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理
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Definitions
- 1. texture
- 2. grain (of wood)
- 3. inner essence
- 4. intrinsic order
- 5. reason
- 6. logic
- 7. truth
- 8. science
- 9. natural science (esp. physics)
- 10. to manage
- 11. to pay attention to
- 12. to run (affairs)
- 13. to handle
- 14. to put in order
- 15. to tidy up
Example Sentences
1 shown經濟學有 50% 是心 理 學。
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Words Containing 理
deputy director
Beijing Institute of Technology
reasonable
Richard the Lionheart (1157-1199), King Richard I of England 1189-1199
Tongli, a city in Jiangsu Province, China
barber
astrophysicist
interactive theory
State Administration Committee on Military Products Trade (SACMPT)
legal principle
corporate governance
to clear up
fair
Ministry of Truth, a fictional ministry from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
microprocessor
Simple Network Management Protocol
Wireless transmission regulatory commission
batch file
geolocation
field of rational numbers (math.), usually denoted by Q
agent
department of transport
experimental psychology
physics
data processing
two trees that grow together as one
land management
stratification
psychological barrier
qualitative theory
Dali city, capital of Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州 in Yunnan
lit. violating heaven and reason (idiom); immoral character
Book of Daniel
particle physics
to take care of oneself
water treatment plant
hairdresser and beauty parlor
image processing
texture (of skin, surface etc)
(mining) cleavage
see 酌情辦理|酌情办理[zhuó qíng bàn lǐ]
signal processing
School of Principle
Management Information Base
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of State Council (SASAC)
wise saying; words of wisdom
to reason with sb
theory
permanent member of council
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
mathematical analysis
City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau (PRC)
company finance
Standard Model (of particle physics)
to offend Heaven and reason (idiom); bloody atrocities that cry to heaven
to pay no heed to (idiom)
(math.) catastrophe theory
hard to understand
inductive reasoning
fixed point theorem (math.)
Galois theory (math.)
to harmonize
marble
geographer
to govern
property management
should; ought to
common sense
Rolle's theorem (in calculus)
Council on Foreign Relations (US policy think tank)
the steady-state theory (cosmology)
empathy
psychology
health care
shop assistant
ability to grasp ideas
physical composition
law of sines
nuclear fuel reprocessing
sensible
fundamental principle
reasonable
physiology
Gestalt psychology (concerned with treating a subject as a coherent whole)
to disentangle (wiring etc)
permanent member state (of the UN Security Council)
lofty ideal
physiologist
Huili county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
fundamental theorem
to handle; to transact; to conduct
assistant
mean value theorem (in calculus)
micromanagement
image processing
physiotherapist
standoffish
reason
it is reasonable to say that...
accounting standards council
Gestalt psychotherapy
specialized crowd management vehicle, a riot control vehicle equipped with a water cannon, commonly known as water cannon vehicle 水炮車|水炮车[shuǐ pào chē]
completely unreasonable
should; ought
the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
to heed
incorrect
educated and well-balanced (idiom)
Charlie Hebdo (French magazine)
the Remainder Theorem
Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)
Galois theory (math.)
