English Listening Report and Source Citation Techniques Explained

noun

1. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

noun

1. a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

e.g. statistical data

Synonym: information

noun

1. the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

e.g. there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list

Synonym: ordering

2. (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans

3. a degree in a continuum of size or quantity

e.g. it was on the order of a mile
an explosion of a low order of magnitude

Synonym: order of magnitude

4. a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities

e.g. IBM received an order for a hundred computers

Synonym: purchase order

5. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

e.g. a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there

Synonym: decreeedictfiatrescript

6. a body of rules followed by an assembly

Synonym: rules of orderparliamentary lawparliamentary procedure

7. (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

e.g. the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London

8. a request for something to be made, supplied, or served

e.g. I gave the waiter my order
the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle

9. (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

10. a group of person living under a religious rule

e.g. the order of Saint Benedict

Synonym: monastic order

11. a formal association of people with similar interests

e.g. he joined a golf club
they formed a small lunch society
men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

Synonym: clubsocial clubsocietyguildgildlodge

12. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

e.g. we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation

Synonym: orderingordination

13. established customary state (especially of society)

e.g. order ruled in the streets
law and order

14. a condition of regular or proper arrangement

e.g. he put his desk in order
the machine is now in working order

Synonym: orderliness

noun

1. a possible alternative

e.g. bankruptcy is always a possibility

Synonym: possible actionopening

2. a tentative insight into the natural world
a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

e.g. a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory
he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices

Synonym: hypothesistheory

3. a future prospect or potential

e.g. this room has great possibilities

4. capability of existing or happening or being true

e.g. there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired

Synonym: possibleness

verb

1. give a summary (of)

e.g. he summed up his results
I will now summarize

Synonym: sum upsummariseresume

2. be a summary of

e.g. The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper

Synonym: summarisesumsum up