define

In a sentence

Six example sentences with define, each labelled with its topic.

• Aristotle tried to define courage by locating it between recklessness and cowardice rather than by listing brave deeds.

  Philosophy

• Designers argue for weeks to define what counts as a roguelike, since every studio draws the boundary differently.

  Gaming

• Courts must define negligence precisely, because the whole case turns on which duties a reasonable driver owes.

  Law

• Biologists still argue how to define a species, since many populations breed across the lines the textbooks draw.

  Science

• Two falling quarters is one way to define a recession, though the official panel weighs jobs and income as well.

  Economics

• Nobody can quite define what makes a song folk, yet listeners agree within seconds when they hear one.

  Music

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