pathology
conducting business impartially (idiom); to act justly
logistics
vice-premier
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Imperial Court of Judicial Review
logic
(computing) task manager
politics
rational; reasonable; sensible; fair
Litang county (Tibetan: li thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[gān zī zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
physical layer
to be in overall charge
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
mental lexicon
to make trouble without reason (idiom); to be deliberately provocative
M.Sc. (Master of Science degree)
structural theory (physics)
the Chinese remainder theorem
to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position
geographic latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and the normal to the reference ellipsoid)
East China University of Science and Technology
to weight the matter and deliberate the reason (idiom); to weigh and consider
James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English
to comprehend; to understand
rational knowledge
scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[lǐ xué]
(Pauli) exclusion principle (physics)
rationalism
present the facts and reason things out
risk management
cleavage (splitting of minerals such as slate along planes)
management interface
Standardization Administration of PRC (SAC)
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
according to reason; in the ordinary course of events; normally
fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)
China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)
multitasking (computing)
LMI
surrogate pregnancy
to review (a lesson etc)
(idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable
US Food and Drug Administration authority (FDA)
handler (computing)
headquarters
to settle a claim
to handle correctly
geophysics
Ricoh, Japanese imaging and electronics company
business administration
physics
water treatment
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined
to rationalize
to get a haircut; to have one's hair done
an ideal
geek
Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
to get a better grasp of sth
the Elgin Marbles, the Parthenon marbles stolen in 1801-1810 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
Li County (Tibetan: li rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[ā bà zàng zú qiāng zú zì zhì zhōu], northwest Sichuan
saline (medicine)
Tenrikyo (Japanese religion)
logic
solid state physics
timely handling doubles the effect and halves the effort
scientific principle
to clarify (disparate material into a coherent narrative)
physicist
in the wrong
physiotherapy
Pravda (newspaper)
theoretical contribution
the mean value theorem (in calculus)
mathematical sciences
intensive care
reason
(China) Food and Drug Administration
administration
processing capability
formal title of the Japanese prime minister
reason
reason
mathematical logic
business management
to make sense; reasonable
psychology
hot treatment (e.g. of metal)
to hear (a case)
music theory
Dalian University of Technology
to refuse to acknowledge
mathematical physics
major principle
reprocessing
(TCM) to rectify 氣|气[qì]
geography
not to pay attention to
see 通情達理|通情达理[tōng qíng dá lǐ]
assistant manager
grounds
physiotherapy
trusting to luck
logical thinking
molecular gastronomy
rational expression (math.)
pathology
to nurse one's health
don't get involved
minimalist theory
member of council
physical quantity
how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous
Richard (name)
scientific management
Heaven's law
pharmacology
attribution theory (psychology)
Chinese remainder theorem (math.)
truth
contingency theory (theory of leadership)
reason
reasonable
to repair
Premier Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来 (1898-1976)
to right a wrong
to have a clear conscience
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927)
(idiom) clear and orderly; neat and tidy
geography
Philip
geophysics
nuclear physics
Litang county (Tibetan: li thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[gān zī zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
psychoanalysis
to arrange
as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course
theoretical foundation
cognitive psychology
barbershop
particle physics
arts and sciences
project management
defragmentation (computing)
personnel management
to nurse
to manage state affairs
unreasonable
the Remainder Theorem
psychological warfare
change management (business)
without giving due consideration
administrative committee
inspection and control bureau
State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
hairdresser's
divination; divinatory art
(idiom) fair and reasonable; sensible; standing to reason
commissarian
irrational
doctrine (religion)
the sciences (as opposed to the humanities 文科[wén kē])
premier
to judge between right and wrong
constructivist theory
to supervise
to be in the wrong
European Council
management fee
astrophysics
On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957
menstrual period
scheme theory (math.)
rational number (i.e. fraction of two integers, math.)
member of a board of directors
cognition
the axiomatic method
easy to grasp
xenophobia
ethics
to handle a situation according to the circumstances (idiom)
China Scholarship Council (CSC)
(Maslow's) hierarchy of needs (psychology)
to twist words and force logic (idiom)
(philosophy) rationalism
Plato's \The Republic\ (c. 380 BC)
Operations Administration and Maintenance
cognitive neuropsychology
deism, theological theory of God who does not interfere in the Universe
paperwork; clerical tasks
obstinate
special care
to have the courage of one's convictions
arrangement
to ignore
File Transfer, Access and Management
\break-up agent\, person who acts for sb who wishes to terminate a relationship but does not have the heart to do so
to handle; to deal with
to act after full consideration of the actual situation
reasonable and fair (idiom)
physiology
to know that one is in the wrong (idiom)
to acknowledge
to make administration service-oriented
doctrine (esp. religious)
council
nursing
physiotherapy
sufficient grounds (law)
the binomial theorem (math.)
