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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: personal - person-year</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="personal"> personal, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. belonging to a person; individual; private. Ex. a personal letter, a personal matter, a personal call. <DD> 2. done in person; directly by oneself, not through others or by letter. Ex. a personal visit. <DD> 3. of the body or bodily appearance. Ex. personal cleanliness, personal beauty or charms. (SYN) physical, corporeal. <DD> 4. about or against a person or persons. Ex. personal remarks, personal abuse, a personal question. <DD> 5. inclined to make remarks or ask questions about the private affairs of others. Ex. Don't be too personal. <DD> 6. (Grammar.) showing person. I, we, thou, you, he, she, it and they are personal pronouns. <DD> 7. (Law.) <DD> a. of or having to do with property that can be moved, such as furniture and clothing, as contrasted with real property, such as land and buildings. <DD> b. of or having to do with persons rather than things. Ex. a personal action. <DD> 8. having the nature of a person; that is a person, not a thing or abstraction. <DD>noun (U.S.) 1. a short paragraph in a newspaper about a particular person or persons. Ex. Put a personal in the Baltimore Sun (Mark Twain). <DD> 2. (Sports, Informal.) a personal foul. </DL> <A NAME="personalcomputer"> personal computer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a microcomputer that can be individually programmed and is for the use of one person. Ex. We visualized the personal computer of the 1980s as a notebook-sized package whose front side was a flat-screen reflective display, like a liquid-crystal watch face (Alan C. Kay). </DL> <A NAME="personaleffects"> personal effects,<DL COMPACT><DD> the belongings that an individual wears or carries on his person; private or intimate articles. </DL> <A NAME="personalequation"> personal equation,<DL COMPACT><DD> an individual tendency for which allowance should be made. </DL> <A NAME="personalflotationdevice"> personal flotation device,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) any device to keep a person afloat in the water; life preserver. </DL> <A NAME="personalfoul"> personal foul,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Sports.) a foul that occurs when a player makes an illegal physical contact with an opposing player, as by holding or pushing him in basketball or by kicking or striking him in football. </DL> <A NAME="personalia"> personalia, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> personal items, anecdotes, letters, and the like. </DL> <A NAME="personalism"> personalism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the quality or character of being personal. Ex. In Texas ... personalism is the curse of politics (Harper's). <DD> 2. any doctrine or system in which personal feelings and relationships rather than impersonal or universal standards or axioms are stressed. </DL> <A NAME="personalist"> personalist, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of, having to do with, or characteristic of personalism. <DD>noun a believer in personalism. </DL> <A NAME="personalistic"> personalistic, adjective. =personalist.</DL> <A NAME="personality"> personality, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the personal or individual quality that makes one person be different and act differently from another. In psychology, personality is the total physical, intellectual, and emotional structure of an individual, including abilities, interests, and attitudes. Ex. A baby two weeks old does not have much personality. Many psychologists are inclined to attribute the formation of personality entirely to the operation of the cultural and physical environment (Beals and Hoijer). <DD> 2. pleasing or attractive qualities of a person; distinctive personal character. Ex. That boy may be smart, but he has no personality. <DD> 3. a person, especially a person of distinction; personage. Ex. personalities of stage and screen. <DD> 4. the quality of being a person, not a thing. <DD> 5. (Law.) personal estate or property; personalty. expr. personalities, remarks made about or against one particular person. Ex. Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation. </DL> <A NAME="personalitycult"> personality cult, =cult of personality.