Definition of purposive in English:

purposive

adjective ˈpəːpəsɪvˈpərpəsɪv

Having or done with a purpose.
有目的的；有目标的；为特定目的服务的
teaching is a purposive activity
教学是有目的的活动。
Example sentencesExamples
- Only if what we are trying to explain is the purposive activity of a rational agent is it appropriate to look for a personal explanation.
- In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses.
- This is an inclusive or purposive concept of community which in principle excludes no one, but which cannot be assigned to you.
- This was a purposive sample that included people at various levels of commitment to the church and various lengths of time in attendance.
- The abuse was thus deliberate and purposive, intended to make prisoners psychologically ready for interrogation.
- Nevertheless, it does illustrate a reluctance on the part of the courts to acquiesce in the loss of a right of appeal which would have been the result of a stricter, less purposive construction.
- They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity.
- It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity.
- Belief in God, gods and spirits is what Monod calls animism: the projection into nature of the purposive properties of the human central nervous system.
- An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour.
- I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind.
- The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will.
- Each is defined by one of three aspects of purposive human activity, and this is its ‘horizonal schema’ or ‘pattern’.
- Revelation is the sensitizing of persons to/to ward the divine activity with the invitation to participate in that purposive world.
- The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation.
- On the other hand, the muscles of our limbs are termed ‘voluntary,’ because we can use them to carry out the purposive determinations of the Will.
- Poisoning is no doubt a purposive activity, and reflections on its purpose may show that it has its internal principles.
- It appears that D will be convicted only where a purposive intent is proved.
- It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament.
- Lord Denning led the stampede for the door, arguing for a purposive approach.
Synonyms
determined, purposeful, resolved, decided, adamant, single-minded, firm, unswerving, unwavering, undaunted, fixed, set, intent, insistent

Derivatives

purposively

adverb

This approach allows the researcher to sample purposively (if not randomly) and so ensure a wide range of characteristics of interviewees.
Example sentencesExamples
- The primary data were purposively collected, from 30 sample farmers in two sample villages in North Arcot district for various crops and farm size under irrigated and rainfed conditions.
- Ballinakill on the other hand slowly consolidated their play and purposively strode in front, without much resistance, in the second half.
- As a result, the process of the origination of species constantly hides and even annihilates those origins, not purposively but through random carnage and mere oblivion.
- Think about what it means to purposively kill other humans.

purposiveness

noun

Evolution is progressive, arising from both combinatorial novelties and purposiveness: thus, behavior ratchets evolution and sometimes catalyzes it.
Example sentencesExamples
- This point of view mediates the animal's experience and conveys its purposiveness and emotional states, without suggesting that the animal itself relies on language or a symbolic understanding of its environment.
- In an effort to compare the evolution of purposiveness with the additional attributes of intentionality, a simple test of purposiveness was devised based primarily on the criterion of rationality.
- Nonetheless, Adorno does return again and again to the fundamental premise that the human and social purposiveness of the experimental or innovative in art is to create freedom in the context of unfreedom.
- This principle of common sense is the form that the general a priori principle of the purposiveness of nature for judgment takes when we are trying to understand the subjective conditions of aesthetic judgments of beauty.

Definition of purposive in US English:

purposive

adjectiveˈpərpəsɪvˈpərpəsiv

Having, serving, or done with a purpose.
有目的的；有目标的；为特定目的服务的
teaching is a purposive activity
教学是有目的的活动。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nevertheless, it does illustrate a reluctance on the part of the courts to acquiesce in the loss of a right of appeal which would have been the result of a stricter, less purposive construction.
- Lord Denning led the stampede for the door, arguing for a purposive approach.
- It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament.
- Each is defined by one of three aspects of purposive human activity, and this is its ‘horizonal schema’ or ‘pattern’.
- It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity.
- They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity.
- The abuse was thus deliberate and purposive, intended to make prisoners psychologically ready for interrogation.
- An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour.
- It appears that D will be convicted only where a purposive intent is proved.
- This was a purposive sample that included people at various levels of commitment to the church and various lengths of time in attendance.
- Belief in God, gods and spirits is what Monod calls animism: the projection into nature of the purposive properties of the human central nervous system.
- Only if what we are trying to explain is the purposive activity of a rational agent is it appropriate to look for a personal explanation.
- Revelation is the sensitizing of persons to/to ward the divine activity with the invitation to participate in that purposive world.
- Poisoning is no doubt a purposive activity, and reflections on its purpose may show that it has its internal principles.
- This is an inclusive or purposive concept of community which in principle excludes no one, but which cannot be assigned to you.
- The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will.
- In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses.
- I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind.
- On the other hand, the muscles of our limbs are termed ‘voluntary,’ because we can use them to carry out the purposive determinations of the Will.
- The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation.
Synonyms
determined, purposeful, resolved, decided, adamant, single-minded, firm, unswerving, unwavering, undaunted, fixed, set, intent, insistent

