alone (adj)
Sens 1 : being apart from others;
solitary. [source : AHD]
Contextes :
- Although alone on her first visit, she was
accompanied every time thereafter by another woman,
most often Galema Abrahams, though Galema Issacs and
Janap Moses occasionally helped out too.
- What is more interesting is that the judge did not
go alone but brought a policeman, along with the
creditor.
- Figure 4-10 (Survey 8) is drawn by a woman, age
80, who lives alone and has resided near the Lincoln
Park Community Center for 30 years.
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Sens 2 : being without equal;
unique. [source : AHD]
Contextes :
- Due to the presence of a major shopping mall
(Carrefour Laval), Lava1 is alone among the six
centres to have a relatively high degree of
specialisation in consumer services.
- Applying E alone results in the identification of
48 CTs grouped into 18 centres, while the use of D
and E yields 25 CTs grouped into 9
centres.
- If all 10 trials of the alone condition were
administered at the beginning of the testing
session, it might be possible to explain this
finding in terms of a lack of practice compared to
the conditions when the secondary tasks were paired
with the matrices tasks.