| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To capture or seize.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To fit, adapt, match or suit.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb appropriate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (appropriately) | 1. In an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed".[Wordnet]. 2. In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.[Websters]. 3. In a proper or correct manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an useful or competent manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a true, right, pertinent or expedient manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a valid, apposite, exact or accurate manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a nice or decorous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a homologous or equal manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In an apt, due or congruous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the adjective appropriate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (appropriate) | 1. Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.[Wordnet]. 2. Take possession of by force, as after an invasion.[Wordnet]. 3. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.[Websters]. 4. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.[Websters]. 5. To make suitable; to suit.[Websters]. 6. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: appropriating, appropriated, appropriates, appropriator, appropriators, appropriatingly and appropriatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being exacting or demanding.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being fitting. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being timely, convenient or expedient. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being congruent, accordant, congruous, compatible or conformable. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being apt, suitable, apposite, capable or competent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being favorable or propitious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being consistent, concordant or coincident.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "APPROPRIATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1597. (references) |
Specialty Definition: APPROPRIATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Assigning to a particular person or use; claiming or using exclusively; severing to the perpetual use of an ecclesiastical corporation.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of appropriate. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: appropriate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Appropriate technology | Appropriate technology in a most basic sense means suitable technology. In practice, it is often something that might be described as using the simplest and most benign level of technology that can effectively achieve an intended purpose. Definitions differ, however, among those theorists, writers, and practitioners who use the term. The term has often, though not always, been applied to the predicaments of developing nations or underdeveloped rural areas of industrialized nations. (references) | ||
| Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology | Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology is an Engineering degree frequently referred to as EDAT. (references) | ||
| Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory | The Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) is a research laboratory based at the University of California, Berkeley. It focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating renewable and appropriate energy systems. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: appropriate
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements | Environment | Any state or federal statute that pertains to protection of human life and the environment in addressing specific conditions or use of a particular cleanup technology at a Superfund site, (Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requiremen. (references) | |
| Appropriate air traffic service (ATS) authority | Energy | The relevant authority designated by the State responsible for providing air traffic services (ATS) in the airspace concerned. In the United States, the "appropriate ATS authority" is the Director, Office of Air Traffic System Management, ATM-1. (references) | |
| Appropriate and necessary health services | Business | Services needed to maintain an enrollee in good health including as a minimum, but not limited to, emergency care, inpatient hospital and physician care, outpatient health services and preventive health services delivered by authorized practitioners acting within their scope of practice. (references) | |
| Appropriate arrangement | Occupations | One of three § 7106(b) exceptions to § 7106(a) management rights. Under § 7106(b)(3) a proposal that interferes with management's rights can nonetheless be mandatorily negotiable if the proposal constitutes an "arrangement" for employees adversely affected by the exercise of a management right and if the interference with the management right isn't "excessive" (as determined by an "excessive interference" balancing test). See, e.g., American Federation of Government Employees v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 702 F.2d 1183 (D.C. Cir. 1983) and 21 FLRA No. 4. For more on this exception, see the remarks under management rights. (references) | |
| Appropriate authority | Technology | 1) Regarding flight over the high seas: the relevant authority is the State of Registry. 2) Regarding flight over other than the high seas: the relevant authority is the State having sovereignty over the territory being overflown. (references) | |
| Appropriate Inquiry | Energy | That inquiry constituting "all appropriate inquiry into the previous ownership and uses of the property consistent with good commercial or customary practice" as defined in CERCLA, 42 USC 9601(35)(B), that will give a party to a commercial real estate transaction the "innocent landowner defense" to CERCLA liability (42 USC 9601(A) and (B) and 9607(b)(3)), assuming compliance with other elements of the defense. (references) | |
| Appropriate management response | Mining | Specific actions taken in response to a wildland fire to implement protection and fire use objectives. (references) | |
| Appropriate Technology | Administration | The application of current scientific knowledge and technology is such a way so as to conform with existing economic, infrastructure, social, and cultural conditions and practices. By extension, the concept implies the implementation of low-technology solutions incorporating simplicity of design, use, and maintenance. (references) | |
| Appropriate terrain clearance minimum altitude | Technology | Any of the following: See Minimum En Route Altitude (MEA), Minimum IFR Altitude (MIA), Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA), or Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA). (references) | |
| Appropriate unit | Occupations | (sometimes referred to as a bargaining unit). A grouping of employees that a union represents or seeks to represent and that the FLRA finds appropriate under the criteria of § 7112 (community of interest, effective dealings, efficiency of operations) for collective bargaining purposes. Certain types of employees cannot be included in units--e.g., management officials and supervisors. See § 7112(b). Distinguish between unit member and union member. The latter is a matter of individual choice; the former is not. (references) | |
| Developmentally Appropriate | Health | Material developed at a level that is consistent with the learning skills of the person served so as to ensure comprehension. (references) | |
| Most appropriate challenge conditions | Computing | A testing which encompasses upper and lower limits, and circumstances which pose the greatest chance finding of errors. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Socially Appropriate Technology Information System | Public Administration | To promote storage and exchange of the growing documentation on appropriate technologies. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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