</DL> <A NAME="personalitytest"> personality test,<DL COMPACT><DD> a test intended to measure or reveal the characteristics of an individual's personality. </DL> <A NAME="personalize"> personalize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to make personal; cause to be distinctly one's own. Ex. to personalize stationery. <DD> 2. to personify. <DD> 3. to take as personal. noun personalization. </DL> <A NAME="personally"> personally, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. in person; not by the aid of others. Ex. to deal personally with one's customers. The hostess personally saw to the comforts of her guests. (SYN) individually. <DD> 2. as far as oneself is concerned. Ex. Personally, I like apples better than oranges. (SYN) subjectively. <DD> 3. as a person. Ex. We like him personally, but dislike his way of earning a living. <DD> 4. as being meant for oneself. Ex. Do not take criticism of your writing personally. </DL> <A NAME="personalproperty"> personal property,<DL COMPACT><DD> property that is not land, buildings, mines, or forests; possessions that can be moved. </DL> <A NAME="personalrealism"> personal realism,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Philosophy.) a form of personalism that stresses the importance of personality in the natural world. </DL> <A NAME="personalshopper"> personal shopper,<DL COMPACT><DD> an employee in a store who selects merchandise ordered by mail or telephone or who assists customers in suggesting appropriate purchases. </DL> <A NAME="personalty"> personalty, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) personal property. </DL> <A NAME="personanongrata"> persona non grata, pl. personae non gratae.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD> 1. a person who is not acceptable. Ex. Some men, would-be customers but apparently personae non gratae, never got in the cafe (New Yorker). <DD> 2. a diplomatic representative who is not acceptable to the government to which he is accredited. </DL> <A NAME="personate"> personate (1), verb, -ated, -ating.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to act the part of (a character in a play or in history); impersonate. <DD> 2. to represent as a person in literature or art; personify. <DD> 3. (Law.) to pretend to be (someone else), usually for purposes of fraud. <DD>v.i. to act; play a part. noun personation. noun personator. </DL> <A NAME="personate"> personate (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) (of a labiate corolla) having the lower lip pushed upward so as to close the opening between the lips, as in the snapdragon; masked. </DL> <A NAME="personative"> personative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the quality of personating. </DL> <A NAME="personday"> person-day, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one day of a person's life, work or the like, used as a unit of statistical measurement. </DL> <A NAME="personhood"> personhood, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the distinctive personal quality of a human being; individuality. </DL> <A NAME="personification"> personification, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a striking example; embodiment; type. Ex. A miser is the personification of greed. (SYN) exemplification. <DD> 2. the act or fact of representing as a person, such as speaking of the sun as he and the moon as she. In John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Mr. Worldly-Wiseman and Mr. Good-will are personifications. <DD> 3. a person or creature imagined as representing a thing or idea. Ex. Satan is the personification of evil. <DD> 4. a figure of speech in which a lifeless thing or quality is spoken of as if alive. (Examples:) The music sobbed. Duty calls us. There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey (William Collins). </DL> <A NAME="personify"> personify, transitive verb, -fied, -fying.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to be a type of; embody. Ex. Satan personifies evil. (SYN) exemplify. <DD> 2. to regard or represent as a person. We often personify the sun and moon, referring to the sun as he and the moon as she. We personify time and nature when we refer to Father Time and Mother Nature. Ex. Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas (Benjamin Jowett). noun personifier. </DL> <A NAME="personnel"> personnel, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun the persons employed in any work, business, or service. Ex. the personnel of a hospital. <DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with personnel. <DD> 2. used by personnel. <DD> 3. in charge of personnel. Ex. a personnel manager, a military personnel officer. </DL> <A NAME="personneladministration"> personnel administration or management,<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of management concerned with the effective and efficient use of employees. </DL> <A NAME="persontoperson"> person-to-person, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between persons; between individuals; personal. Ex. a person-to-person telephone call. The Yurok had a good many person-to-person quarrels and enmities, but few class or communal clashes (Alfred L. Kroeber). </DL> <A NAME="personyear"> person-year, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one year of a person's life, work, experience, or the like, used as a unit of statistical measurement. Ex. In a population of constant size the birth rate is the number of births per person-year lived and the average duration of life is the number of person-years lived per birth (Scientific American). </DL> <A HREF="perspect.dic">NEXT</A>