behaviour
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behaviour or behavior (bɪˈheɪvjə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | manner of behaving or conducting oneself |
| 2. | on one's best behaviour behaving with careful good manners |
| 3. | psychol |
| a. the aggregate of all the responses made by an organism in any situation | |
| b. a specific response of a certain organism to a specific stimulus or group of stimuli | |
| 4. | the action, reaction, or functioning of a system, under normal or specified circumstances |
| [C15: from | |
| behavior or behavior | |
| —n | |
| [C15: from | |
| be'havioural or behavior | |
| —adj | |
| be'havioral or behavior | |
| —adj | |
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Behaviour
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Example sentences
No evidence remains of the prices for which partes sold, and there are no descriptions of stock market behaviour.
There is plenty of evidence that a lack of education goes hand in hand with criminal behaviour.
Second, he says these bubble markets display the tell signs of the human behaviour that drives them.
Indeed after studying tropical fish in an aquarium it is evident that their behaviour patterns are driven by clever strategies.
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