单词	purposive
释义	Definition of purposive in English: purposive adjective ˈpəːpəsɪvˈpərpəsɪv Having or done with a purpose. 有目的的；有目标的；为特定目的服务的 teaching is a purposive activity 教学是有目的的活动。 Example sentencesExamples Only if what we are trying to explain is the purposive activity of a rational agent is it appropriate to look for a personal explanation. In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses. This is an inclusive or purposive concept of community which in principle excludes no one, but which cannot be assigned to you. This was a purposive sample that included people at various levels of commitment to the church and various lengths of time in attendance. The abuse was thus deliberate and purposive, intended to make prisoners psychologically ready for interrogation. Nevertheless, it does illustrate a reluctance on the part of the courts to acquiesce in the loss of a right of appeal which would have been the result of a stricter, less purposive construction. They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity. It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity. Belief in God, gods and spirits is what Monod calls animism: the projection into nature of the purposive properties of the human central nervous system. An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour. I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind. The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will. Each is defined by one of three aspects of purposive human activity, and this is its ‘horizonal schema’ or ‘pattern’. Revelation is the sensitizing of persons to/to ward the divine activity with the invitation to participate in that purposive world. The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation. On the other hand, the muscles of our limbs are termed ‘voluntary,’ because we can use them to carry out the purposive determinations of the Will. Poisoning is no doubt a purposive activity, and reflections on its purpose may show that it has its internal principles. It appears that D will be convicted only where a purposive intent is proved. It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament. Lord Denning led the stampede for the door, arguing for a purposive approach. Synonyms determined, purposeful, resolved, decided, adamant, single-minded, firm, unswerving, unwavering, undaunted, fixed, set, intent, insistent Derivatives purposively adverb This approach allows the researcher to sample purposively (if not randomly) and so ensure a wide range of characteristics of interviewees. Example sentencesExamples The primary data were purposively collected, from 30 sample farmers in two sample villages in North Arcot district for various crops and farm size under irrigated and rainfed conditions. Ballinakill on the other hand slowly consolidated their play and purposively strode in front, without much resistance, in the second half. As a result, the process of the origination of species constantly hides and even annihilates those origins, not purposively but through random carnage and mere oblivion. Think about what it means to purposively kill other humans. purposiveness noun Evolution is progressive, arising from both combinatorial novelties and purposiveness: thus, behavior ratchets evolution and sometimes catalyzes it. Example sentencesExamples This point of view mediates the animal's experience and conveys its purposiveness and emotional states, without suggesting that the animal itself relies on language or a symbolic understanding of its environment. In an effort to compare the evolution of purposiveness with the additional attributes of intentionality, a simple test of purposiveness was devised based primarily on the criterion of rationality. Nonetheless, Adorno does return again and again to the fundamental premise that the human and social purposiveness of the experimental or innovative in art is to create freedom in the context of unfreedom. This principle of common sense is the form that the general a priori principle of the purposiveness of nature for judgment takes when we are trying to understand the subjective conditions of aesthetic judgments of beauty. Definition of purposive in US English: purposive adjectiveˈpərpəsɪvˈpərpəsiv Having, serving, or done with a purpose. 有目的的；有目标的；为特定目的服务的 teaching is a purposive activity 教学是有目的的活动。 Example sentencesExamples Nevertheless, it does illustrate a reluctance on the part of the courts to acquiesce in the loss of a right of appeal which would have been the result of a stricter, less purposive construction. Lord Denning led the stampede for the door, arguing for a purposive approach. It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament. Each is defined by one of three aspects of purposive human activity, and this is its ‘horizonal schema’ or ‘pattern’. It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity. They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity. The abuse was thus deliberate and purposive, intended to make prisoners psychologically ready for interrogation. An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour. It appears that D will be convicted only where a purposive intent is proved. This was a purposive sample that included people at various levels of commitment to the church and various lengths of time in attendance. Belief in God, gods and spirits is what Monod calls animism: the projection into nature of the purposive properties of the human central nervous system. Only if what we are trying to explain is the purposive activity of a rational agent is it appropriate to look for a personal explanation. Revelation is the sensitizing of persons to/to ward the divine activity with the invitation to participate in that purposive world. Poisoning is no doubt a purposive activity, and reflections on its purpose may show that it has its internal principles. This is an inclusive or purposive concept of community which in principle excludes no one, but which cannot be assigned to you. The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will. In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses. I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind. On the other hand, the muscles of our limbs are termed ‘voluntary,’ because we can use them to carry out the purposive determinations of the Will. The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation. Synonyms determined, purposeful, resolved, decided, adamant, single-minded, firm, unswerving, unwavering, undaunted, fixed, set, intent, insistent
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