medical knowledge; principles of medical science
modularity theory
predictive inference
variational principle (physics)
Heaven cannot tolerate this (idiom)
string theory (physics)
fallacious reasoning
flysch (loanword)
lemma (math.)
manager
physics and chemistry
Richardson (name)
Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
sensible and reasonable (idiom)
Nobel Prize in Physics
theorist
Bachelor of Science B.Sc.
normally
philosophic theory
to understand
(math.) Riemann-Roch theorem
repair shop
principle
timely handling
project manager
reasoning
proper reason
fundamental theorem of algebra
(TCM) to rectify 氣|气[qì] and transform phlegm
self-evident truth
to parse
to course the liver and rectify 氣|气[qì] (TCM)
mathematical physics
science and engineering as academic subjects
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university
devoid of conscience (idiom)
processor
mathematical statistics
product manager
closed graph theorem (math.)
principle
Richard (name)
(United Nations) Security Council
veterinary pathology
murder mystery (novel)
idea
librarian
unhurried
school of management
to straighten out
to comb
inference by complete induction
to have a haircut
psychometrics
microprocessor
phenomenology
converse theorem (math.)
to arrange
applied physics
not wishing to acknowledge sb
Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州 in Yunnan
manager
Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北洋水師|北洋水师 during the 1880s
Hilbert's zeros theorem (math.)
listening comprehension
profound theory
as yet unprocessed
inference by incomplete induction
physical chemistry
(United Nations) Security Council
classification theory
Dali Bai autonomous prefecture in Yunnan
to accept to hear a case
to take care of
former prime minister
logical
station management
geographic pole
psychologist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
vein lines (in marble or fingerprint)
fundamental theorem of calculus
China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC)
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
irrational number
reverse psychology
lit. violating heaven and reason (idiom); immoral character
network management
general manager
(literary) to assist
reason
Pythagorean theorem
word processing
to manage wealth; to manage finances; money management
management function
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
fate
management buyout (MBO)
management station
cleavage plane (e.g. of slate)
toxicology
intermediate value theorem (math.)
to argue
change management (business)
surpassing the physical world
physiological
deputy director
information management
natural language processing, NLP
pharmacology
network management system
to completely ignore (idiom)
agent
online analysis processing OLAP
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Chinese Geophysical Society
plate tectonics
marble
pathologist
financial management science
mechanism
to tie the knot (idiom)
management studies
physical and chemical factors
to purge the ranks
Fermat's last theorem
network administrator
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
China state radio regulation committee SRRC
University of Science and Engineering
to idealize
content management system (CMS) (Internet)
string processing (computing)
both sides claim they're right (idiom)
personal digital assistant (PDA)
divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
Zhao Shuli (1906-1970), proletarian novelist
electromagnetism
numerology
State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)
not understanding things (idiom); devoid of sense
to reason
lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom)
South China University of Technology
geographical location
quality management
according to reason
to pay no heed to
central processing unit (CPU)
international transport agency
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Exit and Entry Administration Bureau (PRC)
set of rational numbers (math.)
Sense and Sensibility, novel by Jane Austen 珍·奧斯汀|珍·奥斯汀[zhēn · ào sī tīng]
ethics
dahlia (loanword)
barber; hairdresser
astrophysics
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission SASAC
according to reason
science and engineering as academic subjects
restaurant
theorem
analytical psychology
Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800
barbershop
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
idealism
physical property
a perception that doesn't reflect reality
Methodists
direction of cleavage (e.g. of slate)
United Nations Security Council
director general
human geography
reason
sense of inferiority
reasonable; to make sense
supervisor
universal hypothesis
rude and unreasonable
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
to contend on strong grounds
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
Chief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review
reading comprehension