000 0001 0000 0040\n60e8\n\n \n\nASSEMBLY LANGUAGE Assembly language (or assembler code) was our first attempt at producing a mechanism for writing programs that was more palatable to our selves. Of course a program wriiten in machine code, ibn order to "run", must first be translated (assembled) into nachine code.\n\nmovl  #0x1,n\ncompare:\n  cmpl #oxa,n\n  cgt end_of_loop\n  acddl #0x1,n\n  bra compare\nend_of_loop: \n\n \n\nHIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE From the foregoing we can see that assembler language is not much of an improvement on machine code! A more problem oriented (rather than machine oriented) mechanism for creating computer programs would also be desirable. Hence the advent of high(er) level languages commencing with the introduction of "Autocodes", and going on to Algol, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, Ada, C, Etc.\n\n\n2........problem orientation:\n\n domain-specific programming language (domain-specific language, DSL) is a programming language designed to be useful for a specific set of tasks. This is in contrast to general-purpose programming language (general-purpose language, GPL), for example PL/1 or ADA, or general-purpose modeling languages like UML. Examples of DSLs include spreadsheet macros, YACC for parsing and compilers, Csound, a language used to create audio files, and GraphViz, a language used to define directed graphs, and create a visual representation of that graph.\n\nDSLs have also been called:\n\nLittle languages \nMacros. ("Macro" here refers to the feature found in spreadsheets, word processors, and other applications, and not to programming language macros. Programming language macro systems, especially powerful systems like that found in Common Lisp, are frequently employed to implement DSLs). \nApplication languages \nVery high level languages \nDSLs focus on doing one sort of task well. For instance, GraphViz is designed to create images of graphs in a variety of formats, but GraphViz lacks the capability to perform some basic tasks, e.g. accessing a network socket, receiving additional user inpu
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First, you need to get your hands on a good dictionary.  Physically having it available is very helpful.
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I take back my rude attitude! I am sorry for being so rough in my answer earier. It is really really amazing after I went through the whole thing! I thought I was just wasting my time to read and solve something. Anyway, thanks for this lesson. I promise not to judge anything before I completely get to understand it. This is how it read:\n\n"I couldn’t believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. \n\nThis is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. Amazing huh ? Yeah. and I always thought spelling was important !\n\nIf you can read this, pass it on !"\n\nThanks! By the way,\n\nI ma psasing ti on ot ym futuer geneartoin... ah ah ah...
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lol I dont think it matters. They are commonly used phrases in society and I dont take them literally. When I say such things, it is not premeditated, they just come out.so there is no real meaning behind them. Im not actually talking to a god or damning something to that non existent place at all.
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Yes it IS an idiom, because it's meaning cannot be understood by merely knowing the definition of the individual words.  It isn't a literal translation.  You are not literally sticking to something, as in adhering to it.  Idioms are also known as "sayings," by the way, to non-linguists.  :)
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I think this is a case of a writer, or his editor, searching for a word and not coming up with the word he intended. I think he was looking for "tapped," which can mean selected, but his mind gave him "tabbed" instead. It's not the making of a noun into a verb that is the problem. That's done all the time in informal English. It's just not a good word choice.
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does anyone have a Ubergeek to english dictionary handy? I'm a nerd but this guy is either BSing or his frontal lobe is ginormous! at least his spelling sux....
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This will help you understand what your instructor is asking.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
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It looks like someone reported it as "not a question" - the way it was phrased makes it hard to tell what you're asking. Try asking it with a more complete sentence in the heading, and maybe it'll last longer.\n\nGood luck!
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This would be a lot of work to explain.  Each series of words, while they could be considered the same in meaning [up to a point], really don't mean the same.  Some are very different, some less different.  Sometimes it is a question of degree, sometimes it is a question of emphasis, and sometimes it is a question of not at all the same.\n\nFor example, "because of" strictly means "was caused by."  It is very active and direct.  The others in the series could be substituted for because of, but they don't really mean the same: owing or due to means a situation owes its existence to the existence of another thing, as a result of means more that a situation is something that develops out of another situation.\n\nThis particular series shows that people will vary their language without being overly particular as to the exact, specific meaning of the phrases they use.\n\nlearn means to acquire knowledge or skill.  know means to have a grasp in the mind of something, to see something clearly for what it is.  recognize means to grasp that something seen has been seen before.  release means to let go of.\n\nIn English, nouns can be formed from adjectives and verbs, but not adverbs, even though it might at times appear that they do.  This is a case of "changing form class."  Red is a word that can be a noun or an adjective.   Cut can be a noun, verb, or adjective [Cut the cake.  I have a cut on my finger.  Send her some cut flowers.]\n\nLearning English is a lot harder than people who grow up speaking it realize.  It must be very puzzling to people who grew up speaking some other language.  But every language has its difficulties.
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Try using a thesaurus with the key words of the definition. I would start with m-w.com (Merriam-Webster)
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I know that my confusion with this piece was what the instructor was asking us to do: identify imagery, discuss diction choice, and how 'X' effects the end product.  We had not been given the tools needed to answer these questions.  I think the problem is that there is not enough focus on literature in early years, these days school is focused on math and science, which are languages of their own.
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I have never heard of it before but didn't find it offencive.  Even after it was explained by someone else.\nMaybe it wasn't this word that got the response deleted but something you'd said........\nI like it.\nI think I'll use it.  lol