behaviours
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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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Behaviours
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
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Example sentences from the web
Many animals when kept in captivity, such as in zoos, display abnormal behaviours.
Such unnatural behaviours are known as stereotypic behaviours.
The stage mentalist ostensibly mimics these supernatural behaviours by natural means.
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