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Meanings of dependence in English
Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Russian
зависимость Catalan
dependència Relationship where one entity's value varies as a function of a different entity (e.g. temperature dependence of a thermistor's resistance)
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Usage of dependence in English
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Low levels of education were significantly associated with use, abuse, and dependence.
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Among women, alcohol dependence is higher in Britain than anywhere in Europe.
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Conclusion: We conclude that rare ADH variants are specific for alcohol dependence.
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The reforms announced by the government yesterday look to amend that dependence.
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But the focus was on economic restructuring to help reduce oil dependence.
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Among their other concerns: fracking-related earthquakes, and growing dependence on fossil fuels.
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Exports from the United States would help reduce their dependence on Russia.
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Results: None of the individual polymorphisms indicated significant association with alcohol dependence.
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Our increasing dependence on cyber capabilities creates opportunities but also serious vulnerabilities.
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I found that this could lead too easily to exploitation and dependence.
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Among British women, however, alcohol dependence is the highest in the continent.
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But the eulogy inadvertently highlights companies' unhealthy dependence on subsidies and debt.
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Conclusion: The ncNOS plays an important role in heroin dependence and withdrawal.
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Such dependence would make Scotland vulnerable to fluctuations in the oil price.
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Schliermacher defined the essence of religion as 'the feeling of absolute dependence'.
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Those mutations increase cellular dependence on immunoproteasomes for stress response and survival.
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Translations for dependence
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Dependence through the time
Dependence across language varieties
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