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Meaning of ability in English
Examples of ability
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The ability to manipulate speech sounds depends on knowing alphabetic writing.
This condition thus permitted us to measure the influence of performing two mental operations on the storage abilities of the children.
Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players' behavior.
At first, infants display discriminatory abilities which span a broad range of phonetic pairs.
This is because their phonetic ability is low and their functional knowledge (in terms of the recoverability principle) is not yet developed.
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
No discrepancy in the ability to define anatomic structure was encountered for the body or outflow regions of the right ventricle.
The insula and temporal gyrus regions are also linked to verbal and language abilities.
The ability of this numerical method to consider non-isotropic initial data represents a decided advantage over other approaches.
Where communities are less well organized, the ability to use events to improve policy is reduced, even if policy making appears to be event-driven.
Could it account for language acquisition and the ability to talk about things that are far removed in time and space?
We made four predictions about the possible roles of group differences, perceptual- motor ability, task difficulty, and chronological age in nonlinguistic performance.
The biofilm's physical properties play important roles in controlling its metabolic activity and its ability to adhere to the substratum and itself.
By teaching useful strategies in the four skill areas, students will have the ability and confidence needed to decode the target language.
The second part will consider evidence for teaching the ability and the impact of such instruction on reading comprehension development.
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Collocations with ability
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The influence of both infant attachment security and 4-year attachment security on child competence and academic ability was examined first.
He was fascinated by the stage, learning everything from set construction to stage production, and embarrassed by his acting ability.
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Given the amazing ability of bacteria to acquire resistance from other bacteria, it appears that from society's standpoint the development of antibiotic resistance is inexorable.
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Translations of ability
in Chinese (Traditional)
（體力或智力方面的）能力, 才能，才智, （用於把以 -able 或 -ible 結尾的形容詞轉化為名詞，表示這些形容詞具有的特性）…性…
in Chinese (Simplified)
（体力或智力方面的）能力, 才能，才智, （用于把以 -able 或 -ible 结尾的形容词转化为名词，表示这些形容词具有的特性）…性…
in Spanish
capacidad, habilidad, -abilidad…
in Portuguese
capacidade, habilidade, sufixo usado para formar substantivos a partir de adjetivos que terminam em "-able"…
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मानसिक अथवा शारिरीक क्षमता…
fiziksel veya zihinsel yetenek, kabiliyet, güç…
capacité [feminine], capacité, aptitude…
ஏதாவது செய்வதற்கு தேவையான உடல் அல்லது மன சக்தி அல்லது திறன்…
(मानसिक या कौशल संबंधी) क्षमता…
förmåga, begåvning, färdighet…
die Fähigkeit, die Fertigkeit…
evne [masculine], anlegg [neuter], evne…
здібність, здатність, уміння…
సామర్థ్యం, ఒక పని చేయడానికి అవసరమైన శారీరక లేక మానసిక శక్తి లేక నైపుణ్యం…
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